The legality of the BDS weapon and its impact. Introduction: During the twentieth century, dozens of boycott campaigns took place around the world, which were a force that forced the aggressing parties to submit to the required political conditions and implement them against their will. We mention among them the Indian “Swadeshi” campaign that was launched at the beginning of the last century under the influence of British plans that aimed to divide the Bengal region into two parts. Muslim East and Hindu West, the campaign was part of the Indian independence movement aimed at boycotting British goods imported into India and relying on Indian local production. Gandhi was a supporter of the campaign in the 1930s, and the campaign succeeded in putting pressure on Britain, so India established its economy and restrained the British hand. It was also the movement to boycott the apartheid state “South Africa”, which arose at the hands of a group of South African politicians represented in the Committee of African Organizations, who met with groups of students and exiles in London to search for a political alternative against the apartheid state in South Africa in the year 1959. The boycott lasted thirty-five years and caused great economic and political losses to the British state and contributed to the dismantling of the state’s economic system. And the movement to boycott German goods in 1933, which the Central Union of German Jews known as “CV” resorted to to use it as a political protest movement against the new “Reich” government at that time, and at that time Hitler was the new ruler of Germany and acts of violence against the Jews and against their interests were escalating, so this choice was a reason for concern by Hitler's business sponsors and the Nazi Party. However, this movement did not succeed at the time in stopping the attack on German Jews, and the reason for the failure of this attempt, according to historians, was that there was political hostility to the boycott movement, and an agreement was concluded with the Nazi Party known as the “Havara” agreement, which aimed to displace sixty thousand Jews from Germany to Palestine. From these examples, it is possible to understand what boycott is and know its importance and the strength of its impact on the economic and political levels. We note that the factors for the success or failure of using this force is the political condition represented by the solidarity and unity formed by the political actors. The second condition is the economic one in which the boycott will take place. It calls for collective insistence, reliance on the local economy, and stopping the process of foreign imports. The best thing about this matter is to create self-sufficiency that depends on the local capabilities and capabilities for production. Any defect in one of the conditions will be the fate of the boycott to failure, just as the efforts of the Jews failed. Germany in the boycott. In this article, I talk about the legitimacy of using the boycott weapon to support the people of Gaza in response to the unjust Zionist aggression, and a form of international economic sanctions in the United Nations Charter represented by boycott. I will discuss the Palestinian boycott movement “BDS” and its impact, aiming to urge Arab youth to use This is the means that develops our sense of human responsibility, and I will not speak about patriotism, but rather about the humanitarian aspect, and this is the least that can be done. A look at the rules of international law: International economic sanctions are one of the forms of international sanctions recognized in international relations. However, they have not been defined in international jurisprudence, and definitions have varied regarding them. The reason for this is that sanctions fall under many forms, and international economic sanctions are among the most important. Forms of punishment within the framework of international relations, the United Nations Charter does not address the definition of sanctions or punishments. It was included in the Treaty of Versailles to indicate the application of pressure under Article 16 of the League of Nations, and the punishment of war criminals under Articles 227 and 1230. It is noted that the United Nations Charter did not use the term “penalty,” although this term was mentioned in the preparatory work for the Charter. When drafting the United Nations Charter, several amendments were made to the Dumberton Oaks Project, replacing the expression “measures” that do not require the use of force, as stated in Article 41, in place of sanctions or penalties. The formulation of the provisions of the United Nations Charter was influenced by the expressions of sanctions that were used in the era of the League of Nations. Boycott is considered a form of international economic sanctions. Boycott means that a state stops its economic and financial relations with another state and its nationals with the aim of forcing this state to comply with the demand of the first state. Boycott includes stopping all economic, commercial, financial, investment and social relations with the state targeted by the boycott, the boycott should cover various fields, especially tourism, immigration, travel, and various commercial and financial transactions. The boycott