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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

3 months

*Important AFT Convention Update*: We are delighted to report AFT has divested from all Israel bonds! The International Relations Committee chair confirmed yesterday: AFT no longer holds any Israel bonds & decided not to reinvest in them when last one matured in late 2023.

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@Aft4Palestine

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We are launching @Aft4Palestine to encourage @AFTunion to stand w/ the Palestinian people in their fight for justice. Our first campaign: It is time for AFT to divest itself from its #Israel Bond.

Take Action — AFT 4 Palestine

www.aft4palestine.org

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@Aft4Palestine

3 months

“There are educators in Palestine who are asking us, as educators, as their peers, to be in solidarity with them and to intervene in the mechanisms that are enabling that genocide — and divestment is the answer,” said @sherena_ar .

US Teachers Pushed Their Union to Divest From Israel. What Happened?

A divestment push backed by Palestinian educators came under debate at the American Federation of Teachers convention.

truthout.org

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

3 months

Great news from @AFTunion higher ed affiliate @AAUP ! Finally, school and campus administrators won't be able to point to the now revoked "no-boycott" policy to shut down BDS activism against Israeli apartheid and genocide.

Inside Higher Ed

@insidehighered

3 months

. @AAUP Ends Two-Decade Opposition to Academic Boycotts In 2005, the AAUP spoke out against this form of protest amid calls for scholars to spurn Israeli institutions. Now, the group says boycotts “can be considered legitimate tactical responses.”

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

3 months

The AFT currently holds only one bond of a foreign government in the form of an Israel Bond. Through its investment in Israel Bonds, our union is lending lending unrestricted funds to the Israeli government that can be used to fund any & all violence & human rights violations.

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

3 months

Our union should not be funding or profiting off of a foreign government that international human rights organizations and international legal authorities widely regard as engaged in crimes against humanity.

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

3 months

Right to Education Campaign at Birzeit University has issued a statement of support for our resolution! "We, the Right to Education Campaign at Birzeit University, write to you to express our unwavering support for the locals of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT)..." 1/2

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

3 months

AFT’s investment makes it complicit in the ongoing #genocide in #Gaza that has damaged or destroyed nearly 90% of schools ( #scholasticide ) & killed tens of thousands of children & teachers as well as the maintenance of Israel’s #apartheid regime & illegal military occupation

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

3 months

Breaking News: We have recently been told that the @AFTunion leadership claims they have not invested in Israel Bonds for years. However, AFT financial disclosures clearly show that as of 6/30/2023, they held a $150K Israel bond. 👇 Something is not adding up.

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

3 months

The question is, @rweingarten , why hasn't @AFTunion joined our union siblings in @UAW , @NEAToday , etc. in signing onto this letter? Signing onto it, btw, is all we wanted to propose in the friendly amendment we tried to add to the ceasefire resolution ( #30 ) you championed.

In These Times

@inthesetimesmag

3 months

“The White House decided to embrace a “ceasefire” by simply redefining the term to mean something else entirely.” Unions just called Biden’s bluff.

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

3 months

This is a big victory for all who seek justice for Palestine and all @AFTunion members who don’t want to see their dues invested in Israel’s genocide, scholasticide, and apartheid regime!

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

3 months

We must live out our values of equality & justice for students & their families–in our communities as well as around the world–by ensuring that our union no longer invests in Israel Bonds. Learn more & support resolution #34 to divest from Israel Bonds at

AFT 4 Palestine

www.aft4palestine.org

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

3 months

Investing in Israel Bonds also doesn’t make any financial sense for our members. These bonds are significantly more unstable and restrictive than other comparable bonds, not allowing our union to make the decisions we need to make to prioritize the interests of our members.

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

3 months

We applaud AFT’s decision to divest from its previously held Israel Bonds, but this is not enough. Not only must our union commit to not purchase any bonds in the future, but it must commit to truly democratic processes of discussion and debate. That did not happen yesterday.

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@Aft4Palestine

3 months

However, we are disappointed to report our resolutions did not pass & AFT leadership has NOT committed to not purchase any more Israel Bonds in the future.

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

3 months

And you can count on us, @AFTunion , to be closely monitoring AFT financial disclosures in the coming years to ensure no more of our union money goes towards genocide and apartheid!

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

3 months

We too want "Real Solutions for a Better Life." @rweingarten , will you support our resolution requiring @AFTunion to never again invest in Israel bonds so that Palestinians too can have "better lives" free from Israeli apartheid, genocide, scholasticide, and occupation?

AFT

@AFTunion

3 months

Hello from Houston, TX! Over 2,300 delegates are here for Convention 2024: Real Solutions for a Better Life. Here's a sneak peak at what's in store. #RealSolutions

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

3 months

This is just the beginning of our work to ensure we are living up to our values of equality and justice for students and their families, in our communities as well as around the world.

