The United Nations and BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions): Modern Antisemitism

"We hope that the database on businesses working in the occupied territories by the Office of the High Commissioner can be provided before the end of the year, in keeping with the mandate of the Council, and we hope that this will facilitate accountability."

"Mr. Vice-President, on a final note, while we wait for the publication by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights regarding the database of companies involved in illegal settlements, we encourage all Member States to cease any forms of cooperation which may have the potential to prolong and aggravate the Palestinian people's suffering."

"The OIC condemns the involvement of Israeli and multi-national corporations in illegal settlements, which results in corporate complicity and war crimes. We look forward to the online publication by the OHCHR of the database of companies involved in illegal Israeli settlements before the end of the year."

"We're reiterating, in this context, our demand for companies and corporations working in occupied Golans to end their trade dealings which support settlement activity and consolidate Israeli occupation. We stress the need to establish a database of companies which have trade dealings in settlements in order to reiterate that-to reinforce its occupation of the Golan."

"We reiterate the call by the international community for a freeze on settlement activities and urge respect for the guiding principles on business and human rights endorsed by the Human Rights Council with regard to the extraction of natural resources and conducting business in the occupied Palestinian territories."

"[W]e stress the urgent need for the international community to instinctively uphold its duties and to act decisively to sustain international humanitarian law and international human rights and to ensure accountability for any violation and address the issue of penal sanctions, as applicable."

"We deplore the involvement of Israeli multinational corporations in illegal settlements, resulting in corporate complicity in war crimes. We call on companies to disengage from their involvement in Israeli abuses of human rights and international law. Moreover, trade with Israeli settlements contributes to the existence and maintenance of settlements, and is thus illegal and must be ceased."

"Every member of the international community has to firmly reject the occupation practices and restrictions imposed on the Palestinian people that preclude the exercise of their fundamental rights and freedoms. In this regard, the EU notice on the labeling of settlement products from occupied territories was an important step."

"[W]e would also like to draw the Council's attention to the breach of international rules with regard to selling of goods produced in Palestine. We emphasize that products originated or produced in Palestine should carry the label as originated in Palestine as per existing rules of origin when sold outside the country."

"Regrettably, the international community has failed to fulfill its obligations towards the Palestinian people. On the contrary, certain States ... aid and abet Israeli unlawful policies, for instance by contributing to the maintenance and growth of illegal Israeli settlements by continuing to trade with them. We moreover deplore the involvement of Israeli and multinational corporations in illegal settlements, resulting in the risk of corporate complicity in war crimes."

"Israel's deplorable acts, which amount to apartheid, should be met with the same action and pressure exhumed in relation to the apartheid acts of South Africa."

"We deplore the involvement of Israeli and multinational corporations in illegal settlements, resulting in the risk of corporate complicity in war crimes. Moreover, trade with Israeli settlements contributes to the existence and maintenance of settlements, and is thus illegal and should be ceased."

"We deplore the involvement of Israeli and multinational corporations in illegal settlements, resulting in the risk of corporate complicity in war crimes. We call for full respect of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human rights."

"The OIC urges Member States to exercise pressure on Israel to respect its legal commitments and obligations under International humanitarian and human rights laws. We also urge all states and regional groups to fulfill their legal obligation as third state actors by adopting guidelines to ensure that settlement produce does not enter their markets."

"We call upon the relevant Working Group on Business and Human Rights to investigate the activities of businesses that are connected with Israeli settlement activities. The OIC urges them to take appropriate action within their mandate to end any activities in the occupied State of Palestine and ensure appropriate reparation for the affected Palestinians. The OIC would like to ask the Special Rapporteur on the most adequate modalities for the 'Working Group on Business and Human Rights' to fulfill its mandate."

"My delegation is in agreement with the recommendation that the international community should investigate the activities of businesses that profit from Israel's settlements, and take appropriate action to end any activities in occupied Palestine and ensure appropriate reparation for affected Palestinians. This different perspective will enable us to observe the issue comprehensively."

"Finally, the NAM attention is increasingly drawn to the activities of Israeli and international business enterprises involved in profit-making in occupied Palestine and a range of potential violations that stem from such activities. We maintain that the private companies must assess the human rights impact of their activities and take all necessary steps - including by terminating their business interests in the settlements - to ensure they are not adversely impacting the human rights of the Palestinian people. We further recommend that the Human Right Council's Working Group on Business and Human Rights be seized of the matter."

