. They say: “Palestinian trade unions call on our counterparts internationally and all people of conscience to end all forms of complicity with Israel’s crimes.”
“Israel has demanded that 1.1 million Palestinians evacuate the northern half of Gaza, whilst subjecting them to constant bombardment. This ruthless move is part of Israel’s plan, backed by unwavering support and active participation from the US and majority of European states, to carry out unprecedented and heinous massacres against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza and to ethnically cleanse it altogether.”
This collective punishment of the population of Gaza has been encouraged by the British government which has made no criticism of Israeli’s actions or its long history of systematic discrimination and violence against the Palestinians. No wonder Palestinians fear a second Nakba, or catastrophe, referring to the mass dispossession and ethnic clearing of up to a million Palestinians in 1948 with the creation of the Israeli state. The current inhabitants of Gaza are direct descendants of the dispossessed of ‘48.
The bombing of al-Ahli Baptist hospital, leaving at least 500 dead, underlines the horror of the Israeli assault on Gaza.
Sunak and Starmer say they stand with Israel against the Hamas attacks but have been silent about the fate of Gaza. Together with the actions and statements from other Western governments this has sent a signal to Israel that it can act with impunity.
We demand that Britain ends its military and political support for Israel’s actions.
Britain continues to issue government approved export licences to allow arms sales to Israel for example - between 2016 and 2020 alone these amounted to the value of £387 million in arms sales. And Britain has announced that it is sending two Royal Navy ships together with surveillance aircraft to the eastern Mediterranean in another clear signal of support for Israel’s actions.
We urge all trade unions to stand with the Palestinian people in Gaza and beyond. Every union should debate what steps can be taken to challenge British complicity with Israel’s war machine and the ongoing dispossession of Palestinians. As a first step, we urge every trade unionist to attend demonstrations in support of the Palestinians along with their union banners to show they are not be alone in their struggle for justice.
Jess Edwards, NEU national executive member
Elizabeth McLean, Executive member, NEU Executive
Cynthia Kasar, Workplace representative, Oxfordshire NEU
Pauline Philippe,
District Treasurer, Tower Hamlets and the City, NEU
Carol Wing, Representative Oxfordshire NEU
Christopher Denson, National Executive, NEU
Elly Owen, District and branch secretary South Gloucestershire NEU
Margaret Renn, National Union of Journalists
Georgia Townshend, NEU
Executive, Essex
Debs Gwynn, NEU Executive Member, Halton NEU
Jon Reddiford, NEU national executive member, North Somerset
NEU
Mehreen Begg, Croydon NEU
Chris Dutton, National Executive NEU
Louise Regan, National Executive, NEU
Leigh Seedhouse, NEU Executive
Noelle Dallas, Bristol Committee Member, Bristol NEU
Norhan Nabeeh, Assistant Branch Secretary CLF NEU
Amber Williams, President Bristol district, Bristol NEU
Ruth Chillitupa, International Solidarity officer, Wilts NEU
Tashan Charles, Workplace Rep, Waltham Forest NEU
Sophie Townsend, Equalities officer, Wiltshire NEU
