Learn about the history of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, equality and justice by exploring major events in the history of their oppression on this day of the year.
1 February
UN NAMES COMPLICIT COMPANIES - ISRAEL FURIOUS
On this day in 2018, Israel’s UN Ambassador condemned the UN Human Rights Council report on 206 international companies operating in Israel’s illegal settlements. US pressure forced a last minute withholding of the company names: “This is a shameful act which will serve as a stain on the UNHRC forever. We will continue to act with our allies and use all the means at our disposal to stop the publication of this disgraceful blacklist…on the day the UN is marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day”
الأمم المتحدة تكشف أسماء الشركات المتورطة في الاحتلال- إسرائيل غاضبة
1 فبراير
في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 2018 ، أدان سفير إسرائيل لدى الأمم المتحدة تقرير مجلس حقوق الإنسان التابع للأمم المتحدة بشأن 206 شركة دولية تعمل في المستوطنات الإسرائيلية غير الشرعية. أجبر الضغط الأمريكي في اللحظة الأخيرة على حجب أسماء الشركات: "هذا عمل مخجل سيكون بمثابة وصمة عار على مجلس حقوق الإنسان التابع للأمم المتحدة إلى الأبد. سنواصل العمل مع حلفائنا واستخدام جميع الوسائل المتاحة لنا لوقف نشر هذه القائمة السوداء المشينة "... في اليوم الذي تحتفل فيه الأمم المتحدة باليوم الدولي لإحياء ذكرى (المحرقة) الهولوكوست.
UN database of companies operating in Israeli settlements could help prevent human rights abuses, according to Amnesty Inmternational
"The purpose of the UN database is quite simple: it is meant to help businesses, and the states in which they are based, take steps to ensure they are not committing or contributing to gross human rights abuses of Palestinians."
[By Laith Abu Zeyad, Amnesty Campaigner on Israel/OPT]
The Israelis were concerned at the BDS possibilities
A number of Israeli and international companies are facing the risk of being included on a United Nations blacklist for doing business in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, according to a report. The companies threatened with inclusion on the UN blacklist include Bezeq Telecommunications, Teva Pharmaceutical industries, and beverages giant Coca Cola, Israeli daily Yediot Ahronoth said on TuesdayUN rights office names names - defies US and pro-Israel bloc
UNHRC issues report on business activities related to settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
GENEVA (12 February) – The UN Human Rights Office on Wednesday issued a report on business enterprises involved in certain activities relating to settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, in response to a specific request by the UN Human Rights Council, contained in a March 2016 resolution, that mandated the Office to produce a database of business enterprises involved in such activities.*
In an interim report presented to the Human Rights Council in March 2018 by the then High Commissioner, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the UN Human Rights Office noted it had reviewed information that was publicly available, or had been received from a variety of sources, about an initial 307 companies. After further research, the total number reviewed increased to 321. Of these, a total of 206 companies were considered for further assessment.
The report released on Wednesday sets out conclusions following further communications with business entities, as well as a thorough review and assessment of all information available. It identifies 112 business entities which the UN Human Rights Office, on the basis of the information it has gathered, has reasonable grounds to conclude have been involved in one or more of the specific activities referenced in Human Rights Council resolution 31/36.
2-minute video: UN report, Israeli threats
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On this day in 2022, Amnesty International publishes conclusions that Israel is an apartheid state. It follows the same conclusion being reached by Israeli group B'Tselem and Human Rights Watch