Some American trade unionists have argued that labor should remain “neutral” on the question of Palestine. In fact, the US labor movement has never been neutral: its union officialdom has a more-than-century-long history of allying with Zionism.

This article is excerpted from No Neutrals There: US Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine, out this month from Haymarket Books.

On October 16, 2023, nine days into Israel’s total war on the two million civilians trapped inside the besieged Gaza Strip, a coalition of Palestinian trade unions issued an international call to action directed at labor movements around the world. “This urgent, genocidal situation can only be prevented by a mass increase of global solidarity with the people of Palestine and that can restrain the Israeli war ma

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