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

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  • 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

    ALAA-UAW 2325

    Asheville Food and Beverage United

    Bellingham Education

    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

    Palestine Anti-Repression Network

    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

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