Statement of Solidarity with the Palestinian General Strike

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Cette fois-ci, c’est un formidable mouvement qui est en marche et qui réussira.

Là où les “politiciens” de tous les horizons échouent depuis des décades et même sapent honteusement le travail entrepris par les plus courageux d’entre-eux pour mettre fin à ce génocide larvé et réussir à franchir la barrière de la désinformation organisée, les opinions publiques et les diverses composantes de la Société Civile “montent en première ligne”.

La responsabilité des “politiques”, à quelque niveau qu’ils soient,est écrasante et leur représentativité, soit disant démocratique, n’est plus, dans ce domaine international, qu’un leurre.

Michel Flament
Coordinateur

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Statement of Solidarity with the Palestinian General Strike

October 1, 2009

In the long tradition of Jewish working class involvement in and support
for liberation struggles, IJAN-Labor stands in solidarity with the High
Follow-up Committee for the Arab Citizens of Israel, the National
committee of Local Authorities, and all parties, movements and
institutions of Palestinian civil society in Israel, who have called a
general strike for today, October 1, 2009.

This strike marks the ninth anniversary of the Jerusalem and Al Aqsa Day in October 2000 when Israeli authorities massacred 13 Palestinian
protesters. The killers have never been brought to justice.

IJAN-Labor also welcomes the Trades Union Congress (U.K.) resolution of 17 September, which endorses the growing movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid, and calls for reconsideration of the TUC’s relationship with the Histadrut, the Zionist labor federation whose latest crime was to support Israel’s attacks on Gaza.

The BDS campaign has been endorsed by a growing number of labor bodies, including the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), Solidaires Industrie (France), UNISON (UK), Transport and General Workers’ Union (UK), Western Australia Branch of the Maritime Union of Australia, Canadian Union of Postal Workers, Canadian Union of Public Employees-Ontario, six Norwegian trade unions, Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Scottish Trades Union Congress, and Intersindical Alternativa de Catalunya.

In the United States, despite growing support from labor organizations and populations across the globe, the AFL-CIO and Change to Win fail to recognize what their British counterpart has now acknowledged: that Israel is a state built on defeating the aspirations and solidarity of working > families not only in Israel but internationally.

Often without the knowledge or consent of union members, US Labor
officialdom remains a leading accomplice of Israeli apartheid and the
Zionist colonialism of which it is part. For more than sixty years, it has
closely collaborated with the Histadrut, which has spearheaded — and
whitewashed — apartheid, dispossession, ethnic cleansing and exploitation of the Palestinians since the 1920s.

Indeed, the Histadrut (as both employer and union) provided lethal weapons which the South African apartheid government used against Black workers, while at home it either excluded or segregated Arab workers.

Today, in solidarity with the general strike of Palestinian workers in
Israel and growing international labor support for BDS, we call on US
labor organizations to divest their estimated $5 billion investment in
State of Israel Bonds, and to end all relations with the Histadrut.

For more information IJAN Labor, please see our website:
http://www.ijsn.net/C91
If you are interested in participating in IJAN Labor, please email us at:
Labor-IJAN@ijsn.net