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United Auto Workers Reject Boycott of Israel
The Tower ^ | 12/17/15 | Tower Staff

Posted on 12/18/2015 6:50:50 AM PST by jalisco555

The United Auto Workers (UAW), one of the largest unions in the United States, has struck down a vote by a local chapter to join the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.

UAW Local 2865, which represents student workers on University of California campuses, had voted last year to join the BDS movement. The UAW International Executive Board reversed that on Tuesday, stating its “unanimous belief” that BDS “espouses discrimination and vilification against Israelis and UAW members who are of Jewish lineage.”

Informed Grads, a University of California student group whose appeal of the boycott resolution was accepted by UAW International, praised the union for its “landmark decision” rejecting the “one-sided, counterproductive BDS referendum that limits academic freedom and promotes discrimination based on national origin.”

“The anti-Semitism and active promotion of hate that ran rampant throughout this BDS campaign cannot and must not be tolerated,” said Informed Grads member Karra Greenberg. “We applaud UAW International for taking a firm position against BDS and discrimination based on religion or national origin.” “We are very pleased by United Auto Workers International Union’s forceful rejection of BDS, which sets a powerful precedent for other labor unions and national organizations,” added Scott Edelman, a lawyer representing Informed Grads in its appeal.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; US: California
KEYWORDS: bds; israel; uaw
Good for them. A shame that such a move is even necessary.
1 posted on 12/18/2015 6:50:50 AM PST by jalisco555
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To: jalisco555

And on a side note, how in the world did those gibberish characters end up in the excerpt?


2 posted on 12/18/2015 6:51:36 AM PST by jalisco555 ("In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act". George Orwell.)
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To: jalisco555

God Bless the United Auto Workers.


3 posted on 12/18/2015 6:52:10 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: jalisco555

Go UAW.


4 posted on 12/18/2015 6:53:53 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: jalisco555

Michigan has become pretty Israel friendly under Rick Snyder. He’s a RINO but has been a solid friend of Israel and aided a lot of business between Michigan companies and Israel.


5 posted on 12/18/2015 6:54:15 AM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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🏍¥£€*,,!


6 posted on 12/18/2015 6:59:35 AM PST by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
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To: jalisco555

For several months there have been struggles with encoding of pages/text on FR, with many browsers/users reporting the presence of those characters and/or standard US characters like apostrophies, quotation marks, etc. being replaced by ‘high ASCII’ characters.

Supposedly the server admins are on it.


7 posted on 12/18/2015 6:59:56 AM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: jalisco555
And on a side note, how in the world did those gibberish characters end up in the excerpt?

They're everywhere, they're everywhere!

Even when you cut & paste from an FR Post which shows proper quotation marks, rather than "gibberish".

It appears that FR got a seriously defective update to their HTML software. Any IT geeks with an idea as to the cause?

8 posted on 12/18/2015 7:00:18 AM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: kinsman redeemer
🏍¥£€*,,!

Precisely what I said too!

9 posted on 12/18/2015 7:01:37 AM PST by jalisco555 ("In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act". George Orwell.)
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To: cripplecreek
Rick Snyder. Hes a RINO

Compared to the last governor of MI he looks like Attila the Hun.

10 posted on 12/18/2015 7:10:28 AM PST by Slyfox (Ted Cruz does not need the presidency - the presidency needs Ted Cruz)
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Why the hell would even the left think that a bunch of blue-collar guys in an automobile plant would remotely want to boycott Israel?


11 posted on 12/18/2015 7:15:03 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: jalisco555
And on a side note, how in the world did those gibberish characters end up in the excerpt?

I don't know why the show up but they do whenever an apostrophe or quotation marks are used. To avoid them you can Preview your post. It will show the gibberish. Delete the Gibberish and replace with the appropriate marks and it will post properly.

12 posted on 12/18/2015 7:18:23 AM PST by pgkdan (But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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“student workers”
That explains it.


13 posted on 12/18/2015 7:21:33 AM PST by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: VanDeKoik
Why the hell would even the left think that a bunch of blue-collar guys in an automobile plant would remotely want to boycott Israel?

Sure, sometimes unions over-reach, and get greedy. But the average rank-and-file union guy is sensible, and not a leftie. He's not a Goldwater-type conservative, more likely he's a JFK-type conservative. Reagan was able to reach those guys. Trump seems to be doing the same thing now. There's a lesson there for the GOP.

14 posted on 12/18/2015 7:24:13 AM PST by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: jalisco555

Ford CEO Mark Fields is Jewish. The UAW Ford guys are a cut above IMHO, they know they are high cotton, I am sure the Union Reps and higher ups get it too. FWIW, Mulally’s “One Ford” plan was a modification of what Mark Fields gave him.


15 posted on 12/18/2015 7:24:17 AM PST by taildragger (Not my Monkey, not my Circus...)
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I guess I’ll keep my tiny bit of Ford stock.


16 posted on 12/18/2015 7:38:59 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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United Auto Workers Reject Boycott of Israel

After a lifetime of antipathy towards unions generally, and UAW in particular, I may need to reconsider...

17 posted on 12/18/2015 8:00:07 AM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW! evil ignorant stupid or crazy-doesn't matter!)
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To: relictele
Supposedly the server admins are on it.

Must be Obamabots.
After 7 years, they'll still be "working on it!"

18 posted on 12/18/2015 8:03:18 AM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW! evil ignorant stupid or crazy-doesn't matter!)
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To: VanDeKoik

“Why the hell would even the left think that a bunch of blue-collar guys in an automobile plant would remotely want to boycott Israel?”

Because the UAW is in bed with the Democratic party?


19 posted on 12/18/2015 9:07:25 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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