TUFI will be holding a fringe event ‘Negotiating for Peace: how do we bring Israel and Palestinian workers together?’ on September 10 during this year’s TUC Congress. The fringe will be held at 12.30-2.00pm in the Purbeck Bar within the…
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A call on trade unions to strengthen - not break - links with the Histadrut
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This is a terrific article by Alan Johnson, the author of The New Histadrut: Peace, Social Justice and the Israeli Trade Unions. Please read it, and share it widely.
UK: TUFI attacks union support for BDS; TUC clarifies - boycotts of settlement goods only
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In an article published last week on the Left Foot Forward website, Alex Bjarnason, organiser and communications Officer for Trade Union Friends of Israel, attempts to explain why many British trade unions have supported the campaign to boycott the Jewish…
British Labour leader Ed Miliband supports Israel, denounces boycotters
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At an event organized last week by the British Jewish Board of Deputies, Ed Miliband, leader of the trade-union backed Labour Party, spoke out forcefully as a friend of Israel and an opponent of boycotts, including boycotts promoted by unions.…
Israel Apartheid Week launches - but where are the unions?
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Today begins the 9th annual ‘Israel Apartheid Week’ in the UK and soon in other countries. The main event in London is sponsored by a number of pro-Palestinian student groups but not, apparently, any union. A quick search of British trade…
UK: TUC moves up to a new level of support for BDS
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The global campaign of boycotts, divestments and sanctions (BDS) targetting Israel is a threat to the Jewish state, but that campaign can be broken down into five types using the British government’s “threat levels” as a guide. Those levels are…
UK: Israel’s ambassador blasts unions for promoting bigotry
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In an article in yesterday’s Guardian, Israel’s ambassador to the UK, Daniel Taub, has come down hard on British unions, in particular Unison (the public sector union) for their policy of boycotting Israel in general and the Histadrut in particular.…
Global unions hail Histadrut victory following general strike
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The pro-Hamas wing of the international labour movement is not going to like this one bit. The Histadrut’s general strike and the concessions it wrung from the Israeli government have won it accolades from across the international labour movement. This…
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.
UK: Pro-Hamas campaigners to hold “trade union conference” in London
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The Palestine Solidarity Campaign, which supports Hamas and whose logo shows a map of Israel and Palestine with one of those countries, erased is calling a trade union conference in London in another 9 days. Ironically, the only trade union…