Resolution voted by 17 percent of the union members. New York's Mayor de Blasio was elected by 18 percent of New York City voters. One supporter of resolution stated that Israel is "the far more powerful country." There are about a 1.2 billion Muslims, in 49 Muslim dominated countries who want to destroy Israel a nation of about 8.2 million. Is this about the majority trying to destroy a minority, and preventing the minority from defending itself?
[From article]
A local branch of the United Auto Workers has become the first U.S. labor organization to join the international movement to boycott Israel, according to liberal groups.
UAW Local 2865, which represents teaching assistants at the University of California, voted to join it on Dec. 4, saying that Israel was engaging in "ongoing human rights violations" against the Palestinians.
A total of 66 percent of the members backed joining the movement, which supporters call "Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel." Only 2,168 members participated in the Dec. 4 vote, a small fraction of Local 2865's reported 13,000 members.
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there is something about the way the Israeli government has acted about this all that has been an injustice, especially since they are the far more powerful country," Skylar Covich, a University of California-Santa Barbara graduate student and Local 2865 officer, told the liberal magazine In These Times.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/uaw-teachers-branch-joins-boycott-of-israel/article/2558031
UAW teachers branch joins boycott of Israel
BY SEAN HIGGINS
DECEMBER 31, 2014 | 5:00 AM
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