Australian Unionists Supporting Palestine: ITUC and COSATU add voices to embargo call

ITUC and COSATU add voices to embargo call

18 July 2014, via The Guardian
 
The President of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and Secretary-General of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) have joined with a host of Nobel peace laureates, intellectuals, artists, musicians, journalists, writers, filmmakers, politicians and celebrities to issue this call:

We call on the UN and governments across the world to take immediate steps to implement a comprehensive and legally binding military embargo on Israel, similar to that imposed on South Africa during apartheid. …
Palestinians today need effective solidarity, not charity.

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