The Israeli Histadrut, The AFL-CIO, Zionism & Labor Imperialism With Carol Lang

CUNY Professor and member of AFT PSC Carol Lang looks at the Histadrut and whether it is a labor union or an arm of the Israeli State?
She outlines Israel and the Histadrut's collaboration with AFL-CIO internationally and how the AFL-CIO Zionist leadership is blocking resolutions from US unions in solidarity with the Palestinians.
This presentation was made at the 6/11/22 conference of the Labor Education Project On AFL-CIO
International Operations that was held conjunction with the 2022 AFL-CIO convention in Philadelphia.

Additional media:
The Israeli Histadrut, Zionism, The AFL-CIO & Imperialism With Carol Lang
https://youtu.be/HLtLDS0FbSE
https://electronicintifada.net/content/histadrut-israels-racist-trade-union/8121
2015 resolution by the CT Machinists
http://www.thestruggle.org/bds%20resolution%20on%20palestine%20ct%20afl-cio%20oct%2029%202015.pdf
Organized labor was among the earliest investors in Israel bonds.
https://www.israelbonds.com/News-Events/The-Enterprise-that-Helped-Build-Israel-Turns-70/An-Impressive-Legacy-of-Achievement.aspx
AFL-CIO, Imperialism, Zionism and The Palestinians
https://youtu.be/o_Eo_ZTuJzM
U.S. Unions Are Voicing Unprecedented Support for Palestine
https://inthesetimes.com/article/palestine-israel-labor-unions-afl-cio-aft-bds-gaza
Palestinian Workers, Human Rights, US Labor, Zionists And How The Zionists Helped The Nazis
https://youtu.be/MTu5D39yIK0
The ITUC and Global Union Federations condemn the designation by Israel of six Palestinian human rights groups as terrorist organisations.
Israel’s designation of Palestinian human rights groups as terrorists is outrageous
https://www.ituc-csi.org/Israel-Palestinian-human-rights
Hebron: Palestinian photojournalist looses sight of one eye by Israeli military
https://www.ifj.org/media-centre/news/detail/category/press-freedom/article/hebron-palestinian-photojournalist-looses-sight-of-one-eye-by-israeli-military.html
Organized labor was among the earliest investors in Israel bonds.
https://www.israelbonds.com/News-Events/The-Enterprise-that-Helped-Build-Israel-Turns-70/An-Impressive-Legacy-of-Achievement.aspx
Zionism & The Firing Of UK University of Bristol Sociologist David Miller
https://youtu.be/I8MWxfTYE04
Zionist Attacks On SFSU AMED Arab & Muslim Ethnicities & Diasporas Program, The CFA & Labor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X3uf0pozf4&t=327s
Rally Demands Justice For SFSU Professor Rabab Abdulhadi, Palestinian Students & Ed Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_vQivvbXX4&t=22s
Palestinian Workers, Human Rights, US Labor, Zionists And How The Zionists Helped The Nazis
https://youtu.be/MTu5D39yIK0
SF Community Labor Rally Defends Palestinian Professor Rabab Abdulhadi Against Zionist Lawsuit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzszkB1fGT4&t=8s
https://www.calfac.org/item/resolution-defense-academic-freedom-professor-abdulhadi-0
http://sflaborcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/02-12-18RESOLUTION-IN-DEFENSE-OF-ACADEMIC-FREEDOM-FOR-PROFESSOR-ABDULHADI.pdf
Rally Demands Justice For SFSU Professor Rabab Abdulhadi, Palestinian Students & Ed Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_vQivvbXX4&t=22s
SF Community Labor Rally Defends Palestinian Professor Rabab Abdulhadi Against Zionist Lawsuit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzszkB1fGT4&t=8s
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Israeli LP Michaeli meets US labor leaders AFL-CIO Pres Schuler & AFT Pres Weingarten in bid to improve ties with progressives
The meeting was an opportunity to renew ties between Israel's Labor Party and the labor movement in the US at a time when progressives are becoming increasingly influential in the Democratic Party.
s://http://www.jpost.com/israel-news/labor-chairwoman-merav-michaeli-meets-us-labor-movement-leader-680554
By GIL HOFFMAN SEPTEMBER 28, 2021 21:06
Labor leader Merav Michaeli (center) meets in Washington on Monday with Liz Shuler (left), the president of the AFL-CIO and Randi Weingarten (right), the president of the American Federation of Teachers.
(photo credit: AFL-CIO)
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Labor Party chairwoman Merav Michaeli met in Washington on Monday with Liz Shuler, the president of the AFL-CIO, an umbrella group for 56 unions with 12.5 million members.
The meeting was an opportunity to renew ties between the Israeli Labor Party and the labor movement in the US at a time when progressives are becoming increasingly influential in the Democratic Party.
“Labor’s ties with social-democratic organizations around the world are based on the values of equality, a just economy, protecting workers’ rights and pursuing peace,” Michaeli said. “Our strong ties will lead to diplomatic progress, strengthening our bond with the US and creating a new reality in which the social-democratic vision will lead the State of Israel.”
The meeting was initiated by Michaeli’s close friend Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers.
Michaeli and her partner, comedian Lior Schleien, will return to Israel soon, following six weeks in the United States, where their son, Uri, was delivered by a surrogate mother. Michaeli remained in the US to take care of the boy while the Knesset was on recess and participated in meetings virtually.
