Members of the Unite union who support Palestine have been furious at the union’s general secretary Sharon Graham, not just for her failure to support Palestine but for her repeated efforts to quell support among others. The union’s SE/6246 branch, which has publicly condemned Graham on the issue, has arranged a public meeting with an array of leading speakers this Sunday evening at 6pm:
Sharon Graham has been alleged by union insiders to have:
- banned Unite officials and national banners from pro-Gaza protests
- banned and smeared films and books exposing the ‘Labour antisemitism’ scam, including a book by Asa Winstanley, one of the speakers at Sunday’s event
- placed an official under investigation who refused to cancel a Palestine solidarity fringe event at Labour’s 2023 annual conference
- told her chief of staff to threaten a soon-to-retire official with the loss of a pension bonus if he did not soften his support for Palestinians
Her supporters prevented debate and votes on Gaza at a meeting of the union’s elected executive in March.
Graham also launched an ‘extraordinary’ attack on anti-genocide campaigners, making clear that she and Unite will put jobs above preventing genocide.
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Fair play to those unite members attending.
Unless, of course, they’re unwilling to disaffiliate completely from smarmerism.
In which case, they’re hypocrites, so fook em.
Deeply disturbing article here:
https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1831111211859001386
Christ!! 😨
“I think most jewish israelis would” (“press the button”).
If that’s genuinely the case, they can have ZERO complaints about antisemitism.
If Palestininan People ever said anything like those two losers, MSM would milk that until the cows come home. How totally and utterly disgusting.
I wouldn’t restrict it to Palestinians, Sabine.
Any UK (and some EU states) ‘goy’ mentioning that about jews would be doing a lot longer a stretch than the other way about. (Who, in all likelihood, would be bound over, at most).
Meanwhile, Richard Medhurst deconstructs a recent interview with Trumps son-in-law, Jarad Kushner, on clearing Gaza of its people to enable the building of colonialist water front properties and steal their resources: