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Related: About this forumIsrael rejects U.N. report on companies linked to settlements
Source: Reuters
#WORLD NEWS JANUARY 31, 2018 / 8:11 AM / UPDATED 24 MINUTES AGO
Israel rejects U.N. report on companies linked to settlements
Stephanie Nebehay
4 MIN READ
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights office said on Wednesday it had identified 206 companies doing business linked to unlawful Israeli settlements in the West Bank and it urged them to avoid any complicity in pervasive violations against Palestinians.
Israel fears that companies listed on any U.N. blacklist could be targeted for boycotts or divestment aimed at stepping up pressure over its settlements, which most countries and the world body view as illegal.
Businesses play a central role in furthering the establishment, maintenance and expansion of Israeli settlements, the U.N. report said.
In doing so, they are contributing to Israels confiscation of land, facilitate the transfer of its population into the Occupied Palestinian Territory and are involved in the exploitation of Palestines natural resources, it said.
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Israel rejects U.N. report on companies linked to settlements
Stephanie Nebehay
4 MIN READ
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights office said on Wednesday it had identified 206 companies doing business linked to unlawful Israeli settlements in the West Bank and it urged them to avoid any complicity in pervasive violations against Palestinians.
Israel fears that companies listed on any U.N. blacklist could be targeted for boycotts or divestment aimed at stepping up pressure over its settlements, which most countries and the world body view as illegal.
Businesses play a central role in furthering the establishment, maintenance and expansion of Israeli settlements, the U.N. report said.
In doing so, they are contributing to Israels confiscation of land, facilitate the transfer of its population into the Occupied Palestinian Territory and are involved in the exploitation of Palestines natural resources, it said.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-un-settlements/israel-rejects-u-n-report-on-companies-linked-to-settlements-idUSKBN1FK1UO
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Israel rejects U.N. report on companies linked to settlements (Original Post)
Eugene
Jan 2018
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procon
(15,805 posts)1. Waiting for the release of the US companies who enable Israeli settlements.
The majority of the companies, or 143, are domiciled in Israel or the settlements, followed by 22 in the United States, it said. The remainder are based in 19 other countries, including Germany, the Netherlands, France and Britain.
The report, which did not name the companies...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-un-settlements/more-than-200-companies-have-israeli-settlement-ties-u-n-idUSKBN1FK1UO
The report, which did not name the companies...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-un-settlements/more-than-200-companies-have-israeli-settlement-ties-u-n-idUSKBN1FK1UO
Mosby
(17,474 posts)2. is taking jobs away from Palestinians the goal here?
I don't really understand the motive, the UN seems to want the Palestinians to live on handouts in "refugee" camps.
The "land theft" is their opinion, nothing more.
aranthus
(3,386 posts)3. What makes you think that this is about the Palestinians?
Can't the members of the UN Human Rights Committee just hate Israel enough to want to hurt them despite what it will do to anyone else?