UK Fire Brigades Union Sends Delegation to Palestine, Votes to Boycott, Divest, Sanction
Fire Brigades Union (UK)
‘It’s about peace, security and justice for us all’
On a trade union delegation to Palestine in June, three FBU officials met firefighters struggling to protect their local communities in the face of extreme danger. They also saw and heard from trade unionists, human rights activists and other progressive organisations of the humanitarian disaster created by the illegal Israeli occupation.
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FBU 14 May 2009 COMPOSITE RESOLUTION A PALESTINE
SOLIDARITY
Despite international condemnation of the Israeli occupation
of Palestine, the continued disregard of UN resolutions and rulings
from the International Court of Justice, which includes the building
of more settlements within the 1967 Borders, Conference believes
that Israel has consistently failed to uphold its duties
under international law.
Conference supports the statement, made in
December 2008 by Luisa Morgantini, Vice President of the European Parliament,
when supporting the EU Parliament suspension of the vote on the upgrade of
the EU/Israeli relations, that "It's time for the Israeli Government
to stop considering itself above the law and start respecting
it, beginning by freezing all settlement-building activities and
ending its siege on the Gaza Strip".
Conference therefore calls on the
Executive Council to support and promote throughout the Trade Union and
Labour Movement a campaign to boycott Israeli goods, disinvest from Israeli
institutions and for sanctions to be taken against Israel, similar to those
sanctions imposed by the international movement against apartheid in
South Africa, until such time as Israel ends its occupation of Palestine
and its oppression of the Palestinian people.
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