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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 UCU
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Defeat for anti-racists as UK employment tribunal finds no anti-semitism in the UCU
The Engage website has a comprehensive article reviewing the case of Fraser vs UCU — in which a British academic took his own union to court alleging anti-semitism. The employment tribunal found no evidence of anti-semitism, exonerating the union. This is a major defeat for anti-racist campaigners, coming in the same week as the Teachers… »
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… »
Two British unions taken to court over anti-Israel actions
In recent weeks, two British unions have become the targets of legal action brought by Israeli and British Jewish academics alleging discriminatory practices. In both cases, the unions have justified their actions based on what they see as solidarity with the Palestinian people and deny the allegations. The case of Ronnie Fraser, a member of… »
UK: New Statesman columnist says unions are “giving succour to the oldest form of racism”
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… »
Britain’s trade union for academics accused of “institutional anti-Semitism”
In a comprehensive article appearing yesterday on the Engage website, David Hirsh analyzes dramatic recent developments in the UCU, Britain’s trade union for academics and university lecturers. The article appears just one day after the UCU teamed up with other unions to stage a massive general strike in the public sector. But it is not… »
Jewish academics leave UCU – but union leadership seems not to care
The latest long-standing member of the academics union in the UK (the UCU) has resigned after 42 years as a union member. The departure of Philosophy professor David-Hillel Ruben follows in the wake of dozens of others who find the union, with its hard-line anti-Israel boycott, an uncomfortable place to be as a Jew. This… »
Jews are “an expansionist people”: Live coverage from a British trade union congress
This is shocking… »
British Jewish leaders to union general secretary: “show some leadership”
This was published in the Jewish Chronicle… »
The UCU and anti-Semitism
Ben Gidley has written a terrific piece for Dissent magazine about this – on the eve of the union’s congress. The union’s proposed resolution on the subject can be found… »
UK: Academics union decides to redefine anti-Semitism
This is extraordinary – and worrying. Mark Gardner from the Community Security Trust has written a long and detailed account of the issue… »