may mean abstaining from and preventing purchases and imports. It may also include preventing exports and prohibiting total or partial shipping to a specific country or countries. The boycott is decided to put pressure on the targeted country in order to obstruct its foreign trade, disrupt its financial relations, and influence its internal and foreign policy, in the sense of weakening it economically. The success of the economic boycott or not is linked to achieving its goals. Therefore, the boycott must be effective and effective, inflicting serious economic damage on the targeted country in order for it to be considered Successful. The aim of the boycott is to prevent the targeted country from importing necessary materials and weapons, to obstruct its exports and limit its international activity. Perhaps this makes it extremely influential and severe on the country’s economic balance, because countries have large and intertwined economic relations with other countries, which puts it in a state of continuous dependence on economic cooperation, either for its needs for foreign goods to satisfy its internal needs, or to market its products externally, or either to request assistance and facilities with other mutual relations between countries, and this is what harms the targeted country and curbs its freedom to exercise its sovereign rights. and its international obligations. Among the international sanctions in the economic field that the UN Security Council resorted to in the Iraq and Kuwait war, the facts of which mimic our current reality, with regard to military operations and the humanitarian situation, which the UN Security Council adopted to protect, adopting a set of measures to end the crisis at that time, Below I present before you Resolution 661, which was issued on August 6, 1990, which came without waiting for a reaction from the Iraqi government to Resolution 660. The resolution imposes comprehensive sanctions on Iraq with the approval of 13 countries and the abstention of both Cuba and Yemen. It was at the beginning of the third point on the list. Measures: Decides that all states shall prohibit the following: 1. Preventing all countries from importing any goods and products originating from Iraq or Kuwait. 2. Any activities carried out by its nationals or in its territories that would promote the export or transit shipment of any goods or products from Iraq or Kuwait. 3. Any sale or supply carried out by its nationals or carried out from its territories or using ships flying its flag. In the fourth point of the resolution, it was stated: “It is decided that all countries shall refrain from providing any funds or any other financial or economic resources to the government of Iraq or to any commercial or industrial projects or any public utility projects in Iraq or Kuwait.” To this point, I believe that the legitimacy of using the boycott weapon has become clear, based on what was stated above in the UN Security Council resolution, and what was stated in Resolution 661, and this is what must be implemented today, whether by a UN resolution or by Arab and international efforts to put pressure on the Zionist entity and achieve more success by harming it and stopping its criminal acts. Right to the Palestinian people. The Palestinian boycott movement "BDS" and its impact: in conclusion: The legality of the boycott weapon does not require proof, and do not wait for legal justification. It is a right of self-defense and there is no dispute about that. In the above, I was highlighting with the intention of reminding and noting that this method has an impact, and I brought up the living examples that we are witnessing at the present time, it has a great place in international law because of its peacefulness and because it is a right that is legitimized when exposed to violations and violations of laws, especially humanitarian issues. The United Nations has included it in its lists of charters and the UN Security Council decides on it as an international decision that must be implemented. The boycott has become everyone's responsibility, and the youth are at the forefront because they are the group that carries the banner of change and influence. Moreover, the boycott is a weapon of those who are powerless to confront the genocide launched by the Zionist aggression against the children, women and elders of Gaza. Here we reach a tangible result and a firm conviction that the most effective means and the most powerful weapon to dissuade this enemy lies in unity, agreement, insistence and commitment to implement this goal, and that after what was presented in this humble article and based on the vivid examples and realistic evidence provided, boycott is a legally stipulated weapon. In international laws and contained in United Nations charters, it has proven its effectiveness in defeating colonialism. Mohamad Al Kasir
Read more
