COSATU, the South African national trade union centre, has hailed the government’s decision to boycott an upcoming OECD tourism conference in Israel. The conference is set to focus on “Industry and Policy Approaches to Foster Green Growth in Tourism”. In…
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UK: Israel boycott again on agenda of academics union
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“A British academic trade union responsible for continual calls to ostracize Israeli academia is again set to consider a boycott call and alignment with the ‘boycott, divestment, sanctions’ campaign at its annual conference in Manchester next month. The University College…
BDS activists: We will take TUC further - to a full boycott of Israel
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The anti-Israel activists who got the British Trades Union Congress (TUC) to call for a partial boycott of goods from the Jewish state are not resting on their laurels. They have a plan and it calls for getting the British…
British TUC steps up boycott campaign targetting Israel
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According to this report on the website of UNISON, Britain’s giant public sector union, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has taken action to implement its call last September for a partial boycott of Israeli goods. UNISON writes, “The Palestine Solidarity…
Northern Ireland: Trade unionists make the case against BDS campaign
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Last night, four trade union opponents of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) campaign targetting Israel were given the opportunity to make their case before a standing-room only crowd in Belfast. In an event organised by Northern Ireland Friends of…
Union chooses to hold anti-Israel rally on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
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January 27, 1945 was the day that Soviet troops liberated the largest and most infamous of the Nazi death camps at Auschwitz — and it is for this reason that this day was chosen by the international community to serve…
Jerusalem tourism for religious purposes: Jordan unions back boycott
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Jordanian unions, along with political factions such as the Muslim Brotherhood, are planning to hold a public rally calling for a boycott on tourism for religious purposes to Jerusalem and other sites in Palestine. The Jordanian National Committee for Anti-Normalisation…
BDS campaigners turn their attention to the unions
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The Gaza Freedom March is over and participants have issued a declaration in Cairo which will be of interest to trade unionists for two reasons. First, it explicitly focusses on trade unions and second, it is signed by a number…
Leading Black trade unionist expresses ‘disgust and dismay’ at misuse of her name by pro-BDS campaigners
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Clayola Brown, the national president of the A. Philip Randolph Institute — a leading organization for Black trade unionists in the United States — has sent this email message to “Labor for Palestine”: It is with disgust and dismay that…
UK academics’ union again discusses illegal anti-Israel boycott
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The University and College Union (UCU) held a meeting in London yesterday to discuss to debate whether to call for an academic boycott of Israel. The location, full agenda and even the existence of the conference itself has been shrouded…