27 June 2009

A hole-in-none for War Criminals




As a child I was always told that the Jewish National Fund (JNF) was the biggest environmental charity in Israel. Sounds good eh? Until you find out that the trees they plant are stolen from Palestinian land and planted onto illegal Israel settlements....Mmmm.... Many people struggle to work out how we can promote peace in the Middle East and challenge organisations complicit in the occupation of Palestine. So when these organisations come to our home turf and try to raise funds to continue their crimes, the least we can do is put a spanner in the works, or in this case, in their golf game.

A little bit of extravagant ceilidh dancing and very loud phones by people, Jewish, Scottish, Muslim, Christian old and young shattered the silence needed to concentrate on getting a hole-in-one and sent a strong message that people's lives and access to environmental resources are far more important than a game of golf.