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…
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UK: Union backed pro-Hamas campaigners to ‘educate’ membership about the Holocaust
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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…
British Jewish leaders to union general secretary: “show some leadership”
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This was published in the Jewish Chronicle today.
The UCU and anti-Semitism
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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 here.
The British Trade Union Movement, Israel and Boycotts
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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…
Making the progressive case for Israel - event in London
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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…
UK: Union-backed daily newspaper accused of ‘abuse of the Holocaust’
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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…
Turning the tide in the fight against BDS
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The following are notes from Eric Lee’s presentation to the Trade Union Friends of Israel (TUFI) fringe meeting at the UNISON conference in Bournemouth yesterday. TUFI was banned this year from having a stall at the conference, but held a…
Unite - Britain’s largest union - votes to boycott Israel
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According to this report in the Jewish Chronicle, Britain’s largest trade union, Unite, has voted to boycott Israel. Support for the boycott resolution was unanimous. Stephen Scott of Trade Union Friends of Israel is quoted as saying “All round, you…
Campaigning for Decent Work across Palestine
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‘We have succeeded in reducing the working day by half an hour. From the experience, I realise that big achievements begin by small steps. That was the accumulated knowledge that I have learnt from the TUC project,’ says Saed Zubaidy,…