Thai traffic in the service of Israeli colonization
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Thai traffic in the service of Israeli colonization
UAWC
(Union of agriculture Workers Committees in Palestine) in
cooperation with the Confederation Paysanne in France
initiated a research paper to document the violations against
Thai workers in the Israeli settlements.
(Jerusalem, January 2014) The
violence and massive strikes of Palestinian workers that took
place during the two Intifadas paralyzed the Israeli economy,
heavily dependent on Palestinian labor, following the closure of
the borders between Israel and the West Bank by the occupying
army. Employers in sectors such as construction, agriculture and
caregiving – despised and known for their gluttony for cheap and
exploitable labor – therefore put pressure on the Israeli
government to obtain authorization to import non-Jewish hands...
and won. Along with the introduction of incentive policies for
employment in these sectors towards Israelis, in the
agricultural sector since 1995, thousands of Thai workers
started to be literally imported by Israel. All of them come
from peasant families from the north of the country and left
Thailand because the traditional rice cultivation cannot compete
with corporate industrial rice culture...
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