Pro-Israel lawyer Matthew Berlow played a key part in faking a graffiti attack at his Scots home in plot to frame Palestine group. He will be given what amounts to a slap on the wrist by the Scotish Law Society.

He  faces a £500 fine for his part in the dodgy dealings after an investigation  by  a reporter of the Law Society of Scotland.

Berlow knew his cohort Ed Sutherland, a teacher at Belmont Academy, Ayr, had deliberately created a fake Facebook identity using the name Stevie Harrison. He did so in order to infiltrate the  Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign in January last year. Both Berlow and Sutherland were involved.

Mick Napier, chairman of SPSC’s Glasgow branch, said: “We welcome the finding against Berlow but the gravity of the offence clearly merits more than a £500 rap on the knuckles. I agree! Do you? If so sign and share as widely as possible.

"Those who have been defamed, including myself, should be awarded exemplary damages. We have been smeared as antisemitic and that is serious and quite unacceptable" - Mick Napier, Scottish Palestinian Solidarity Campaign