Graham Childs, LGBT+
OF, District President and workplace rep, West Hampshire NEU
Carly Slingsby, NEU Executive
Tom Bolton, Joint Branch and District Secretary Bristol NEU
Amy Fletcher, District President, Tower Hamlets & City
NEU
Leo Nikolaidis, Officer South Gloucestershire NEU
Paul McGarr, Vice president, Tower Hamlets and the City
National Education Union
Rae Garvin, Equalities Officer, Tower Hamlets and the City
NEU
Lucy Preston, Branch and district assistant secretary, Tower
Hamlets and City NEU
Jennifer Bhambri-Lyte, President/Chair, North Somerset
NEU/CLF branch
Lee Everson, Regional Officer, NEU
Marion O’Malley, Tower
Hamlets, NEU
Jemma Garraway,
Workplace Rep NRU and H&S rep, Oxfordshire NEU
John Nealon, Branch Committee Member, Oxford Branch
Committee NEU
Vanessa Benjamin Smith, Local rep, Oxfordshire NEU
Carmen Tracey-Ramos,
international officer, Oxfordshire branch NEU
Lisa Weir, Branch Secretary, Bournemouth Christchurch and
Poole NEU
Dan Warrington, District membership secretary, Surrey NEU
Ann Tolin, Rep Coventry, NEU
Jenny Cooper, Executive Member, Brent/ London NEU
Duncan Blackie, NEU NEC Sheffield NEU
Mairead Canavan, Executive, Vale of Glamorgan NEU
Kerry Jackson, Rep NEU Oxon
Shelley Taylor,
Workplace Representative, North Somerset NEU
Stephen Wyatt, Union Rep, Teaching NEU
Ruby Szarowicz, Committee member, South Gloucester NEU
Niel Apps, Divisional Secretary, Somerset NEU
Sima Parminter, Assistant Secretary, West Sussex, NEU
Mohammed Ayaz, Delegation member, Coventry NEU
Pamela Moore,
Treasurer, North Somerset District, NEU
Kieran Picken, District and Joint Branch Secretary, Derby
City NEU
Sheila Caffrey, National Executive Member, Bristol NEU
Paul Grist, NEU North Yorkshire Branch Chair
Kate Howlin, Workplace rep, West Sussex, NEU
Michael Dance, Redbridge NEU Committee Officer
Sally Kincaid, International Officer, Wakefield District NEU
Michaela Loebner, School Rep, Lewisham, NEU
Toy Mitchell, Member, Lewisham NEU
Viktor Bengtsson, Workplace Representative, Lewisham NEU
Paul Grist, North Yorkshire NEU Branch Chair
Timothy Marshall, School Rep, North Yorkshire NEU
Alex Gwinnett, Committee member, Lewisham NEU
Robert Ferguson, Member, Newham NEU
Steve Handford, Workplace Representative Northumberland NEU
Robert Robertson,
Member, Tower Hamlets, NEU
Clare Laine, Rep Islington,
NEU
Pippa Dowswell, Assistant Secretary, Islington NEU
Miriam Scharf,
International Solidarity Officer, Newham NEU
Nancy Budler, School Representative, Calderdale NEU
Janice Millington, ISO and rep, North Derbyshire NEU
Mohamed Adan ,
Member NEU
Akhtar Hussain, Member NEU
Pauline Fraser, West
Sussex NEU
Caroline O' Gara, NEU Rep, Brent NEU
Derek Fraser, School based Representative, Manchester NEU
Debbie Kahler, Branch
& District Secretary, Wakefield, NEU
Cormac Kelly, Retired member, Kirklees District NEU
Inbar Tamari, International officer, Hackney NEU
Hannah Howard, Rep
Hackney, NEU
Amanda Bentham, Member, Tower Hamlets and the City NEU
Jonathan Cole, Rep Hackney, NEU
Angela Sibley, Member, NEU
Gus Streeting, NEU member, Haringey NEU
Yasmine Cherid, Member, Hackney NEU
Doug Morgan, Assistant Secretary, Birmingham NEU
Robert Young, Birmingham NEU
Judy Rafferty, Ex rep and Executive member (Birmingham),
Oxford NEU (retired member)
Peter Smith, Assistant secretary, Swindon NEU
Zainab Kapacee Unsure,
Manchester NEU
Zulfkhar Ahmed, Member NEU
