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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 PALESTINE-SOLIDARITY-CAMPAIGN
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Israel Apartheid Week launches – but where are the unions?
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 union websites shows no awareness of this week — which is the main event in… »
UK Jewish leaders urge teachers to join union, fight BDS from within
For a decade or more, British Jewish teachers have been feeling increasingly frustrated by anti-Israel and (sometimes) anti-Semitic views being expressed in their unions. Many have resigned in disgust. That’s the background to today’s story, reported in the Jerusalem Post, that the leading organizations of the British Jewish community have begun to call upon Jewish… »
UK: Union backed pro-Hamas campaigners to ‘educate’ membership about the Holocaust
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 is no indication of the background for this, no explanation of why a supposedly anti-racist… »
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 pro-Hamas group to split?
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 ranks of the organisation. On the one hand, many of its activists are keen to… »
UK: Pro-Hamas campaigners postpone trade union conference – why?
The pro-Hamas Palestine Solidarity Campaign was supposed to be holding its Trade Union Conference this weekend, as we reported last week. But now they’ve decided to postpone it until next year. Here’s the explanation from their website: Important announcement: postponement of PSC Trade Union Conference Unfortunately the PSC Trade Union Conference 29th October 2011 has been… »
UK: Pro-Hamas campaigners to hold “trade union conference” in London
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 general secretary who is listed as speaking is Bob Crow of the RMT — which… »
Palestine Solidarity Campaign – not many trade unionists, but proud of links to pro-terror IHH
The website of the London-based Palestine Solidarity Campaign boasts that it “organised a supermarket action to mark the fifth anniversary of the BNC’s call for boycott, divestment and sanctions on July 9″ and that “representatives from some of Britain’s largest trade unions, Unite, Unison and PCS” participated in the event. This is followed by a… »