Tag Archives: human rights

Please do whatever you can to defend the human rights of Palestinians (letter to my MP)

Posted on May 14, 2021 by biowrite

Dear Ms Cherry I struggle to express how upset I am at the horrific ongoing events in Israel-Palestine. I was born in Scotland but grew up in erstwhile white-majority-rule Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and apartheid South Africa, and am aware of … Continue reading →

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History will judge us. Which side are you on? Compassion and humanity, or terrorist apartheid Israel?

Posted on August 1, 2014 by biowrite

History will judge us all History will surely judge the Israeli Zionist state as among the most evil of the present era. It will also judge those who sought to support or appease this terrorist regime as complicit in its crimes against humanity. The … Continue reading →

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Partial victory against Israel in Edinburgh, but the struggle goes on.

Posted on July 31, 2014 by biowrite

Unbelievably, in view of Israel’s record on human rights and the ongoing slaughter of innocents in Gaza, the management of the Underbelly venue at Edinburgh’s Fringe Festival somehow thought it a good idea to book and then not cancel a show … Continue reading →

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Israel’s “right to defend itself”: repeat a lie often enough…

Posted on July 28, 2014 by biowrite

UPDATE (16 APRIL 2018) I just came across this interesting article on the international Israeli propaganda machine: How Israel and its partisans work to censor the Internet. If you think it’s OK to say “Israel has a right to defend … Continue reading →

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The USA and Iran – an interesting comparison!

Posted on December 19, 2011 by biowrite

The USA and Iran. One is an oppressive military regime with extreme socio-economic inequality, which arrests people for dancing, brutally suppresses peaceful protests and has just passed legislation moving it closer to a totalitarian state allowing its own citizens to … Continue reading →

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Abu Ghraib company will not be used again for Scottish Census?

Posted on May 17, 2011 by biowrite

Below you will find (1) the Registrar General’s reply to my letter to him about the use of CACI (a company employed by the US government to work at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, where prisoners were tortured) … Continue reading →

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The Census 2011: a letter to my MEP

Posted on March 25, 2011 by biowrite

UPDATE:  Read what has happened since I first wrote to my MP. Read the response from my MEP’s office to the letter I sent to him. CACI Ltd has been given an £18.5 million contract for key information technology work … Continue reading →

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The Scottish Census 2011 and torture

Posted on March 25, 2011 by biowrite

UPDATE:  I have now sent a letter, based on the draft below, to my MP.  Watch this space for further news. I  do not want to be complicit in torture, and so am considering not returning my census form directly … Continue reading →

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The truth about Israel and its actions

Posted on June 6, 2010 by biowrite

This has no direct relevance to my writing, but I feel compelled to highlight two articles in the Sunday Herald. The first is an interview with Theresa McDermott, someone I have had the privilege of meeting on several occasions.  It’s … Continue reading →

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UK Government Complicit in Torture

Posted on April 22, 2009 by biowrite

Here’s a press release I drafted for Dr Bill Wilson MSP today!  (On Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays I work in the Scottish Parliament as his researcher.) Best wishes Eric

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