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Palestine activists dig up and paint over Trump’s Scottish golf course

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PALESTINE activists painted “Gaza is not for sale” on the lawn at Donald Trump’s Scottish golf course at the weekend in response to the US president’s dismissive comments about the war-torn strip.

Palestine Action members dug up greens and spray-painted the lawn and clubhouse at the 800-acre south Ayrshire resort early on Saturday.

The activist group said that it was responding to the US administration’s plans and threats to ethnically cleanse and take over the Gaza Strip, where more than 48,000 Palestinians, 80 per cent of them civilians, have been killed by Israeli forces during the war.

A spokesperson said: “Palestine Action rejects Donald Trump’s treatment of Gaza as though it were his property to dispose of as he likes.

“To make that clear, we have shown him that his own property is not safe from acts of resistance. We will continue to take action against US-Israeli colonialism in the Palestinian homeland.”

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Climate activists fill golf course holes with cement in France

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French climate activists have filled golf course holes with cement in protest against a water ban exemption on greens across the country during a severe drought.

The group, part of the Extinction Rebellion organisation, targeted courses near the city of Toulouse, calling golf the “leisure of the most privileged.”

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In a petition, the local activists said the exemption showed that “economic madness takes precedence over ecological reason”.

“At a time when the greatest drought ever observed in France since the beginning of meteorological readings is raging, while the drying up of rivers is accelerating in our regions, at a time when 93 departments out of 96 are placed under water use restrictions, resulting in total bans on irrigation for certain market gardeners and for agriculture; a sector concerning a tiny fraction of the population seems to enjoy a privilege worthy of another world in these times of crisis; golf,” the group said in its online petition.

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