Tag: International law

  • Tribunal finds international businesses complicit in Israeli war crimes

    22 November 2010 | Russel Tribunal Tribunal finds British and international business complicit in Israeli war crimes, identifies legal remedies and calls for civil society boycott action The Russell Tribunal on Palestine this morning announced its verdict after weekend deliberations. The jury said it had been presented with “compelling evidence of corporate complicity in Israeli…

  • PROTEST CALL: oppose the OECD’s Tourism Conference in Jerusalem October 20-22nd

    The International Solidarity Movement is calling on activists to protest in Jerusalem in the third week of October against the annual tourism conference of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) which should not be held in the occupied capital of an apartheid state in violation of a plethora of international laws. >>>>> ISRAEL…

  • Early release of Tom Hurndall’s killer symptom of wider Israeli crimes

    8 September 2010 | ISM London UPDATE: Tom’s Killer was released this morning. The Hurndall family was not informed by any representative of the Israeli government. The British Foreign Office did contact Jocelyn this morning, but not before the news had reached her via ISM London. We are re-publishing our press release from July as…

  • Israeli academics boycott West Bank settlements

    31 August 2010 | BBC News More than 150 Israeli academics say they will no longer lecture or work in Jewish settlements in the West Bank. In a letter, they said they supported the recent decision by a group of actors and others not to take part in cultural activity there. The academics said that…

  • UN report: IDF barring Gazans’ access to farms, fishing zones

    19 August 2010 | Haaretz Humanitarian affairs office: Israel restricts entry to 17% of Gaza lands, 85% of beachfront zone, enforces restrictions with live fire. Over the last ten years, the Israel Defense Forces have increasingly restricted Palestinian access to farmland on the Gazan side of the Israeli-Gaza border as well as to fishing zones…