U.N. Special Rapporteur Richard Falk called on the member nations of the General Assembly to boycott companies that do business with Israel. “My main recommendation is that the businesses highlighted in the report – as well as the many other businesses that are profiting from the Israeli settlement enterprise – should be boycotted until they…
Some 100 Palestinians and international activists protesting in front of a supermarket in a West Bank settlement called for a boycott of settlement goods. Waving Palestinian flags, the protesters entered the Rami Levy supermarket in Shaar Binyamin, near Beit El, on Wednesday chanting “Out, out settlers” and carrying signs reading “boycott the occupation and its…
With brazen defiance, just a day before he is due to meet with the European Union’s high representative for foreign affairs Catherine Ashton, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went over the Green Line and defended building there. “United Jerusalem is Israel’s eternal capital, we have a full right to build in it,” he declared today…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paid a visit to the Israeli settlement of Gilo on Tuesday in a defiant prelude to talks with the European Union’s top diplomat, who has condemned Gilo’s expansion. Israel issued a detailed plan last week for 797 additional homes in Gilo, an urban complex built in a part of the occupied…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended the finalizing of a plan to build nearly 800 apartments in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo. “We place no limits on construction in our capital city,” Netanyahu said Sunday at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting. “Just as they build in London, Paris, Washington and Moscow, we…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will ask his Cabinet to approve some of the conclusions of a report that says that West Bank settlements are legal under international law. A resolution to adopt some of the findings of the Levy Committee’s report could come in the next week or two, Israel Radio reported. The Levy…
The South African Trade Ministry has published a second notice concerning the labeling of products from Jewish settlements, despite working with the Jewish community on a compromise. Contrary to the more restricted proposal issued in May, the notice published Oct. 12 in the Government Gazette refers to all products originating from the West Bank, the…
It is tempting to impute retroactive intentionality to yesterday’s events. As Gershom Gorenberg felicitously puts it, we mistakenly assume “that if things turned out a certain way, someone planned it that way.” Looking back now, it may seem a foregone conclusion that Israel’s settlement policy in the West Bank (and in Golan, too) was from…
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