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Israeli ambassador in talks on Irish Congress of Trades   Union's boycott

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sent by Simon McGuinness - Sep 13, 2007

The Irish Times - Sep 6, 2007
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2007/0906/1188603615399.html

Israeli ambassador in talks on Ictu boycott

by Kitty Holland

The Israeli ambassador has met Irish Congress of Trade Unions general
secretary David Begg to express his dismay at a call by the Ictu for a
boycott by its members of Israeli goods.

An Ictu spokesman confirmed yesterday that Dr Zion Evrony met Mr Begg
and senior Ictu representatives on Tuesday. He said the meeting was
scheduled to last 40 minutes but ran to an hour and a half, during which
there was a "full and frank exchange of views". No agreement was
reached.

He also confirmed the Israeli ambassador to London met union officials
in Belfast on Monday for the same purpose.

The meetings follow a vote by Ictu delegates at their biennial
conference in Bundoran in July calling for the boycott.

Two motions were passed from the Belfast and District Trades Union
Council and from the Derry Trades Council.

The motions asserted congress's "outrage" at "continued human rights
abuses being suffered by the Palestinian people", and refer to such
issues as "the continued occupation and destruction of Palestinian lands
and Palestinian homes in breach of the Geneva Convention and numerous
United Nations resolutions".

The Derry motion calls for "a boycott of Israeli goods and services
similar to the boycott of South African goods during the era of
apartheid".

C 2007 The Irish Times

 
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<snip>

> The Irish Times - Sep 6, 2007
> http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2007/0906/1188603615399.html

> Israeli ambassador in talks on Ictu boycott

> by Kitty Holland

> The Israeli ambassador has met Irish 
> Congress of Trade Unions general
> secretary David Begg to express his 
> dismay at a call by the Ictu for a
> boycott by its members of Israeli goods.

What a crawler.

Consider the history of the Dunnes Stores workers.
Back then, it was a protest against South African fruit.
This was the start of popular resistnace in Europe to the SA Regime.

Consider the implications of this for the state of Israel.
It diesn't matter whether Israel is apartheid-ridden or not.

Israeli dealings with the Palestinians have been seen as heavy-handed.
They have murdered and American protester and were not prosecuted.
If an American civilian protestor had been killed anywhere else, would
the US have stood for it, for whatever reason.

Ehrm, excluding Myanmar, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Myanmar,
Ihdonesia... oh, forget it!

M.

On Sep 16, 8:55 pm, Michael O'Neill  wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > The Irish Times - Sep 6, 2007
> >http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2007/0906/1188603615399.html
> > Israeli ambassador in talks on Ictu boycott
> > by Kitty Holland
> > The Israeli ambassador has met Irish
> > Congress of Trade Unions general
> > secretary David Begg to express his
> > dismay at a call by the Ictu for a
> > boycott by its members of Israeli goods.
>
> What a crawler.
>
> Consider the history of the Dunnes Stores workers.
> Back then, it was a protest against South African fruit.
> This was the start of popular resistnace in Europe to the SA Regime.
>

Bollox was it.
Peter Hain was organising demos against touring Springboks teams at
the beginning of the 70's. Dunnes Stores boycott was some time in the
mid 80's.

Solus