In 2010, An Edinburgh Sheriff dismissed the attempts of the Procurator Fiscal to convict five Palestine solidarity activists of a racist offence for demonstrating against the criminal policies of Israel.

This was regarded as a test case and, once the judgement was made, might have been thought to be the end of the matter.

Troublingly, this is not so.

In 2011, a young, politically active student at St Andrews University, was accused of a hate crime against an American Jewish student for committing a symbolic act of disgust towards an Israeli flag. The circumstances of this case and the way in which the sheriff came to his decision are indicative of a growing and alarming campaign by supporters of Israel to treat criticism of that country's brutal and apartheid regime as anti-semitic.

This short 17 minute film documents the story of the trial and it's context, and draws attention to the very real danger that the decision of the Scottish Court represents to freedom of expression, and especially for anybody wishing to register their moral outrage at the state of Israel, a uniquely protected transgressor of international and humanitarian law.