Legal

Comprehensive Military Embargo of Israel – A working paper of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC)

Resource Type: Briefing Essential Legal
Date Added: July 8, 2011
Posted by: Palestinian BDS National Committee
Description: This background document accompanies the BNC’s call for an immediate, comprehensive military Embargo on Israel, issued on 9 July 2011. It examines the legal framework in which the call is made, Israel’s record of unlawful use of armed force, and the role of military cooperation with Israel , Israel’s military industry and the academy in maintaining Israel’s violations of international law and its system of apartheid, colonisation and occupation against the Palestinian people. The document concludes with an overview of international legal obligations to end Israel’s unlawful use of armed force whose respect by governments, the UN and business corporations has yet to be ensured.

Resource Type: Legal
Date Added: December 1, 2010
Posted by: Richard Falk
Description: Richard Falk writes on the responsibility of the whole of the State of Israel for its violations of international law and the implications for the BDS movement.

Resource Type: Briefing Legal
Date Added: October 14, 2010
Posted by: Yasmine Gado for the BNC
Description: Attorney Yasmine Gado examines the Israeli diamond industry and the possibility of having Israeli diamonds categorised as conflict diamonds under the Kimberly Process.

Resource Type: Briefing Legal
Date Added: May 24, 2010
Posted by: BNC
Description: Memorandum presented by Guy S. Goodwin-Gill, University of Oxford, to OECD member-states about their legal obligations during Israel's accession process (May 2010)

Resource Type: Legal
Date Added: May 14, 2009
Posted by: Human Sciences Research Council
Description: A re-assessment of Israel’s practices in the occupied Palestinian territories under international law by the Human Sciences Research Council.