This has been met with predictable fury from the Israel lobby. Even the Israeli embassy chipped in with a comment “we categorically reject this misleading and dishonest motion. This is yet another outrageous attempt by anti-Israel elements to manipulate a union into serving their agenda.”
Even more ludicrously, and not for the first time, TULIP spokesperson and Labourstart editor Eric Lee used classic lobby smear tactics to imply that the movers of the motion are aligned with the despotic Iranian leadership, claiming that the emergency motion “presents an utterly one-sided view of the conflict. It fact, it so demonizes Israel that it could easily have been written in Teheran,”
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=179475
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