Solidarity from Britain…

A day after the British Union of Colleges and Universities (UCU) voted to consider imposing a boycott on Israeli academics, UNISON, the largest labor union in Britain, threatened to impose a boycott of their own on Israeli products.
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Earlier this week, Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) President Willie Madisha said COSATU supported a campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel.
Madisha was speaking at a news conference in which South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress, urged South Africans to turn out in their thousands during next week’s national protest action in solidarity with the Palestinians.
The COSATU president said action against Israel “must be sustained for as long as possible beyond the week we have identified. COSATU will campaign among organizations of the working class around the world to support this call.”
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Also Thursday, the Enough! Coalition, of which UNISON is a member, announced that it had scheduled a demonstration in London for June 9 to protest Israel’s military presence in the Palestinian territories. The event is being promoted under the slogan: Enough! End the Israeli Occupation, and is being organized with the help of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
On Wednesday, the UCU passed a motion which condemned Israel for its “denial of educational rights” to the Palestinian people and called for UCU branches to discuss an academic boycott of Israel over the next year.
The vote has received condemnation from public officials in Israel and abroad.

And click on the cartoon below to read a blog posting by Richard in support of the boycott…