UN rights office reports on business activity in occupied Palestinian territory
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Re: UN rights office reports on business activity in occupied Palestinian territory
#2The actual report can be found at [0] (direct docx download). All the companies listed in this title were providing "The provision of services and utilities supporting the maintenance and existence of settlements, including transport;" and the two other companies from the US mentioned in the report were General Mills which is extracting unspecified natural resources from the land in question and Motorola Solutions which is providing basically security services of some sort (cameras, ID equipment, etc).
Honestly I kind of despair for this ever reaching an amicable solution.
[0] https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/RegularSessions/Sessio...
Re: UN rights office reports on business activity in occupied Palestinian territory
#3The actual report can be found at [0] (direct docx download). All the companies listed in this title were providing "The provision of services and utilities supporting the maintenance and existence of settlements, including transport;" and the two other companies from the US mentioned in the report were General Mills which is extracting unspecified natural resources from the land in question and Motorola Solutions wh…
What does The provision of services and utilities supporting the maintenance and existence of settlements, including transport mean in that context. Airbnb allowing settlers to rent out rooms, or Airbnb allowing settlers to book trips via Airbnb?
Re: UN rights office reports on business activity in occupied Palestinian territory
#4The actual report can be found at [0] (direct docx download). All the companies listed in this title were providing "The provision of services and utilities supporting the maintenance and existence of settlements, including transport;" and the two other companies from the US mentioned in the report were General Mills which is extracting unspecified natural resources from the land in question and Motorola Solutions wh…
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Re: UN rights office reports on business activity in occupied Palestinian territory
#5It's UN Human Rights Office, not UN itself.
UNCHR is an odious organization that focuses on Israel to the exclusion of pretty much anything else.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Human_Rights_Co...
Re: UN rights office reports on business activity in occupied Palestinian territory
#6The actual report can be found at [0] (direct docx download). All the companies listed in this title were providing "The provision of services and utilities supporting the maintenance and existence of settlements, including transport;" and the two other companies from the US mentioned in the report were General Mills which is extracting unspecified natural resources from the land in question and Motorola Solutions wh…
Also booking.com
It's so weird that the title has only 3 companies from that entire list. And none of them are companies under Booking Holdings. Almost feels conspiratorial in some way.
Re: UN rights office reports on business activity in occupied Palestinian territory
#7It's UN Human Rights Office, not UN itself. UNCHR is an odious organization that focuses on Israel to the exclusion of pretty much anything else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Human_Rights_Co...
It is part of the UN. See this BBC article for more: BBC News - UN lists 112 businesses linked to Israeli settlements
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-51477231
Re: UN rights office reports on business activity in occupied Palestinian territory
#8The actual report can be found at [0] (direct docx download). All the companies listed in this title were providing "The provision of services and utilities supporting the maintenance and existence of settlements, including transport;" and the two other companies from the US mentioned in the report were General Mills which is extracting unspecified natural resources from the land in question and Motorola Solutions wh…
I don't quite understand this.
Is the problem that you can book a hotel (or bnb) within the occupied territories?
Or is it you can book a hotel at something which is an "illegal" (as set by the UN but not by Israel I assume) settlement?
Does the UN want the booking services to check the ownership of the hotel to see if it is Jewish or Palestinian? Or just not have any hotel bookings there at all?
Re: UN rights office reports on business activity in occupied Palestinian territory
#9It's UN Human Rights Office, not UN itself. UNCHR is an odious organization that focuses on Israel to the exclusion of pretty much anything else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Human_Rights_Co...
> The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC; French: Conseil des droits de l'homme des Nations unies,[2] CDH) is a United Nations body (...)
I know some people dislike it, but lets stay with the facts here. It is "the UN" as much as the security council is "the UN". Both are relevant parts of it and if we choose and pick which ones we like things get very messy, very fast (even more than it is already).
Re: UN rights office reports on business activity in occupied Palestinian territory
#10What exactly did those three companies do?
I looked around the links on that page but I'm not getting a good feel for what happened.