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The British Trade Union Movement, Israel, and Boycotts

January 2, 2011 | Ronnie Fraser

Over the past thirty years the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and member unions have regularly adopted resolutions containing anti-Israeli and pro-Palestinian rhetoric. A whole generation of British left-wing trade union activists has been raised on a diet of conference motions whose only mention of Israel is in connection with its brutality and oppression of the Palestinian people.

Trade Union and Other Boycotts of Israel in Great Britain and Ireland

December 1, 2008 | Ronnie Fraser

The United Kingdom more than any other country in the world has embraced the Palestinian call for academic, trade union, media, medical, architectural, and cultural boycotts of Israel. The driving force for this campaign is Britain’s trade union movement and its anti-Zionist activists on the far Left, such as the Socialist Workers Party (SWP).

The Academic Boycott of Israel: A Review of the Five-Year UK Campaign to Defeat It

March 2, 2008 | Ronnie Fraser

There is an urgent need for a proactive strategy especially on the part of the UK Jewish community to build positive relationships with the leadership of institutions, trade unions, and professional bodies, something that has been lacking in recent years in the UK. It will be important to promote the positive side of Israel, for example, its academic excellence. The UK community also needs to monitor and record what is said by well-known anti-Zionists and boycotters, and to publish academic crit

The Academic Boycott of Israel: Why Britain?

September 2, 2005 | Ronnie Fraser