"We are further drawn to the Special Rapporteur's report on businesses that profit from the illegal Israeli settlements. We support the call for the Working Group on Business and Human Rights to investigate the activities of those businesses and urge them to take appropriate action in this regard. We further support the call for the appropriate reparations for the affected Palestinians."

"Finally, the Movement calls upon international community: ... - To investigate the activities of businesses that profit from Israel's settlements, and take appropriate action to end any activities in occupied Palestine and ensure appropriate reparation for affected Palestinians."

"I would like to recall that all those who import the products produced by settlements is an accomplice of these violations, which are gross violations of international humanitarian law which amount to crimes of war, and we are awaiting the establishment of a database for enterprises operating in these settlements by the end of this year, in accordance with the Security Council resolution."

"We await the database that gives information on businesses participating directly or indirectly in the construction of settlements, and we hope that this will be available in the near future."

"We call on the international community to step up to its responsibilities and put pressure on the occupying power to end the occupation and take all necessary measures to guarantee that the rule of law is respected by the occupying forces in the settlements. It is important to respect Paragraph 5 of Security Council 2334. We call on Israeli transnational companies to end their activities in the settlements and the international legislation and standards, including the guidelines for trade and human rights."

"[W]e warn concerned parties not to take steps that contribute to strengthening the Israeli occupation of the State of Palestine. This includes the support to the Israeli settlement enterprise... Bearing this in mind, we call on the High Commissioner for Human Rights to issue a list of companies that violate human rights."

"I call on all the countries to boycott settlements and to boycott the products of settlements and to warn of the possibility of imposing economic and commercial sanctions on the occupying power and that in accordance with guidelines on businesses and human rights. They must not deal directly or indirectly with the occupation system, in addition to not allowing the entry of illegal settlers into their countries."

"We call upon the international community to help stop the settlement policy and to refrain from supporting the Israeli government in this directly or indirectly so as to ensure that the Palestinian people can exercise its right to self-determination. Importing Israeli goods would be equivalent to supporting this policy, which violates international law officially."

"We urge the international community including the European Union to take into account the Israeli practices on the ground and to, at least, ban importing goods originating in the Israeli colonial settlements as a simple practical message that enough is enough."

"Recognising the role corporations play in facilitating Israel's confiscation of Palestinian land, this Council adopted Resolution 31/36, creating a database listing those operating in or affiliated with Israeli settlements. Mr. President, Al-Haq and Cairo Institute are deeply concerned over the unnecessary and continuing delays in releasing the list of businesses publicly. As Israel prepares to raze the Palestinian village of Khan Al-Ahmar to allow for further settlement construction, it is a matter of urgency that businesses do not benefit from Israel's illegal settlements. Accordingly, our organisations call for the immediate release of the database and an end to corporate complicity in Israel's occupation."

Union of Arab Jurists reminded that item 7 had been adopted to address the issue of occupation which was becoming increasingly bloodthirsty and racist through the confiscation of land and expulsion from land, and the building of Israeli settlements. The occupying power continued to remove the natural resources from occupied Palestinian lands in cooperation with United States companies. Through the carrot and stick policy, the occupying power continued to terrorize the occupied population.

"Member States can foster a tool for accountability by supporting the UN Database... Maintaining and updating the UN Database as a dynamic mechanism to document, report and engage with companies, as well as their home states, requires that states support the UN Database, including through cooperating with the mechanism and allocating resources to maintain it. The importance of the UN Database, both for the oPt as well as a blueprint for other contexts, cannot be underestimated. States...must not turn a blind eye to businesses operating in and with Israeli settlements."

"On this basis, BADIL calls on the UN Secretary General and UNGA to:...Urge Member States to fulfil their obligations to hold Israel accountable by cooperating to bring to an end to Israel's system of institutionalized discrimination, refraining from any act which directly or indirectly aids or assists the unlawful situation, and refraining from any action which expressly or tacitly recognizes such a system as lawful, including the imposition of sanctions."

"PRC calls on member states of the council to support resolution S-28/1 and impose accountability measures on Israel, including economic sanctions and arms embargoes, until it ends its oppression against Palestinians."

"We strongly urge States to establish a full ban on settlement products, noting that the mere labelling of such products is not enough to comply with their obligations as third States. Recalling that corporate entities involved in the occupied Palestinian territory may also be complicit in grave breaches of international law, we further urge the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to release the database of businesses compiled in accordance with the report of the UN fact finding mission on settlements to ensure corporate entities are finally held accountable for complicity in Israel's 51-year occupation of the Palestinian territory."