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

3 months

We are particularly disturbed by how AFT leadership removed our resolutions from consideration. How this happened is important to share:

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@Aft4Palestine

3 months

Two days later and still no response from @AFTunion .

AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

3 months

@AFTunion , can you clarify? Have you divested from Israel bonds since 6/30/23 or not? If yes, can you provide proof & an explanation of your decision to divest? Will you commit to not making these harmful investments in future by passing a resolution to not purchase new ones?

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@Aft4Palestine

3 months

Many in the room objected, and we tried to motion to amend the language he objected to, but the chair blocked all our efforts through this procedural maneuver.

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@Aft4Palestine

3 months

When the chair of the International Relations Committee reached our resolutions, he summarily declared them “unconstitutional,” blocking ALL consideration and debate on them.

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

3 months

Should @AFTunion members' dues be invested in a state guilty of war crimes?

Kenneth Roth

@KenRoth

3 months

The International Court of Justice confirms that Israel's settlements violate Art. 49 of the 4th Geneva Convention (prohibiting an occupiers population moving into occupied territory). They are war crimes. The International Criminal Court should also act.

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The result was that we were not able to pass an amended version of our resolutions, which would have prevented any future AFT investment in foreign government bonds.

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

3 months

Still no answer from @AFTunion on our request for clarification on the status of their Israel bond!

AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

3 months

Breaking News: We have recently been told that the @AFTunion leadership claims they have not invested in Israel Bonds for years. However, AFT financial disclosures clearly show that as of 6/30/2023, they held a $150K Israel bond. 👇 Something is not adding up.

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

3 months

WOW! Seriously? What is going on @AAUP ? If this is true & isn't reversed immediately, this would be the height of hypocrisy for AAUP—the foremost defender of academic freedom—to be engaging in the same acts of suppression of free speech they have criticized universities for.

Daniel A. Segal #FreePalestine #TIAADivest

@DanSegal14

3 months

Censorship by @AAUP : yesterday the AAUP's "Academe" blog publised my entry (below) in support of divesting Israel bonds; today it was removed by AAUP. It's censorship complicit in genocide. @pal_legal @jvplive @AdalahJustice @paythewriter @prem_thakker @insidehighered @chronicle

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AFT4Palestine

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3 months

Welcome news! New @AAUP President @ProfTWolf & AAUP national council quickly take a strong stand for academic freedom & order @DanSegal14 's post @AcademeBlog on why we must divest from Israel bonds put back up! Find it here:

The Obligation to Sell the AFT’s Israel Bond

BY DANIEL A. SEGAL Several AFT locals—including Local 6741, which represents all AAUP members in advocacy chapters—have put forward resolutions for consideration at next week’s AFT convention in su…

academeblog.org

Daniel A. Segal #FreePalestine #TIAADivest

@DanSegal14

3 months

The censorship has been reversed by a vote of the elected exec council of the @AAUP : @pal_legal @jvplive @AdalahJustice @paythewriter @prem_thakker #FromTheRiverToTheSea #FreePalstine #LetGazaLive

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@Aft4Palestine

3 months

@AFTunion , can you clarify? Have you divested from Israel bonds since 6/30/23 or not? If yes, can you provide proof & an explanation of your decision to divest? Will you commit to not making these harmful investments in future by passing a resolution to not purchase new ones?

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@Aft4Palestine

3 months

More soon on last week's @AFTunion convention! But here is a peak at the mic-drop speech @sherena_ar gave challenging AFT leadership to join National Labor letter (signed by @UAW , @NEAToday , etc) calling for arms embargo against Israel. Full video:

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

3 months

Some great reporting on our efforts at AFT convention!

#EndTheSiegeOnGaza

@AdalahJustice

3 months

"There are educators in Palestine who are asking us, as educators, as their peers, to be in solidarity with them and to intervene in the mechanisms that are enabling that genocide and divestment is the answer.” We are proud of the work of @Aft4Palestine

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@Aft4Palestine

3 months

And the official AAUP statement on the overturning of its earlier no-boycott policy is out, with a helpful thread explaining it!

American Association of University Professors

@AAUP

3 months

The AAUP has released a new statement on Academic Boycotts, which was written & unanimously approved by Committee A on Academic Freedom & adopted by the AAUP’s governing Council on August 9. 🧵

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@Aft4Palestine

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Need a great investigative journalist to take this up bc @AFTunion isn't responding to our questions about whether they did divest from their Israel bond or not this past year! @prem_thakker @DropSiteNews @jeremyscahill @theintercept @mehdirhasan @thenation @democracynow

AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

3 months

Breaking News: We have recently been told that the @AFTunion leadership claims they have not invested in Israel Bonds for years. However, AFT financial disclosures clearly show that as of 6/30/2023, they held a $150K Israel bond. 👇 Something is not adding up.

