URGENT APPEAL FROM THE PALESTINIAN POSTAL SERVICES WORKERS UNION TO US TRADE UNIONS AND LABOR FEDERATIONS

Today in Idhna—as across the West Bank, Gaza, and all of historic Palestine—life for Palestinians is a living nightmare. Part of an accelerated effort to “annex” the West Bank to the Israeli state and to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian population there, the small village just south of the city of Al-Khalil (Hebron) is daily invaded and terrorized by settlers, in full view and with the support of the Israeli Occupation Forces. Villagers such as our union sibling Imad Temeiza are daily assaulted, their properties are vandalized, their livestock are killed, and their crops are burnt. Life has become impossible for Palestinians in the West Bank, as they struggle simply to survive.

On the 10th of August, 2026, Imad’s union, the Palestinian Postal Services Workers Union (PPSWU), issued an emergency appeal to trade unions and labor federations around the world to ACT NOW against escalating Zionist settler-colonial violence. The current wave of Israeli state violence–aided and abetted by the government of the United States–is the culmination of what Palestinian historian Rashid Khalidi has called the “hundred years’ war on Palestine.” It is part of the same machine of racism, ethnic cleansing, war, and genocide terrorizing workers and oppressed people around the world, from Palestine, to Iran and Lebanon, to Venezuela, to ICE death camps here at home.

Labor for Palestine National Network and the Coalition for Action in Higher Education stand in solidarity with Imad and the PPSWU. We call on all US labor bodies to endorse the PPSWU emergency appeal. Further, we call on US labor to respect the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) picket line by:

 

• Uniting against genocide, settler colonialism, and occupation
• Divesting from genocide, settler colonialism, and occupation
• Severing ties with Israel’s racist labor federation, the Histadrut and its US mouthpiece, the Jewish Labor Committee
• Following the example of the United Auto Workers (UAW), which recently divested from Israel Bonds
• Joining ILWU West Coast dockers, and workers around the world who refuse to build or transport weapons destined for Israel
• Materially supporting Palestinian workers

 

An Injury to Palestine Is An Injury to All!

Signatories (list in formation):

73 for Palestine

ACT-UAW Local 7902

AFT Local 6516

Asheville Food and Beverage United

California Muslims and Friends Phonebank

Coalition for Action in Higher Education

Coffee Workers Coalition

Educators for Palestine - NEA Caucus

Engineers Against Apartheid

Labor for Palestine National Network

Labor for Palestine--Los Angeles, Orange County, Inland Empire

Michigan Coalition Against Genocide

Mideast Just Peace

MTA Rank and File for Palestine

Musicians Against Genocide

New Day at USPS

NYC Workers for Palestine

Palestinian Youth Movement

Peace Nick

Queer Folk®, Inc.

Roman Catholic Woman Priest

Trader Joe's United

UAW Labor for Palestine

UPTE Members for Palestine

YALL-Young Active Labor Leaders