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One of Scotland’s councils has just implemented a boycott of Israel after comparing the country to apartheid South Africa. The Clackmannanshire Council declared it would resist all economic and political support for Israel in order to “end suffering in Palestine”. In Scotland, once known as the only European country which has no history of state persecution of Jews, a region is officially dedicated to the eradication of the Jewish State as a malevolent, “settler” and foreign entity. Last year, the Scottish University of Dundee banned water from Eden Springs on the campus, because—it claimed—“it steals water from the Salukia spring...

A YOUNG Muslim man arrested in a dramatic anti-terror raid in Clackmannanshire yesterday morning had been watched by police for several weeks, it emerged last night. Mohammed Atif Siddique, 20, was seized at around 7am by officers carrying out what was described as "a pre-planned, intelligence-led operation". More than 60 officers, several of them armed, took part in the raid at the house in Alva, which left neighbours in the normally quiet town stunned. Mr Siddique was taken to Govan Police station in Glasgow, designated as the station where suspects detained under the Terrorism Act 2000 are held. His family's...