Trade unionists must stand with Palestine
As trade unionists in Britain we wish to respond to the urgent call for solidarity issued by Palestinian trade unions. 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.”

The call further states:

“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.

Statement initiated by MENA Solidarity Network. Signatures will be published on www.menasolidaritynetwork.com Please email gazatustatement@gmail.com with any queries or to correct any errors.

Signatories (as of 30.10.23):

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              

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