Like us on FacebookNorway: Union calls for comprehensive boycott of Israel, break with Histadrut
One of Norway’s largest and most important unions, EL&IT, has issued the strongest call yet for boycotts and sanctions targetting the Jewish state, according to this report. The resolution, quoted in full in the story, calls for the Norwegian national trade union center LO to break all relations with the Israeli national trade union center Histadrut. While the resolution lays out criticism of Israeli government policy — criticism which many will agree with — there is not a single sentence explaining why the Histadrut needs to boycotted or isolated. According to a report, Palestinian trade unionists attending the conference as guests of the Norwegian union were “visibly moved” by this show of support. The report says nothing about those unionists themselves having a long-standing relationship with the Histadrut.