The recent solidarity visit of the ITUC to Israel shamefully confirmed the unacceptable position, stance, and role of the yellow unions in the Palestinian issue.
The ITUC General Secretary met with Israeli President Yitzhak Herzog, political leaders, and Histadrut, reiterating the ITUC equal distance stance that equates the perpetrators with the victims which constitutes an unacceptable political backing and support for Israel and the conducted crimes in Palestine.
The ITUC during its solidarity visit to Israel “forgot” to say a single word for the decades-long occupation, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and daily crimes conducted by Israel in Palestine, with the provocative tolerance and support of the USA, the EU, and their allies. The ITUC is once again irreversibly exposed before the eyes of the workers.
We demand an immediate and unconditional stop of the genocide in Palestine and an end to all the military campaigns and attacks of the Israeli murderous state, the implementation of its international legal obligations in occupied Palestinian land and to immediately address the life-threatening conditions faced by the Palestinians.
We reiterate that the crucial precondition to secure and consolidate peace in the wider Middle East is to immediately end the Israeli occupation and settlements in the occupied Arab territories, guarantee the right of return for the refugees, and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.
