Settlements

International Court Of Justice Advisory Opinion On Israel

July 21, 2024 The International Court Of Justice, Scheer Post. Educate! Genocide, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel, Palestine, Settlements

In the Court’s view, the fact that an occupation is prolonged does not in itself change its legal status under international humanitarian law. Although premised on the temporary character of the occupation, the law of occupation does not set temporal limits that would, as such, alter the legal status of the occupation. Occupation consists of the exercise by a State of effective control in foreign territory. In order to be permissible, therefore, such exercise of effective control must at all times be consistent with the rules concerning the prohibition of the threat or use of force, including the prohibition of territorial acquisition resulting from the threat or use of force, as well as with the right to self‑determination.

In A Historic Ruling, ICJ Declares Israeli Occupation Unlawful

July 20, 2024 David Kattenburg, Mondoweiss. Educate! Gaza, Genocide, Human Rights, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel, Israeli settlements, Land Rights, Palestine, Settlements

In a scathing Advisory Opinion sure to tighten the legal screws on Israel and place its Western allies in a huge bind, the world’s supreme judicial body declared today that Israel’s 57-year occupation and settlement of the West Bank and East Jerusalem are unlawful, that both must end, that settlements must be evacuated, and that Palestinians — denied their inalienable right to self-determination – must be compensated for their losses and allowed to return to their lands. “The sustained abuse by Israel of its position as an occupying Power, through annexation and an assertion of permanent control over the Occupied Palestinian Territory and continued frustration of the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination...

Israel’s Legalization Of Settlements In Northern West Bank, Explained

July 18, 2024 Qassam Muaddi, Mondoweiss. Educate! Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, Settlements, Settler colonialism

Israel’s offensive against the West Bank, both political and military, has concentrated on its northern part in recent months, mainly in Jenin and Tulkarem. Israeli military raids have become a daily occurrence, unleashing levels of violence that have not been seen there in two decades. Since the beginning of the year, Israeli forces have killed 149 Palestinians in the Jenin governorate, 117 in the Tulkarem governorate, and 31 in the Tubas governorate, most of them in the refugee camps of Jenin, Tulkarem, Nur Shams, and Far’a. At the same time, the Israeli political establishment has launched a political offensive against the area, concentrated around the efforts to restart settlement expansion and colonization in a region that has been the least affected by Israel’s land grabs over the years.

Illegal Real Estate Sales Of Palestinian Land Happening In The United States

April 10, 2024 Marc Steiner, The Real News Network. Resist! Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Settlements, Stolen Land

Six months into the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza, there is little use denying that what is taking place before our eyes is an intended land grab. Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich have called for Gaza to be “resettled” and for the Palestinian population to be expelled. And in the US, the likes of Ben Gvir and Smotrich have their allies and accomplices who hope to profit from the theft of Palestinian land. Across the US, real estate events advertising the sale of land parcels in Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem have begun to appear.

Real Estate Events To Sell Stolen Palestinian Land Met With Protests

March 15, 2024 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. Resist! Israel, Israeli Occupation, Palestine, Real Estate, Settlements

“The Great Real Estate Event” has been touring the United States and Canada, exhibiting property for sale on stolen Palestinian land. Each event has been met with mass protests by Palestine solidarity activists, sometimes leading to clashes with Zionist attendees and protesters. The events have been organized by the real estate company My Home in Israel, and sponsored by real estate firms such as the Emanuel Group, International Marketing and Promotion (IMP), and JewishPress. Events have been organized in the Canadian cities of Montreal and Toronto, and in the US in Teaneck, New Jersey, Lawrence, New York, and Brooklyn, New York.

