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Stand With Palestinian Workers:
Cease the Genocide Now—Stop Arming Israel!
Labor for Palestine, October 24, 2023
“We need you to take immediate action—wherever you are in the world—to prevent the arming of the Israeli state and the companies involved in the infrastructure of the blockade.” An Urgent Call from Palestinian Trade Unions: End all Complicity, Stop Arming Israel (October 16, 2023)
The undersigned U.S. workers, trade unionists, and anti-apartheid activists join labor around the world in condemning the Israeli siege on Gaza and sharply escalating settler colonial violence in the West Bank that has killed or maimed thousands of Palestinians—many of them children—and stand with Palestinians’ “right to exist, resist, return, and self-determination.”
The latest Israeli attacks reflect more than a century of ongoing Zionist settler-colonialism, dispossession, ethnic cleansing, racism, genocide, and apartheid—including Israel’s establishment through the uprooting and displacement of over 750,000 Palestinians during the 1947-1948 Nakba. Indeed, eighty percent of the 2.3 million people in Gaza are refugees from other parts of historic Palestine.
Israel’s crimes are only possible because of more than $3.8 billion a year (or $10+ million per day) in bipartisan US military aid that gives Israel the guns, bullets, tanks, ships, jet fighters, missiles, helicopters, white phosphorus and other weapons to kill and maim the Palestinian people. This is the same system of racist state violence that, through shared surveillance technology and police exchange programs, brutalizes BIPOC and working class people in the United States and around the world.
In response, we demand an immediate end to the genocide, and embrace the recent Urgent Call from Palestinian Trade Unions: End all Complicity, Stop Arming Israel:
- To refuse to build weapons destined for Israel.
- To refuse to transport weapons to Israel.
- To pass motions in their trade union to this effect.
- To take action against complicit companies involved in implementing Israel’s brutal and illegal siege, especially if they have contracts with your institution.
- Pressure governments to stop all military trade with Israel, and in the case of the U.S., funding to it.
We further reaffirm the call on labor bodies to respect previous Palestinian trade union appeals for solidarity by adopting this statement, and/or the model resolution below to divest from Israel Bonds, sever all ties with the Israel’s racist labor federation, the Histadrut, and its US mouthpiece, the Jewish Labor Committee, and respect the Palestinian picket line for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS), which calls not only for an end to the 1967 Israeli occupation, but an end to Israeli occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantling the Wall, full equality for Arab-Palestinians inside 1948 Palestine (“Israel”), and implementation of the right of Palestinian refugees to return..
Initial Signers on behalf of Labor for Palestine
(organizational affiliations listed for identification only)
Suzanne Adely, Labor for Palestine, US Palestinian Community Network, Arab Workers Resource Center; Food Chain Workers Alliance (staff); President, National Lawyers Guild
Monadel Herzallah, Arab American Union Members Council
Ruth Jennison, Department Rep., Massachusetts Society of Professors, MTA, NEA; Co-Chair, Labor Standing Committee River Valley DSA; Delegate to Western Mass Area Labor Federation
Lara Kiswani, Executive Director, Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC); Block the Boat
Michael Letwin, Former President, Association of Legal Aid Attorneys/UAW Local 2325; Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
Corinna Mullin, PSC-CUNY International Committee; CUNY for Palestine
Clarence Thomas, Co-Chair, Million Worker March; Executive Board, ILWU Local 10 (retired)
Rising Unequivocal U.S. Labor Solidarity With Palestine
Oct. 27, 2023: APWU Pres. Stands Up for Palestine v. AFL-CIO EB: “Mark Dimondstein, the president of the postal union, argued that Israel and the Palestinian territories should be combined into a single state. He called for the A.F.L.-C.I.O. to demand a cease-fire.”
Oct. 27, 2023: UAW BDS Sign-On Letter: “We, rank-and-file members of the UAW and allied community members/organizations, stand unequivocally in solidarity with Palestinians and their resistance against the occupying Zionist state.”
Oct.25, 2023: Natl. Domestic Alliance Workers Staff Union Solidarity With Palestine: “The National Domestic Alliance Workers Staff Union and allied non-union staff stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle for freedom and against apartheid.”
Oct. 23, 2023: Petition: NOLSW Must Demand a Ceasefire & an End to the Occupation of Palestine: “We need as many signatures from NOLSW members as well as unit endorsements as we can get before this upcoming Monday to demonstrate that the NOLSW rank-and-file stands firmly in solidarity with the Palestinian people and will by while Israel continues to commit genocide in Gaza. Free Palestine.”
Oct. 20, 2023: The Bronx Defenders Union-UAW Local 2325 Support of Palestinians: “We do not consent to Israel’s genocidal rhetoric and actions against the Palestinian people and we do not consent to U.S. political support for this genocide.”
Oct. 20, 2023: Starbucks Workers United stands with Palestine: “We condemn the occupation, displacement, state violence, apartheid, and threats of genocide Palestinians face.”
Oct. 19, 2023: Make the Road Union UAW Local 2320 staff: We Stand With Palestine: “Ceasefire now. End US tax dollars used to fund apartheid. Stop the genocide.”
Oct. 16: 2023: U.K. Trade unionists must stand with Palestine: “We urge all trade unions to stand with the Palestinian people in Gaza and beyond.”
Oct. 10, 2023: Amazon and Google Workers with No Tech For Apartheid: “We stand in full solidarity with the Palestinian people as they resist 75 years of occupation and in their fight for life and liberation.”
Oct. 9, 2023: GSOC-UAW 2110 A response to Linda G. Mills’ statement on Israel: “GSOC stands in solidarity with Palestinians fighting to free themselves from Israeli occupation.”
July 22, 2022: UAW 2325 (Association of Legal Aid Attorneys) Votes to Divest From Israel Bonds: “ALAA 2325 supports taking action, both as individual members and as a chapter collectively, in support of Palestinian liberation from Israeli apartheid.”
May 15, 2021: Labor for Palestine: U.S. Labor Must Stand With Palestine!: “An injury to one is an injury to all: From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free!”
Background and Context
Bottom-Up Labor Solidarity for Palestine Is Growing: “While still at the margins, this unprecedented and rapidly-expanding worker-based Palestine solidarity has the potential to finally break Zionism’s century-long stranglehold on U.S. labor, and to organize workers’ unparalleled power—in their labor bodies and at the workplace—to help topple apartheid Israel.”
Labor for Palestine: Challenging US Labor Zionism (American Quarterly): “Zionism has long been the default position in US labor. However, there has been another, hidden tradition of postwar labor anti-Zionism that began with Detroit in 1969–73 and has slowly re-emerged after September 11, 2011, from the antiwar, Palestine solidarity, and racial justice movements.”
Labor Zionism and the Histadrut: The Histadrut has used its image as a “progressive” institution to spearhead — and whitewash — racism, apartheid, dispossession and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians since the 1920s. In this, it has been the cornerstone of Labor Zionism, which began in the early 1900s.”
