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Trade union leaders from three continents have announced the launch of a new global movement "to challenge the apologists for Hamas and Hizbollah in the labour movement" and to fight for a two-state solution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. The movement is called TULIP - Trade Unions Linking Israel and Palestine. [Read more]TULIP HOLOCAUST
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UK: Holocaust denial seen as legitimate by 20% of PSC activists
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 his expulsion. What was he expelled for? Holocaust denial. One would think this is a… »
UK: Union-backed daily newspaper accused of ‘abuse of the Holocaust’
The respected Community Security Trust in the United Kingdom has just issued its report on Antisemitic Discourse in Britain in 2009 which not surprisingly levels some criticisms at sections of the British Left and trade union movement. But perhaps most devastating is the charge that the Morning Star, a daily newspaper supported by some of… »
British TUC calls for end to discrimination and hatred on Holocaust Memorial Day
The TUC [Trades Union Congress] is calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) today (Wednesday). HMD commemorates the loss of life in the holocaust of World War II, and in more recent genocides in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur. It is held on the anniversary of the liberation of… »
Union chooses to hold anti-Israel rally on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
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 as a day to remember the victims of the Holocaust. How inappropriate — and indeed,… »
British unions to remember Holocaust
Britain’s Community trade union, whose General Secretary Michael Leahy OBE is one of the founders of TULIP, has issued the following statement: Community supports Holocaust Memorial Day, the international day of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust and other genocides. Community affirms the following Statement of Commitment: We recognise that the Holocaust shook the… »