Jewish campaign group stages protest over Tory threats to ban boycotts of Israel
‘Bad for Jews. Bad for Palestinians. Bad for democracy.’
‘Bad for Jews. Bad for Palestinians. Bad for democracy.’
Every last thing about Gary Spedding’s argument in favour of boycotting Histadrut, Israel’s free and democratic Israeli trade union movement, is wrong. Speeding does not so much put a left foot forward as trip over his own feet.
The idea of nations and peoples cooperating instead of fixating on individual respective national interests is popular in trade union movements due to the strongly held principles of solidarity that come with trade unionism.
In a long standing tradition, internationalism has been about campaigning for peace, cooperation, economic development and education.
Following the questioning of England captain Andrew Strauss over the tour to Sri Lanka, Ben Mitchell looks at what happens when sport and politics collide.