The BBC is reporting that Celtic Football Club has publicly appealed to the Scottish TUC to call off its plan to distribute 10,000 Palestinian flags at the match tomorrow involving an Israeli team. This is what we have come to:…
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COSATU activists to bring pro-boycott message to the UK
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Bongani Masuku (International Secretary) and George Mahlangu (Campaigns Coordinator) from the South African national trade union centre, COSATU, are due to speak in Manchester on 7 December at an event titled “The case for sanctions and boycott”. The event will…
Journalist global union votes to reinstate Israeli union membership
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The Executive Committee of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) meeting in London at the weekend ( Nov 14/15 2009) voted to rescind the expulsion of the National Federation of Israel Journalists (NFIJ), ending a six-month dispute over payment of…
Palestinian workers, unions don’t support BDS campaign
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In an extraordinary series of blog postings, British trade unionists visiting Israel and Palestine have learned that Palestinian workers and their unions are not enthusiastic supporters of the campaign for boycotts, divestments and sanctions (BDS) targetting Israel. In fact, they…
Trumka vows to maintain US union support for Israel
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The key leader of the US trade union movement has this week re-affirmed its complete opposition to any trade union campaigns to boycott Israel. Rich Trumka, the newly elected, President of the AFL-CIO, said the long tradition of support for…
COSATU hails Goldstone report, praises TUC for boycott decision
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The following was published on 8 October on the website of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). COSATU fully supports the report by UN-appointed South African jurist Richard Goldstone on the crimes committed by Israel in Operation Cast…
Calls to boycott Israel isolate the British trade union movement
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This article appears on the website of the Jewish Labour Movement in the U.K. by Roger Lyons In a long standing tradition, international trade union co-operation has been about solidarity, campaigning for peace, co-operation, economic development and education. This is…
TUC publishes verbatim report on Israel/Palestine debate
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The British Trades Union Congress (TUC) has published on its website a verbatim account of the debate which took place at its recent congress. It makes for compelling reading for all those concerned with peace in the Middle East. None…
TUC support for boycott will lead to increases in antisemitism
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The following report comes from Academic Friends of Israel and was made available on 5 October. “British trade unions to boycott Israeli goods” screamed the headline in the Jerusalem Post yet the headline in the Times on the same day…
PFLP salutes TUC
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We’ve published mixed reactions to the recent decision by Britain’s Trades Union Congress (TUC) to endorse a selective boycott of Israeli products. These have included statements praising the TUC for its moderation in the face of more hostile anti-Israel elements. …