{"id":2245,"date":"2020-02-27T09:17:38","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T09:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?p=2245"},"modified":"2020-02-27T09:17:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T09:17:38","slug":"un-list-of-companies-active-in-israeli-illegal-settlements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?p=2245","title":{"rendered":"UN List of companies active in Israeli illegal settlements."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign welcomes that the UN has at last published\u00a0\u00a0a list of companies colluding in\u00a0Israel\u2019s illegal settlements\u00a0in the West Bank. There are currently around 600,000 illegal settlers, part of a systematic policy to remove the Palestinian people from the land and expand Israel. Their number has been growing over the last 50 years. Some are economic settlers looking for cheap, state subsidised accommodation, others\u00a0believe that they have a God given right to Palestinian land. The settlements exist because Israel is the dominant regional military power and is backed by the world\u2019s only super power, the United States.<br><br> Stealing another people\u2019s land is a throwback to colonial times. When Iraq invaded Kuwait, Britain intervened militarily, and when Russia annexed parts of Ukraine, Britain supported sanctions. By contrast, illegal Israeli settlements have been accompanied by mild rebuke but no sanctions. Consequently Israel has continued to expand with impunity and has been rewarded with aid and lucrative trade deals.<br><br> Now, the United Nations Human Rights Commission has produced a report that lists 112 companies that are active in these illegal settlements.The companies that profit from building and sustaining settlements, must be banned from trading in the UK.<br> The UN\u2019s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sheffieldpsc.us6.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e9f7e3f515cf87277529f8b0f&amp;id=76dae22a0e&amp;e=3970d2645b\" target=\"_blank\">list of complicit companies<\/a> is far from complete but it is a start. It is time for everyone committed todemocratic values to rally behind Palestinian civil society\u2019s call for boycotting all trade with Israel until it abides byinternational law and ends the oppression and ethnic cleansing of the <a>Palestinians<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PSC has issued a statement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palestinecampaign.org\/press-release-psc-responds-to-release-of-un-settlement-database\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>War on Want has issued a statement <a href=\"https:\/\/waronwant.org\/media\/un-database-statement\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lawyers for Palestinian Human rights has issued a statement <a href=\"https:\/\/lphr.org.uk\/latest-news\/statement-on-the-release-of-the-un-database-of-businesses-involved-in-illegal-israeli-settlements-uk-organisations-urge-uk-government-to-take-action-to-end-businesses-involvement-in-illegal\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign welcomes that the UN has at last published\u00a0\u00a0a list of companies colluding in\u00a0Israel\u2019s illegal settlements\u00a0in the West Bank. There are currently around 600,000 illegal settlers, part of a systematic policy to remove the Palestinian people from the land and expand Israel. Their number has been growing over the last 50 years. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?p=2245\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UN List of companies active in Israeli illegal settlements.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2246,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions\/2246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}