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On Thursday 1 May elections will be held for 23 councils and 6 mayors across England. There will be a parliamentary by-election for Runcorn and Helsby on the same day. Voters need to say loud and clear that they won't vote Labour unless Keir Starmer announces an arms embargo on Israel.

SACC urges the UK Government to remove Hamas and Hezbollah from the list of organisations proscribed under the UK’s Terrorism Act 2000. We call on organisations that support justice in Palestine to adopt a similar position.

Tracy Gilbert MP (Labour) is urging Keir Starmer to "put in place sanctions and suspend all arms trade" with Israel following Israel's resumption of military action in Gaza.

The Scottish Labour Party Conference held in Glasgow on 21-23 February 2025 overwhelmingly passed a resolution that calls for a ban on arms sales to Israel

SACC has joined with the Campaign Against the Arms Trade and other global organisations in a worldwide call on governments producing F-35 fighter jets to immediately halt all arms transfers to Israel, including the F-35 jets.

SACC renews its call for governments around the world to demand an end to the genocide and to cease all actions that have the effect of supporting or enabling the genocide or protecting Israel and Israeli leaders from the consequences of their actions.

Response to a joint statement by Stand Up To Racism Scotland and the STUC about their planned anti-racism march in Glasgow on 16 February 2024.

SACC regrets that it is unable to support or participate in the march organised in Glasgow by Stand Up to Racism to mark the UN's International Day For the Elimination of Racial Discrimination ("Anti-Racism Day")

The Gaza Genocide Emergency Committee (GGEC) is asking for other organisations to boycott the annual "anti-racism" march organised in Glasgow by Stand Up to Racism (SUTR)

SACC pledges to support Mick Napier, charged with supporting a banned terrorist group in a speech made at a Glasgow protest against the Gaza genocide.

UCU Scotland condemns the presence on the Stand Up To Racism march on 18th March 2023 of groups that defend Israel's racist colonisation of Palestine and says it will suspend all financial and other support to SUTR until explicitly pro-Israel groups are excluded

Scottish Friends of Palestine says it will boycott the anti-racism demonstration scheduled for Saturday 18 March 2023 in Glasgow because of the presence on it of pro-Israel, racist groups.

The Northern Ireland Divisional Court has been asked to intervene in a preliminary inquiry into terrorism charges against a Palestinian doctor in order to clarify the part played by MI5 in the case.

Court proceedings in Northern Ireland have highlighted the activity of a man said to be an MI5 agent.

The Annual Islamophobia Conference co-organised by IHRC, SACC and DIN, this year taking place online from 9 – 11 December.

Dr Issam Bassalat, a Palestinian Scottish doctor who is facing terrorism charges in Northern Ireland as a result of what his lawyer calls "entrapment", will be appearing at the Court of Session in Edinburgh on Friday 10 June to fight for his right to practise medicine.

SACC supports the proposal to twin Edinburgh with Gaza City but we not affiliated with the newly-formed Edinburgh-Gaza Twinning Association.

Dr Issam Hijjawi Bassalat was released on bail on Monday 13 December.

There were heated exchanges in a court in Northern Ireland on Monday over an ongoing bail application by Dr Issam Bassalat, who is in Maghaberry Prison awaiting trial on "terrorism" charges. Dr Bassalat has suffered a heart attack in prison.  The court heard that he is at "substantial excess risk of further cardio-vascular events, including death."

A court in Northern Ireland heard today, Wednesday 13 October, that Dr Issam Hijjawi Bassalat has suffered a heart attack. Dr Bassalat was due to appear by video link at a case management hearing at Dungannon Magistrates Court, along with nine other defendants charged as a result of Operation Arbacia.