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March 11, 2020

The Moral and Intellectual Bankruptcy of the UN’s Position on Israeli Settlements

Ignoring serious crimes to focus on alleged misdeeds.

Last month, the UN Human Rights Office issued a list of 112 “business enterprises involved in certain activities relating to settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,” a measure intended to support boycotts of Israel. No such measures have been taken against territories elsewhere in the world occupied by foreign powers, note Brenda Shaffer, Svante Cornell, and Jonathan Schanzer—including areas where the legal problems are far more clear-cut:

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