Summary
The US labor federation treated in Chapter 7 of Palestine: A Socialist Introduction as deeply complicit in Israeli apartheid (Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, lines 1455-1480).
Details
- Its complicity runs through massive investments in Israel bonds and Israeli banks — by some estimates its Israel-related investments may reach $5 billion — and through its long history of supporting the Histadrut (lines 1458-1472).
- Richard Trumka, elected its president in 2009, ignored progressive appeals and harshly denounced BDS; the chapter also invokes its close Cold War ties with the CIA (lines 1462-1475).
- Against it the chapter sets UAW Local 2865, the first US union to join BDS in 2014, and the United Electrical Workers (UE), the second national union to endorse BDS in 2015 (lines 1468-1480).
Related pages
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, Histadrut, BDS movement, Omar Barghouti