presumably the antisemitism training travelodge has promised to roll out will point out that conflating israel and judaism is in of itself antisemitic, and so, by its very definition, putting a blanket message of free palestine on a tv display message is not antisemitic!
The illegality of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank is one of the most well-established positions in international law, resting on four distinct pillars:
📜 GENEVA CONVENTIONS
Article 49(6) of the Fourth Geneva Convention (1949) explicitly prohibits an occupying power from transferring parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies. Israel ratified the Convention in 1951. The International Committee of the Red Cross, the authoritative interpreter of humanitarian law, has consistently held that this provision applies directly to the settlements.
🌐 UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS
The Security Council has repeatedly affirmed settlement illegality — including in binding resolutions the US did not veto:
• Res. 446 (1979): settlements have "no legal validity"
• Res. 465 (1980): calls on Israel to dismantle existing settlements
• Res. 2334 (2016): passed 14-0 (US abstained), explicitly states settlements constitute "a flagrant violation of international law" and have "no legal validity"
⚖️ ICJ RULINGS
• Advisory Opinion on the Wall (2004): the Court found settlements in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, had been established in breach of international law, and that the wall built to protect them compounded that illegality
• Advisory Opinion on the Occupied Palestinian Territory (2024): the Court went further, ruling that Israel's continued presence in the OPT — including the settlement enterprise — is itself unlawful, and called on all states not to recognise or assist it
🏛️ UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Countless UNGA resolutions have reaffirmed settlement illegality, including Res. 77/247 (2023), which requested the landmark 2024 ICJ opinion.
No serious legal scholar disputes this consensus. The settlements are illegal. The only remaining question is whether the international community will act on it.
It is rather disturbing that you're more upset about the protests than you are about the fact a place you have fond memories of as a child has agreed to host an event where property in illegal Israeli settlements was offered up for sale.
Though I guess avoiding the crux of the issue is easier for you.
Hang on. People have been telling me all day that the only property for sale was 'behind the Green Line'/'within Israel's 1967 borders'. Are you saying that isn't true?
Yesterday the BoD acting President, Adrian Cohen, released a statement claiming that event organisers had 'refuted claims that the event is marketing real estate over the Green Line' and then made out that those protesting the event were motivated by a mixture of false pretence and Jew hate.
Today we have evidence proving beyond any doubt that brochures for West Bank settlements were handed out and properties in the illegal settlements of Ma’ale Adumim and Givat Ze’ev in the occupied West Bank, as well as Ramat Eshkol and Givat HaMatos in occupied East Jerusalem.
Properties in 'Judea and Samaria' were being directly offered to attendees by companies at the event.
Will we now get an apology from the @BoardofDeputies acting President and will they publicaly disassociate themselves from this event offering properties in Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory that even our own UK government accepts as being illegal under international law?
https://t.co/2iLex0evo1
It’s so hard coming home from Israel because part of you stays there.
It’s impossible to describe until you’ve been. Jerusalem particularly has an spiritual energy. It’s entirely unsurprising three of the world’s major religions have origins there.
So you’re coming back to Boston going to chipotle or whatever and it just feels so unimportant.
What a stupid cunt you are
You know the property was being sold in an illegal settlement as per international and UK law
But you’ll double down and cry antisemitism
Hi @JamesHeartfield you seem to have deleted this post you made about the Israeli real estate event... is it perhaps because your post was a bare faced lie?