It is not a first round in any case, as this latest aggression was preceded by attacks, or as they are said, military escalations, and this only indicates that the aggression is ongoing in various fields and for many reasons, but it is escalated from time to time according to the requirements and visions of the replacement colonial entity. We must review a few facts here. First, the Gaza Strip, which is a coastal strip with an area of 365 square kilometers, is indirectly occupied and besieged. In addition, for example, to being forced to trade in the enemy’s currency, the enemy stands at all of its crossings, controlling movement, livelihood, and the economy, except for the crossing. Rafah, the connecting point between Palestinian Rafah and Egyptian Rafah, is supposed to be a sovereign point on which Egypt is based. Secondly, the enemy had withdrawn from Gaza in 2005, driven by intense resistance. In his announcement of withdrawal, he revealed a unilateral disengagement decision, which is a political term that aims to separate between two states until each state achieves its geographical and political sovereignty. The Knesset will later cancel the decision in March from the year 2023. Third, the siege on Gaza began in 2007 following the legislative elections in January 2006, as a collective punishment for the people of Gaza choosing their legislative representative, through a democratic election process. However, the enemy - the only democracy in the Middle East according to the West’s estimation - wanted a different fate for the people of Gaza. Fourth, since its withdrawal from the Gaza Strip until before October 7, 2023, the Israeli enemy attacked Gaza six times, the longest of which was Operation Protective Edge in 2014, which lasted 51 days and killed 2,322 martyrs. How can we today count more than 220 days of aggression against the Gaza Strip? More than 35 thousand martyrs, more than 10 thousand missing, whether prisoner, martyr, or alive under the rubble, and tens of thousands of wounded who did not survive their wounds and will not survive another targeting. Public opinion agreed upon the beginning of the aggression in October 2023 on a scenario different from the incident, similar to previous attacks at the very least. In our conversations, we used to say that this world will move naturally. We attribute this wish to several reasons, including: The Israeli narrative has been proven false, and it has become clear that the enemy is using media platforms and tongues in a ridiculous and vulgar manner. The issue is fundamentally related to a state of continuous struggle and a valid cause, which is historical Palestine, and that the Palestinian people are a people of a nation that will not watch them being slaughtered. It is a struggle between an occupying colonizer and a people who have been under substitutionary colonialism for 76 years, and that international humanitarian law stipulates the right to self-defense for whom, and when it is due. We are in the era of human rights and organizations striving for this cause, in addition to those who believe in rights and humanity, on another authoritarian side, countries and groups with popular, political and military weight condemn the right of the Palestinian struggle and the duty to support and advocate for it. But “we” have been since the date of this aggression, and we have stood by every massacre that we believe will push this world to stand up for once against the enemy. What is also striking is that when we said, we do not mean the Palestinian people exclusively, and we did not only include Arab public opinion, but rather we are groups of varying race, gender, and affiliation. Culture believes that this genocide against the Gaza Strip must be stopped, but rather the Palestinian right from the river to the sea must be restored. There is a real scene today of communities living on the streets of varying ages, educational levels, societal jobs, and positions, all of them from his place and his country asking for serious action to stop the genocide, and to stop supporting the criminal enemy, but something stands between the will of the communities and stopping the genocide, is the will of the governments that have concluded that there is no evidence of genocide in Gaza, and it tried its best to promote the story of the colonial enemy that it unleashed hell on Gaza only out of self-defense! Rather, it seemed as if the ruling class around the world was waiting for the opportunity to “neutralize” the Gaza Strip, and amid speeches and statements filled with “I am a human being who opposes violence,” a convoy of advanced modern weapons crossed, from them to Israel, destroying the health and education sector, amputating people’s limbs, weighing down their hearts, and pursuing them from a building to a tent, and we turn our attention between two situations, either the Philadelphia land crossing between Gaza and Egypt, or a water pier that they used to build with the rubble of buildings destroyed in Gaza that may carry the bones of martyrs or their flesh! In this accelerating time frame, none of the delegations from the developed world that rushed to the region seeking war or peace did not ask Gaza what it wants, and what fate it desires! This is another scenario of war that was not expected by an analyst or expert, I think. Readings continued to exaggerate the events. Some claimed that it was an aggression that would not last, and others believed that a war would take place in the region, but Gaza remained in the middle, being attacked from all sides, tasting the horrors of the wars that was witnessed by the nations in one aggression, one sentence... It is not a war we wish for, but rather how did we misjudge its age and brutality?
