Police crackdowns on Israeli peace demonstrators combined with court rulings and settler organisations are designed to strip Palestinian families of their homes and land. The Israeli state has tried to silence both Israelis and Palestinians who resist, according to Zo HaDerekh (This Is The Way) the Communist Party of Israel’s Hebrew-language weekly
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SCOTLAND is no stranger to housing activism.
This March saw the unveiling of a sculpture commemorating the legendary Glasgow radical Mary Barbour. In 1915 unscrupulous landlords were taking advantage of the wartime economy — pushing up rents as thousands of workers flocked to Glasgow’s shipyards and munitions factories.
Barbour led a 20,000-strong rent strike in what was then the British empire’s second city.
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