The Jewish Labor Committee and Apartheid Israel: “The Jewish Labor Committee (JLC) presents itself as a model of progressive, socially conscious trade unionism. But as a U.S. mouthpiece for the Histadrut, this false image has been a smokescreen to disguise and promote Apartheid Israel, “AFL-CIA” support of U.S. war and empire, and racism in the labor movement.”
Additional trade union signers (list in formation; *denotes organizational endorsements; other affiliations listed for identification only)
- Tamar S., UAW Local 7902
- Charles G., UAW Local 7902
- Dana Kopel, UAW Local 2865
- Martha Grevatt, UAW Local 869
- Pooja Patel, UAW Local 2325
- Saurav Sarkar, National Writers Union; Freelance Solidarity Project, South Asia Labor Watch
- Lucy Herschel, Delegate, 1199SEIU UHE
- Darrin Hoop, Building rep, Seattle Education Association/Renton Education Association
- Francis Cook, Delegate, AFT Local 2 (UFT)
- Heike Schotten, Faculty Staff Union at UMass Boston; *US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel; Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism
- Mohammad Jehad Ahmad, AFT Local 2 (UFT)
- Frank Hammer, UAW-GM International Representative, retired
- John King, Joint Council, ACT-UAW Local 7902
- David Letwin, Executive Board, Rutgers PTLFC-AAUP-AFT 6324
- Mindy Isser, CWA Local 1180
- Michael Dunn, CTA, SMUHSDTA
- Jeff Schuhrke, UUP-AFT 2190
- Phil Gasper, AFT Local 243
- Selma Oprašič, UAW Local 2325
- Zachory Nowosadzki, UAW Local 2325
- Shanaz Chowdhury, UAW Local 2325
- Ashley Johnson, UAW Local 2325
- Miria Riaz, AFT Local 2 (UFT)
- Meaghan Whyte, LSSA UAW Local 2320
- Susan Stout, Unifor 2002, Canada
- Brian Ford, NEA/NJEA/Montclair Education Association; DSA Palestine Solidarity Working Group
- Jan Clausen, UAW Local 7902
- Sarah Chaudhry, Vice President, UAW Local 2325
- Liz Schalet, UAW Local 2325
- David Kaib, Union representative, AU Staff Union, SEIU Local 500
- Jesse Connor, Chicago Teachers Union (AFT Local 1); Steering Committee, 33rd Ward Working Families (Chicago)
- Shubhendu Sen, National Secretary, *All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU)
- Judi Cheng, Chapter Leader, AFT Local 2 (UFT); Movement of Rank and File Educators (MORE Caucus) UFT
- Roy Zuniga, Steward, IBEW 77
- Wayne Heimbach, Union Representative (retired), SEIU 46/73; Labor Beat/Labor Express
- Hoang Phan, Massachusetts Society of Professors, MTA, NEA
- Justine Medina, Organizing Committee, Amazon Labor Union; CPUSA Labor Commission
- Haley Pessin, Delegate, 1199SEIU UHE
- Tessa Mitterhoff, Bargaining Committee, OPEIU Local 277; Austin DSA
- Eric Robson, AFSCME Local 171
- Tanya Akel, Field Director, Teamsters 2010; AFT
- Peter Allen-Lamphere, Delegate, AFT Local 2 (UFT); Movement of Rank and File Educators (MORE Caucus) UFT
- Malik Callender, UAW Local 2325
- Joshua Carrin, UAW Local 2325
- Emma Klein, Seattle Education Assn.
- Jacob Sloan, SEIU Local 500
- Ryan Kelly, National Writers Union
- Mark D. Stansbery, Board member, CWA 4502; *Community Organizing Center, Columbus OH
- Jeffrey Burnett, Graduate Employees Union Local 6196, AFT-MI, AFL-CIO
- Marcy Winograd, UTLA & CTA (LAUSD); Coordinator, CODEPINK Congress; Coordinator, *Central Coast Antiwar Coalition
- Mimi Rosenberg, UAW Local 2325; *Equal Rights & Justice & Building Bridges productions
- Alex Nissen, Australian Services Union
- Gary Holloway, Field Director, USW Local 675; Delegate, LA County Federation of Labor
- Rachel Holtzman, Equal Justice Works Fellow; A Better NYLAG, ALAA, UAW Local 2325
- Mik Kinkead, UAW Local 2325
- Zachary Valdez, Steward, UAW Local 2110
- Arun Gupta, National Writers Union
- Jeremy Montano, UAW Local 2325
- Vish Soroushian, NOLSW, UAW Local 2320
- Peter Kuttner, IATSE Local 600
- Len Cooper, CWA (retired)
- Helen Dickson, Unite 567 Community branch; Liverpool Friends of Palestine
- Victoria Cuckson, NEC, PCS union (Liverpool)
- Mary Whitby, Unite Community section of Unite The Union NW11/500 (West Lancashire UK)
- Sherry Wolf, CWA 1032; Tempest Collective
- Audrey White, Unite 567, Executive member Liverpool Trades Council
- Rhona O’Brien, Unite Community (Castle Douglas, Scotland)
- Jane Rubio, Chapter leader, AFT Local 2 (UFT)
- Steve Terry, UAW Local 2325
- Terry Teague, Secretary, Former Liverpool Dockworkers
- Rebecca Kurti, 1199SEIU UHE
- Ilona Nanay, Executive Board, AFT Local 2 (UFT); Steering Committee, Movement of Rank and File Educators (MORE Caucus) UFT
- Ted McTaggart, Treasurer, Michigan Nurses Association
- Hank K., MEA; IWW
- Hans-Peter Kohnke, former Shop Steward (retired), Canadian Union of Postal Workers Local 626
- Charlie Dibe, DGA
- Debra Bergen, PSC/CUNY, AFT Local 2334, NYSUT (retired)
- Denise Hammond, ETFO Staff Association Toronto
- Nancy Snyder, Recording Secretary Emeritus, SEIU Local 1021
- Steve Demarest, UAW Local 2325
- Bruce Wolf, Industrial Workers of the World 650; Lifetime member OPEIU Local 2, AFL-CIO; *Socialism is Better Collective
- Melanie Barron, CWA Staff Union
- Terri Ginsberg, PSC/CUNY, Local 2334, NYSUT
- Daniel Cione, UAW Local 2325
- Tyler Daguerre, SBWU
- Gordon Beeferman, Steward, Joint Councilmember, ACT-UAW 7902
- Herman Rosenfeld, Retired member and National Staffperson, Unifor Local 303 Toronto
- Janette Corcelius, OPEIU Local 12
- Alan Stolzer, Bakers Local 3 (retired)
- Yosmin Badie, UAW Local 2325
- Helen C. Scott, United Academics: AFT/AAUP U. Vermont; Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series
- Ron Jacobs, Retired President, AFSCME 1343
- Jane Guskin, Delegate, Professional Staff Congress (PSC), Queens College Chapter; CUNY for Palestine
