This website by definition focusses on the trade union movement even though the unions are hardly the only institutions in which anti-Israel bias may be found. But sometimes union hostility to Israel comes to the fore — and sometimes it…
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Is the Palestine Solidarity Campaign fit to be a partner of the unions?
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This week the British Trades Union Congress announced a joint campaign with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) in support of a boycott of goods produced in Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The announcement followed the TUC’s congress decision in…
British TUC steps up boycott campaign targetting Israel
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According to this report on the website of UNISON, Britain’s giant public sector union, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has taken action to implement its call last September for a partial boycott of Israeli goods. UNISON writes, “The Palestine Solidarity…
Israel Owes Billions of Shekels to Palestinian Workers
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The Jerusalem Post writes: “The government of Israel has siphoned over a billion shekels in money taken from Palestinian laborers for national insurance between 1970-1994, a report released on Wednesday states. According to the report, compiled by the workers’ rights…
“COSATU supports the International week against apartheid Israel”
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That’s the headline of a press statement on the website of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) today. The statement opens with these sentences: “In Palestine there lives a peace-loving people like all of us, who look forward…
Northern Ireland: Trade unionists make the case against BDS campaign
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Last night, four trade union opponents of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) campaign targetting Israel were given the opportunity to make their case before a standing-room only crowd in Belfast. In an event organised by Northern Ireland Friends of…
“Israel Apartheid Week”: South African unions take the lead
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The idea that Israel is an apartheid society — which is a completely false one — is made to seem legitimate by the involvement of those who fought against a genuinely apartheid regime. That’s why the South African unions are…