PRO-PALESTINE protesters have held a demonstration at the United States president's Ayrshire and Aberdeenshire golf courses, claiming that Donald Trump’s “legacy of warmongering” has “no place in Scotland”.
Campaigners held a protest at the Turnberry Golf Club and Trump International Golf Links Aberdeen, both owned by the US president, in response to the US’s war with Iran and against the actions of ICE agents in America.
Organised by The Gaza Genocide Emergency Campaign (GGEC), banners were placed on the roadside sign outside the Aberdeen golf course, with several cars also reportedly seen driving outside the estate with Palestine and Scotland flags.
One image showed a large banner, which had been partially removed, outside the Turnberry Golf Club with the words “Stop Gaza genocide”.
Meanwhile, pictures showed dozens of campaigners walking along the Ayrshire golf course holding Palestine and Scotland flags, with Police Scotland officers also in attendance.
In a post on Instagram prior to the midday protest, a spokesperson for the GGEC wrote: “Donald Trump’s legacy of warmongering, fascist policing, and global insecurity has no place in Scotland.
“While he luxuriates in his Turnberry golf course, communities worldwide suffer the devastating impact of his actions.
“A genocidal gangster and eco-vandal like Trump has no moral right to our land.”
A separate message on the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign website read: “Send a message to the people of Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, Yemen, and Cuba that we stand opposed to white supremacism, genocide and war.”
Trump has been criticised for the US’s involvement in the war in the Middle East, including the Iran war, with the country also being a key ally to Israel.
In September, a team of independent experts commissioned by the United Nations’ Human Rights Council concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
The Commission of Inquiry On The Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel, which was created four years ago, has repeatedly documented alleged human rights abuses and violations since the deadly October 7 2023, attacks by Hamas.
The team was commissioned by the Human Rights Council (HRC), the UN’s top human rights body, but it does not speak for the United Nations.
Israel at the time refused to cooperate with the commission and instead accused it and the HRC of anti-Israel bias. Earlier in 2025, the Trump administration, a key Israeli ally, pulled the United States out of the council.
After a painstaking legal analysis, the commission came to the conclusion that Israel had committed four of the five “genocidal acts” defined under an international convention adopted in 1948 known colloquially as the “Genocide Convention”.
“The Commission finds that Israel is responsible for the commission of genocide in Gaza,” said Navi Pillay, the commission chairperson. “It is clear that there is an intent to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza through acts that meet the criteria set forth in the Genocide Convention.”
In November 2024, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister Yoav Gallant.
They are accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity over the war in Gaza.