- Sam Nelson, OPEIU Local 2
- Claire Glass, UAW Local 2325
- Snehal Shingavi, TSEU/CWA LOCAL 6186
- Upasna Saha, UAW Local 2325
- Alexi Shalom, UAW Local 2325
- Denise Kellahan, Unifor Vancouver
- Calypso Taylor, Delegate, UAW Local 2325
- Kevin Moloney, Cupe 3903 Toronto
- Naomi Schachter, UAW Local 2325
- Dina Ginzburg, UAW Local 2325
- Marc Rodrigues, WBNG-TNG CWA Local 32035
- Gabriella Ferrara, UAW Local 2325
- Dod McColgan, AFSCME Local 1215; Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
- Nantina Vgontzas, PSC/CUNY, Local 2334, NYSUT
- Sandra Gresl, LSSA UAW Local 2320
- Samantha Rudelich, UAW Local 2325
- Cliff Willmeng, Minnesota Nurses Association
- Rachel Hoerger, former steward and exec. Board, BALAW-NOLSW UAW Local 2320
- Caitriona Fox, Delegate, UAW Local 2325
- Eric Maroney, Steward, AFT Local 1942; Tempest Collective
- Mahim Lakhani, IBEW Local 77
- Elizabeth Milos, UPTE-CWA 9119; Labor Education Project on AFL-CIO International Operations (LEPAIO)
- Muhammad Yousuf, Former Unit Chair, UAW Local 2865
- Eric Brooks, UAW Local 1281; CPUSA
- Juan Diego Lopez Javier, SEIU-USWW
- Tina Anderson, 25-year Staff Representative, British Columbia Teachers’ Federation
- Brian Allen, Staff organizer, UAW Local 7902
- Carol Lang, Delegate, PSC/CUNY, Local 2334, NYSUT; *United Front Committee for a Labor Party
- Mike Hickey, Former President, Vice President, Charter Member (retired); AFT Local 6538; DSA, EWOK
- Barbara Phinney, AFGE Local 3197 (retired); Delegate MLK County Labor Council (MLK Labor)
- Gabriel Kahn, Site representative, Oakland Education Association
- Paul Antony-Levine, Steward, California Teachers Association-Oakland Educators Association
- Hayley Craig, Delegate, UAW
- Saulo Colón, Vice President, 4Cs (SEIU 1973)
- Larry French, Retired OSSTF-FEESO professional staff, Active Retired Member D12 OSSTF-FEESO Toronto
- Michael Novick, former steward, former House of Reps member, United Teachers Los Angeles AFT-CFT NEA-CTA; Interfaith Communities United for Justice & Peace, IfNotNow Los Angeles
- Camila Morales-Jimenez, Representative, Oakland Education Association
- Modesta Toribio, UAW Local 2320
- Tiana Reid, National Writers Union/Freelance Solidarity Project, York University Faculty Association
- Mel Bienenfeld, New York State United Teachers (retired)
- Christina Corcoran, UAW Local 2325
- Alexandra Smith, UAW Local 2325
- Anna Meléndez-Franco, UAW Local 2325
- Navruz Baum, UAW Local 2325
- Ramzi Babouder-Matta, Former member, CWA 1180
- Shahreen Karim, AFT Local 2 (UFT)
- Lily Stadler, UAW Local 2325
- Jonathan McCoy, UAW Local 2325
- Greg Dropkin, Unison Mersey Community Hospitals and Health (retired)
- Elizabeth Glasson, Health Service Union, Australia (retired)
- Gordon Flett, IWW (retired)
- Bruno Di Biase, FILEF, *Federation of Italian Migrant Workers and Families (retired)
- Dan Maitland, Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (retired)
- Ferdinand Cesarano, 1199SEIU UHE
- Nancy Holmstrom, Rutgers University, AFT (retired)
- John Lamb, Boulder Valley Education Association/National Education Association (retired)
- Gerry Scoppettuoio, Organizer, *Pride at Work/Eastern Massachusetts
- Ann Rogers, Missouri Education Association (retired)
- Judith Ackerman, AFT Local 2 (UFT) (retired)
- Julius Sjödin, Local Youth Committee, Hotel and Restaurant Union, Local 2 (Sweden)
- Ely Hibdon, National Writers Union/FSP
- Patrick Driscoll, Former Grievance Chair, USW 1299 (retired)
- Cliff Smith, Business Manager, *United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers Local 36
- Chris P., Steward, Teamsters Local 856
- Nancy Alkhouri, *PFA-Parkrose Faculty Association
- Emma Roth, Steward, UAW Local 2324, Boston University staff
- Anila Gill, Organizer, UAW
- Sophia Gurulé, UAW Local 2325; Critical Resistance
- Marie Buck, UAW Local 7902
- Aaron Posner, UAW Local 7902
- Emma Rohan, AFT Local 2 (UFT); Left Voice
- Jessica Coffrin-St. Julien, Shop Delegate, UAW Local 2325
- Eddie Asher, University of Colorado Workers Unities
- Syeda Malliha, UAW Local 2325
- Karin Baker, Membership Chair, APEA/MTA/NEA
- Jey Iyadurai, Steward, CUPW 626 Toronto
- Serene Khoury, Oakland Education Association
- Bill Breihan, Former President, United Steelworkers Local 1343
- Judith Wraight, Former Tool & Die Exec. Bd., UAW Local 600 (retired)
- Howie Hawkins, Teamsters Local 317 (retired)
- Isaac Stokka, Unit Chair, National Organization of Legal Services Workers (NOLSW), UAW Local 2320
- Dave P., UAW Local 2110
- Atusa Mozaffari, UAW Local 2325
- Dayne Goodwin, AFSCME Local 1004 (retired)
- Sophie Cohen, Delegate, UAW Local 2325
- Cameron Harrison, Steward, UFCW 876; CPUSA Labor Commission
- Susan Moir, Massachusetts Teachers Association
- David Hill, Vice President, National Writers Union
- Hannah Fleury, AFT Local 2 (UFT)
- Cherrene Horazuk, President, AFSCME 3800
- Bill Aiman, Teamsters Local 728
- Jacob Flom, President, AFSCME Local 526; Milwaukee Area Labor Council
- Corrina Hildreth, Unite Here 8
- Kobi Guillory, Chicago Teachers Union (AFT Local 1)
- Lavanya Nott, Department Steward, UAW Local 2865
- Anthony Berg, Stringer, IATSE Local 18
- Eric Espinosa, Steward, OEA-CTA
- Eric Salminen, SEIU Healthcare MN & IA
- Sid Shniad, Canadian Office and Professional Employees Union Local 4; Research Director, Telecommunications Workers Union (retired)
- Savannah Kuang, IFPTE Local 20; DSA San Francisco; DSA BDS and Palestine Solidarity Working Group
- Scott Durbin, IBEW Local 666
- Sonia Roubini, Bargaining Committee, UAW Local 2325
