Motion 111
Palestinian Solidarity
“That this Congress deplores the genocide and ethnic cleansing being carried out in Palestine by the apartheid Israeli Government and the support from UK and other western Governments. It recognises worldwide calls for an immediate ceasefire in response to these horrendous war crimes, such as:
• Deliberate targeting of civilians;
• Bombing of hospitals and schools;
• Targeting of churches and mosques;
• Denying access to power, food, and water to the civilian population; and
• Imprisonment of men, women and children without trial.
“Congress notes the STUC’s support for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against the Israeli Government and its endorsement of the Time to Divest campaign, which has coalesced civil society groups - including trade unions - to scrutinise public pension funds investments in Israeli, British, and multinational companies complicit in the atrocities in Gaza and Occupied Palestine and achieve subsequent divestment.
“Congress therefore calls on the General Council to campaign for:
• An immediate, unconditional, and permanent ceasefire;
• An international campaign to end apartheid;
• An end to Scottish public funding of companies complicit in Israeli Government’s apartheid;
• The ending of trade between Scotland and Israel which sustains illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank;
• The suspending of any diplomatic relations between Scotland and Israel; and
• An immediate international investigation into the Israeli Government’s war crimes against the people of Palestine.
“Congress further calls on the General Council:
• To continue to support the Time to Divest campaign across Scotland and strengthen demands that pension funds divest from companies complicit in Israeli Government atrocities;
• To encourage local public sector worker trade union branches to support Time to Divest; and
• To demand the Lothian Pension Fund divests from the over £160 million worth of shares in four companies (Lockheed Martin Corp., Albemarle Corp., Caterpillar Inc. and Siemens AG) complicit in said atrocities.”
Mover: Edinburgh Trades Union Council
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