NPK-info - 16 juni 2010 Nederlands Palestina Komitee - www.palestina-komitee.nl BDS, GAZA, VRIJHEID VOOR PALESTINA 17 JUNI DEN HAAG BIJ ISS - BDS-DEBAT MET HAZEM JAMJOUM Looking Critically at the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions Movement for Palestine. Could BDS be a peaceful way forward for the future of Israel and the Palestinians or does BDS lead to further divisions? The ISS International Relations Committee hosts Hazem Jamjoum, Communications Officer at the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency & Refugee Rights in Bethlehem, Palestine – one of the organizations that drafted the 2005 Palestinian Civil Society Call for BDS, to discuss what role BDS, as a non-violent tool, has played in this impasse / conflict. Furthermore, he will shed light on the recent events of the aid flotilla in conjunction with the way in which non-violent actions are framed by the state of Israel. Could BDS be a peaceful way forward for the future of Israel and the Palestinians or does BDS lead to further divisions?  -------------------------------- GAZA VRIJHEIDSVLOOT, DE JURIDISCHE KANT - Who will bring Israel to book over flotilla attack? Will the rule of law be applied to Israel this time? In principle, it is unlawful for a state to enforce a blockade against ships that are flying the flag of another state on the high seas. The only exceptions to this would be if the blockade were mandated by the UN security council acting under chapter VII of the UN charter. .... - Global Citizens Must Respond Stephane Hessel, holocaust survivor and co-author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has endorsed BDS ... Professor Ben Saul, squarely refutes Israel's claim arguing: "Legally speaking, government military forces rappelling onto a ship to illegally capture it are treated no differently than other criminals. The right of self-defense in such situations rests with the passengers on board: a person is legally entitled to resist one's own unlawful capture, abduction and detention." He adds that "if Israeli forces killed people, they may not only have infringed the human right to life, but they may also have committed serious international crimes. Under article 3 of the Rome Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation of 1988, it is an international crime for any person to seize or exercise control over a ship by force, and also a crime to injure or kill any person in the process." ... -------------------------------- AGENDATIPS (deels ook actietip) http://www.palestina-komitee.nl/agenda NPK-info verschijnt ongeveer eens per week per email met Palestina-nieuws: informatie, achtergronden en nieuws over activiteiten en bijeenkomsten. NPK-info is een uitgave van het Nederlands Palestina Komitee. Meer informatie vindt u op http://www.palestina-komitee.nl Geen NPK-info meer ontvangen? Afmelden / Unsubscribe