Activists against antisemitism in Scotland delivered a letter to the head of the government on Sunday signed by nearly 3,000 people warning that his anti-Israel actions and rhetoric were fanning the flames of Jew-hatred.

The letter delivered to Scottish First Minister John Swinney followed his announcement on Thursday that his government would pause new awards of public contracts to arms companies supplying Israel.

“Not one Palestinian life will be saved by these measures, but Jewish life in Scotland will be put further at risk,” Leah Benoz, founder and director of Scotland Against Antisemitism, said in a statement about the letter that her organization authored and got nearly 3,000 people to sign.

The letter noted that, in announcing the boycott, Swinney said that “in the face of genoc

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