Enbridge’s Kalamazoo River Oil Spill Settlement Greeted By Flood Of Criticism

February 11, 2017 David Hasemyer, www.insideclimatenews.org Resist! Michigan, Oil Spill, Settlements

By David Hasemyer for Inside Climate News - After considering and rejecting nearly all public suggestions for penalizing Enbridge over the largest ever oil spill into an inland U.S. waterway, federal authorities are asking a judge to approve a settlement negotiated with the Canadian pipeline company. The U.S. Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency are seeking the court's approval to assess a $61 million fine and require more than $100 million in safety improvements by the company. If approved, the settlement would close the books on the federal government's oversight of the massive 2010 oil spill that fouled a 40-mile stretch of Michigan's Kalamazoo River. The company's $1.2 billion cleanup effort took nearly five years.

Government Delays Pipeline Settlement Following Tribe Complaint

September 21, 2016 David Hasemyer, www.insideclimatenews.org Resist! Pipelines, Settlements

By David Hasemyer for Inside Climate News - The federal government has agreed to postpone final approval of a multi-million-dollar settlement with Canadian pipeline giant Enbridge, Inc., a move that will allow time for a Native American tribe from the northeast shore of Lake Michigan to protest terms of the agreement. In the wake of objections to the settlement by the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, and a pledge by the Obama administration to be more sensitive to Native American concerns

Monetary Settlement And More Reached In Sandra Bland Death

September 16, 2016 Leon Neyfakh, www.slate.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, #SandraBland, Black Lives Matter (BLM), police brutality, Sandra Bland, Settlements

By Leon Neyfakh for Slate - In July 2015, the death of Sandra Bland became a central flashpoint in the national debate over race and law enforcement. Bland was pulled over by a Texas state trooper because she didn’t signal a lane change. She was screamed at and threatened with a Taser because she refused to put out her cigarette. Because she couldn’t make bail, she was confined to a Waller County, Texas, jail cell for three days—an experience that evidently caused her so much distress that she hung herself in her cell.

NYC Agrees To Pay Over $4 Million To Family Of Akai Gurley

August 18, 2016 Andrew Emett, www.nationofchange.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Akai Gurley, Black Lives Matter (BLM), NYC, police brutality, Settlements

By Andrew Emett for Nation of Change - After an NYPD officer accidentally killed an innocent, unarmed man inside a dark housing project stairwell, the city and the New York City Housing Authority have recently agreed to pay Akai Gurley’s family more than $4.1 million to settle their wrongful death lawsuit. Although the officer was fired and initially convicted of manslaughter, a judge reduced the charge and sentenced him to community service instead of serving jail time. On November 20, NYPD officers Peter Liang and Shaun Landau were conducting vertical patrols on the eighth floor of the Louis H. Pink housing project in Brooklyn.

Demand Airbnb Stop Listing Rentals In Israeli Settlements

February 2, 2016 Ramah Kudaimi, www.endtheoccupation.org Petitions and Online Actions Housing, Israel, Occupation, Settlements

By Ramah Kudaimi for End The Occupation - Did you hear all the buzz around Airbnb, the online accommodation service, listing homes in illegal Israeli settlements for people to rent? There are 13,000 Airbnb listings in Israel, though investigations have revealed that many of the properties are actually located in settlements built on stolen Palestinian land in the West Bank. By allowing users to list and rent these properties and taking 9-15% from hosts and guests, Airbnb is making money off of Israel’s continued military occupation of Palestinian land and helping facilitate settlement activity.

IDF Gives Illegal Settlements’ Militias Power To Search & Arrest

September 29, 2014 Yossi Gurvitz, www.972mag.com Educate! Capitalism, idf, Israel, Palestine, Settlements

Privatizing the state’s use of force should be a source of concern to us all. Such a process – and particularly when the powers are transferred to a body with a clear political agenda – creates uncontrolled militias. This is the process that has occurred in the West Bank due to the army’s policy of delegating some of its law enforcement powers to civilian security coordinators, as discussed in Yesh Din’s new report, “The lawless zone.” The institution of the civilian security coordinator in itself is not new; it is part of a spatial defense approach that predates the establishment of the State of Israel. This function was formalized in the Local Authorities Law (Arrangement of Guarding), 1961.

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