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Home | Friday 20th March 2009 | Issue 669

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BIG TOUBLE

In response to the growing success of the Boycott Israeli Goods campaign, police have been putting more pressure on protesters. Two Swansea activists had their houses searched and were arrested for ‘conspiring to commit racially aggravated criminal damage’ following an action at Sainsburys in Bridgend, when a couple of boxes of Israeli peppers were sprayed with red paint and a ‘Boycott Israel’ slogan spray-stencilled on the floor.

The two arrested, Dee Murphy and Greg Wilkinson, weren’t even at the action, but had previously done a ‘trolley action’ in their local Tescos in Swansea with dates grown in illegal Israeli settlements. Join-the-dots cops conjured a conspiracy out of thin air – obviously the activists in Swansea must have had some connection to the action in Bridgend.

Meanwhile Palestine Solidarity Campaigners in Edinburgh have just been charged for causing ‘alarm and distress... in a racially aggravated manner’ at a picket of the Jerusalem Quartet at the Edinburgh festival last August.

* www.bigcampaign.org, www.palsolidarity.org

Keywords: big campaign, boycott israeli goods, edinburgh, israel, palestine, palestine solidarity campaign, sainsburys, swansea, tescos


 

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