- Stuart Chen-Hayes, Delegate, PSC-CUNY (Lehman College chapter)
- Ben Calegari, Bargaining Committee, OPEIU Local 1010
- Merrill O’Donnell, Advocate, Teamsters Local 213
- Promise Li, SEIU Local 721
- Piper Hogan, Chapter Vice President, WFNHP 5000; Delegate to Milwaukee Area Labor Council
- Beck Kaster, Teamsters Local 1038; Detroit Union Education League
- Noelle Belanger, *Graduate Employees Organizing Committee AFT Local 6123
- Dianne Feeley, UAW Local 22 (retired), Coalition of Labor Union Women
- Joe Iosbaker, Former Executive Board and Chief Steward (retired); Co-chair, *Chicago Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression Labor Committee
- Robert Gallagher, CWA Local 7065
- Olivia Udovic, 1st Vice President, Oakland Education Association
- Clare Green, Oakland Education Association
- Terry Fitzgibbons, Building Association Rep, New Jersey Education Association/Education Association of Passaic; Veterans for Peace; North NJ DSA
- Katherine Draken, Steward, Teamsters Local 455; Freedom Road Socialist Organization
- Chai Montgomery, Steward, Transport Workers Union Local 171
- Paul KD, Steward, UFCW Local 663
- Rory Donovan, Steward, Teamsters Local 344
- Shane Clune, Teamsters Local 638
- Maga Miranda, UAW Local 2865
- Atlas Long, Starbucks Workers United
- Dante Strobino, International Representative, UE; Coordinating Committee of the Southern Workers Assembly; Coordinating Committee of Durham Workers Assembly; Steering Committee of NC People’s Power Coalition
- Elizabeth Lalasz, Steward and Professional Practice Committee (PPC), CNA/NNOC-National Nurses United (NNU); Tempest Collective Labor Committee
- Chris LaValla, SEIU Local 26; IWW North Star GMB; Twin Cities DSA
- Kaden Bieger, SEIU Healthcare MN & IA
- Rajan Nayar, Executive Board, AFSCME Local 668
- Nuala Cacek, Teamsters Local 638; MN Workers United
- Cindy Skelton, San Mateo Union High School District Teachers Association
- Heather Mawson, AAUP-AFT Local 6075
- Ryan Hamann, Vice President of bargaining unit, Wisconsin Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals Local 5000; Young Workers Committee of the Milwaukee Area Labor Council
- Jacqueline Braslow, UAW Local 2325
- Nayeli Maxson Velazquez, Bay Area Legal Aid Workers, National Organization of Legal Services Workers, UAW Local 2320
- Stephanie Murphy, SMUHSDTA
- Rachel Bergman, GLU-UE 1105 at UMN
- Hakan Yilmaz, PSC/CUNY, AFT Local 2334
- Eugene E Ruyle, California Faculty Association (retired)
- Albert Sargis, Steward, UAW Local 2324
- Roan Wade, Secretary, Student Workers Collective at Dartmouth (SWCD); Hub Coordinator of *Sunrise Dartmouth, writer for Spare Rib, member of the Palestine Solidarity Coalition at Dartmouth (PSC)
- Baz Caplan, UFCW 663
- Justin Steenbergh, Vice President, IBEW Local 58
- Kip Hedges, International Association of Machinists (retired)
- Kasey Copeland, Starbucks Workers United
- Sean McChesney, Steward, CWA Local 7200; DSA Young Workers Caucus
- Danny Sommers, IBEW Local 58
- Frank Scarsella, USW Local 2632
- Jonah Inserra, Steward, GSOC UAW Local 2110
- Emily Li, ACT-UAW Local 7902
- Claire Gavin, UAW Local 2325
- Sheen Kim, Stanford Graduate Workers Union; Student Worker Collective at Dartmouth formerly
- Janet Kobren, AFT Local 2 (UFT) (retired)
- Ron Lare, Former Exec. Board Member, UAW Local 600
- Nataly Reed, United Campus Workers Arizona-CWA 7065
- Georgia Wever, former delegate, AFSCME DC37 SSEU Local 3719; Labor for Bernie; Peace Action NY; CCDS; JVPeace
- Ying-Ying Ma, UAW Local 2325
- Joe Jamison, TWU Local 100 (retired)
- Ary Smith, UAW Local 2320
- Tova Fry, UAW Local 412 (retired)
- Shelley Ettinger, AFT Local 3882 (retired)
- Michael Sasson, Former President, Coalition of University Employees (CUE) Local 3
- Beth Angel, UAW Local 2320 (retired)
- Gant Roberson, ACT-UAW local 7902
- Irving Bedoya, Hotel Trades Council NYC Local 6
- Gami Ray, Steward, SEIU 32BJ 320
- Eislyn Wolf-Noyes, SMUHSDTA
- Daniel McAllister, Steward, NCFO/32 BJ, SEIU Ch. 320
- Kacie Hill, California Teachers Association
- Beck Kaster, Teamsters Local 1038; Detroit Union Education League
- Jason Flynn, Teamsters Local 705
- Stuart Attick, RMT (retired), Liverpool
- Sam Heyne, Organizer, OPEIU Local 153; IWW
- Jen Nelson, Unite Here Local 23
- Alex Schmaus, Union Building Representative, Assembly Delegate, and Executive Board, United Educators of San Francisco, AFT/CFT Local 61, AFL-CIO, NEA/CTA
- Addi Atkins, Steward, SEIU 32BJ Chapter 320
- Daniel Ashworth, UAW Local 2325 (retired)
- LB Benson, IBEW 292
- Julia Geiger, UAW Local 2325
- Danielle Troumouliaris, UAW Local 2325
- Miranda Carr, Central States Carpenters Union Local 322
- Farhana Pathan, UAW Local 2325
- Ryder Littlejohn, Alt. Health and Safety Rep, UAW Local 897
- Brett Anton, Progressive Workers Union; Colorado Young Workers Table; Colorado Sierra Club; 350.org
- Sonia Bassey, Unison, Liverpool
- Quinn Ráo, Organizer, UFCW 3000
- Ivan Pantoja, UAW local 2325
- Kel Smith, CWA Local 7250; Campaign organizer, AFA-CWA
- Andrew Shapiro, Steward, PSC/CUNY AFT Local 2334, NYSUT; CUNY for Palestine; Jewish Voice for Peace
- John Cuvillier, Vice President, Restaurant Workers United; Organizer, UNITE HERE Local 23; Austin DSA Labor Chair
- Gage Lacharite, Teamsters 79
- Leah Meltzer, President, *Restaurant Workers United; Austin DSA
- Josiah Nisly, UE 1105
- Richard Berg, Charter School Division Coordinator, Chicago Teachers Union AFT Local 1; Chicago Federation of Labor Delegate
- Alec Story, Steward, CWA Local 9009
- Claudia Moreno, Delegate, Chicago Teachers Union AFT Local 1
- Rose Taylor, Chicago Teachers Union AFT Local
