More than 2,000 European academics and 45 organisations have supported a petition asking the European Commission to terminate the EU-Israel association treaty, thereby withdrawing a main pillar of European financial support for Israeli institutions, who are complicit in human rights abuses.
In addition, Article 2 of the EU-Israel Association Agreement commits the EU and its Member States to base their relations, and the provisions of the agreements themselves, on respect for human rights. Moreover, in their dealings with states engaged in armed conflict or belligerent occupation, such as Israel, all EU Member States are bound by the duty established in Article 1 common to the Geneva Conventions to “respect and ensure respect for [those] Conventions in all circumstances.” Yet, what has generally characterized EU policy is “a pattern of deference, bordering on legal acquiescence, to Israel’s violations of its agreements with the EU.” The Advisory Opinion of the ICJ demands an end to European deference.
By Ibrahim S.I Rabaia, Birzeit University[1] and Lourdes Habash, Birzeit University[2]
Doctors and nurses say death toll is more than 92,000, describe gruesome injuries and a sick and traumatized people
This statement is issued by the Directors of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA).
This ruling lays bare the reality of Israel’s occupation. Acting on it will bring us closer to peace
The Israeli government has long stressed that there was no Palestine whose land it could occupy and that the territories are ‘disputed’. The court has rejected this
Omer Bartov on his experience speaking with right-wing students who had just returned from military service in Gaza.
Israel’s genocidal war is both massacring Palestinians and destroying their physical and social infrastructure. In particular, Israel has targeted Palestinian educational institutions. In late April, UN experts concluded, “with more….
Gaza, Haifa, 16 July 2024 — Today marks exactly 10 years since the killing of four Palestinian children from the Bakr family – Ahed (9 years), Zakaria (10 years), Mohammed (11 years), and Ismail (9 years) – by the Israeli military in Gaza. In marking this somber anniversary, Al Mezan, Adalah, and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) highlight the systematic failure of the Israeli legal system to hold perpetrators accountable for acts of violence against Palestinians. This failure persists amid Israel’s genocidal military campaign against more than two million Palestinians in Gaza over the last nine months.
