(Image: Samidoun)
Take to the streets on Saturday May 15th with a united demand for sanctions and arms embargo on Israel.
We Palestinians are facing yet another massacre in besieged Gaza, resisting ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley and rising against oppression in our cities in Historic Palestine. Israel’s military and policing arsenal, is raining death and destruction on our loved ones, families and friends. It is bolstered by arms exports from the United States and European countries and flourishing military ties across the globe, making all those involved complicit in this colonial violence.
At the time of writing this call the latest round of Israeli war crimes in Gaza has resulted in the brutal killings of 87 Palestinians, including 18 children and 8 women and over 530 wounded including 115 children and 50 women. Civilian houses are being targeted by American-made F16s and Elbit drones.
Invoking the U.S.’s militant labor history, Muhammad Blaidi of the Palestine New Federation of Trade Unions calls on workers in this country to join with Palestinians in their struggle for liberation. “Americans don’t need to represent occupation,” he says. “They can take a stand for humanity.”
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Injured and Abandoned: Palestinian Workers Demand Fairer Treatment Palestinian workers force Israeli firm to pledge fairer treatment
When Khalil Shehab first began working for Yamit, an Israeli water filtration company in the Nitzanei Shalom industrial park in 1995, he did not anticipate that he would become a pioneer in the fight for equal labor rights.
The industrial zone, just inside the occupied West Bank and next to Tulkarm city, was set up as part of the Oslo agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Its name translates as “buds of peace.”
But while goods there are produced to Israeli standards, working conditions are not up to scratch. This is where Shehab got involved.