The Jewish Settlements in the West Bank: International Law and Israeli Jurisprudence

Galchinsky, Michael

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“…Some of these are included in umbrella organizations: the Consultative Council of Jewish Organisations and the Coordinating Board of Jewish Organizations. 25 See Galchinsky (2004) where he argues for a complex process where Israel is becoming increasingly isolated in international politics. 26 In the former category, Galchinksy finds NGOs such as the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, B'Tselem, HaMoked: Center for Defence of the Individual, Rabbis for Human Rights, Physicians for Human Rights (Israel), Public Committee against Torture in Israel, and Israel Coalition against House Demolitions.…”

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Religion, State and the United Nations

Levy¹,

Kyselo²

2016

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In this chapter, we examine free speech at the United Nations (UN) and seek to address the question of why no Jewish or Israeli non-governmental organizations (NGOs) supported the Defamation of Religion campaign (see chapter three)? Was it merely because it was supported by The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) or was there something else at work? We argue for the latter, and explore the concepts of blasphemy and the nature of (free) speech from a Jewish epistemological perspective. We take up the example of Noam Chomsky, and his role as an international actor at the UN, Jew, and free speech advocate in order to explore the issue more deeply. Chomsky's approach to both politics and language serves to mediate our theoretical position. Finally, we take a look on various Jewish NGOs involved in the continuous process of carving out a religious space in the territory of international politics. Philosophical context People talk about the UN as if it were a thing, a substance, though it is not clear what kind of thing it could be. It starts from here. Our friend, Erik, for example, says he worked there, in New York, at the UN-there was some initiative from a Norwegian prime minister. It didn't work out. There are news reports: BBC, NPR, NRK, they talk about it too. Chomsky spoke there, to a large audience. We read about it. We speak about it together. People tell stories. People are thinking very abstractly about global governance. The UN is something that exists, but it exists in different senses: as an agent, as a location, as an object. It is also assumed that the UN enacts values. Value politics at the UN is just politics, and all politics are value laden. All values are communicative, intersubjective, ways of presenting the self to others and oneself. The same goes for institutions, though they operate differently. There is a logic of institutions, logics of money, sex, and God (Friedland 2002). They are self-organizing systems with a drive for self-preservation. Narratives hold them together. But they miss something. The reality of speech is kaleidoscopic, jagged, like shards of shattered glass. The usual presentation of the way the UN is organized and structureddifferentiating between political, administrative, and activist spheres (see Introduction, this volume)-is a useful starting point; a view about the reality of

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Religion, State and the United Nations

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2016

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“…(Ford 1999, p. 917) Israel occupied the WBGS in 1967, and since then administered it through various bureaucratic and political devices; Palestinian representatives -from the mayors in the 1970s to the PNA in the 1990s -operated since that moment only with Israel's assent and within limits established by Israel itself. Unquestionably, the 'Israeli -Zionist decisionmaking' was then extended to the whole area of Palestine through the system of military orders (Shehadeh 1988, Bisharat 1989, Kretzmer 2002, the separate legal administrative status of settlers (Benvenisti 1984, Shehadeh 1988, Galchinsky 2004, the annexation of specific areas and the economic control (Lewin-Epstein and Semyonov 1987, Roy 1995, Farsakh 2005. This process has been particularly evident in specific policy areas -for example in the new land regime (Shehadeh 1988, Davis and Lehn 1988, pp.…”

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Citizenship in Palestine: a fractured geography

Allegra

2009

Citizenship Studies

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This article deals with the Israeli -Palestinian conflict through an approach based on citizenship. The article considers the whole historical Palestine (Israel and the so-called Occupied Territories) as a unique unit of analysis, and suggests that the dynamics of citizenship in this area should be analysed through the exam of two fundamental dimensions, relating to membership and territory. In general, the example of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict offers the chance to address the conventional meaning of concepts such as 'state', 'democracy' and 'citizenship', underlying the complex dynamics of inclusion/exclusion of individuals and groups within a collective decisionmaking process. As far as Palestine is concerned, the centre of gravity and the horizons of the conflict are described through the notion of 'ruptured demos', suggesting new directions for comparative research and drawing the attention to the progressive demise of the so-called 'two-state' solution.

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“…2. For a complete literature review on the history and the legality of the settlements, see Galchinsky (2004). Las (1996).…”

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The Jewish Settlements in the West Bank: International Law and Israeli Jurisprudence

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Religion, State and the United Nations

Religion, State and the United Nations

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