- Cheyne Anderson, Alphabet Workers Union-CWA Local 9009
- Richard Blake, Teamsters Local 512
- Alaysha Sisson, AFSCME Council 18
- Alex Hong, Alphabet Workers Union-CWA Local 9009
- Debby Pope, Retiree Delegate, Chicago Teachers Union AFT Local 1; VP, Illinois Labor History Society
- Jisoo Kim, Treasurer, CWA 7065
- Ayesha Qazi-Lampert, Delegate, Chicago Teachers Union, AFT Local 1
- Emma Riese, AFSCME Local 2822
- Brian Lampert, Chicago Teachers Union, AFT Local 1
- Clark Peters, 1199NE/SEIU (retired)
- Erin A. Lynch, Delegate, Trustee, Chicago Teachers Union, AFT Local 1
- Lisa Savage, NEA/Maine Education Association (retired)
- David A. Love, Rutgers AAUP-AFT
- Anju Alexander, UAW Local 2325
- Brenden Ross, LSSA UAW Local 2320
- Kirstin Roberts, Executive Board Member, Chicago Teachers Union, AFT Local 1
- Antonia House, Steward, UAW Local 2320
- Revmira, SBWU Minnesota; Twin Cities DSA Labor Branch Co-Chair
- LéTania Severe, IAFF local 726
- Colin Kent-Daggett, TakeRoot Union, NOLSW/UAW Local 2320
- Nora Searle, UAW Local 2325
- Helen Campbell, Organizing Committee, Nationalities Service Center Staff Union, UAW Local 2320 NOLSW
- Siobhan Moore, Teamsters Local 638
- Anna Lane, Chicago Teachers Union, AFT Local 1
- Kaman Siranouche, ASSO 31, Toulouse, France
- Zoey Niebuhr, Delegate , Teamsters Local 391; NC AFL-CIO Triangle Labor Council Delegate
- Brianda Guzman , Delegate, 1199SEIU UHE
- Peter Gaughan, Regional Organizer, UAW Local 2320
- Dylan Villalon, Steward, MOVE Texas United Local 277; Party for Socialist Liberation
- Sarah Hasan, OPEIU Local 2
- Rurik Asher Baumrin, UAW Local 2325; NYC-DSA
- Ella Nalepka, UAW Local 2325
- LJ Jaffee, External Organizer, SEIU Local 200
- Lisa R. Edwards, UAW Local 2325
- Paula Garcia-Salazar, UAW Local 2325
- Nastaran Mohit, Organizing Director, NewsGuild of New York, CWA Local 31003; US Labor Against Racism and War
- Danielle Gerena, Oakland Education Association, California Teachers Association
- Jacqueline Littleton, Steward and Lead Organizer, PNWSU Working Washington/Fair Work Center Chapter
- Daniela Robles, UAW Local 2325
- Gregory Mateo, NTEU Local 273
- Zain Majeed, NTEU Local 273
- Paige Demasi, IATSE Local 15
- Justin Hutchinson, Union staff, SEIU 775
- Randall Schaefer, UAW Local 2325
- Jadyn Harter, CNA
- Johnny, IWW
- Ian Petty, Formerly/Future MTA
- Leah Duncan, A Better NYLAG Executive Board, VP of Policy Advocacy, UAW Local 2325
- Marty Goodman, TWU Local 100 Executive Board
- Mac McGrath, Organizer, UNITE HERE Local 8; DSA
- Joanne Choi, ALAA UAW Local 2325
- Alma Yaniv, Unite community Liverpool
- Aviva Galpert, UAW Local 2325
- Emily Butt, Steward, Teamsters Local 243
- Christopher Fasano, UAW Local 2320
- Rick Majumdar, Teamsters Local 767; NAARPR Dallas; *FRSO Dallas; Progressive Student Union at UTA
- Simon Rowe, Teamsters Local 79
- Eric Miller, Vice President, AFGE 1923
- Eric Spishak-Thomas, CWA Local 9009-Alphabet Workers Union
- Denise Guadalupe Romero Gonzalez, UAW Local 2320
- Darini Nicholas, President, Local UFCT 1460
- Rachel Westrick, CWA Local 9009; No Tech for Apartheid
- Quinn Chase, Stage manager, Actors’ Equity Association; American Guild of Musical Artists
- Jed Holtz, Art Director, Writers Guild of America, East
- Doreen, former Shop Steward, IBEW 77 (retired)
- Dennis Gallie, UAW Local 249 (retired)
- Anna Hayward, UUP
- Maysoun Wazwaz, Steward, SEIU 10-21
- Renee Gagner, AFSCME Local 2912
- Anthony Taylor-Gouge’, Steward, UFCW 663; MN Anti-War Committee; MN Workers United
- Anne Slater, Secretary, Teamsters Local 763
- Jared Hamill, Shop Steward, Teamsters Local 396
- Drake Thomas Myers, Steward, MFT 59; *MN Anti-War Committee
- Salima Koshy, UAW Local 2110
- Alex Washington, Delegate, UAW Local 2325
- Marian Sunde, CWA Local 7800 (retired)
- Steve Hoffman, Washington Federation of State Employees Local 304
- Adrienne Weller, AFSCME (retired)
- Maxine Reigel, retired Shop Steward, Teamsters Local 117
- Bailey Thomas, UAW Local 2325
- Henry Noble, IAM 751 (retired)
- Camila L. Valdivieso, UAW Local 2320
- Brandon Schorsch, Steward, OPEIU 12
- Lorenzo Plazola, AFSCME Local 2428
- Rajavelu J, *Left Trade Union Centre, Chennai, Tamilnadu
- Nicholas Preston, Ironworkers Local 86
- Jared Houston, UFCW Local 3000
- Jaribu Hill, Attorney and Human Rights Defender, *Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights
- David Klassen, PSC-CUNY
- Sarah Potter, Steward, Seattle Education Association
- Bahaar Tadjbakhsh, Teamsters Local 2010; EBDSA
- Jody Anderson, CLC Rep, IBEW 553; Co-Chair Black Alliance for Peace Solidarity Network Southern Region
- Lena Jones, Seattle Education Association
- Juliana Fadil-Luchkiw, UAW 2865
- Betsy Kinsey, OEA-NEA
- Ines, SEIU 1021
- Sonya Karabel, Staff, UNITE HERE Local 2; Local 2 Employees Association
- Judy Greenspan, Union Rep and Chair of Substitute Teacher Caucus, Oakland Education Association; Member of Alameda Labor Council
- Alaysha Sisson, AFSCME
- Uri Strauss, UAW Local 2320
- Thomas Pafford, AFL-CIO, retired
- Cristian Avila, UAW Local 2320
- Douglas Lawson, Steward, Unite Here Local 8
- Malcolm Sacks, AFT Local 2 (UFT)
- Amelia Spooner, UAW Local 2710; Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD), Steering Committee Member-at-Large
- Andrew Bergman, UAW Local 5118; Steering Committee, Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD)
- Corrina Hildreth, Unite Here 8
- Pedro Acosta Galindo, Delegate, UAW Local 2325
- Linda Averill, Shop Steward, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 587; Organized Workers for Labor Solidarity
