Unite, Britain’s biggest trade union and the leading labor union backer of the Labour Party, voted this week to support BDS, the boycott/divestment/sanctions movement, but also to reject the peace process. The report is at Middle East Monitor:
A motion titled “Israeli-Palestinian Co-operation” was not carried, however. The motion expressed support for the stricken U.S.-led peace talks and encouraged engagement with both Israeli and Palestinian trade unions.
The vote is further evidence that the two-state paradigm is collapsing. Even as Martin Indyk and the US establishment affirm that the two-state solution is the only option, the failure of the peace process and Israel’s relentless expansion have made these declarations highly doubtful. Europe is turning increasingly to boycott measures; even Roger Cohen, a liberal Zionist, says the Green Line is “long-forgotten;” and many on the left are offering more inclusive alternatives (like Noam Chomsky’s vision of a binational alternative at our site last year).
Here is a portion of Memo’s report on the motions that carried:
Unite, Britain’s biggest trade union, has slammed Israel as “guilty of the crime of apartheid” and committed itself to BDS campaigning…
The motion commits Unite to taking “bolder steps like those that were taken against the South African apartheid regime” as part of the fight against “the Israeli ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people”. The union will work with others to develop a “campaigning and leverage strategy around BDS within the next 12 months”, notably “against complicit companies involved in the occupation, the apartheid wall and the illegal settlements (such as Veolia, G4S and Sainsbury’s)”.
Unite, of course, would fully support a peace process. It is, rather, refusing to support the “peace process”. The “peace process” has not failed; it has achieved precisely what it was designed to achieve.
“Unite the Union, known as Unite, is a British and Irish trade union, formed on 1 May 2007, by the merger of Amicus and the Transport and General Workers’ Union. The General Secretary of Unite is Len McCluskey.[2]
On 2 July 2008, Unite signed an agreement to merge with the United Steelworkers to form a new global union entity called Workers Uniting which represents over 3 million members in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, North America and the Caribbean. Unite retains its separate identity in the United Kingdom.” WIKI
Thats a lot of john does spreading the truth about apartheid Israel and it,s true intentions .
Great, bds have scored many goals this year.
Wow, this is huge.
Another nail in the coffin !!Go BDS !!
Is it because isreal has been since years moving ahead grabbing land building settlements beyond green line , the two state solution is fading?!
Does unite think since israel has grabbed much land beyond 1967 green line and US not being a honest broker and forcing PA to accept what ever israel offers and that will be injustice to Palestinians ….?!!
Or Unite knows Peace process is just for the name sake ?!
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