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PSC Update: Guardian under fire

Make sure you have taken the latest actions:  Write to your MEPs - human rights before trade>> Don't Dance with Israeli Apartheid>>  Thank the CO-OP>>      Going to TUC Conference? Let us know>> Going to Labour Conference? Let us know>> Like a student pack for your university? Sign up here>>   News In Brief The EU makes representations against settlement expansion in East Jerusalem, failing to recognise that their recent upgrade of relations with Israel makes their protests futile and hollow.   For the first time the US has listed attacks by Israelis on Palestinians as terrorist attacks, following two terrible incidents over the last few days: the fire bombing of a family in a taxi, and a lynching of young Palestinians in Jerusalem. Palestinians from Gaza write to the EU do not reward Apartheid    Following a campaign, Israel will NOT be represented at the first International Culture Summit in Edinburgh    The United Church of Canada has voted to boycott settlement produce>>   Events Until 25 August I Heart Hamas - Show at Edinburgh Fringe Festival  Until 3 September From West Country to West Bank - Palestine Photo-exhibition in Bristol  From 15 August to 30 September The Changing Room feat.Palestinian Artists - In London  Friday 24 AugustUnderstanding Israel: A new history of the State of Israel with Ilan Pappe - at Edinburgh Book Festival Friday 24 to Monday 27 August Palestine at Greenbelt Festival 2012 Feat. Mustafa Barghouthi, Gideon Levy, Ben White and Leila Sansour- Cheltenham

Guardian under fire  The Guardian's newest columnist, Joshua Trevino, tweeted last year that he would be ‘cool’ if Israel’s armed forces shot dead US civilians if they attempted to sail to Gaza on Freedom Flotilla II. US civilians preparing to sail on the flotilla included a Holocaust survivor and the Pulitzer-prize winning author, Alice Walker.   PSC’s letter expressing outrage at the appointment of Trevino to the Guardian’s editorial team was printed in Guardian online on Sunday (19/8). The letter was signed by 26 heads of organisations, parliamentary representatives, academics and actors.   Read the full, extraordinary story of how the Guardian hired Trevino>>   Please complain to the Guardian:  Alan Rusbridger, Editor in Chief: alan.rusbridger@guardian.co.uk Janine Gibson, Editor in Chief Guardian US:  janine.gibson@guardian.co.uk Matt Seaton, Editor Comment is Free US:  matt.seaton@guardian.co.uk Chris Elliott, Readers' Editor: reader@guardian.co.uk Abu Bakr Rauf Scholarship Fund  Bradford PSC supporters are doing a sponsored walk to raise funds for the newly established Abu Bakr Rauf Scholarship Fund, which will support Higher Education students in Gaza.  Please support the walk by joining in or sponsoring.    For more information>>   Support Palestinian Prisoners                        Israel releases more MPs held without trial>> while Israeli prison guards attack  Hasan Safadi and Samer al-Barq. Ufree, the prisoner rights’ organisation, are urging supporters to campaign on behalf of two Palestinian atheletes, Omar Abu Rouis and Mohammed Nemer>>