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October 15, 2010       Share:    

Source: http://www.tuliponline.org/?p=2649&utm_source=BUYcott+Israel+List&utm_campaign=e958fca333-aussie_BDS_101012&utm_medium=email

Standing Up to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement

(TULIP-Trade Unions Linking Israel and Palestine) Eric Lee - Paul Howes, National Secretary of the Australian Workers' Union, told the Zionist Federation of Australia conference in Melbourne on Sunday: "We must explain that the BDS movement, as it relates to the Palestinian struggle, is not really a home-grown initiative. Today's international anti-Israel boycott movement is largely an initiative imposed on the Palestinian body politic by outside agitators who run so-called solidarity groups. These solidarity groups have little or no institutional connections or support from within the territories - especially not the West Bank....We need to be smart, nuanced, understand the strategy of the international BDSers - and act to suck the wind out of their effort."

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