W latach 80 - tych, po wprowadzeniu stanu wojennego opozycja w Polsce w tym związek zawodowy Solidarność wspierane były - między innymi - przez amerykańskie związki zawodowe AFL - CIO. Skrót ten wrył mi się w pamięć ,wielokrotnie go słyszałem w kontekście jak wyżej w audycjach BBC i Głosu Ameryki. Obecnie AFL - CIO wspiera Palestyńczyków w walce z izraelskimi zbrodniami, rasizmem i apartheidem skierowanym przeciwko nim. Podobnie jak nauczyciele z Seattle oraz 680 autorytetów intelektualnych i politycznych z całego świata, którzy wystąpili ze stosowną petycją do prezydenta Bidena. Zainteresowanych problemem - odsyłam do podlinkowanych materiałów.

www.palest(*)nce-against-israeli-apartheid/
mondoweiss(*)olice-partnership-with-israel/
www.palest(*)-to-uphold-palestinian-rights/

"Vermont State Labour Council has announced joining an alliance of Labor for Palestine which stands against “Israeli apartheid,” raising the number of American labor bodies which joined this alliance to 15.“Our affiliate Vermont State Labor Council AFL-CIO joins its counterpart at the Connecticut Labor Council in standing against Israeli apartheid,” the council said in a statement posted on Facebook.
“This should come as no surprise,” it said, citing its leadership’s “reputation of standing on the right side of history and embracing rank-and-file unionism.”

"The Seattle Education Association (SEA) has passed a resolution expressing solidarity with Palestine and endorsing the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement (BDS). The resolution also demands an end to collaboration between the Seattle Police Department and Israeli military.
“The SEA leadership will use all the existing means of communication (email, Facebook, texts, and any other social media the union uses) to encourage all SEA members and community allies to learn about these issues and to encourage people in their communities to stand in solidarity with unions and oppressed people in Palestine,” declares the resolution.
“As a Jewish Educator, I am proud to be a member of SEA,” Seattle educator and union member Emma Klein told Mondoweiss in a statement. “Our Representative Assembly took a bold, vocal stand against injustice from Seattle to Palestine and called attention to the inexcusable relationship between Seattle Police and Israeli military and police."


"More than 680 global leaders and intellectuals in the fields of science, academia, civil society, faith etcetera have urged US President Joe Biden to honor his commitments toward protecting the human rights of the Palestinians.In an open letter published on Thursday, the group called on the US President to put “human rights at the center of US foreign policy”.
Signatories include Palestinian NGOs, Christian Aid, former Irish President Mary Robinson, expatriate Israeli academic Ilan Pappe, US academic Noam Chomsky, Israel’s former Attorney General Michael Ben-Yair, and former Knesset speaker Avraham Burg, among others."