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@Aft4Palestine

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The General Union of Palestinian Teachers has issued a letter in support of our divestment resolution: Open letter to the American Federation of Teachers: Divest from Israel Bonds "We write as the General Union of Palestinian Teachers to..." 1/6

الاتحاد العام للمعلمين الفلسطينيين

رسالة اتحاد المعلمين الفلسطينيين الى اتحاد المعلمين الامريكي من اجل سحب الاستثمارات في السندات الاسرائيلية 10 July 2024 Open letter to the American Federation of Teachers: Divest from Israel Bonds...

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

3 months

Unlike most stories of the suppression of free speech & academic freedom on the issue of Palestine, luckily this one ended well. Thanks to @ProfTWolf & the whole AAUP national council for moving w/ such speed to rectify this blatant violation of academic freedom & free speech!

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

3 months

"that have proposed resolutions calling on AFT to divest its State of Israel bond and purchase none further." See the full statement here: 2/2

AFT4Palestine (@aft4palestine) • Instagram photos and videos

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

3 months

Do @AFTunion members—or any other union members!—want their dues invested in a state who is actively expanding its illegal occupation of other people's land and imposing an apartheid system on them too?

Amnesty International

@amnesty

3 months

We welcome this decision from the International Court of Justice. Israel must end its occupation of Palestine to stop fuelling apartheid and systematic violations of international law.

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

3 months

For more on the controversy surrounding this post, see this thread too: So glad the new @AAUP leadership did the right thing on this!

American Association of University Professors

@AAUP

3 months

New in @AcademeBlog : @DanSegal14 lays out the case for AFT to divest from Israel bond holdings & denounce “Zionist McCarthyism.”

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

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"Just as in the struggle against apartheid South Africa, in which US teachers and their unions played a noble role, ending funding for Israel’s crimes against us is the most effective form of solidarity that we as Palestinians are calling for." 5/6

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

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"It is needed now more than ever." 5/6 You can read the full letter here: Then take action to support our divestment campaign here:

Take Action — AFT 4 Palestine

www.aft4palestine.org

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

3 months

@rweingarten , you have been a vocal supporter of a two-state solution. Why then are @AFTunion members' dues invested in a $150K Israel bond, esp after all its major parties passed a resolution opposing the creation of a Palestinian state?

Shibley Telhami

@ShibleyTelhami

3 months

Israel’s Knesset formalizes what has been obviously the policy of the government -- just in time to humiliate POTUS before he meets with Netanyahu at WH, and before the Israeli PM likely humiliates Biden further in his address to Congress.

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

2 months

Check out @nytimes coverage of our efforts for Palestine at the AFT convention in July!

Gaza Debate Reopens Divisions Between Left-Wing Workers and Union Leaders (Gift Article)

Last week’s Democratic National Convention surfaced differences over the war in Gaza that could widen fissures between labor activists and union officials.

www.nytimes.com

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

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"express our gratitude to the local sections of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) that have passed motions calling on AFT to divest its State of Israel bonds..." 2/6

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

3 months

And for the latest update, see:

AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

3 months

*Important AFT Convention Update*: We are delighted to report AFT has divested from all Israel bonds! The International Relations Committee chair confirmed yesterday: AFT no longer holds any Israel bonds & decided not to reinvest in them when last one matured in late 2023.

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@Aft4Palestine

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"...including many of our members and their students, and its decades-long military occupation and apartheid regime against all Palestinians..." 4/6

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

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But then, first thing this morning, @DanSegal14 received a message from AAUP staff saying that the interim executive director ordered this post taken down immediately.

The Obligation to Sell the AFT’s Israel Bond

BY DANIEL A. SEGAL Several AFT locals—including Local 6741, which represents all AAUP members in advocacy chapters—have put forward resolutions for consideration at next week’s AFT convention in su…

academeblog.org

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

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"We urge the AFT membership to support this measure to ensure that teachers in the US are not funding what the International Court of Justice has decided is a plausible genocide committed by Israel against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza..." 3/6

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

3 months

@AFTunion members, as long as AFT is invested in an Israel Bond, your dues are paying for this 👇 Is that what you want your money spent on?

Akbar Shahid Ahmed

@AkbarSAhmed

3 months

New @Oxfam research on Gaza shows: -Israeli attacks have destroyed 100% of wastewater treatment plants -Isr restrictions on aid mean water testing kits can't get to people (🔼 risk of disease) -100% of desalination plants + 88% of wells damaged/destroyed

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

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Backstory: @DanSegal14 's blogpost below @AcademeBlog went through the typical editorial process for posts on @AAUP 's blog. And it was posted late yesterday afternoon.

The Obligation to Sell the AFT’s Israel Bond

BY DANIEL A. SEGAL Several AFT locals—including Local 6741, which represents all AAUP members in advocacy chapters—have put forward resolutions for consideration at next week’s AFT convention in su…

academeblog.org

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AFT4Palestine

@Aft4Palestine

3 months

@TrevorGriffey The first LM-2 with the Israel bond is 2017?!?! So it was purchased that year or 2016 presumably?

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3 months

@TrevorGriffey DM'ed you.

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