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MEMO 323 A weekly overview of information of interest to minority ethnic communities in Scotland, including parliamentary activity at Holyrood and Westminster, new publications, consultations, forthcoming conferences and news reports.
http://www.scojec.org/memo/2012/memo_323_15_october_2012.pdf

That was the frequent response from passers-by in Western Road, Brighton to the pro-Israel counter-demonstraters outside the Ecostream shop on Saturday. It seems that people are thoroughly exasperated with the antics of the anti-Israel Loony Left there, led by Rabbi's son and Stalinist, Tony Greenstein - the man who suggested that anti-Zionists should try to rig a JC poll, so that they can falsely paint Jews as racists:

http://hurryupharry.org/2010/10/15/tony-greenstein-wants-rabbis-to-suppo...

We gave out at least 1000 fliers as an antidote to the lies of the PSC and the response was phenomenal - most people supported us. Meanwhile Greenstein and other Israel-haters were warned several times by the Police for blocking the entrance to the shop.

The page 1 lead in the JC this week was a squalid smear story about the JNF which would not even have passed muster for the Morning Star.

It was a story by Simon Rocker about the JNF’s newly published accounts, headed “JNF loses half its revenue”. A completely misleading headline - for one, because the ‘income’ definition referred to excluded KKL voucher income of £7.5 million.

Then in the article we got:

SCoJeC issued a statement in support of a rally organised by the Muslim Council of Scotland in Glasgow's George Square, under the banner "YES to freedom of expression; NO to insults and hate.
http://www.scojec.org/news/2012/12ix_no_to_hate.html

SodaStream has opened a shop in Brighton. SodaStream enables people to make their own carbonated soft drinks at home. It is thus the epitome of an environmentally friendly – or ‘green’ - company since it obviates the need for drinks in plastic bottles to be bought from the shops. In fact the company – which is present in 43 countries around the world with over 6 million active users – estimates that it saves the planet from the waste of 1 billion plastic bottles every day as well as saving millions of barrels of oil needed to make them.

Brighton’s MP is Caroline Lucas of the Green Party. You’d have thought she would welcome SodaStream to Brighton with open arms. Not only is a multinational choosing to invest in her constituency but its product conforms completely to the environmental agenda of her Party.

You’d have thought she’d welcome it … but you’d be wrong. Sodastream has a plant in Area C of the Disputed Territories and Ms Lucas says she “supports the right of my constituents and others to … peacefully demonstrate against companies which operate out of illegal Israeli settlements.”

MEMO 322 A weekly overview of information of interest to minority ethnic communities in Scotland, including parliamentary activity at Holyrood and Westminster, new publications, consultations, forthcoming conferences and news reports.
http://www.scojec.org/memo/2012/memo_322_5_october_2012.pdf

http://www.pmo.gov.il/English/MediaCenter/Speeches/Pages/speechUN270912....

MEMO 321 A weekly overview of information of interest to minority ethnic communities in Scotland, including parliamentary activity at Holyrood and Westminster, new publications, consultations, forthcoming conferences and news reports.
http://www.scojec.org/memo/2012/memo_321_28_september_2012.pdf