The Palestinian Center for Human Rights welcomes the publication of UN Database on Business...
Ref: 10/2020
Date: 17 February 2020
Time: 11:10 GMT
On 12 February 2020, after three years of delay and consistent pressure by Palestinian, regional and international organizations, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) issued a report on business enterprises involved in certain activities related to unlawful Israeli settlements...
Merkel’s defence of Israel’s war crimes undermines the ICC and the rule of law
Iqbal Jassat
Middle East Monitor / February 17, 2020
Shortly after her visit to South Africa earlier this month, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government made a shocking announcement in defence of Israel’s horrendous record of serious human rights violations. Germany took the shameful step of undermining international law by contesting The...
PA: Security cooperation with Israel continuous
Middle East Monitor / February 17, 2020
Palestinian Authority’s (PA) security cooperation with Israel is continuous, senior PA official Nabil Abu Rudeineh announced on Sunday, adding that the PA is ready to start peace talks within two weeks.
Speaking to a group of Israeli journalists, Abu Rudeineh, who is a senior aide to...
Profiting from loss: how business in illegal Israeli settlements continues unchecked
Jonathan Cook
The National / February 17, 2020
UN efforts to protect Palestinian land from economic exploitation are failing.
After lengthy delays, the United Nations finally published a database last week of businesses that have been profiting from Israel’s illegal annexation and settlement activity in the West Bank.
The UN High Commissioner for...
Israel’s Netanyahu boasts of having destroyed US 1st Amendment and free speech
Juan Cole
Informed Comment / February 14, 2020
Israeli caretaker prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who has been indicted for corruption and is facing an election soon, just boasted that his ministry of strategic affairs has managed to undermine first amendment protections for free speech in the United States by lobbying state...
Israel: ‘Peace is only made with vanquished enemies’
Middle East Monitor / February 16, 2020
The mayor of Tel Aviv Ron Huldai ordered the removal on Friday of highway billboards that appeared to call for the surrender at gunpoint of Palestinian leaders for the sake of peace.
“Peace is made ONLY with vanquished enemies,” said the billboards, which showed photo-shopped images...
Israel mobilises support in The Hague: Germany after Czech Republic
Middle East Monitor / February 15, 2020
On Friday Germany submitted a demand to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, that it be a “friend of the court” in the procedures relating to examining the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice in the investigation of cases connected with the...
