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The British Trade Union Movement, Israel, and Boycotts
(Institute for Global Jewish Affairs) Ronnie Fraser - Over the past thirty years the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and member unions have regularly adopted resolutions containing anti-Israeli and pro-Palestinian rhetoric. At its 2010 Congress the TUC decided to strengthen ties with the Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) and reinforce its boycotts, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. The majority of the motions on Palestine that are submitted to annual union conferences in the UK tend not to represent the views of the general membership, but instead the political positions of activists who are usually ideologues. The writer, director of the Academic Friends of Israel, which he founded in 2002, is a doctoral student at Royal Holloway College in London.