Motion 75 Palestine – supporting rights to self-determination
Carried motion
Congress notes:
i. The US and Israeli administrations are destroying prospects for peace in Palestine – by recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, stopping funding for Palestinian refugees, the continuing siege of Gaza, expanding illegal settlements and plans to annex illegally large areas of the West Bank. Trump’s “deal of the century” is an attempt to destroy core Palestinian rights.
Congress believes:
a. TUC policy must prioritise Palestinians’ rights to freedom, justice and equality, including by applying these principles based on international law to all UK trade with Israel.
b. The TUC needs to condemn the ongoing injustices against the Palestinians, denied their right to self-determination since the British Mandate, and during the 1948 Nakba when Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homes.
Congress resolves to:
1. oppose any proposed solution for Palestinians, including Trump’s ‘deal’, not based on international law and UN resolutions recognising their collective rights to self-determination and to return to their homes
2. support efforts to establish an ethical policy on all UK’s trade with Israel, framed around international law on settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories and stopping any arms trade with Israel used in violation of the human rights of the Palestinians
3. commit to raise the pressure on corporations complicit in arms trading and supporting Israel’s illegal occupation and settlement building, by working with its affiliated unions, with the international trade union movement, and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, to develop strategies to put pressure on complicit corporations to cease all such activities.
Artists’ Union England
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Supporting Palestine’s rights to
self-determination
11 Sep 2019
Motion 75 proposed by Martin
Sundrum of the Artists’ Union England said that the US and Israeli
administrations are destroying prospects for peace in Palestine – by
recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, stopping funding for Palestinian
refugees, the continuing siege of Gaza, expanding illegal settlements and plans
to annex illegally large areas of the West Bank. Trump’s “deal of the century”
is an attempt to destroy core Palestinian rights.
Martin said trade unionists need to
“support Palestinian efforts for self-determination in the face of the twin
threats from Trump and Netanyahu.”
PCS vice president Zita Holbourne
seconded the motion and highlighted our union’s “proud record of standing with
the Palestinian people and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.”
Zita said she visited Palestine in
April as part of a trip organised by the Women’s TUC and saw for herself the
human rights abuses that Palestinians experience every day. She said the people
she met wanted trade unionists to share their plight with as many people as
possible.
“We must reject Trump’s politics of
hate and division and support the people of Palestine,” she said.
Philippa Marsden from Unite said:
“We must not give into despair and we must redouble our efforts to support the
people of Palestine.”
Angela Roberts from Unison told
delegates that the prospect of peace, justice and the two-state are under
serious threat.
“Now is the time for justice for
Palestine,” said Louise Regan from the NEU.
The motion, carried overwhelmingly,
said that TUC policy must prioritise Palestinians’ rights to freedom, justice
and equality, including by applying these principles based on international law
to all UK trade with Israel. It said that the TUC needs to condemn the ongoing
injustices against the Palestinians, denied their right to self-determination
since the British Mandate, and during the 1948 Nakba when Palestinians were
forcibly displaced from their homes.
Congress resolved to:
1. oppose any proposed solution for Palestinians, including Trump’s ‘deal’, not based on international law and UN resolutions recognising their collective rights to self-determination and to return to their homes
2. support efforts to establish an ethical policy on all UK’s trade with Israel, framed around international law on settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories and stopping any arms trade with Israel used in violation of the human rights of the Palestinians
3. commit to raise the pressure on corporations complicit in arms trading and supporting Israel’s illegal occupation and settlement building, by working with its affiliated unions, with the international trade union movement, and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, to develop strategies to put pressure on complicit corporations to cease all such activities.
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https://www.palestinecampaign.org/wp-content/uploads/Palestine-Policy-TUC-2019.pdf
1. oppose any proposed solution for Palestinians, including Trump’s ‘deal’, not based on international law and UN resolutions recognising their collective rights to self-determination and to return to their homes
2. support efforts to establish an ethical policy on all UK’s trade with Israel, framed around international law on settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories and stopping any arms trade with Israel used in violation of the human rights of the Palestinians
3. commit to raise the pressure on corporations complicit in arms trading and supporting Israel’s illegal occupation and settlement building, by working with its affiliated unions, with the international trade union movement, and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, to develop strategies to put pressure on complicit corporations to cease all such activities.
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https://www.palestinecampaign.org/wp-content/uploads/Palestine-Policy-TUC-2019.pdf
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