Scotland today joined Ireland and South Africa when the Scottish Trade Union Congress, representing every Scottish trade union, voted overwhelmingly to commit to boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel.
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Defense News - TEL AVIV - The Israel Air Force (IAF) is negotiating with St. Louis-based Boeing to buy up to six more AH-64D Apache Longbow attack helicopters, which the service plans to arm with locally made Spike missiles and U.S. Hellfires.
Nicholas Watt, [The Guardian] Wednesday 22 April 2009 - Britain announced last night that it is to review all its military exports to Israel in the light of the recent offensive in the Gaza Strip which killed around 1,400 Palestinians. In a written statement to MPs, the foreign secretary, David Miliband, announced that all current and future licences permitting the export of military equipment would be reviewed in the light of the three-week Operation Cast Lead.
Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign Welcomes Galway City Council Motion Against Veolia Second such motion in recent months, all Councils should push for similar motions
Defense Industry Daily - Oshkosh Corp. in Oshkosh, WI supplies the US Marine Corps’ and /Navy Seebee construction battalions with MTVR medium trucks. The vehicles come in several types, but all are distinguished by having very good off-road capabilities for trucks, with 7.1 ton payload capacity off-road and an on-road payload capacity of up to 15 tons. In order to fit into cargo aircraft like the C-130, the trucks can fold down part of the cab, reducing the vehicle’s height.
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israel's defense minister wants to buy a U.S. military system to protect its southern towns and strategic facilities from Gaza-fired rockets. Ehud Barak will ask the Pentagon to sell a Vulcan-Phalanx cannon and radar system to Israel at a cost of $25 million, Israel's daily Ha'aretz reported Tuesday.
20 April 2009 -- Thousands of people have gathered in Geneva from all corners of the globe to attend the Durban Review Conference. Despite official efforts to exclude the voices of the victims, it has brought together many civil society actors struggling against racial discrimination, including those working to end Israel’s regime of racism and racial discrimination against the Palestinians. The latter have just completed a two-day Israel Review Conference that was held on 18-19 April 2009.
As UN Blocks Plestine-Related Side Events at Durban Review Conference, Palestinian Civil Society Launches “Israel Review Conference” in Geneva on the Eve of Durban Review
Defense Industry Daily - Britain has given the green light to the Watchkeeper Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Program. The initial August 2005 contract award to Thales UK was worth around GBP 700 million, and the program expected to create or sustain up to 2,100 high-quality manufacturing jobs in the UK. The Watchkeeper platform is based on Elbit Systems’ Hermes 450 UAV platform, and executed via a joint venture.
Simon Lieblin Brown Daily Herald 15 April 2009
The five Scottish PSC members who were arrested when they disrupted the performance of the Israeli-state-sponsored Jerusalem Quartet at last August’s Edinburgh Festival will be at Edinburgh Sheriff Court (Chambers St) on Friday from 9.30am. In the aftermath of the Gaza massacres, in what appears to have been a demonstration of solidarity with Israel, the original charge of Breach of the Peace was swapped for one of “racially aggravated conduct”. This is a clear push to quash the increasing international campaign to Boycott Apartheid Israel by attempting to criminalise it.
The five Scottish PSC members who were arrested when they disrupted the performance of the Israeli-state-sponsored Jerusalem Quartet at last August’s Edinburgh Festival will be at Edinburgh Sheriff Court (Chambers St) on Friday from 9.30am. In the aftermath of the Gaza massacres, in what appears to have been a demonstration of solidarity with Israel, the original charge of Breach of the Peace was swapped for one of “racially aggravated conduct”. This is a clear push to quash the increasing international campaign to Boycott Apartheid Israel by attempting to criminalise it.