Palestinian trade unions call for end to ‘complicity’ in Israeli crimes

“A coalition of Palestinian trade unions has called on the international labour movement to ‘end all forms of complicity with Israel’s crimes’ by halting the trading of arms, all funding, and military research, as Israel prepares a ground invasion of Gaza amid horrific reports of a humanitarian disaster gripping the strip and mounting evidence of war crimes.

“An open letter signed by the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions and 18 trade unions and professional associations urged workers in relevant industries to refuse to build weapons destined for Israel, to refuse to transport weapons to Israel, and to take action against companies complicit in ‘implementing Israel’s brutal and illegal siege’ with whom unions have contracts.

“The letter also pushed for trade unions to pass motions in their branches to this effect, and to pressure governments to stop all military trade with Israel.

“The letter said: ‘This urgent genocidal situation can only be prevented by a mass increase of global solidarity with the people of Palestine and that can restrain the Israeli war machine. We make this call as we see attempts to ban and silence all forms of solidarity with the Palestinian people. We ask you to speak out and take action in the face of injustice as trade unions have done historically.’

“The TUC, as well as several British trade unions, including the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association ... condemned the killing of civilians by Hamas as well as Israel’s onslaught against Gaza. GMB and Prospect – both of which represent members in the defence industry – are yet to issue statements.”

liberal zionists, "pro-palestine" zionists (???? do you people know what an oxymoron is) and every other type of zionist are all zionists at the end of the day. they are fascists and genocidal freaks at heart no matter how much they love to larp as progressives

Anyone else have near-perfect executive function at work; but at home, have literally no energy or motivation to do anything except lie in a dark room, with something in or on your ears for several hours?

I feel like a lot of the discussion online about Israel/Palestine is just Americans trying not to come to terms with the fact that they are significantly more responsible for the death of over 900,000 Afghanistan, Syrian, and Iraqi citizens then I am for the 30,000 Palestinians that Israel has killed

UN being this again:

“Russia's attack on civilians is bad, but Ukraine did this too and hence they're equally bad!”

the only democracy in the middle east is arresting people (their citizens) for posting in support of palestinians btw

the kneejerk defensiveness of the israeli government by american evangelicals EVEN PEOPLE OF COLOR is so batshit insane

And gaza’s disproportionate genocide was tweeted by israel’s president without shame. After all the support I gave ukraine, I never once believed russia because you asked me to think better. All those posts supporting persecuted muslims mean nothing? I don’t know what to think of this account anymore.

Bruh. Sorry for betraying you like that. I guess I'll have to support the mass murder of civilians now

Oh, btw, and if you support Ukraine just because someone told you then that is just stupid. I don't want you to not believe Russia just cause I told you. I want you to have basic abilities to identify propaganda and doubt known liars. There's like a multitude of things wrong with russia and a multitude of things wrong with Israel and none of them means we should attack their civilian population just for the sake of it (I'll be flexible as fuck and say that civilian casualties as collateral damage can be understood)

The headline of every other news article that gets suggested to me makes me want to scream

i wish my family would stop watching the news :/

Really struggling to comprehend using the bombing of Dresden as a defence of anything

no seriously there's something so telling that as soon as your narrative is even slightly questioned in any substantial way you go on to say umm well we can't bomb sa so let's bomb the hague

Foreign volunteers are helping to build houses in Ukraine for people whose original dwellings were destroyed by Russian invaders.

There will certainly be more volunteer opportunities in Ukraine over the next few years.

you know it's very funny to me that when people hear "free palestine" they jump to "so you support the harming of civilians?"

no? we are quite literally protesting the harming of civilians. why do you think people call for the freedom of palestine, if not for that? did you think palestinians wanted to be free just for funsies? did it not occur to you that they are civilians who have been deliberately, brutally erased for decades?

white ppl will make the most racist movies and then other white ppl will recommend them to u. and this will happen all the time.