Weingarten is the wife of Sharon Kleinbaum, the rabbi of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, an LGBT synagogue in New York with many families that have been expanded with the help of surrogates. Labor officials declined to comment on whether Kleinbaum helped Michaeli through the process.
By GIL HOFFMAN SEPTEMBER 28, 2021 21:06
Labor leader Merav Michaeli (center) meets in Washington on Monday with Liz Shuler (left), the president of the AFL-CIO and Randi Weingarten (right), the president of the American Federation of Teachers.
(photo credit: AFL-CIO)
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Labor Party chairwoman Merav Michaeli met in Washington on Monday with Liz Shuler, the president of the AFL-CIO, an umbrella group for 56 unions with 12.5 million members.
The meeting was an opportunity to renew ties between the Israeli Labor Party and the labor movement in the US at a time when progressives are becoming increasingly influential in the Democratic Party.
“Labor’s ties with social-democratic organizations around the world are based on the values of equality, a just economy, protecting workers’ rights and pursuing peace,” Michaeli said. “Our strong ties will lead to diplomatic progress, strengthening our bond with the US and creating a new reality in which the social-democratic vision will lead the State of Israel.”
The meeting was initiated by Michaeli’s close friend Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers.
Michaeli and her partner, comedian Lior Schleien, will return to Israel soon, following six weeks in the United States, where their son, Uri, was delivered by a surrogate mother. Michaeli remained in the US to take care of the boy while the Knesset was on recess and participated in meetings virtually.
Weingarten is the wife of Sharon Kleinbaum, the rabbi of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, an LGBT synagogue in New York with many families that have been expanded with the help of surrogates. Labor officials declined to comment on whether Kleinbaum helped Michaeli through the process.
Israeli Labor Party Leader Michaeli: No one thinks half a million settlers will be evacuated
Michaeli clarified that her party believes that Israel should retain the settlement blocs in any final status two-state resolution of the conflict.
“It is important to end the drama in Judea and Samaria and to continue to the next phase so we can develop the Zionist vision,” Michaeli said, for as long the conflict continues, the Zionist vision is in danger.”
https://www.jpost.com/.../labor-party-head-no-one-thinks...
By TOVAH LAZAROFF MARCH 9, 2021 09:05
LABOR PARTY leader Merav Michaeli addresses a news conference in Tel Aviv earlier this month.
(photo credit: AVSHALOM SASSONI/FLASH90)
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Labor Party leader Merav Michaeli dismissed the idea of evacuating half-a-million setters as she clarified that her center-left party did not believe that Israel should return to its pre-1967 armistice lines.
“No one thinks that half-a-million Israelis will be evacuated from Judea and Samaria,” Michaeli said, when she spoke Monday at a virtual conference, “the silent war,” sponsored by the Makor Rishon newspaper.
The conference focused on the struggle between Israelis and Palestinians for control of Area C of the West Bank, which is under IDF civilian and military control. All settlements are located in that region of Judea and Samaria.
Michaeli clarified that her party believes that Israel should retain the settlement blocs in any final status two-state resolution of the conflict. She said that an agreement would likely include a land swap for 4% of Area C territory.
The Labor Party leader did not explicitly state that she believed that the isolated settlements should be evacuated in favor of a peace deal with the Palestinians, but the Labor Party supports such a step.
Instead, she spoke of the importance of a two-state resolution to the conflict, a move that many of the mostly right-wing participants in the conference object to.
Michaeli said that a two-state solution and the creation of permanent borders for both states was critical to ensuring Israel’s future security.
“I don’t want to evacuate anyone with force,” Michaeli said. The topic of evacuation is painful, she added.
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“I am not interested in evacuation. I have no ideology of evacuation, I don’t want to cause harm on top of harm, I want to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to create a border for the state of Israel,” Michaeli said, a border of peace between Israel and a future Palestinian state.
“There is no such thing as a nation without borders. Every nation has to know where it begins and where it ends and what it is defending,” Michaeli said. This has to be the case in the West Bank as well, she added.
Michaeli suggested entering into negotiations with the Palestinians, within a process that would include Arab countries such as Egypt and Jordan as well as those states which have normalized ties with Israel under the rubric of the Abraham Accords, and possibly Saudi Arabia.
“It is important to end the drama in Judea and Samaria and to continue to the next phase so we can develop the Zionist vision,” Michaeli said, for as long the conflict continues, the Zionist vision is in danger.”
She specifically spoke against the unauthorized settler outposts, which the right-wing parties have pushed the government to legalize, saying it is important not to let the outposts get in the way of resolving the conflict.
She also rejected claims by right-wing politicians that Israel has an inherent right to retain Area C of the West Bank and to apply sovereignty to it.
Most of Area C is slated to be included within the final borders of a future Palestinian state, Michaeli said, adding that over 50% of it was privately owned by Palestinians.
She noted that Israel has never annexed the West Bank settlements, though “there are those who want to apply sovereignty. But this has not happened.” Israel last year suspended plans to annex West Bank settlements in favor of normalization deals with four Arab states.
But when Transportation Minister Miri Regev from the Likud Party spoke at the conference, she said that annexation was still on the table.
“We are advancing settlements in Judea and Samaria. We are advancing de facto sovereignty in the territory of Judea and Samaria. Sovereignty is very much on the table,” Regev said, adding that such a move was in Israel’s national and security interest.