- Susan Olivia Morris, Former Sgt at Arms, UAW Local 2325 (retired)
- Lorrie Beth Slonsky, VP Paramedic Chapter/editor Gurney Gazette, SEIU 1021 (retired); Jewish Voice for Peace
- Ellyn Kessler, UAW Local 2325
- Daniella Korotzer, Former Delegate, Health and Safety rep, and Brooklyn VP, UAW Local 2325, Association of Legal Aid Attorneys (ALAA)
- Stephen Mahood, AFSCME 1526
- Isadora Jaffee, UAW Local 2325
- Brett Daniels, Organizing Committee Amazon Labor Union; Young Communist League
- Christopher Hutchinson, Teamsters Local 1150; Workers’ Aid to Ukraine
- Fernando Chirino, President, PERU CWA 7901
- Susan K., Delegate, PSC/CUNY, AFT Local 2334
- Saúl Schindler, Steward, SEIU 1021
- Jaz Brisack, Organizing Director, Workers United Upstate New York & Vermont
- Donna Ristorucci, Assistant Director and Editor, Retiree Division; Teamsters Local 237 (retired); Metro NY Labor Communications Council executive board (retired)
- Melanie Garza, SEIU Local 1021
- Ignacia Lolas Ojeda, UAW Local 2325
- Gabriel Lopez, OPEIU Local 29
- Turner Roth, United Service Workers Union Local 74
- Melissa Reyes, Steward, SEIU 1021
- Freddy Bastone, Shop Steward, LiUNA Local 79; Building Trades for Workers’ Democracy
- Marlen Bodden, UAW Local 2335
- Jeffery Dix, Chapter President and DD industry council chair, SEIU 1021
- Puja Datta, CWA staff union
- Carole Travis, retired Past President, UAW Local 719; SEIU Retired International Staff
- Tevita ‘Uhatafe, Transport Workers Union Local 567; APALA AFL-CIO
- Jordan Manalastas, UAW Local 2325
- Andrea Yeager, Steward, SEIU 1021
- Quil Freitas, Steward, UFCW 3000; PCC Workers United
- Hilaría Barajas, Bargaining Team, OEA
- Stewart Stout, UAW 2110; NYC-DSA Citywide Leadership Committee
- Sam Regan, Alternate Rep, CTA (OEA)
- Toshio Meronek, National Writers Union; FSP
- Adam Dudenhoefer, Conductor Sentinel, IAMAW United Lodge 66
- Claude Conger, SEIU 1199NW; staff union
- Emily Woo Yamasaki, LSSA-NOLSW-UAW Local 2320
- Andrew Smith, Local 1503, DC 37, AFSCME
- Thomas Ziemer, Delegate, IWW
- Elias Holtz, BSTV Workers United-Writers Guild of America, East
- Michael Rowley, Camba Legal Services Workers United-UAW Local 2325
- Steve Leigh, SEIU Local 925 Retiree Chapter
- Andrew Brown, UAW Local 4121
- Luke Leitze, Steward, UFCW 663; CPUSA
- Claire Bekker, Steward, Local UAW 2865
- Dave Welsh, Delegate, San Francisco Labor Council; Nat’l Ass’n of Letter Carriers, Golden Gate Branch 214
- Esme Bitticks, SEIU 1020
- Pauline Mims, UAW Local 276 Political and Legislative Chair; *TX CLUW President; TCLC UAW Delegate #7
- David, UFCW 8; IWW
- Nora Christiani, UAW Local 2325
- Elyse Endlich, TNG-CWA; WBNG and Pride at Work
- Daniel Kim, ALAA-UAW Local 2325
- Joseph Rosenzweig, Teamsters Local 270
- Osman Yasin, UAW Local 2325
- Samue Hellmann, UAW Local 2710
- Hannah Walsh, UAW Local 2325
- Em Rosenfield, ALAA Local 2325
- Jai Broome, UAW Local 4121
- Willa Collins, Steward, LSSA-UAW Local 2320
- Helen Boyer, AFSCME Local 609
- Meg Rumsey-Lasersohn, AFSCME Local 609
- Jean Halley, PSC/CUNY, AFT Local 2334
- Molly Rockett, Delegate, UAW Local 2320
- Jordana Sardo, AFSCME Local 88
- Joe Evica, Chief Steward, OPEIU Local 39
- Ruiyang Zhang, Steward, GSOC-UAW Local 2110
- Jessica Monterey, Sr. Project Assistant, AFSCME Local 609
- D Abuyounes, AFSCME Local 609
- Sherry Millner, PSC/CUNY, AFT Local 2334
- Jeremy Bunyaner, Guide, UAW Local 2325
- Val Carlson, AFSCME Retirees
- Gustavo Mejias, UFT Retiree Advocate
- Syeda Malliha, ALAA UAW Local 2325
- Nancy Ippolito, Teamsters Local 853
- Jaq Kunz, AFSCME
- Rachel Lindy, UAW Local 2325
- Linda Ostreicher AFCSME DC37 (retiree)
- Alexandra Bonagura, PSC-CUNY AFT Local 2334
- Kirsten Mairead Gill, PSC-CUNY AFT Local 2334
- Ben Wilkins, Staff, USSW
- Margaret Guttshall, National Writers Union (NWU)
- Dusana Podlucka, PSC-CUNY AFT Local 2334
- Howard Levine, Teamsters Local 583
- Joslyn Baker, Project Manager & President, *AFSCME Local 88
- Sophia Wrench, Equal Justice Works Fellow, AFSCME Local 609
- Stuart Chen-Hayes, Delegate, PSC-CUNY AFT Local 2334 NYSUT
- Roger Harris, retired union worker
- Katherine Azcona, UAW Local 2325
- Michelle Saucedo, AFSCME Local 609
- Ashaki Binta, National Staff (retired), United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers (UE); Black Workers for Justice (BWFJ)
- John Ferretti , Former Executive Board member, TWU Local 100; Co-founder, Local 100 Fightback Coalition (https://www.facebook.com/Local100Fightback?mibextid=ZbWKwL)
- Dylan Kupsh, UAW Local 2865
- Daria Reaven, GSOC-UAW Local 2110
- Alexis Hoffman, UAW Local 2325
- Seth Rosenberg, Shop Steward, TWU Local 100
- Rex Santus, UAW Local 2325
- Sheila Kulkarni, International Delegate, UAW Local 2865, Santa Barbara
- Ioanna Kourkoulou, UAW Local 2710
- Jessica Jiang, UAW Local 2865
- Yvette Solano, AFSCME Local 609
- Daad Sharfi, UAW Local 2325
- Jeff Jones, President, UFCW Local 1459
- Emma Arce, AFSCME Local 609
- Steve Ongerth; IWW, Bay Area General Membership Branch; IBU, San Francisco Bay Region
- Lois Weiner, retiree, United Federation of Teachers, UFT Local 2
- Toly Rinberg, UAW Local 5118
- Aaron Amaral, Vice President, LDSA, DC37
- SiYan Jensen, UFCW Local 663
- Ethan Buhrow, UFCW Local 663; CPUSA; DSA
- Bol Benjamin, Staff, SEIU Local 26; CWA member
- Aaron Amaral, Vice President, Legal Department Staff Association (DC37, AFSCME); Tempest Collective
- Annaliza Torres, OPEIU 8
- John Ferretti, former Executive Board member, TWU Local 100; *Local 100 Fightback Coalition
- Seth Rosenberg, Shop Steward, TWU Local 100
- Anthony Steiniger, Shop Steward, TWU Local 100
