This report documents how the continuing Israeli occupation significantly impedes education in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). It notes that UNICEF has reported that 144 schools in the OPT were disrupted during the 2005/2006 academic year as a result of Israeli military activities, resulting in the disturbance of schooling for 64,712 students and 2,470 teachers. Research conducted in 2004 revealed that 226,000 children in 580 schools found going to school “impossible, irregular or very risky”, facts which are important to bear in mind when making the case for academic boycott.
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Plunder, Destruction and Despoliation: An Analysis of Israel’s Violations of the International Law of Cultural Property
This report addresses Israel’s systematic violation of international law pertaining to the protection of cultural property during armed conflict, important to bear in mind when campaigning for a cultural boycott of Israel. It provides a comprehensive legal analysis of Israel’s policies concerning cultural property in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). Consideration is given to the relevant provisions of international law on the protection of cultural property; how these standards have been applied in the OPT; Israeli law regarding the protection of cultural property; patterns that have been seen in the OPT; and the obligations of Israel and third-party states regarding these ongoing violations.
Preventing the Development of Palestinian Natural Gas Resources in the Mediterranean Sea: Implications for Multinational Corporations Operating in Israel’s Gas Industry
This report documents how Israel has systematically prevented the occupied Palestinian population from developing their natural gas resources off the Gaza coast and the implications for complicit multinational corporations. In recent years large gas discoveries have been found off the coast of Israel including the Tamar and Leviathan fields. In order to develop and secure Israel’s gas platforms bordering Palestinian territorial waters and gas export pipelines running through Palestine’s continental shelf, Israel has inflicted a lethal naval closure of the Gaza Strip preventing Palestinian access to its Gaza Marine gas resources.
Divide and Conquer – A Legal Analysis of Israel’s 2014 offensive against the Gaza Strip
Between 8 July and 26 August 2014, Israel carried out a massive offensive against the occupied Gaza Strip, codenamed ‘Operation Protective Edge’. According to documentation jointly compiled by the Palestinian human rights organisations Al-Haq, Al Mezan, Aldameer and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, a total of 2,215 Palestinians, including 1,639 civilians of which 556 were children, were killed during the offensive. The report documents damage to 32,028 Palestinian residential houses and found that 43,503 Palestinian families, including 125,079 children, were affected by the destruction and damage to residential house and puts the offensive in the wider context of the occupation and an ongoing unlawful closure
„Non a l’Apartheid Israelien – Apartheid Is Real“ Poster (French)
This poster, which reads „Non a l’Apartheid Israelien – Apartheid Is Real“, was produced by the Just Seeds radical art collective.
„Boycott Israeli Apartheid: Solidarity With Gaza“ image
This image, which reads „Boycott Israeli Apartheid: Solidarity With Gaza“, was produced by the Just Seeds radical art collective.
„Boycott Apartheid Boycott Israel“ Poster
This poster, which reads „Boycott Apartheid Boycott Israel“, was sourced from the Palestine Poster Project archive.
„Boycott Israeli Merchandise“ Arabic Poster
This poster, which reads „Boycott Israeli Merchandise“ in Arabic, was sourced from the Palestine Poster Project archive.
„Boycott Israel – Free Palestine“ Poster
This poster, which reads „Boycott Israel – Free Palestine“, was sourced from the Palestine Poster Project archive.
CorporateWatch.org
The Corporate Watch website is a useful source of information about the corporations profiting from Israeli apartheid. It has reports, company profiles, news and briefings on the corporations benefiting from Israeli violations of internatinoal law. The UK-based research collective, founded in 1996, also has a special mini-site ‚Corporate Occupation‘, dedicated to Palestine.
„Solidarity Not Charity – Support the Boycott“ Poster
This poster, which reads „The Palestinian People are Not Asking for Revenge, they Are Asking for Freedom. The Palestinian People are not asking for Charity, they are asking for Solidarity – Support the Boycott“, was sourced from the Palestine Poster Project archive.
WhoProfits.org
The Who Profits website is an invaluable source of information about the corporations profiting from the occupation. It has reports, company profiles and a link to report as yet unknown corporations benefiting from Israeli apartheid. The project, founded in 2007, aims to expose the Israeli ‚occupation industry‘.