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File photo shows Israeli settlements deemed 'illegal' in EU statement (AFP)
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Europe’s Largest Pension Funds Heavily Invested in Illegal Israeli Settlements

Europe’s five largest pension funds have €7.5 billion invested in companies with business activities in and around illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. This is at odds with United Nations guidelines, clear warnings from 18 European countries, and undermines the two-state solution, experts warn.

Economic Boycott
January 31, 2017
By: 
Mikkel Bahl, Hanan Chemlali & Kristoffer Marslev
A protest against the expanding of Jewish settlements in Kufr Qadoom village near the West Bank city of Nablus, Jan. 20, 2017. Xinhua SIPA USA/Press Association. All rights reserved.
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Penal populism and the BDS movement after Security Council Res. 2334

The article is not only about the right to BDS. It also discusses how international human rights law has, in general, been rendered meaningless and even oppressive. It uses the example of the BDS movement to show that, nevertheless, there is still a way to utilize its progressive potential. 

 

 

Right To Boycott
January 30, 2017
By: 
Luigi Daniele
Apartheid Wall. Creator: Photo RNW.org. Credit: Creative Commons License
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What Neighbourhood Policy in a Context of Unlawful Occupation? Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory

The occupation of the Palestinian territory raises questions for the European Neighbourhood Policy. A number of practical steps are required for the way forward

Sanctions and governments
November 16, 2016
By: 
Ingrid Jaradat, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union