News of a very exciting initiative via Eric Lee of Labourstart. Trade Unionists Linking Israel and Palestine - TULIP - has just been launched “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.” Spread the word.
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Interesting link, I hope it can stop the following acts:
“Action Boycott Israel Aulnay”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY461RU27MU
From: The Spine
Marty Peretz asks: “Where Were the Cops?”
http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_spine/archive/2009/04/27/where-were-the-cops.aspx
Unfortunately for TULIP, as much as they try to pretend, they have absolutely no support from any Palestian groups or unions. If you look at their website, only pro-Zionist ones are listed. The PGFTU - the largest Palestinian Trade Union - along with other Palestinian unions and workers organisations support the BDS campaign. The PGFTU is a signatory to the 2005 Palestinian Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment call, it is also a member of the BNC - the Palestinian BDS National Committee which overseas the campaign. They also signed onto, along with many other Palestinan unions calling for a workers boycott of Israel and for boycott of the Histadrut. TULIP is simply a group of right wing unionists, who are apologists for Israel’s brutal and illegal occupation of the Palestinian people.
ps: it wasn’t started by Eric Lee (who in addition to being a unionist was an active member of Israel’s occupation army, the IDF).