Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016
Instead of Implementing UNITE Policy on Palestine & Trying to Stop the Transfer of Weapons for Israel's Genocide, Sharon Graham attacked Activists Protesting Against the Arms Factories
Jim Kelly – Chair of London & Eastern Region Criticises Sharon Graham’s Obstruction of Palestine solidarity
Fiona Sharpe of Sussex Friends of Israel and Labour Against Anti-Semitism,[LAA] is trying to get our meeting cancelled on the grounds of ‘anti-Semitism’. This has not prevented SFI members in the past from demonstrating alongside the EDL. In 2014 SFI invited Israeli academic Mordechai Kedar to speak at a meeting they held. Kedar advocates raping Palestinian women in war.
LAA was involved in the anti-Semitism smear campaign against Corbyn. Its principal spokesperson is Euan Philips, a non-Jew who, as Al Jazeera exposed, uses a Jewish name ‘David Gordstein’ to pretend that he is Jewish when making complaints of ‘anti-Semitism’.
The reason why Unite4Palestine are holding a fringe meeting at TUC Conference is the refusal of General Secretary Sharon Graham to implement Unite policy on Palestine or support any solidarity action with the Palestinians. Graham has even refused to condemn Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Unite policy on Palestine is good – it supports BDS, opposes the settlements and Israeli Apartheid and calls on Unite to ‘support the Palestinian population in Gaza living under siege.’ It describes Israeli Palestinians as ‘second class citizens (and) subject to racist laws.’
There is only one problem. It is nowhere to be found on Unite’s own website. As far as Graham is concerned it doesn’t exist. ctd....
The last working-class hero in England.
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