Read more
The struggle itself is a right that is being taken away from us little by little for pretexts. The international community has actually shown reservations regarding the Palestinian situation, ruling that the legitimacy of the struggle is suspended. However, all of this did not eliminate the role of the Palestinian refugee youth in the struggle and in investing their asylum in support of a renewed struggle machine in Palestine. The refugee youth are a mobile speaking media that serves the Palestinian news, a corrective narrator of poisonous narratives broadcast through the enemy’s media machine, and a steadfast person who clings to “no settlement. Written by: Marwa Kindi
Read more
There is an urgent need in the first place to show your opinion, to stand among a group of your people and influence them and they influence you, then you will find a way, know it, and pursue it. All this is an indispensable benefit in order for the judgment to be upright, and lest you make a tyrant over you, and you will end up disliking something. The firm human right to participate in political life is an instinct in the individual and the group whose goal is to make society equal and correct. The viewer alone is to look with his one eye without taking into account the opinions and perceptions of others, he is without creativity and intelligence, and to his immediate desire is closer than his need to refine and preserve his humanity. There is no doubt or dispute that the leadership or management or whatever its name is the system based on the order of the group, it is in its opinion, assessment, management and treatment of issues, capable of achieving and meeting the needs of the individual and the group of food, housing, security, dignity and others, also capable of tyranny and deny rights. And when a person renounces a right, it is as if he renounces his rights all at once. What about the oppressed refugee who does not know where the helm is? Of course, asylum and the complex factional situation does not justify the reluctance of the Palestinian society from its right. The political situation in Lebanon in its general image is also not a justification. Let us suppose that the factions are like them in a special case, but in some way, they have given them a head that represents us, that is, that represents the summary of what we want, and represents the summary of what we see. Our voice, our expressions and our dialect, so how can this political and administrative representation achieve the desired of it if our voice and our opinion did not reach it! There is no legitimacy for a voice that emanates from the people and is independent of them, and on the other hand, the voice of those who whispered or shouted in the midst of chaos does not reach. It is not difficult for a single group to gather and define its priorities and demands, even if its origin and branch differed, it has been placed today in one trench. The refugee people should appreciate the course of things, and realize that the main reason for the widening of their plight is that they stood by and watched in the face of successive crises, and that the consequences of their fear that silenced them made things worse. Know first and foremost that loudspeakers are not restricted by anyone, and there is no need for you to understand politics in order to participate in it. It is a definite legal right to demand your proper representation and to form a group under the name you desire, to ask a referendum, to hold a sit-in, to disobey, and to say in a clear and frank voice That a human being is in my group and we need this or we do not want this. This is a right related to being a human being in the first place, not to being a citizen of your country. International laws guarantee without discrimination the right to self- determination, as there is no legitimacy for some individuals to decide the fate of the group without referring to it.
