Israel/Palestine

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts) Sun Apr 26, 2015, 05:51 PM Apr 2015

Courting apartheid: how Israel's top judges rubber-stamp discrimination

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/debate/18276-courting-apartheid-how-israels-top-judges-rubber-stamp-discrimination

The most high-profile recent decision was the upholding of the Anti-Boycott Law passed in 2011. The law was a "direct response to the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign", and its impact has been a "chilling effect" and "stifling" of "political debate."

Sitting as the HCJ, the judges rejected most of the petition filed by human rights groups, and left the legislation almost entirely intact. Boycotts were described in the ruling as "political terror."

The Court voted 9-0 "on the authority of the finance minister to impose fines or withhold funding from Israeli NGOs calling for boycotts of businesses in all or parts of Israel", and 8-1 on "the ability to file lawsuits against those NGOs."

While striking down by 9-0 the part of the law allowing punitive damages in lawsuits, the justices also voted 5-4 to allow such lawsuits "even if they were against groups that called only for boycotts of post-1967 Israel, meaning of Israeli settlements in the West Bank."

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Courting apartheid: how Israel's top judges rubber-stamp discrimination (Original Post) R. Daneel Olivaw Apr 2015 OP

More from the corrupt Israeli apartheid machine... R. Daneel Olivaw Apr 2015 #1

. libodem Apr 2015 #2

I think the blurring of the distinction between Israel and the settlements is downright dangerous Little Tich Apr 2015 #3

What blurring ?? Israeli Apr 2015 #4

I refuse to give up on Israel just yet. Little Tich Apr 2015 #5

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)

1. More from the corrupt Israeli apartheid machine...

Reply to R. Daneel Olivaw (Original post)

Sun Apr 26, 2015, 05:52 PM

Apr 2015

Then, just one day after the Court had upheld the anti-boycott legislation, its justices also backed the confiscation of Palestinian land in East Jerusalem using legislation passed in 1950 to appropriate the assets of expelled refugees.

The Absentee Property Law was the main instrument used to transfer land from ethnically cleansed Palestinians to the new State of Israel. It declared land to be 'abandoned' if its owner was absent for even just one day from November 1947 – but excluded Jewish Israelis from its provisions.

After 1967, and the unilateral, illegal expansion of Jerusalem's borders, Palestinians whose land now lay in the city were suddenly categorised as 'absentees', even if they only lived a few hundred metres away, the other side of the new municipal boundary.

libodem

(19,288 posts)

2. .

Reply to R. Daneel Olivaw (Original post)

Sun Apr 26, 2015, 11:01 PM

Apr 2015

Little Tich

(6,171 posts)

3. I think the blurring of the distinction between Israel and the settlements is downright dangerous

Reply to R. Daneel Olivaw (Original post)

Sun Apr 26, 2015, 11:09 PM

Apr 2015

for Israel. I don't buy settlement products. If the settlements become “post-1967 Israel”, and there is no longer any meaningful distinction between the settlements and Israel, then I will have to consider Israel to be just a big settlement, and then I can't buy Israeli products anymore.

Please, High Court of Justice of Israel, don't do this.

Israeli

(4,161 posts)

4. What blurring ??

Reply to Little Tich (Reply #3)

Mon Apr 27, 2015, 01:20 AM

Apr 2015

There is no blurring .

The settlements have already become “post-1967 Israel”, and there is no longer any meaningful distinction between the settlements and Israel Proper.
( they are going to ban the use of the word ' proper ' any day now )

"Please, High Court of Justice of Israel, don't do this."

They have done it already .....

http://972mag.com/high-court-upholds-controversial-boycott-law/105528/

See also ....

Everything you (never) wanted to know about Israel's anti-boycott law
A reader’s guide to democracy’s darkest hour.

http://972mag.com/boycott2325-7132011/18648/

Little Tich

(6,171 posts)

5. I refuse to give up on Israel just yet.

Reply to Israeli (Reply #4)

Mon Apr 27, 2015, 02:31 AM

Apr 2015

Even though there are some idiots in the judicial, executive and legislative branches of government that don’t know where Israel is, I still do. As long as I can see a meaningful difference between Israeli and settlement products, then I will continue to buy white and blue.

But, hell, it’s getting harder all the time.

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