The Israeli government’s plan to annex parts of the
occupied West Bank are a devastating blow to Palestinian rights and the
prospects of a two state solution, with a viable Palestinian state
alongside Israel. The proposals, based on US President Trump’s so
called ‘Deal of the Century’, will result in huge swathes of
Palestinian land, currently under military occupation, including the
Jordan Valley and the illegal settlements, unilaterally declared part
of Israel, in violation of decades of UN resolutions and international
law.
For over half a century the Palestinian population of
the West Bank have endured a vicious system of military law, which has
undermined their rights, including freedom of movement, decent work,
health, education, water and other public services.
As a movement of European trade unions, committed to
human and workers’ rights and international law, we urge the European
Union and European governments to:
– Suspend
the EU-Israel Association Agreement, until the Israeli
government complies with its clauses on human rights and withdraws its
annexation plan;
– Suspend
the arms trade with Israel;
– Impose
a ban on trade with the illegal Israeli settlements and
complicit companies;
– Exclude
Israel from European Research Programs.
Additionally we call on the trade union movement to
comply with the call of Palestinian trade unions, and Palestinian civil
society, to ‘do no harm’, and therefore in terms of their own
procurement and investments policies to ban companies profiting from or
in any way complicit with illegal Israeli settlements.
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