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Scotsman rallied international activists in Middle East march »

Scotsman rallied international activists in Middle East march

An Edinburgh activist assumed the leadership of an international convoy confronted by a hostile Egyptian blockade during the new year march from Cairo to Gaza, The Journal can reveal. Mick Napier, chair of the Scottish Palestinian Solidarity Campaign ...

Wed 20 Jan 2010 by Matthew Moore | Read more »

Galloway "a proxy of Hamas" »

George Galloway

Outspoken MSP George Galloway was denied access into Canada last week on grounds he poses a threat to the country’s national security. A spokesperson for Canada’s immigration minister called Mr Galloway an “infandous street-corner Cr...

Mon 23 Mar 2009 by Constantine Innemée | Read more »

Galloway calls for inquiry over Gaza convoy arrests »

George Galloway

The future of the "Viva Palestina" aid convoy to Gaza—led by the Respect MP and one-time University of Edinburgh rectorial candidate George Galloway—has been put in doubt following the arrests of members of the convoy on terrorist charges. ...

Mon 23 Feb 2009 by Amy Magowan Greene | Read more »

Gaza and other commitments force Galloway out of race »

George Galloway

Respect MP George Galloway has withdrawn his candidacy for the position of rector for the University of Edinburgh. The news came late last Thursday night and saw the controversial character state his commitments to other causes as his reason for ste...

Wed 11 Feb 2009 by Megan Taylor, Hiran Balasuriya | Read more »

The rectorial round table »

Iain MacWhirter and George Foulkes

It always makes an interviewer’s life easier when his subject fits neatly into the popular caricature; when three do so at once, you feel positively spoiled. Together for the first time, the three candidates for the Edinburgh University rectorshi...

Wed 11 Feb 2009 by Simon Mundy | Read more »

Personalities and politics »

George Foulkes A graduate of the University of Edinburgh with a degree in Psychology, the Right Honourable Lord George Foulkes of Cumnock MSP—to quote his full title—currently represents the Lothians region for the Labour party in the Scottish Parliam...

Wed 28 Jan 2009 by Paris Gourtsoyannis | Read more »

"Be nice to George!" - but how could I not? »

It’s when you meet George Galloway face to face that you realise he is a figure defined by the battles he has fought. Though it may be a concession to the cliché that people always look taller on television than they do in real life, the f...

Mon 26 Jan 2009 by Paris Gourtsoyannis | Read more »

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