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(UK) Palestine Action targets another firm, CDW, directly profiting from Israel's genocide
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2024/02/06/c...erborough/
EXCERPTS: Activists from Palestine Action have anonymously targeted the Peterborough offices of CDW, tech suppliers for Israel’s biggest weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems. Windows were shattered and the site was covered in red paint, symbolising the bloodshed of the Palestinian people.
[...] Since 7 October, Israel has killed over 27,000 Palestinians, injured more than 66,000, and displaced the majority of people in Gaza. Elbit Systems supply the majority of Israel’s military drone fleet, land-based equipment, bullets, munitions, and missiles. Their weaponry is often marketed as “battle-tested”, after it’s deployed and experimented on the people of Gaza and before it’s sold on to other regimes across the world. The genocide of Gaza would not be possible without Elbit’s weaponry and those who facilitate and profit from their deadly business.
After similar actions, four other companies have ended their association with Elbit’s deadly trade in the past two months. These include Elbit’s weapons transporters Kuehne + Nagel...... (MORE - missing details)
UK Jewish civil rights groups denounce ruling vindicating disgraced anti-zionist professor David Miller
https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/02/06/uk...id-miller/
INTRO: Jewish civil rights groups in the UK on Monday expressed disappointment in a government agency’s ruling that University of Bristol lacked standing to fire sociologist David Miller, an extreme anti-Zionist who was accused of harassing Jewish students and promoting antisemitic tropes.
The decision was rendered by a Bristol-based Employment Tribunal, one of a consortium of agencies which the UK government describes as independent arbitrators of disputes over employment law.
The agency ruled that Miller’s “anti-Zionist beliefs qualified as a philosophical belief and as a protected characteristic” and that “the relationship between [Miller] and the university was not so damaged that trust and confidence was undermined to the extent that the employer should no longer be required to retain [Miller] in employment.” It added, however, that Miller’s “own actions” prompted his firing, citing unbecoming social media activity.
University of Bristol fired Miller in Oct. 2022 after a deluge of incidents and numerous complaints about his conduct in the classroom and on social media. In the months leading up to his dismissal, Miller called for the “end of Zionism” during a lecture and spread conspiracies about British Jewish students, calling them an arm of Israeli intelligence.
The conduct had carried on for years, however. In 2018, he castigated Jewish students for expressing discomfort with his employment at the university, denigrating their fears about his statements and rising antisemitism across the UK as “propaganda which they have been schooled with.”
The professor’s remarks have outraged British Jews and non-Jews, drawing condemnations from the Board of Deputies of British Jews and from the All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism, a collection of MPs who committed to eradicating antisemitism from public life. In a letter to University of Bristol Vice Chancellor Brady, the MPs charged that Miller had “incited hatred” against Jewish students on campus harmed the university’s reputation... (MORE - details)
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2024/02/06/c...erborough/
EXCERPTS: Activists from Palestine Action have anonymously targeted the Peterborough offices of CDW, tech suppliers for Israel’s biggest weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems. Windows were shattered and the site was covered in red paint, symbolising the bloodshed of the Palestinian people.
[...] Since 7 October, Israel has killed over 27,000 Palestinians, injured more than 66,000, and displaced the majority of people in Gaza. Elbit Systems supply the majority of Israel’s military drone fleet, land-based equipment, bullets, munitions, and missiles. Their weaponry is often marketed as “battle-tested”, after it’s deployed and experimented on the people of Gaza and before it’s sold on to other regimes across the world. The genocide of Gaza would not be possible without Elbit’s weaponry and those who facilitate and profit from their deadly business.
After similar actions, four other companies have ended their association with Elbit’s deadly trade in the past two months. These include Elbit’s weapons transporters Kuehne + Nagel...... (MORE - missing details)
UK Jewish civil rights groups denounce ruling vindicating disgraced anti-zionist professor David Miller
https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/02/06/uk...id-miller/
INTRO: Jewish civil rights groups in the UK on Monday expressed disappointment in a government agency’s ruling that University of Bristol lacked standing to fire sociologist David Miller, an extreme anti-Zionist who was accused of harassing Jewish students and promoting antisemitic tropes.
The decision was rendered by a Bristol-based Employment Tribunal, one of a consortium of agencies which the UK government describes as independent arbitrators of disputes over employment law.
The agency ruled that Miller’s “anti-Zionist beliefs qualified as a philosophical belief and as a protected characteristic” and that “the relationship between [Miller] and the university was not so damaged that trust and confidence was undermined to the extent that the employer should no longer be required to retain [Miller] in employment.” It added, however, that Miller’s “own actions” prompted his firing, citing unbecoming social media activity.
University of Bristol fired Miller in Oct. 2022 after a deluge of incidents and numerous complaints about his conduct in the classroom and on social media. In the months leading up to his dismissal, Miller called for the “end of Zionism” during a lecture and spread conspiracies about British Jewish students, calling them an arm of Israeli intelligence.
The conduct had carried on for years, however. In 2018, he castigated Jewish students for expressing discomfort with his employment at the university, denigrating their fears about his statements and rising antisemitism across the UK as “propaganda which they have been schooled with.”
The professor’s remarks have outraged British Jews and non-Jews, drawing condemnations from the Board of Deputies of British Jews and from the All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism, a collection of MPs who committed to eradicating antisemitism from public life. In a letter to University of Bristol Vice Chancellor Brady, the MPs charged that Miller had “incited hatred” against Jewish students on campus harmed the university’s reputation... (MORE - details)
