Model motion for trade union bodies

This branch / Region / District notes:

  1. Israel’s latest massacres of Palestinians in Gaza
  2. Israel's ongoing bulldozing of Palestinian homes and killings of peaceful demonstrators
  3. Desmond Tutu’s description of Israel’s long-term treatment of the Palestinian people as “an abomination”.
  4. Ex-President Jimmy Carter’s statement that Palestinians 'are treated like animals'  and his description of the Israel occupation as ‘apartheid’
  5. Condemnations of Israeli crimes by the majority of Ministers in the Scottish Government
  6. UK juries’ findings that the Israeli Military murdered British citizens Tom Hurndall and James Miller
  7. The evasion by Israeli Generals of British arrest warrants against them for war crimes

This branch / Region / District agrees to

  1. actively support the call by the Scottish TUC for a campaign of boycott against Israel
  2. publicise widely the conclusion from the UN Special Rapporteur, for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, Jewish-American Professor Richard Falk, that Israel’s “targeting of civilians…represents severe and massive violations of international humanitarian law as defined in the Geneva Conventions.”
  3. seek to end any investments from union funds in Israeli companies
  4. send a delegation to the upcoming Trade Union Conference on solidarity with Palestine and boycott of Israel , sponsored by the STUC
  5. invite an eye-witness speaker from the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign to make a presentation on the situation in Israel / Palestine
  6. particpate in the next fact-finding Palestine Solidarity Delegation to Palestine / Israel