Tag Archives: International Law

Trump wages war against the rule of law in occupied Palestine (and elsewhere)

Lawless Trump Lawrence Davidson says Pompeo’s claim that Jewish colonies in Palestine are lawful is disingenuous humbug, and underlines the need to redouble efforts to boycott Israel and for Jews – whom Israel says it represent – to escalate their campaigns against Zionism and the Israeli occupation. Read more [...]

Dangerous drivel from Pompeo confirms America is no peace broker

Pompeo and Netanyahu Stuart Littlewood writes: Before Read more [...]

Trump’s Golan green light paves way to Israel’s annexation of West Bank

Jonathan Cooke says US recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the stolen Syrian Golan Heights “will prove a boon for the Israeli right, which has been clamouring to annex vast areas of the West Bank and thereby drive a final nail into the coffin of the two-state solution”. Read more [...]

Trump koshers Israel’s theft of Syria’s Golan Heights

Trump sanctions Golan theft Eve Mykytyn writes: On 21 March Read more [...]

The UN fails to name and shame firms aiding Israel’s illegal settlements

Boycott Israel - do not but with barcode starting with 729 Jonathan Cook examines the Western hypocrisy behind the decision by the UN to postpone for the third time the publication of a blacklist of Israeli and international firms that profit directly from Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied territories. Read more [...]

International law under threat

John Bolton Lawrence Davidson warns against the steady demise of international law, where the US and its allies are undermining the climate change control regime, the International Criminal Court and Interpol, paving the way for the return of the barbarism of the pre-1946 world. Read more [...]

Palestine: The testbed for Trump’s plan to tear up the rules-based international order

Israel servant Trump

Jonathan Cook says by liquidating the Palestinian cause and letting Israel rampage unhindered, Trump hopes to destroy the rules-based international system that has prevented World War III and thereby free up America’s hand elsewhere in the world. Read more [...]

So it’s OK to ignore the Law of the Seas? “Close friend” Britain doesn’t object to Israel’s vicious piracy, nor does the EU

Israeli piracy

Stuart Littlewood looks at the UK’s and EU’s conspiracy of silence — and maybe even collusion — that is allowing Israel to violate the UN Conventional on the Law of the Seas and maintain an illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip with impunity. Read more [...]

Gullible, gutless and gagged: Legal advice and common sense jettisoned as UK Labour Party leaders surrender to Zionist diktat

UK Labour betrays Palestinians

Stuart Littlewood asks why Jeremy Corbyn’s team ignored legal experts’ warnings that adopting the Zionist definition of ‘anti-Semitism’ would contravene the European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act, which is part of UK domestic law? Read more [...]

Israel wreaks terror on another harmless mercy ship 

Gaza Flotilla Boat 2018

Stuart Littlewood views Britain’s complicity through silence in Israel’s hijacking of a vessel carrying medical supplies for the blockaded Gaza Strip, against the background of the UN’s phony Palmer inquiry into a previous Israeli hijacking of an aid ship. Read more [...]