The Congress of South African Trade Unions wants the South African government to cease all relations with Israel and close down the Israeli embassy in Pretoria.
The moves are among several agreed to at a meeting on Wednesday concerning developments in the Middle East, Cosatu said in a statement on Friday.
"Many South African parastatals and companies have serious business deals with Israeli companies and workers must reject them, with Telkom being an example," Cosatu international relations officer Bongani Masuku said in the statement.
"In their refusal to handle Israeli goods, workers will be protecting their own jobs in the true spirit of the Proudly South Africa Campaign...," he said accusing supermarket chains of selling Israeli products at the expense of local produce.
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"We should call for the expulsion of Israeli security agencies and Mossad at our airports," Masuku continued.
"The security of South Africa is compromised by allowing these Israeli security agencies to operate at our airports and harass people going to Israel...," he said citing a case involving members of the South African Municipal Workers' Union and Cosatu.
The relationship between South Africa's national carrier South African Airways and its Israeli counterpart El-Al should also be terminated, he said.
Wednesday's meeting was attended by Cosatu's alliance partners, the ANC and SACP, union affiliates, international solidarity organisations, non-governmental organisations, social movements and academic activists.
"The meeting noted that massive and varied solidarity activities are underway by many organisations and people all over the world, which is an encouraging sign of human co-operation," said Masuku.
"It further noted the need for maximum impact through deeper synergies around a clear and concrete programme of action to raise the plight of the Palestinian people and intensify pressure against the occupying power, Israel, to withdraw from the whole of Palestine in the interests of freedom and democracy for the Palestinian people, and broader peace and justice in the whole Middle East region.
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