It’s not all gloom and doom in the labor movement. The International Trade Union Confederation understands all too well the toxic, antisemitic, reactionary politics underlying the campaign to boycott Israel.

At its world congress in Vancouver, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) stated its rejection of “the extremist policies of Hamas”.

And in a defiant slap to the boycott movement, the leader of Israel’s Histadrut, its umbrella trade union body, Ofer Eini, has been elected as one of ITUC’s vice presidents and given a place on its 25-member executive board.

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