Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham Refused to Allow Executive Members To Take the Union Banner on the last London Palestine Demonstration

Since Issuing a Pathetically Weak Statement on  Israel’s Genocide in Gaza, Graham Has Done Precisely Nothing Since

If You Are a Unite Member Please Sign this Open Letter to Sharon Graham

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After having resisted calls for an immediate ceasefire for the first 4 weeks of Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza, Sharon Graham eventually gave way and issued a pathetically weak statement that didn’t even mention Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza. See

VICTORY - Sharon Graham Does What She Said Was Impossible A Week Ago and Calls for an Immediate Ceasefire

The best thing about the statement was the headline ‘Unite calls for an immediate ceasefire’. Graham, who was happy to prance around with the Ukrainian flag and back NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine, which has armed a variety of neo-Nazi militias, has done absolutely  nothing to give support to the Palestinians.

Graham supported dockers at Dungeness and Ellesmere Port who refused to load and unload Russian ships. She has done nothing to prevent British arms supplies to Israel.

Not only has Graham not been seen anywhere near a Palestinian flag but Executive members who were on the last demonstration in London reported that they were told that they could not take Unite’s national banner with them according to reports.

Despite Unite having good policy on Boycotting Israel and opposing Israeli Apartheid Graham has repeatedly appeased the Israel lobby in this country. The far-right Campaign Against Anti-Semitism claimed that Graham had been in correspondence with them before a ban was issued preventing Jeremy Corbyn – The Big lie being shown on Unite premises.

On 23 July the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism alleged that

‘Following correspondence with Campaign Against Antisemitism, the Unite union has cancelled the screening of a propaganda film about the antisemitic former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn that was due to be shown alongside a book signing and talk from Asa Winstanley.

Apparently, this is NOT Liz Truss at a Bandera Nazi rally. It's a UNITE union meeting, attempting to whip up support for Ukraine.
I hope they know what Zelensky does to unions in Ukraine.
I fucking despair with levels of cuntery in this ridiculous nation of twats. pic.twitter.com/0DVQAfRcEN

— Mannie Quinn (@MannieMighty1) September 10, 2023

I immediately wrote to Graham about this, given that the CAA, a far right, Islamaphobic ‘charity’ had weaponised anti-Semitism in the fight to remove Jeremy Corbyn.

On 30 August Gail Cartmail, Graham’s dogsbody, emailed me writing that

' Unite as a union is outstanding in both our commitment to anti-racism and solidarity with the Palestinian cause, actions speak louder than words.'

 I agree. Actions speak louder than words and Graham has done fuck all to support the Palestinians. She is a British nationalist and a Zionist. She went overboard to support Ukrainian nationalists despite their neo-Nazi militias being integrated into the state and their hero worship of Stepan Bandera, who had the blood of hundreds of thousands of Jews and Poles on his hands, but when it comes to the Palestinians she has said and done precisely nothing.

Israel in its latest raid has imprisoned the Director of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin -   this is cultural genocide

Racism runs through Sharon Graham like the lettering through a stick of Brighton rock. Graham is an utter disgrace to Unite and the trade union movement and the sooner she goes the better.

I have therefore drafted an Open Letter ‘Our Response to Unite Statement Calling for a Ceasefire in Gaza’ and over a hundred people have signed it already. If you are a Unite member I would ask you to sign it here.

https://forms.gle/yrkdZ2avPTXpkx5x7