Sima Parminter, Assistant Secretary, West Sussex, NEU
Michael Dance,
District Officer, Redbridge, NEU
Pablo Phillips, Joint district and Branch secretary Waltham Forest NEU
Carolyn McGrath,
Retired member, Newham NEU
Simon O'Hara, Officer, Warwickshire NEU
Sara Ranthe, Union Representative, Newham NEU
John Stephens, Campaigns Officer and workplace rep, Waltham
Forest NEU
Kirsty Logan, Union Representative, Waltham Forest, NEU
Nathanael Davies Member, NEU Croydon
Jodie Evans, member Buckinghamshire NEU
Faria Tabassum, Waltham Forest NEU
Katie Hinds, Health and safety officer, Waltham Forest NEU
Sarah Green, Workplace Rep, Greenwich NEU
Duria Awale, Teacher NEU
Stefan Simms, NEU executive
Simona Candiolo, NEU
Islington
Grace Linden, Member, Tower Hamlets and The City, NEU
Pat Quigley, Retired member, Hackney branch NEU
Liam Mayhew, NEU rep Haringey
Sharon Neish, Member NEU
El Pilkington, Workplace rep Hackney NEU
Rob Horsfield, Health and Safety Representative Birmingham Branch NEU
Michaela Wilde Exec,
Bristol/CLF branch NEU
Dawn Taylor, Local secretary, Stockport NEU
Mike Gurney, Joint Secretary, Devon District NEU
Michelle Purdie, Joint District & Branch Secretary,
Wokingham NEU
Eleanor Davies,
District Secretary, Lewisham NEU
Michael Holland, Assistant Secretary, Lambeth NEU
Phil Bloomfield, Member Southwark, NEU
Lucy Cox, Branch officer/workplace rep Brent NEU
Ashiqa Khemchand, NEU member, NEU Barnet
Samiul Hussain, NEU Workplace Representative, Tower Hamlets
& the City NEU
Emily Scurrah, Worker, NEU. Member, Unite NEU Unite Branch
Muna Sultan, Member, Hackney NEU
Susan Drake, Member, London NEU
Mandy McKenna, Environmental Officer, London and Eastern, Unite
Community Norfolk Branch
Phil Graham, Retired member, Aslef
Richard Hering, Member BECTU
Myles Hayden, Branch secretary, Northern Live Events Network,
BECTU
Nathan O'Doherty, Branch
Officer, Northern Live Events Network, BECTU
Kate Parker, Branch Secretary. Writers, Producers &
Directors Branch, Bectu Sector of Prospect
Kate Parker, Sector Executive Committee, Writers, Producers
& Directors Bectu sector of Prospect
Lee Starr-Elliott, Eqaulity officer CWU bristol
Pete Firmin, retired CWU member, vice chair Brent Trades Council
Andy Young, CWU
Wasib Iqbal, Local rep, Leeds No 1 Amal CWU
Keith Hamilton, Political Officer, South Central Postal
Branch CWU
Richard Crook, NHS
officer, Greenwich and Bexley Trades Council, CWU
Jon Willis, Ex-Unit Rep Southdowns, Weald & Rother CWU
Tom Bancroft, Member South
Downs, Weald and Rother CWU
Alex Bradley, Rank and file, Bristol CWU district Amal, CWU
Angela McCormick, EIS
FELA Executive member
Sam Mason, GMB
Dave Statham, Honorary life member, GMB Holborn branch
Úna Byrne, Workplace Rep, GMB
Hilary James, Retired GMB
Sarah Chaudhry, NEU
Geoff Taylor, Representative, TEFL Workers Union, Industrial
Workers of the World (IWW)
Ross Maidment, Member, Charity Workers Branch, IWGB
John Pawson, member Musicians Union
Claire Kerrison, n/a - Concerned Citizen
Marianne Owens, NEC (pc) PCS
Steve West, Branch Co-Secretary, PCS DWP Edinburgh, Lothian
& Borders
John McGrory, Branch Rep, Leeds R&C PCS
Sarah Ensor, Branch Secretary, PCS IOPC
Chris Timms, Union Rep and Local Branch Secretary, PCS Tate
Modern
Samuel Clarke, Trade
Union Rep Public Sector Group PCS
Tim Nicholls, Regional Committee, PCS DWP Dorset Branch
Kate Douglas, PCS DWP GEC (pc)
Jenny Lennon-Wood, Retired member, PCS ARMs SW
