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Calling for a Boycott on Israel's Sporting Participation

  • Submitted by: James Dornan, Glasgow Cathcart, Scottish National Party.
  • Date lodged: Friday, 21 February 2025
  • Submitting member has a registered interest.

  • Motion reference: S6M-16510

That the Parliament recognises what it sees as the important work that campaigners in Scotland have done in the last year to highlight the campaign, Show Israel the Red Card, which aims to highlight what it considers to be the injustices of Israel’s ongoing participation in sporting events while, it believes, breaching sporting statutes and international law, as well as reportedly killing athletes and destroying their sports infrastructure due to what it sees as the ongoing occupation and genocide in Palestine; welcomes the recent call of the Celtic FC supporters group, the Green Brigade, to extend this campaign to football fans from around the world; believes that, now that members of the International Court of Justice have reportedly considered Israel to be an apartheid state, and that governments must take steps to end it, the Gleneagles Agreement now applies; highlights what it sees as the powerful role that sport has in promoting freedom of movement and expression of culture, which it believes is currently denied to Palestinian people; acknowledges what it regards as Scotland’s role, as part of the UK, in the creation of the Israeli state through the Balfour Declaration, and believes, therefore, that Scotland has a duty of redress to the Palestinian people, and considers that the Scottish Government must lead the way in calling for sporting boycotts, as an effective way to isolate Israel internationally, in order to help end what it sees as the apartheid regime in Palestine, pursuant to the freedom of Palestinian people.


Supported by: Ariane Burgess, Maggie Chapman, Ross Greer, Patrick Harvie, Gillian Mackay, Carol Mochan, Emma Roddick, Mark Ruskell, Lorna Slater, David Torrance, Mercedes Villalba, Humza Yousaf

Amendments that have not been voted on

Motion ref. S6M-16510.1

Calling for a Boycott on Israel's Sporting Participation - Amendment 1 - Amendment

Submitted by: Jamie Greene, West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date lodged: Thursday, February 27, 2025

Supported by: Jeremy Balfour, Miles Briggs, Alexander Burnett, Jackson Carlaw, Finlay Carson, Murdo Fraser, Dr Sandesh Gulhane R, Craig Hoy, Liam Kerr, Stephen Kerr, Douglas Lumsden, John Mason, Edward Mountain, Alexander Stewart, Brian Whittle