Critics have long suspected that the London-based “Palestine Solidarity Campaign” opposes a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians and considers the very existence of the Jewish state to be illegitimate. (Their logo is a map of an undivided Palestine.) Union…
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UK: Unite senior official blasts Israeli ‘apartheid’, welcomes Islamic Jihad member
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Adrian Weir [pictured], the assistant chief of staff at Unite, Britain’s largest trade union, gave a speech recently at a demonstration protesting Israel’s hosting the UEFA Under-21 football championship. He began the speech by delivering “the solidarity greetings of General Secretary,…
USA: Union uses ‘academic freedom’ to attack academic freedom - the case of PSC CUNY
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A few years back, British unions of academics debated the question of whether to show their solidarity with the Palestinians by boycotting Israeli academics. Eventually that tactic was dropped in part because of a very effective campaign by many academics…
Union-backed Palestine Solidarity Campaign forced to distance itself from anti-Semitism yet again
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This keeps happening to the union-backed “Palestine Solidarity Campaign”, which is the propaganda arm of Hamas in the United Kingdom. The PSC, whose affiliates include some of Britain’s largest trade unions, was forced in recent months to expel proponents of…
Scotland: “TUC delegates join Palestine freedom struggle – unanimously!”
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The recent congress of the Scottish TUC passed a number of anti-Israel resolutions, not surprisingly. The Palestine Solidarity Campaign is ecstatic. But one resolution attracted our attention - this one by the Fire Brigades Union (FBU): “this Congress applauds the…
UK: Union leader asserts non-existent ‘right of return’ for Palestinian refugees
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Hugh Lanning, the deputy general secretary of the PCS civil servants union, is also the Chair of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC). In an article last month for the Communist daily Morning Star, now highlighted on the PSC website, he…
UK: Union backed pro-Hamas campaigners to ‘educate’ membership about the Holocaust
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The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) has today published on its website the resolutions passed at its annual general meeting last month. The last of these is entitled “Building an anti-racist, anti-colonialist, Palestine solidarity movement – anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial”. There…
UK: Holocaust denial seen as legitimate by 20% of PSC activists
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The Palestine Solidarity Campaign held is annual general meeting this weekend. Journalists were not allowed to attend (I asked), and the first session was a closed one to debate the appeal by a former national chair of the organisation over…
UK: Union-backed pro-Hamas group to split?
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The pro-Hamas Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), which is supported by nearly all of the large unions in the UK, is to hold its annual general meeting later this month. The meeting occurs at a time of deep division inside the…
UK: New Statesman columnist says unions are “giving succour to the oldest form of racism”
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In a powerful piece for the website of the venerable New Statesman, columnist Rob Marchant urges unions to come back to their senses on Israel and Palestine. Well worth reading.