UK largest labor union to boycott Israel أكبر نقابة عمالية ببريطانيا تقرر مقاطعة إسرائيل
Published by Hossam el-Hamalawy June 22nd, 2007 in Activism, Britain, Human Rights حقوق إنسان, Imperialism إمبريالية, Labor عمال, Left يسار, Syndicates نقابات, Zionist Terrorism إرهاب صهيونيSolidarity from Britain…
Britain’s largest trade union last night backed an economic, cultural, academic and sporting boycott of Israel.
UNISON members at the National Delegate Conference in Brighton carried a motion calling for a full boycott of Israel until it withdraws to its 1967 borders and set up a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Unlike previous years the resolution doesn’t just call for a boycott of Israeli goods but includes cultural, academic and sporting industries.
It calls for the UK and the European Union to end trade agreements with Israel and suggests developing closer relations with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
While yesterday’s motion represented more of a statement than policy, the UNISON National Executive was last night deciding whether to allow another debate calling for trade and economic sanctions against Israel. The resolution would back investigations into companies and UNISON members involved in trading with Israel and would seek disinvestment from pension funds linked with Israel.
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do you think they will change their minds after what happened in gaza?
No, and we should not be apologetic about what happened in Gaza.. This is the bloody fault of the Fatah traitors, working in total coordination with the Egyptian and Jordanian regimes as well as the Israelis and the Americans.. Hamas has liberated the Gaza Strip from those traitors. and it’s a stand we should support if we were serious about confronting Imperialism, the Zionist state and the Arab regimes.. We will not sit and chant hopelessly for “national unity”.. unity with whom? with Abu Mazen, with the Preventive Security torturers, with those who sold their people to the occupation and became pawns for it?!
The labor unions in Britain took a courageous stand.. and I’m sure they are under intimidation from their govt and right-wing groups… But it looks clear the boycott movement has the upper hand..
Shokran for the British workers and labor unionists for their wonderful solidarity