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In 2004 he wrote from Newton Mearns.<ref name="JC2004Sep3" /> G77 is the postcode area that includes Newton Mearns. By February 2022 he was a settler colonist in 'Netanya' in occupied Palestine. ''[[Israel National News]]'' that month described him as co-founder of Scottish Friends of Israel “and now a resident of Netanya”.<ref name="INN2022" /> Herald letters published in January 2024 were signed “Myer Green, Netanya, Israel (formerly of G77 postcode area)” and “Myer Green, Netanya, Israel”.<ref name="Herald2024a" /><ref name="Herald2024b" />
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In 2004 he wrote from Newton Mearns.<ref name="JC2004Sep3" /> G77 is the postcode area that includes Newton Mearns. On 21 June 2017 he attended a meeting of the Scottish Parliament Cross-Party Group on Building Bridges with Israel, listed as representing [[Scottish Friends of Israel]].<ref name="CPG2017">Minutes of the Cross-Party Group on Building Bridges with Israel, meeting of 21 June 2017, sederunt: “Myer Green Scottish Friends of Israel”; copy at [https://docslib.org/doc/1212659/minutes-of-the-cross-party-group-on-building-bridges-with-israel-meeting-of-the-21st-june-2017 DocsLib].</ref> By February 2022 he was a settler colonist in 'Netanya' in occupied Palestine. ''[[Israel National News]]'' that month described him as co-founder of Scottish Friends of Israel “and now a resident of Netanya”.<ref name="INN2022" /> Herald letters published in January 2024 were signed “Myer Green, Netanya, Israel (formerly of G77 postcode area)” and “Myer Green, Netanya, Israel”.<ref name="Herald2024a" /><ref name="Herald2024b" />
  
 
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Revision as of 10:20, 6 November 2026

Glasgow GP and co-founder of Scottish Friends of Israel

Myer Green

Myer Green (also printed Mickey Green) is a retired Glasgow general practitioner and a Zionist activist. The Jewish Chronicle has described him as co-ordinator (2004), leader (2004) and co-founder (2010) of Scottish Friends of Israel.[1][2][3] His LinkedIn profile lists him as a retired general practitioner in Glasgow.[4] By February 2022 he was a settler colonist in 'Netanya' in occupied Palestine.[5] Letters to The Herald in January 2024 were signed from Netanya, occupied Palestine; one added “formerly of G77 postcode area”.[6][7]

Education

His LinkedIn profile lists:

The ScotlandsPeople statutory birth index records a Myer Solomon Green born in 1938 and registered in Pollok, Glasgow, which may be the same person; the identification rests on the name alone.[8]

Scottish Friends of Israel

In August 2004 the Jewish Chronicle named Mickey Green as co-ordinator of Scottish Friends of Israel, during a row over material on the group’s website. He said an article had been the subject of “an unfortunate misinterpretation. We are neither left nor right. We simply exist to present an alternative view [of the Middle East] to the general public.” Kenneth Collins, then president of the Glasgow Jewish Representative Council, appealed to the group “to be true to their original promise to be a broadly based organisation representing all strands of pro-Israel opinion.”[1] A letter in the Chronicle of 3 September 2004 from Mickey Green, “co-ordinator, Scottish Friends of Israel”, of Newton Mearns, said a Yad Vashem image on the website “stands solely as a reminder of the raison d'etre for the existence of the State of Israel”.[9] In November 2004 the paper described “SFI leader Dr Myer Green” as hoping to resolve the dispute within the community.[2]

On 27 January 2007 the Glasgow Jewish Educational Forum recorded that a comment posted under the name M. Green was not written by Dr Myer Green of Scottish Friends of Israel, and that it had been sent from the same computer as messages by “A Machor”.[10]

At Glasgow’s Israel at 60 event at Eastwood Park, Giffnock, in May 2008, a highlight was an exhibition on recent Israeli breakthroughs in medicine, science and technology, “produced by Dr Myer Green and Dr Walter Sneader, assisted by Dr Michael Greenhill”. The exhibition was to be available to schools, synagogues and other organisations.[11]

In April 2010 Scottish Friends of Israel organised an exhibition, “Israel's contribution to medicine, science and technology”, at the Scottish Parliament, sponsored by Ken Macintosh MSP. The Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign petitioned against it and protested outside Holyrood; the Scottish Trades Union Congress passed an emergency motion deploring “this blatant example of Israeli state propaganda”. Green said the exhibition was “intrinsically non-political” but “motivated by the unending torrent of petitions presented at Holyrood making allegations against Israel”, and that “the hostile atmosphere outside Holyrood was in complete contrast with the warm welcome we received from parliament staff”. Earlier that month he said comments by First Minister Alex Salmond about trade with Israel were “a very serious condemnation of Israel which leave me feeling somewhat uncomfortable.”[12][13]

