... A Scottish pro-Palestine activist is facing charges for “threatening and abusive behaviour” after reading a poem about children killed by Israel (The National, 2026-07-16)

... A Scottish pro-Palestine activist is facing charges for “threatening and abusive behaviour” after reading a poem about children killed by Israel (The National, 2026-07-16)

https://www.thenational.scot/news/26290837.scottish-pro-palestine-activist-arrested-for-reading-poem/

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>> Bill Williamson, 74, who lives in Ardentinny, said he had been at a weekly Palestine vigil outside Dunoon Burgh Hall on July 4 when he was approached by a pair of police officers while he was reading out Don’t Mention The Children by the Jewish writer Michael Rosen through a megaphone.

>> ... “Initially I thought, just let this die a death. But then ..

>> “I thought, this is intimidation. The more people that know about it, I think the better.”

>> Rosen’s poem was written in response to a 2014 decision by the Israeli Broadcasting Authority to ban a radio advert from human rights group B’Tselem which listed the names of children killed in Gaza...

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