SNP members recently backed First Minister John Swinney’s plan to declare a mandate for a second independence referendum if his party wins a majority of seats in next year’s Holyrood election.
But in his speech, Greer called for the Scottish independence movement to stop “obsessing” on the process of securing a referendum, and instead focus on building public support.
He said this could be achieved by “making maximum use” of the powers devolved to Scotland and “get into the grey areas”, which occasionally might mean “daring the UK government to step in”.
The co-leader also called on every Scottish business to stop all trade and cut links with Israel until “the occupation is ended, until every Palestinian can live in peace, freedom and dignity”.
He added: “Over the coming weeks and months we will face the reality of people who went from the UK to serve in Israel’s occupation forces, who have spent the last two years inflicting that genocide on the people of Palestine, returning here.”
Greer urged the government and Lord Advocate to “make sure that every single one of these war criminals is arrested and prosecuted because a war crime anywhere in the world, is a war crime under Scots law.”