In November 2010, described as co-founder of Scottish Friends of Israel, he said that although some of Israel’s policies had “sorely taxed” its supporters, he was “taken aback” that Mick Davis of the UJIA and the Jewish Leadership Council “should legitimise the language and perception of Israel's enemies by suggesting that Israel's might be heading along the path to apartheid”.[3] That December he criticised Scottish Friends of Palestine over a complaint to UEFA about Israeli referees officiating during a Scottish referees’ strike.[14]

In March 2011 he called a Scottish Parliament fundraising launch for a “Scottish ship to Gaza” “a futile statement”, saying the Parliament “should distance itself”.[15] In May 2011, after a Dundee City Council motion on Israel, he said the council’s Liberal Democrat leader Fraser Macpherson “clearly sees the council as a vehicle to promote the singular agenda of the SPSC”.[16] In August 2010, on an Edinburgh proposal to boycott Veolia over its work in Israel, he said: “It’s a matter of grave concern for us. The war against Israel seems to have entered a new phase. It’s not violent but it’s encroaching on all walks of life.”[17] In July 2012 he said a planned protest against the Batsheva Dance Company at the Edinburgh International Festival “constitutes cultural warfare against the Israeli people as opposed to the Israeli government.”[18]

Residence

In 2004 he wrote from Newton Mearns.[9] G77 is the postcode area that includes Newton Mearns. On 21 June 2017 he attended a meeting of the Scottish Parliament Cross-Party Group on Building Bridges with Israel, listed as representing Scottish Friends of Israel.[19] By February 2022 he was a settler colonist in 'Netanya' in occupied Palestine. Israel National News that month described him as co-founder of Scottish Friends of Israel “and now a resident of Netanya”.[5] Herald letters published in January 2024 were signed “Myer Green, Netanya, Israel (formerly of G77 postcode area)” and “Myer Green, Netanya, Israel”.[6][7]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “Web slur sparks Scottish spat”, Jewish Chronicle, 27 August 2004, p. 3.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lindy Markson and Bernard Josephs, “Scottish Jews split in website row”, Jewish Chronicle, 19 November 2004.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Simon Rocker, Leaders trade blows over Mick Davis Israel criticism, Jewish Chronicle, 25 November 2010.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Myer Green, LinkedIn, accessed 6 November 2026.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Barry Shaw, Are UK Jewish Organizations becoming Anti-Israel? An Israeli Perspective., Israel National News, 24 February 2022.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Myer Green, letter, Israel's actions put into perspective by decades of terrorism, The Herald, 24 January 2024.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Myer Green, “Israel was not the aggressor”, letter, The big lesson of Covid: next time, listen to the experts, The Herald, January 2024.
  8. ↑ ScotlandsPeople, statutory register of births, index entry: GREEN, Myer Solomon, 1938, Pollok, ref. 644/18/869, accessed 31 October 2026.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Letters, “Here's tae us, wha's like us…”, Jewish Chronicle, 3 September 2004.
  10. ↑ Misuse of the blog, Glasgow Jewish Educational Forum, 27 January 2007.
  11. ↑ Glasgow guests enjoy passport privileges, Jewish Chronicle, 16 May 2008.
  12. ↑ Robyn Rosen, Alex Salmond calls for Israel trade rethink, Jewish Chronicle, 8 April 2010.
  13. ↑ Marcus Dysch, “Hostility at Holyrood for Israel show”, Jewish Chronicle, 30 April 2010, p. 14; online as Anti-Israel demos at technology show.
  14. ↑ Robyn Rosen, “Now strikers bring referees to book”, Jewish Chronicle, 3 December 2010, p. 4.
  15. ↑ Jessica Elgot, “Scottish MSPs want Gaza ship”, Jewish Chronicle, 25 March 2011.
  16. ↑ Jessica Elgot, Dundee backtracks on Israel boycott, Jewish Chronicle, 19 May 2011.
  17. ↑ Jessica Elgot, Edinburgh council to discuss Israel boycott, Jewish Chronicle, 18 August 2010.
  18. ↑ Jessica Elgot, Israeli dancers face Edinburgh festival disruption, Jewish Chronicle, 12 July 2012.
  19. ↑ Minutes of the Cross-Party Group on Building Bridges with Israel, meeting of 21 June 2017, sederunt: “Myer Green Scottish Friends of Israel”; copy at DocsLib.
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