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The Electronic Intifada

Why I’m suing EU for trading with settlements 

Tom Moerenhout The Electronic Intifada 28 November 2019

   

 I am part of a group of seven people who are suing the European Union’s executive over its trade with settlements in territories under military occupation.
  

It may seem strange that we are taking this action around the same time that the EU’s top court ruled that all products from Israel’s settlements in the occupied West Bank and Golan Heights must be labeled accurately.
 

Yet it should be emphasized that despite this verdict, the EU still allows trade with settlements. By doing so, the EU and its governments violate their obligations under international law.
 

Trading with settlements – all of which breach the Fourth Geneva Convention – is tantamount to conferring recognition on them. It also helps occupying powers to maintain and expand their illegal colonies.
  

Since the European Court of Justice verdict was delivered earlier this month, the US has, in effect, given its approval to Israel’s settlement activities. The declaration by Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, that the US does not view the settlements as illegal is itself a grave assault on international law.
 

It is all the more urgent, then, that the EU finally takes a tough stance against settlement activities.
 

Those activities contribute to a whole range of international law violations.
 

They obstruct the rights of Palestinians to self-determination. They involve the acquisition of land by force and the transfer of Israel’s civilian population to territories under military occupation – which, by definition, is a war crime.
 

And – by ensuring the domination of one ethnic group over another – they reinforce an apartheid system.
 

Further
https://electronicintifada.net/content/why-im-suing-eu-trading-settlements/29011