Last night, we witnessed the IOF’s bombing of tents in al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, cratering the earth 30 feet deep and murdering more than 40 sheltered in this “safe zone”. This violence is entirely endorsed by the Histadrut. There is no place for Zionism in our labor movements.
On September 1, America’s “Labor Day,” Histadrut, “Israel’s” national trade union, called for a strike over hostage negotiation failures. Despite the evils of “Labor Zionism”, U.S. union leaders from @SEIU and @UAW chose to back Histadrut.
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UAW @UAW Sep 2
The UAW stands in solidarity with the tens of thousands of Israeli workers who withheld their labor today in support of an immediate hostage deal. It is long past time for an end to this war, and on this US Labor Day, we stand with workers in Israel who withheld their labor.=====
Striking under the banner of a “temporary ceasefire” until hostages are returned, the Histadrut’s demands did not include any material changes for Palestinian workers in Gaza or the West Bank. This vacant strike is in line with the Histadrut’s blinkered history.
Histadrut was founded in 1920 to remove Palestinians from the labor market and replace them with Jewish settlers under the guise of worker solidarity. Its first leader—Nakba architect Ben Gurion—believed Histadrut was necessary to stop “the evil of mixed labor.”
In 1939, Histadrut organizers busted existing, integrated Palestinian including the Union of Railway, Postal and Telegraph Workers. The absence of Palestinian labor unions was essential in laying the groundwork for the Zionist usurpation of Palestine’s economy and people.
Histadrut lent immense financial and material support for the Zionist occupation. Despite posturing as a “leftist” organization, Histadrut has refused to support fair working conditions for exploited Arab workers in “Israel” while agitating against BDS.
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Tim Shorrock
@TimothyS
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Sep 2
Briefing document on Histadrut from the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign. “In 2007 a coalition of Palestinian labour organisations urged the international trade union movement to shun the Histadrut and reject its attempts to whitewash the occupation.” https://ipsc.ie/docs/pdf/HistadrutBriefing.pdf
At its core, Histradrut is “Labor Zionism,” exploiting labor and solidarity movements in ways that only serve Zionist genocide. Their “socialist” worker reforms maintain apartheid.
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@christapeterso
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Aug 12
The goal of “Labor Zionism” was not liberating the working class, it was *creating* a working class that was exclusively Jewish https://moscow.sci-hub.se/3556/e4d91e411340995a19e1ac77d9251ad1/lockman1976.pdf?download=true
Writers Against the War on Gaza
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Now, the same union leaders that endorsed Kamala Harris before she committed to an arms embargo are supporting Histadrut’s strike. But this is not worker solidarity: it’s genocide profiteering.
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Bedazzling Bearer of Bad News
@PixieOfDeath
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Dec 21, 2023
״Histadrut Chairman Arnon Bar-David as photographed last week during a visit to two weapons factories: #Elbit Systems and IAI. On a shell intended for use in bombings in the Gaza Strip he wrote: “The people of Israel live. Greetings from the Histadrut and the workers in Israel.”
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@UAW leadership retaliates against its own staff union members and goes against rank-and-file demands to divest, we must reaffirm our support for the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions, the
@labor4palestine movement, and the BDS picket line. Free Palestine.
