[Peace-discuss] Fw: CLNews: IT'S TIME FOR A LABOR BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL

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I thought some might find this posting by Greg Butler, African American Union Carpenter from NYC interesting.

David J.

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Subject: CLNews: IT'S TIME FOR A LABOR BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL


IT'S TIME FOR A LABOR BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL

The Israeli Zionist regime, the colonialist latter day White Rhodesia of the Middle East, is carrying out it's most brutal atrocities in almost 60 years, and it's time for the working class of the world to say NO!

In particular, this is the internationalist duty of American workers - because our tax dollars pay for Israeli atrocities, and the Israeli regime's military operations primarily serve to prop up US imperialism in the Middle East!

We have to act now, cause the bombs are falling on the apartment houses of Gaza City and the rowhouses in the refugee camps. 

We have to stand up, and we're well past the point where a nice polite "write you congressman/woman" campaign is adequate - although by all do means do write you congressperson and senators [cause we all know the damned zionists do!]

We need to call for an immediate cutoff of all military, security and economic aid, a cutoff of loan guarantees, and an embargo of all military and police equipment bound for the illegitimate racist Apartheid settler state of Israel.

And we will need the working class' social power on the ground to win this.

I'm calling for all unions in this country to immediately sell all of their State of Israel bonds and any other Israeli investment vehicles they might own.

Also, we need the AFL-CIO, Change To Win and all of their affiliates to immediately and permanently cut off of all fraternal relations with the Histadrut, the racist Zionist state sponsored "labor federation" in Israel, and all of Histadrut's affiliates.

Histadrut has an 80 year history of Jim Crow segregating Arab, Asian and non Jewish Eastern European workers in Israel - it's about as legitimate a labor body as the All China Council of Trade Unions, the Nazi-era German Labor Front or the Apartheid era Trades Unions Council of South Africa and should be treated as such!

Also, the unions representing Teamsters, Machinists, Air Line Pilots, Longshoremen and Sailors should declare all freight inbound to or outbound from Israel to be "hot cargo" and refuse to handle any cargo from that country, or to service any ship or aircraft from Israel, or any ship or aircraft carrying Israeli bound or Israeli origin cargo.

Teachers, professors, medical workers and any and all other professionals should follow the lead of the college professors represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees, who have officially demanded that Canadian universities and colleges immediately terminate all academic relationships with Israel, and have demanded the removal of all Israeli guest faculty in Canadian institutions of higher learning.

American professionals should follow their lead, and shun their Israeli collegues for the duration.

In other words, we need a labor embargo on Israel, immediately.

And we shouldn't stop until Israel abolishes ALL of it's discriminatory policies against Arabs and other non-Jews in Israel.

We should demand the right of return for all 7.2 million Palestinians, and full citizenship and the right to vote for all Arab and other non Jewish persons resident in 1947 Palestine.

In other words, we should demand ARAB MAJORITY RULE in Palestine, just like we demanded Black Majority Rule in South Africa a generation ago.

Nothing less is acceptable.

FRATERNALLY,
GREGORY A. BUTLER, LOCAL 608 CARPENTER,
FOR GANGBOX: CONSTRUCTION WORKERS NEWS SERVICE
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"UNION NOW, UNION FOREVER!"


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