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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 UK
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UK: TSSA votes to support anti-Israel boycott
TSSA, the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association, represents 30,000 administrative, managerial, professional and technical workers in the railway, London Underground, the travel trade, ports and ferries. It’s currently holding its annual conference and this morning announced that it had “voted to link up with the international campaign for boycotts, divestment and sanctions to achieve freedom and equality… »
British Labour leader Ed Miliband supports Israel, denounces boycotters
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. Alan Johnson has written an excellent account of what Miliband said and what this… »
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… »
Pro-Israel UK group targets Unite, accusing it of supporting Hamas
We Believe in Israel is a grassroots network in the U.K. launched in 2011 following a mass meeting in London attended by over 1,500 participants and supported by 26 community organisations. Though considered to be “pro-Israel”, the group explicitly supports the call for an independent Palestinian state, saying on its website that it “desire[s] peace… »
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… »
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… »
The British Trade Union Movement, Israel and Boycotts
by Ronnie Fraser Over the past thirty years the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and member unions have regularly adopted resolutions containing anti-Israeli and pro-Palestinian rhetoric. A whole generation of British left-wing trade union activists has been raised on a diet of conference motions whose only mention of Israel is in connection with its “brutality” and… »
Making the progressive case for Israel – event in London
On 15 March 2011 from 18:00 to 19:30, Progress and Labour Friends of Israel are holding an event to discuss the future for progressive supporters of Israel. The event will be held in the Grand Committee of the House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA. Speakers will include: * David Cairns MP, Inverclyde and chair of… »
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… »