This motion will be debated next weekend at the National Council meeting of the National Tertiary Education Union.
The NTEU recognises and builds upon the history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Palestinian solidarity in their struggles against settler-colonial violence.
This spirit of solidarity is a central pillar of trade unionism. As academic institutions have caused harm to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, so too do they cause harm to Palestinian
people.
The NTEU stands against settler-colonial violence and land theft in Australia, Palestine, and everywhere
In recent years, several leading international human rights organisations, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the International Commission of Jurists, have
confirmed what Palestinian academics and organisations have said for decades: Israel is committing the crime against humanity of apartheid, as defined by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
This finding is echoed by the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School, Israel-based human rights organisations B’Tselem and Yesh Din, as well as the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories.
The NTEU recognises the urgency of international solidarity in ending the apartheid system and settler-colonial control to which Israel has subjected Palestinians for more than seven decades.
Israeli academic institutions are complicit in the violation of Palestinian rights through—but not limited to—financial ties and collaboration with the Israeli army and arms manufacturers.
Read about this vicious attempt to railroad the NTEU on Do Better On Palestine.
[Editor: Here is the result (not good) ]