SOUTH African dock workers have refused to unload ships carrying goods from Israel in solidarity with the Palestinians.
South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) general secretary Randall Howard said that if any Israeli ship docks its cargo in Durban, union workers won't unload it.
"We will make that contribution," he said. "The historic and heroic struggle of the Palestinian people for self-determination is a struggle that SATAWU supports."
Mr Howard said that it did not matter whether they were weapons or vegetables. "If it's an Israeli product, we're going to boycott it, plain and simple," he said.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said: "If these people think that by refusing to unload shipments from Israel they are promoting peace they should go back to school because they have misread the situation in the Middle East big time."
Protests will take pace on Friday outside the Zionist Federation office in Raedene Estate, Johannesburg, and the Picket in Cape Town.
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