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.
Category Archives: Briefing
Death Traps: Landmines in Golan
Under Israeli occupation since 1967, the Occupied Syrian Golan is an area whose inhabitants are victims of landmines and other explosive devices used during Israeli occupation. These landmines have caused death and injury to dozens of people, mainly children. Israeli authorities, which did not sign the Ottawa Convention banning the use of landmines, have at times openly declared that they consider landmines to be a necessary means of defence and only a handful of minefields have been cleared.
Water for One People Only: Discriminatory Access and ‚Water Apartheid‘ in the OPT
This Al Haq report offers an authoritative analysis of Israel’s discrminatory control and distribution of water resources in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. It exposes techniques used by Israel to maintain hegemony over water and how settlers benefit while Palestinians are deprived. Through thorough legal analysis it shows how the colonial nature of Israel’s water regime amounts to ‚water apartheid‘.
Corporate Accountability for Violations of International Law: Questions and Answers
This important briefing from Palestinian legal advocacy organisation Al Haq answers key questions about who corporations can be held accountable for under international law and the meaning of „complicity“. It offers cases studies including Veolia and Caterpillar and examines common obstacles that stand in the way of litigation. The resources section includes previous legal precedents and tips on taking action to hold companies complicit in human rights abuses to account.
Statement by Richard Falk, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, to UN General Assembly 2013
Besieging Health Services in Gaza: a Profitable Business
This report looks at the effects of the siege imposed on Gaza by Israel on the health of Palestinians who live there. Not only is it rare to be able to leave Gaza for treatment, it is necessary because the health infrastructure in Gaza itself is impoverished and under-resourced due to the blockade and economic strangulation of Gaza. Fuel shortages and lack of clean drinking water are compounded by attacks in health workers and Israeli pharmaceutical multinationals which seek to profit by selling at high prices to a captive population.
G4S: A Company Profile
A complete profile of G4S from UK research collective Corporate Watch, detailing the company’s history and finances and involvement in a number of types of oppression, including in Palestine. With separate sections on prisons, policing, immigration and welfare, it builds a complete picture of the activities of the world’s largest security company, with a special focus on the UK. It also highlights resistance to G4S‘ corporate power and abuses.
Motorola: ‘Securing’ Israeli occupation
Six page briefing by Stop The Wall outlining how Motorola Israel (a subsidiary of the well known multinational company) is providing equipment used in the Apartheid Wall, checkpoints and illegal settlements and by the Israeli military, potentially in war crimes. As well as a profile of the company and a detailed breakdown of how it profits from settlements and the occupation, the briefing covers the international law which is violated by these activities. It also looks at some successful divestment efforts which provide inspiration for further campaigns to hold Motorola to account.
Companies Building the Apartheid Wall
This ten page Stop The Wall briefing names the names of the major Israeli and international companies buidling Israel’s Apartheid Wall and its related infrastructure of oppression: the checkpoints, watchtowers and military roads. With a do-it-yourself guide to divestment, the fact sheet includes case studies of successful campaigns from countries such as Norway and explores how companies llike Elbit Systems and Magal have also exported oppression abroad. Lesser known companies with a stake in Israel’s military-industrial complex and/or settlement enterprise are also listed.
Public Statement of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine following the conclusion of the London Session on corporate complicity in Israeli violations of international law
Boycott Elbit Systems: Stop Arms Trade With Israel!
Four page briefing from 2009 on Elbit Systems, one of Israel’s largest arms companies, and how it profits from producing military electronics, surveillance systems and in particular unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), better known as drones, which Israel uses to kill and maim Palestinians. Focusing on the role of Elbit’s murder weapons in the Second Lebanon War of 2006 and Israel’s attack on Gaza in 2008-9, the profits the company makes from oppressive around the world – including the wall on the US-Mexico border are also documented, making a resounding case for divestment from and boycott of Elbit.