- Jonathan Beatrice, Shop Steward and former officer, TWU Local 100
- Ray Reigadas, TWU Local 100
- Tom Gruttemeyer, TWU Local 100
Additional signers (list in formation; *denotes organizational endorsements; other affiliations listed for identification only)
- Joel Feingold, Crown Heights Tenant Union; Socialist Party USA
- Joe Allen, Tempest Collective
- Susanna Patterson, retired
- Thomas Harrison, Tempest Collective; New Politics magazine
- Eli Nadeau, The New School for Social Research
- Greg Starr, Independent Jewish Voices-Canada
- Melinda Smith, Jewish Voice for Peace
- Brian Ross Ashley, New Democratic Party Socialist Caucus
- Mark Guadagnino, retired
- Farzad Qmehr, retired
- Don DeBar, *Community Public Radio, Ossining NY
- Bill V. Mullen, Professor Emeritus/AAUP
- Asmita Basu, Gender and Human Rights Consultant
- Anna Potempska, retired scientist
- Charlotte Kates, International coordinator, *Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
- Rima Najjar, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
- Bruce Robbins, Columbia University (retired)
- Beth Curtiss, Stop Arming Israel
- Estee Chandler, Producer, KPFK Radio
- Erum Kidwai, AALDEF
- Joan, Brooklyn Grange
- Viveka Kymal, RS
- *Sur Legal Collaborative, Decatur, GA
- Rima Kapitan, *Kapitan Gomaa Law, P.C.
- Willliam Keach, Professor of English Emeritus, Brown University
- Frances H., NYU
- Jihad Abdulmumit, Organizer/Chair, *National Jericho
- Shushanna Shakur, *Malcolm X Grassroots Movement-Detroit
- Lita Farquhar, Carpenter, electrician, & artist
- Karen Pomer, *Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
- Shannon Altamirano, BALAW
- R. Weaver, researcher
- Cheryl Gaster, Independent Jewish Voices Canada
- Sharon Maiden, retired
- Theresa Zettner, graphic designer
- Gordon Doctorow, EdD, Independent Jewish Voices
- Nate Landry, East Bay DSA
- Mitra Zarinebaf, Legal Service For Prisoners With Children
- Luke Pickrell, East Bay DSA
- Bonnie Weinstein, Co-Editor of *Socialist Viewpoint magazine
- Robert N. Guardado Jr.
- Juan Canham, DSA
- David Klein, California State University Northridge (retired)
- Lynda Lemberg, Independent Jewish Voices (IJV)
- Johanna Brenner, Solidarity-US
- Pawel Wargan, Coordinator of the Secretariat, Progressive International, Gdańsk, Poland
- Barry Eidlin, McGill University
- Miriam Meir, Independent Jewish Voices Canada
- Tricia Warren, Attorney
- John Obeda, Solidarity
- William Snodgrass, technician
- Maya Para, East Bay DSA
- Daniel Gross, organizer
- Jason Seidman
- Esther Ouray, artist
- Sylvia Schwarz, JVP-Twin Cities
- David Boehnke, Organizer, Twin Cities Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee
- Sam S., Jews Against Genocide
- Bonnie Weiss, retired
- Avi Tachna-Fram, CPUSA
- Cathy Klein, retired teacher
- Chel Commerford, florist, anti-Zionist Jew
- Pierre Labossiere, Haiti Action Committee (Oakland)
- Anola Small, retired
- Esther, Jewish Voice for Peace
- Jac Nelson, Sholom Johnson Hospice Agency; Minnesota Death Collaborative
- CJ, Lead Organizer, *Black and Brown United in Action (New Haven)
- Raj Sahjai, researcher
- Shoshana Rivers, LAMFT
- Scott Volz, Ph.D
- Jeremy Mohler, therapist
- Zophia Edwards, assistant professor
- Nancy Eberg, Greater New Haven Peace Council
- Michael Hazboun, graduate student
- Liz Aaronsonhn, AAUP
- Aylin Kartalyan, analyst
- Matthew Levine, Tampa DSA
- Lesley Mahmood, retired
- Liz Aaronsonhn, AAUP
- Mary O’Connor, retired
- John Stafford, Stripe
- Devin Watts, Black Student Union, Seattle
- Barbara Earle, PG&E retired
- Neil Schroeder, Graduate Researcher, University of Minnesota
- Lau Barrios, Organizer, *No Tech for Apartheid
- Sarah Lundberg, attorney
- Kian Zlutnick Rank, *The Grounded Body Project (Minneapolis)
- Joe Quarnberg, Tempest Collective
- Dr. Harry Feldman, retired statistician
- Anne Lamb, *NYC Jericho Movement
- Jill Mangaliman, *GABRIELA Seattle
- Chris Cochrane, social worker
- Angela Dunne, City University of New York
- Immanuel Ness, author of Migration as Economic Imperialism
- BT Werner, University of California San Diego
- Saadia Toor, City University of New York
- Jacqualynn, Sf Sketchfest
- Kian Moghtaderi, software engineer
- Raymond Dean, Irish Music Rights Organisation
- Lisa Bateman, Pratt Institute
- Jane Pafford, retired
- Margaret Breen, Seattle Presbytery
- Michael Weems, Software Engineer in Test, Solo
- Clayton Sodergren, CADFW
- Pat Bryant, writer
- Max, bartender
- Anderson Nunnelley, Director, AGMA
- Chelsea Larson, Trader Joe’s crew member
- Mumina Ali, program assistant
- Deborah Agre, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
- Mike Howells, General Assembly Jackson Square Psychics, New Orleans; *New Orleans Firebrand
- Bishop Drewery, Seattle Revolutionary Socialists
- Sarah S. Kanbar, Attorney
- Sydney Conrady, Chamber of Cannabis, The Resistance, LGBTQIA+, BLM, ACAB
- Mary Ghandour, Attorney, International Refugee Assistance Project
- Ayesha Hussain, Attorney, Innocence Project Los Angeles
- Sheila Jordan, retired educator
- Dana Matsunami, Attorney
- Elizabeth Glenski, Student
- Keslie Box, local organizer
- Koya Nakata, News producer, Firebrand
- Beatrice Reilly Jordon, Student/Retired, CUNY
- Lena Hamad, Admin Secretary; CUNY Student
- Raymond Latour, Cashier/service worker; Concerned citizen
- Andrew Alberg, Student, Duke University
- Donna Denina. *International Women’s Alliance
- Shahrooz Nasir, Student, CUNY alumni
Labor for Palestine Model Resolution: [X union/labor body]
Stand With Palestinian Workers:
Cease the Genocide Now, End All Complicity, Stop Arming Israel!
