‘Silence not an option when bombs rain on Gaza,’ Scottish teachers' union leader warns
“SILENCE is not an option” when thousands of civilians are being killed in Gaza, Education Institute of Scotland (EIS) general secretary Andrea Bradley told a packed Stop the War Coalition fringe meeting at the Scottish TUC today.
Citing critics who asked why it was the business of a Scottish teachers’ union what happened in the Middle East, Ms Bradley declared that “the EIS and its activists won’t accept silence when bombs are raining down on schools.”
She described solidarity action taken, including donations of tens of thousands toward humanitarian aid in Gaza, writing to the British government demanding an end to arms sales and support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign.
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