“Open Letter to Sharon #Graham (General Secretary of #Unite the Union @unitetheunion)

via Tony #Greenstein’s blogpost

“How does support for the #Palestinians square with working with the #Israeli-state funded Campaign Against Anti-Semitism (#CAA)?”

“Why have your officials lied and lied about the banning of [the film]: ‘Jeremy #Corbyn – The Big Lie’?”

“Who has given you the right to decide what Unite members can or cannot see?”

“You Sharon Graham have banned an anti-racist film at the behest of an organisation [#CAA] whose Chair, Gideon Falter, is Vice-Chair of the Jewish National Fund (#JNF), an organisation which refuses to rent or lease [to #Palestinians] the 93% of land in #Israel that it owns or controls. It makes Unite party to the JNF’s continuing ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.”

“#ElectronicIntifada has just revealed that the CAA is directly funded by JNF-UK. In 2018 and 2019 it received $450,000 from an Israeli para-state organisation. Far from upholding ‘a longstanding commitment to international solidarity’ you Sharon Graham have been holding hands with the practitioners of Israeli #apartheid”

https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2023/08/open-letter-to-sharon-graham-how-does.html?m=1

@therightarticle

“Firstly, those facing trial for protests have increasingly been banned from explaining their motivations and beliefs to the jury.

Relevant evidence and witnesses – including expert testimony as to the Government’s failure to act on the scientific advice – has been disallowed or ignored.”

This ⤴️ happened recently to a group of #PalestineAction
protesters who are now awaiting sentence after having been convicted of ‘intent to cause criminal damage without lawful excuse’ to the Shenstone #Elbit factory of Israeli arms manufacturer, #ElbitSystems!

According to one of the defendants, Tony #Greenstein, “the Judge ruled out all lawful excuses holding that there were no lawful excuses, thus leading inevitably to our convictions.”

All five Defendants, including one whom the jury was deadlocked on, have issued a powerful statement which you can read here ⤵️:

https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2023/07/free-all-palestine-action-protesters.html?m=1

“Palestine Action to date have shut down two #Israeli weapons factories and cost Elbit hundreds of million pounds in lost contracts.

By imprisoning activists, the British state is demonstrating that it prioritises protecting the military supply chain of a foreign #Apartheid state over the freedom of its own citizens.”

If there is any lingering doubt in your mind that the state of #Israel is a #Racist, #SettlerColonial, #JewishSupremacist & #Apartheid entity, please have a read of Tony #Greenstein’s latest blog post:

“WHAT IS #ZIONISM? Is it a National Liberation Movement or an Ideology & Movement of Jewish Supremacism & Settler Colonialism?”

In it he writes:

“The Israeli Labor Party (ILP) has always declared that it wishes to see a separation between the #Palestinians and Jews which was its reason for supporting a Palestinian ‘state’ (in reality a #Bantustan) in the West Bank. It did not want a Palestinian majority in a ‘Jewish’ state. Apartheid [in South Africa] too was defined by its authors as ‘separate development.’

When #Netanyahu, #Wasserlauf and #BenGvir talk about #Zionist values they are talking about the values of the Labor Zionist movement and successive ILP governments. They are the values of ethnic cleansing, land confiscation, discriminatory treatment, wars of expansion and colonisation. It used to be called Jewish Labour, Land and Produce. What the ILP started Ben-Gvir is finishing.”

https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2023/08/what-is-zionism-is-it-national.html?m=1