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Jeremy Dear, NUJ General Secretary (NUJ web site)
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| By Israel Insider staff and partners April 14, 2007 |
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The National Union of Journalists of Britain and Ireland has voted at its annual meeting to boycott Israeli goods to protest against last summer's Second Lebanon War, the Guardian reported.
The resolution, which passed by a vote of 66 to 54, "calls for a boycott of Israeli goods similar to those boycotts in the struggles against apartheid South Africa led by trade unions and the TUC [Trades Union Congress] to demand sanctions be imposed on Israel by the British government and the United Nations."
After a show of hands twice failed to give a clear result, the doors to the conference room were closed. The motion was previously split off from a larger motion that condemned the "savage, pre-planned attack on Lebanon by Israel" last year. That also passed by a large majority, along with condemnation of what it called the "slaughter of civilians by Israeli troops in Gaza and the IDF's continued attacks inside Lebanon" following what the motion defined Israel's "defeat" by Hizbullah.
The motion called for the "end of Israeli aggression in Gaza" and other territories inhabited by Palestinians. The resolution sponsor neglected to mention in its motion either the fact that Israel had withdrawn from Gaza, and was keeping a ceasefire with the Palestinian Authority, despite the fact that southern towns in Israel were, and still are, being fired upon with Kassam rockets.
The cause of the war -- the kidnapping of IDF reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev in a cross-border raid on July 12 -- was also not mentioned in the resolution. Six other reserve soldiers were killed in Hizbullah's attack.
Israel unilaterally withdrew from Lebanon in 2000.
The announcement of the passage of the resolution drew a combination of applause and gasps, the Guardian said.
The NUJ national executive committee has been instructed to support organisations including the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, Jews for Justice in Palestine and the Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding, the Guardian reported. |
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