Scottish Friends of Palestine is a non-profit campaigning organisation established in 1982 to promote the rights of the Palestinian people through peaceful means and advocacy.
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Position paper on the events of 7th October 2023
On October 7th 2023 the fence/barrier in Northern Gaza between the occupied Gaza Strip and Israel was breached by members of the military wing of Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement. They were shortly followed by fellow Palestinians keen to experience that which had been denied them since birth – freedom of movement outwith the Gaza […]
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December 2022
Executed at point-blank range Yumna Patel Mweiss 02/12/2022 A Palestinian man was shot and killed by an Israeli border police officer at point blank range on Friday evening in the northern occupied West Bank town of Huwwara in what is being described as an “execution” on social media. Read more Back to Briefing Papers Gaza’s firefighters […]
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November 2022
Dispossessed before the Nakba Marc M Junyent Mondoweiss 07/11/22 Was the right of return for Palestinians born with the Nakba in 1948, or is it actually older? These are some of the crucial questions Nadim Bawalsa addresses in his recently published work, Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return Before 1948. Bawalsa, a historian by training, is currently […]