National Union of Journalists (NUJ) delegates failed to remove a paragraph from motion 145 that welcomed the Trade Union Congress’s support for a boycott of goods from “illegal Israeli settlement in occupied parts of Gaza and the West Bank”.
The motion did not make an Israeli boycott NUJ policy, calling only for the union to call for an end to arms sales to Israel and for the union to go on a fact-fing trade union delegation to Palestine and Israel.
The NEC opposed the motion and delegates tried to remove the paragraph but Pat Healy of Standing Orders Committee said the motion had to be taken as a whole. Delegates voted overwhelmingly in favour.
The concern was that delegates were unaware that the motion would include this paragraph as it had not been printed in the Agenda.