Stephanie David, Member, ARMS PCS
Peter Jackson, PCS NEC. Birmingham South
Patrick Corrigan, Hackney Retired NEU member
Hugh Wallis, RMT
Dean Battell, Activist East Sussex Coastway, RMT
Sarah Davies, Royal College of Midwives ( retired)
Geoff Taylor, TEFL Workers' Union (IWW) / UCU (retired)
Geoff Taylor, TEFL Workers' Union (IWW) / UCU (retired) (pc)
Michael Letwin, Former
President, UAW Local 2325
Rania Obead, Member, Edinburgh Napier UCU
Sean Vernell, UCU NEC, City and Islington college
Nariman Massoumi, University of Bristol UCU
Marian Mayer, Vice
Chair Bournemouth University UCU, National Negotiator UCU
Christian Hogsbjerg, Treasurer, UCU University of Brighton
Ioana Cerasella Chis, Branch
officer, University of Birmingham UCU
Sheila Cullen, Health and Safety Officer, Moulsecoomb,
University of Brighton UCU
Camilla Royle, UCU
Durham University
Amira Abdelhamid, Member UCU
Jill Brown, Retired member, City of Bristol College UCU
Arabella Stanger Member UCU Sussex
Bee Hughes, Branch Chair, LJMU UCU
Rhiannon Lockley, UCU NEC, UCU Equality Chair Birmingham City University
Joanna Gilmore , UCU
Saira Weiner, Branch Secretary, NW Regional Vice Chair, LJMU
UCU, NW Regional Committee
Sandra Ergueta, Member, Cambridge UCU
Penny Morris, Retired member, Senate House branch, UCU
`Danai Avgeri, Member, Cambridge UCU
Raphael Salkie UCU
Caleb Day, Anti-Casualisation Officer Durham UniversityUCU
Nicola Pratt, Membership Secretary, Warwick University UCU
Simon Behrman, Warwick University UCU
Simon Boxley, Branch secretary, University of Winchester branch UCU
James Eaden, President Chesterfield and District Trades
Union Council
Sue Elliott, Retired Section UCU
Rolf Fruin, Branch Secretary, Merton College UCU
Liam Orr, H&S Rep,l THC Arbour Square and Outreach UCU
Daphne Hunter, Retired member, Retired UCU
Maria Vasquez-Aguilar, Chair City Lit UCU
Lena Wanggren, UCU Edinburgh
Mandy Brown, UCU
member, Hackney NCC
Richard McEwan, UCU
Branch Sec & FEC Vice Chair, UCU New City College Poplar
Mark Stuart-Smith, Rep City Lit UCU
Peter Evans, NEC LGBT+ Member Further Education, UCU NEC
Pete Bicknell, UCU
Juliana Ojinnaka, UCU NEC, The Sheffield College UCU
Tony Staunton, Branch Chair, UCU SWRM branch
Roberto Mozzachiodi, UCU Member, Oxford Brookes
Feyzi Ismail, Goldsmiths, University of London UCU
Margaret Remana, Goldsmiths UCU
Rehana Zaman, Co-President
Goldsmiths UCU
Benedict Seymour, Member, Goldsmiths University of London UCU
Mark Alderson, Member, CCG, UCU
Tom Whittaker, College Green site rep, City of Bristol
College UCU
Andy Ridley, UCU Rep, Roehampton University UCU
Francesco Sticchim AL Rep, Oxford Brookes University, UCU
Steven Skinner, Union Rep, member of Branch Committee, Bradford
College UCU
Outcheuma Ezekiel, Chair, City & Islington College UCU
David Greenhalf, Member, Weymouth College UCU
Sean Wallis, UCU NEC member and London Region secretary, UCL
UCU branch secretary
Simon Gilbert, Oxford University, UCU
Safia Flissi, Branch exec, UCU SCCB
Regine Pilling, NEC and Branch Secretary, Westminster
Kingsway College UCU
Federica Frabetti, Member, University of Roehampton Branch UCU
Lynne Chamberlain, Secretary Greenwich and Bexley TUC
Les Levidow, OU branch UCU
John Fones, Branch Chair, NEC, Secretary to Regional
Committee Bridgwater and Taunton College,
SW Regional Committee, National Executive Committee UCU
Liz Wheatley, Unison NEC and chair of International
