Dock Workers Refuse To Load Weapons Bound For Israel
Sat 10:00 am +01:00, 22 May 2021 3
Op-Ed by Matt
An Italian dock workers’ union set off a global chain reaction last Friday when they refused to load a shipment of weapons onto a vessel bound for Israel. One week later, workers from South Africa and California are joining them in their mission to help put an end to the actions of an apartheid state.
The workers, members of the L’Unione Sindacale di Base (USB) in the Tuscan city of Livorno, were tipped off to the shipment by the Geneva-based organization Weapon Watch which monitors arms and weaponry transiting European and Mediterranean ports. In a press release issued on May 14th, Weapon Watch stated that the Asiatic Island had already been loaded with “high-precision bullets” when it was docked in Genoa the previous day and was to be loaded with more dangerous items while in port in Livorno which lies just over 100 miles south of Genoa on Italy’s northwest coast. Both Weapon Watch and USB worked feared that if the armaments reached Israel they would be used against civilians in Gaza.
News of this action quickly reached Israeli ports. The next day on May 15th, The Histadrut, Israel’s largest trade union, ordered dock workers to decline service to all Italy-bound ships. The Italian embassy in Israel then stepped in to ensure that the USB would end its boycott which allowed the Histadrut to do the same. Unfortunately, the ship made its way to its next port of call, Naples, before reaching Israel on Thursday, May 20th.
The same day that the Asiatic Island reached its destination, weaponry and all, another docker worker boycott sprang up in Durban, South Africa. The South African Trade and Allied Workers’ Union (Satawu) said it received a request from the South African Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Coalition to not off-load cargo from an Israeli ship as an act of solidarity with the Palestinian cause. Satawu’s Deputy General Secretary, Anele Kiet, said their members confirmed they would refuse Israeli carriers and would be joining the BDS Coalition in conducting boycotts, picketing, and demonstrations around the city. Such solidarity between and South Africans should come as little surprise given their shared history of living under apartheid states.
According to The Middle East Eye, dock workers in Oakland, California were planning to stop the offloading of another Israeli-owned ship there as well.
What these workers are doing is a beautiful thing to behold as it is often the most simple of acts which are truly revolutionary. Acts such as these break the conditioning that we have all been subjected to which tells us that destruction and violence are subversive while peaceful non-compliance goes nowhere. This same conditioning divides and conquers when we should instead stand united. It tells us we are small and weak rather than great and strong.
Another remarkable element of this growing movement is how wonderfully replicable it is. Truckers could join dock workers in preventing armaments destined for Israel, Saudi Arabia, America, China, Russia, and other warring nations from being delivered. Those in the world of healthcare could lead the fight against lockdowns and vaccine passports by walking out and not looking back. Companies like Bayer and Nestle, which threaten the global food supply, could be boycotted into nonexistence. All by simply refusing to take part in the mechanisms which allow these destructive forces to flourish.
Israel and Hamas may have signed a cease-fire ending the most recent round of violence, but this is no reason to stop disobeying the international-military-industrial-complex. We can only hope that more beautiful acts of defiance will continue to spread around the world now that these brave people have led by example.
https://www.activistpost.com/2021/05/dock-workers-refuse-to-load-weapons-bound-for-israel.html
Excellent news. They own our governments, but not the people yet.
More smoke bombs by HAMAS (Mossad)
http://www.jewworldorder.org/
“Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world – only to serve the People of Israel,. Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat. That is why gentiles were created.”—-Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, head of Shas Council of Torah Sages during a sermon delivered Oct. 2010 in Jerusalem
“One of the finest things ever done by the mob was the Crucifixion of Christ. Intellectually it was a splendid gesture. But trust the mob to bungle the job. If I’d had charge of executing Christ, I’d have handled it differently. You see, what I’d have done was had him shipped to Rome and fed him to the lions. They could never have made a savior out of mincement!”—– Rabbi Ben Hecht
I don’t believe in western morality, i.e.
don’t kill civilians or children,
don’t destroy holy sites,
don’t fight during holiday seasons,
don’t bomb cemeteries,
don’t shoot until they shoot first because it is immoral.
The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way:
Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle).
— Chabad Lubavitch Rabbi Manis Friedman
Moment Magazine (May/June 2009). “Ask The Rabbi”
“As for the Goyim… Zalman’s attitude (was): “Gentile souls are of a completely different and inferior order. They are totally evil, with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.”…If every simple cell in a Jewish body entails divinity, is a part of God, then every strand of DNA is a part of God. Therefore, something is special about Jewish DNA…” “…If a Jew needs a liver, can you take the liver of an innocent non-Jew passing by to save him? The Torah would probably permit that. Jewish life has an infinite value,” he explained. “There is something infinitely more holy and unique about Jewish life than non-Jewish life.”— Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Yitzchak Ginzburg in “Jewish Week,” the largest Jewish publication in the United States, April 26, 1996.
[Organ Harvesting] “If a Jew needs a kidney, is it allowed, in order to save his life, to take the kidney from a Goy (non-Jew), passing by, even if he is not guilty of anything? In my opinion, Torah allows it. The life of a Jew is priceless”– Lubavitcher rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh
“The Jew is not satisfied with de-Christianizing, he Judaises; he destroys the Catholic or Protestant Faith, he provokes indifference, but he imposes his idea of the world, of morals and of life upon those whose faith he ruins; he works at his age-old task, the annihilation of the religion of Christ.” –(Rabbi Benamozegh, quoted in J. Creagh Scott’s Hidden Government, page 58).
https://mondoweiss.net/2021/04/as-mob-of-jewish-supremacists-unleash-pogrom-against-palestinians-in-jerusalem-aipac-crows-about-331-congress-members-standing-by-israel/