WHEREAS, October 7, 2023 saw the people of Gaza collectively reject the culmination of 16 years of a brutal land, air and sea siege devastating the entirety of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents; and
WHEREAS, the 16-year blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip has devastated the economy, leading to the closure of many companies, factories, and farms, resulting in a high level of unemployment, and reducing the government’s ability to provide basic services to the Palestinian population in Gaza; and
WHEREAS, the siege has deprived Palestinians in Gaza of their basic rights to health care, education, work, and freedom of movement, with 81.5 percent of individuals in Gaza living below the poverty line and 64 percent are food insecure; and
WHEREAS, the latest Israeli attacks reflect more than a century of ongoing Zionist settler-colonialism, dispossession, ethnic cleansing, racism, genocide, and apartheid—including Israel’s establishment through the uprooting and displacement of over 750,000 Palestinians during the 1947-1948 Nakba. Indeed, eighty percent of the 2.3 million people in Gaza are refugees from other parts of historic Palestine; and
WHEREAS, the section of the Gaza border that was bulldozed through on October 7th was the site of the Great March of Return, a 2018-2019 peaceful protest which Israel responded to with deadly force, killing 214 Palestinians, including 46 children, and injuring 28,939 a reminder that all forms of Palestinian resistance—even peaceful ones—are criminalized and crushed by Israel; and
WHEREAS, as in the last 16 days alone at least [update as needed] 4,741 Palestinians have been killed and 15,898 wounded, with over a million of the densely populated enclave’s people displaced; and
WHEREAS, there have been [update as needed] 51 attacks on healthcare facilities in Gaza with these attacks resulting in at least 15 health workers killed, 27 health workers injured, damage to 25 hospitals and other healthcare facilities and three hospitals in northern Gaza evacuated; and
WHEREAS, upon announcing his intention to reduce parts of Gaza to “rubble,” Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu ordered leaflets dropped from the sky telling Palestinians in the Gaza strip, of which 50 percent of the population are children, to “leave now,” knowing full well that there is absolutely nowhere they can go; a public declaration of intent to commit the international crime of forced population transfer; and
WHEREAS, Israel has consolidated all these tactics of extermination in the current attack on Gaza, including the prohibited use of white phosphorus weapons in densely populated urban areas. In addition, Israel is arming settlers with an additional 10,000 assault rifles, which has already further galvanized attacks on Palestinian communities in the West Bank; and
WHEREAS, Israel justified its decision to suspend all entry of food, water and fuel into Gaza by claiming that it was fighting “human animals”; As we have seen with past examples of US led wars on Iraq and Afghanistan , such dehumanizing language is used to manufacture consent for genocidal violence; and
WHEREAS, a majority of media, politicians and employers have demonstrated an inconsistent valuation of human life, with calculated omissions effectively endorsing Israel’s ongoing perpetration of ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and genocide against the 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza; and
WHEREAS, the tired trope of “religious conflict” has been used often to mask the reality of settler colonial violence and dispossession, essentializing and racializing both Jewish and Muslim communities and those critical of Israeli settler colonial violence have been falsely accused of anti-semitism; and
WHEREAS, the Union of Professors and Employees at Birzeit University in the West Bank, calls on all trade unions around the globe to reject the “criminalization of resistance… where all blood that is shed is blamed on the oppressed and all crimes of settler colonial invasion and dispossession are ignored entirely”; and
WHEREAS, all over the world and including our [city/workplace], workers of all faiths and backgrounds are united in their opposition to apartheid, occupation, genocide and settler colonialism; and
WHEREAS, the Palestinian struggle against settler colonialism as a structure of power designed to accumulate wealth through dispossession and maintain racial hierarchy links it organically to the struggles of Indigenous, Black and Puerto Rican peoples, as well as other oppressed peoples in the United States; and
WHEREAS, the institutions of organized violence that oppress working class, Black and Brown communities in the US train and share tactics of repression with Israeli institutions of organized violence, for example through the deadly exchange program; and
WHEREAS, since World War II, Israel has been the largest overall recipient of U.S. foreign aid, with over $150 billion since 1946 and U.S. President Joe Biden has just announced another $14.3 billion in aid for Israel as part of a broader “defense” spending package that is a boon for the military-industrial-complex and is being claimed as a job promotion program for US workers who are allegedly “building the arsenal of democracy”; and
WHEREAS, the U.S. began moving warships and aircraft to the region “to be ready to provide Israel with whatever it needed to respond,” including sending two U.S. aircraft carriers as well as special operations forces to “assist Israel’s military in planning and intelligence”; and
WHEREAS, Palestinian trade unions call for workers around the globe to stand in solidarity to “end all forms of complicity with Israel’s crimes” and to “pass motions in their trade union to this effect”; therefore be it
RESOLVED, that our [union or other labor body] condemns Israel’s ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people and calls for an immediate end to the bombings and destruction in Gaza as well as an end to all US military and economic aid to the settler colonial state of Israel; and
RESOLVED, that we endorse the October 16, 2023 Palestinian trade union call:
- To refuse to build weapons destined for Israel.
- To refuse to transport weapons to Israel.
- To pass motions in their trade union to this effect.
- To take action against complicit companies involved in implementing Israel’s brutal and illegal siege, especially if they have contracts with your institution.
- Pressure governments to stop all military trade with Israel, and in the case of the U.S., funding to it.
RESOLVED, that our employer(s) publicly declare and divest from all financial ties with “the State of Israel and all Israeli and international companies that sustain Israeli apartheid”; and
RESOLVED, that our union pledge to respect previous Palestinian trade union appeals for solidarity by divesting from Israel Bonds, severing all ties with the Israel’s racist labor federation, the Histadrut, and its US mouthpiece, the Jewish Labor Committee, and respecting the Palestinian picket line for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS); and
RESOLVED, that our employer defend its workers [and students] who are routinely doxxed and attacked when voicing support for Palestine, including those who take part in the BDS campaign, and/or who otherwise oppose Israeli settler colonialism.
