A local chapter of the United Auto Workers has announced they are joining the boycott of Israel in support of the Palestinians.
UAW Local 2865, the union that represents teaching assistants at the University of California, voted to join the boycott on December 4th. The basis for their anti-Semitic decision was they claim Israel is launching “ongoing human rights violations” against Palestinians.
The margin of passage was 66% to 34%.
The ballot language passed by the group calls for the university and the UAW to “divest[ing] their investments, including pension funds, from Israeli state institutions and international companies complicit in severe and ongoing human rights violations as part of the Israeli oppression of Palestinian people.”
Officials admitted that only 2,168 of the 13,000 reported members of the chapter voted on the measure.
