… A Scottish pro-Palestine activist is facing charges for “threatening and abusive behaviour” after reading a poem about children killed by Israel (The National, 2026-07-16)
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>> Bill Williamson, 74, who lives in Ardentinny, said he had been at a weekly Palestine vigil outside Dunoon Burgh Hall on July 4 when he was approached by a pair of police officers while he was reading out Don’t Mention The Children by the Jewish writer Michael Rosen through a megaphone.
>> … “Initially I thought, just let this die a death. But then …
>> “I thought, this is intimidation. The more people that know about it, I think the better.”
>> Rosen’s poem was written in response to a 2014 decision by the Israeli Broadcasting Authority to ban a radio advert from human rights group B’Tselem which listed the names of children killed in Gaza…
#MichaelRosen #NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
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who in the scottish ruling establishment sent the police to make these arrests?
and who they take orders from?
i ask becasue I had thought scotland to be relatively free of London’s zionist government
@adachika192 @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@fedibird.com I remember when we used to make fun of the Soviet Union for being afraid of poets.