committee (pc)
Tony Wilson, Unison NEC and vice chair of International
committee (pc)
Libby Nolan, Unison NEC (pc)
Steve North, Unison NEC (pc)
David Jones, Unison NEC (pc)
Jane Doolan, Unison NEC (pc)
Julie Forgan, Unison NEC (pc)
Jordan Rivera, Unison NEC (pc)
Julia Mwaluke, Unison NEC (pc)
Kevin Corran, Unison NEC (pc)
Andrea Egan, Unison NEC (pc)
Becci Brookman, Unison NEC (pc)
Mark Fisher, Unison NEC (pc)
Nathalie Riordan, Unison NEC (pc)
Caroline Johnson, Unison NEC (pc)
Lorna Hood, Unison NEC (pc)
Christine Collins, Unison NEC (pc)
Sara Evans, Unison NEC (pc)
Mandy Buckley, Unison NEC (pc)
Jo Tapper, Unison NEC (pc)
Ian Mckendrick, Communcations officer Oxfordshire UNISON Health Branch (pc)
Chris Flanagan, Chair, South Staffordshire & Shropshire
Healthcare UNISON (pc)
Andy Richards, Steward Brighton
and Hove, Unison (pc)
Sandy Nicoll, Branch Secretary, SOAS UNISON (pc)
Arthur Nicoll, Co-Chair Dundee City UNISON (pc)
Mike Griffin, Shop steward Unison (pc)
Helen Davies, Branch Chair UNISON (pc)
Jenny Leow, Chair Homerton, UNISON (pc)
Alison Drew, Rep UHB Birmingham, UNISON (pc)
Alex Platt, Member University of Leeds, Unison (pc)
Graeme Cumming, Retired member, South Ayrshire Unison (pc)
Rebecca Bryson (pc), Branch Chair, Unison South Derbyshire
Healthcare (pc)
Tony Martin, Unison retired member Unison (pc)
Lyndsey Waters, Shop steward Islington Unison (pc)
Susan Hunt, Member, Unison Trafford Unison (pc)
Teresa Pursall, Unison Community, Unison (pc)
Janine Broderick, Deputy Branch Secretary, Birmingham Unison
(pc)
Sue Talbot, Wakefield LG Unison (pc)
Naomi Junnor, International officer, Steward, Equalities
officer, Glasgow City Branch Unison (pc)
Ben Hills, Steward University of Leeds Unison (pc)
Tim O’Dell, Shop steward, Lambeth Unison (pc)
Tom Davies, Branch Rep University
of Leeds Unison (pc)
Sam Strudwick, retired health worker Barts health Unison
(pc)
Julie Simmons, Retired members officer pc, Oxfordshire
Health Unison (pc)
Pamela Jefferies, Retired
Branch Secretary, Local Government, UNISON (pc)
Michael Calvert, Deputy
Branch Secretary, Islington UNISON LG Branch (pc)
Margaret Ball, Retired Member, Unison Bournemouth University (pc)
David Fellows, Chair East Sussex Area Branch, Retired
Members Section UNISON (pc)
Vernetta O'Loughlin, Equalities Officer, Trafford
Metropolitan Unison LG (pc)
Amina Idrees Steward, Birmingham and Solihull Unison (pc)
Khansa Bibi, Unison (pc)
Carol Lewis, BCP, Unison (Retired) (pc)
Sjoerd Smit, Member LE/7098L Unite
Les Storey, Retired member, Unite Bristol
Jon Farley, Member Unite Community Leeds, Wakefield and York
Katrina Mayer, Unite
Community Leeds & Wakefield
Stephen Johnston, Treasurer, Unite Community Leeds Wakefield
and York
James Hignett, Member Luton
Retired Branch, Unite
Edward Potter, Member Unite
Jane Creagh-Osborne Unite Community Cornwall
Michael Quinn, Member Unite
Hillel Fridman, None, Community Unite
Janet Matthews, Branch Activist Teesside and Durham Community Unite
Alan Rowland, Member West
Wales, Unite
Heather Falconer, Member, Unite Community Swansea
Danny Gazzi, GLAB Community, UNITE
Phil de Souza, Unite Community South West
David Eatock, Member 6/389 Unite
Maggie Palmer Branch
Chair, SLAM NHS Unite Branch, UNITE
Kati Silverberg, Member NW389 Unite
David Vickers, Member NW/70401 Unite
Shivakaran Sivanathan, Rank and file, LE/00019 Unite
Patricia Baron, Retired
Unite
Emma Taylor-Beal, Member South East Unite
Caroline Conway, Bradford Unite Community Branch
Alison Davy, Member, UNITE COMMUNITY
Debra Parker, member Unite
R Jounson, Member, Haringey and Barnet, Unite
Kathryn Johnson, Delegate to Hackney Trades Council, LE/00014 Unite
Dave Owen, Member, LE/RM004 Unite
Steve McKenzie, Unite member Greenwich Lewisham and Bexley Community branch Unite
Hazel Potter, Unite
Hugh Wallis, UNITE
Coral Jones, Chair Doctors in Unite
Jenny Thornley, Retired member, Unite
Sue Millman, Unite
Jessica Leschnikoff, Member, Unite Community
Cathy Crowther, Unite Community Member, Unite NE
Bill Kaye, Barnet and Harringay unite Community branch
Carmen Williams, Member,
Beds & Herts, Unite
Mary Edmondson, Member, Doctors in Unite
Sue Ghany, Unite Member, Retired members, Unite
David Rhodes, Treasurer, Unite Community West Dorset
Clare Fermont, Unite Community branch, Hackney
Anne Mitchell, Member South
Coast 6246 Unite
Oscar Belmonte, Ordinary Member, UNITE Branch SE/6246
Craig Logan, Unite Community in Cheshire and Chester
Sandra Rowland, West Wales Unite
Susan Price, Member Unite Leeds Wakefield York Community
Chris Kirk, Member, Unite Community S London Unite
Mick Calvert, Branch Secretary, Huddersfield Unite Community
David Heywood, Retired members branch London and Eastern Unite
Dave Herbert, GLAB community UNITE
Janet Matthews, Branch Activist Teesside and Durham Branch Unite Community
Anthony Shaw, Yorkshire and Humberside, Unite Community
Ann Brandon, Member, Greenwich & Lewisham Unite Community
Dilys Beaumont, Member, Leeds, Wakefield and York branch, Unite
Community
Maureen Purcell, Unite Community
Barry Ewart, Member and Activist, Leeds Wakefield York Unite Community
Liz Henton, Member, Hackney and Islington, Unite community
Jenni Ford, member North West Unite Community
Kate Hunter, Member Berks, Oxon & Bucks Unite Community
Jackie Lederer, Branch Secretary, Portsmouth and District
Unite Community Branch
Tracey Farrar, Member West Yorkshire Unite Community
Jane Samson, Member UK South West Unite Community
Carol Mills, Unite Community member Sussex Coast Unite
Community
Ranil Hewavisenti, Barnet & Haringey, Unite Community
Dave, Sherry, Branch vice chair, Glasgow Unite SC/164/RM
Branch, Unite Scotland
Ellen Graubart, Ordinary member, Unite Community SE, Unite
the Union
Mark Jones, Member Community, Unite the Union
Linda Heiden, Joint deputy secretary, Lambeth &
Southwark Unite Community
Amina Mangera, Equalities Officer, Greenwich Lewisham and
Bexley Unite Community
Mary Littlefield, Branch Secretary, Unite Community Norfolk
Branch
Keith Henderson, Branch Secretary,l Unite LE/107 London
Security and Engineering Branch
Dr E. Okokon Unite
in Health (Retired) National & Regional ISC
London & Eastern Unite & Health Sector Rep
Anna Livingstone, Branch Officer (treasurer) Unite, Member
BMA, Barts Health Unite LE/7384L and Tower Hamlets BMA
Paul Lefley, Member, Haringey, UNITE
M Murpy, Branch sec, Unite comm Humber
Sasha Simic, Shop Steward, USDAW C133 Central Books branch
Frances Mills
Julie Hearn, UCU NEC, Lancaster UCU Co-president, Equality
Officer
Simon Hester, Chair Hastings & District Trades Union
Council
Layla Birt
Aysha Khan
Florence Winterflood
Konstantina Papaioannou
Nick Grant, NEU life member. Past NUT NEC member
Dilek Ansal, Primary teacher
Iona Rollo, School rep NEU Croydon
James Jackson, Unite Community