Read more
It is not a secret to anyone how the drowned clings to a straw, and from behind the edges, hands with mighty capabilities and amazing generosity stand, throwing a straw to each drowned person. And I do not think we disagree that straw is a distraction from fear that neither saves nor enriches. So how did our armed organizations make the right to work and collect money that guarantees the preservation of human dignity and his need for life as a distraction that does not save? Let's first look at the UNRWA innovation in 'money for work' and take a peek at the hole it has made. The innovation says that a different number of young men and women in the process of their production will be periodically selected and pushed into the labor market, and they will be distributed according to their specializations or choices previously, in a questionnaire to work A period of time of approximately sixty days, and the financial equivalent is 'mere', but it is interrupted. What is the point of the innovation of UNRWA and other organizations that are concerned with employing the largest possible number of young people and getting rid of them quickly? This creates instability in money, livelihood and social life, and it does not even give enough time to gain the required experience in any job market. Our organizations are not far from it, but here blood may shed with sweat. The situation with the ongoing economic crisis in Lebanon and the collapse of the lira has become more complex. The number of young people at the entrances and alleys of the camps is suspiciously increasing, and two things are clear that military uniforms cannot conceal from them, and they are small the age of the militants, and their inability to bear arms, neither awareness nor jurisprudence in it. Far from the obvious estimation, that we are a people with a warlike tendency as a result of their circumstances and experiences, and that fire escalates into fire, so it is inevitable. Why do our organizations need this number of armed men in their orbits? The goal of the young man among them is to secure his strength and provide for his family, so he seeks a job in which he does not understand and does not know its purpose, nothing with a few dollars brings him except more chances of death, and his soul is filled with bullets. In summary, for all of the above, it seems clear that the person responsible for the Palestinian affairs in the diaspora has dramatically aborted his right to work, and they have convinced him that it is an alternative and indispensable solution.
Read more.jpg)
rights and reality "There is confusion between the refusal to settle the Palestinians in Lebanon and the deprivation of their most basic civil, social and cultural rights.. Lebanon is considered one of the countries that ratified most of the provisions of the Casablanca Protocol in 1965, when the resolution stipulated the need to treat Palestinians in the Arab countries in which they reside as the treatment of the original people. In terms of their rights of residency and work..but the situation on the ground is completely different..the Palestinian is still treated as a foreigner, his rights are limited and he does not get the rights stated in international charters in terms of ownership..we cannot forget that Lebanon started an introduction its constitution with a text expressing respect for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international human rights law..." The wonder of the awakening of the Minister, "Kamil Abu Suleiman", on the eligibility of the Lebanese labor force to work inside Lebanon like the rest of the workforce... to issue his decision in the name of the "Foreign Labor Plan in Lebanon", while the ministers before him left the matter as an exception!! Anyway, in Lebanon, you have to get used to everything that is strange and strange. Unprecedented vision! The minister finds that what he is doing is right, and it is a legal procedure that takes its course, and by this he may draw attention to the fact that he is working to modify and change the reality that a period of time has passed and has not changed, while the Lebanese people are waiting for change and renewal, as the other is tired of repetition and problems. political affairs, and everything is heading for the worse.. The minister's enthusiasm was initially focused on developing a legal plan in his view; It works to preserve the right of the Lebanese to work unchallenged and without competition! While the ministers before him did not pay attention to rights, guarantees, entitlement and eligibility... they were oblivious and he was alone on his watch. But, Mr. Minister, he did not notice that his state has banned nearly seventy professions for the Palestinian, so how can he obtain a work permit that is basically prohibited!!? And did he consider the existence of a Palestinian-Lebanese dialogue committee affiliated to the Council of Ministers? Is it the right of his decision to bypass this committee? !! Indeed The Palestinian worker is exposed to great challenges in the Lebanese labor market. If he manages to get a job, the first thing that collides with him is the mood of the employer in terms of deprivation, devaluation, and the low wages he gives in exchange for heavy work... Not to mention the unfair conditions, harsh assignments, and abusive treatment, in addition to being in a state of unfair dismissal at any moment. There is no legal cover to protect it. There is no difference between a freelance worker and a certificate holder.. The Palestinian engineer who implements the project with a continuous effort in terms of follow-up, auditing and implementation, despite all these efforts, these efforts are placed in the name of the Lebanese engineer who assigned the Palestinian to his job. If we go to the Palestinian doctors who have passed the Coloquium exam, we find that they can only work in relief institutions and the Palestinian Red Crescent hospitals, not to mention that the medical reports issued by Palestinian doctors are not recognized by the Lebanese state until they are signed by a Lebanese doctor. I will not talk about the buildings that fall day after day while they are under the supervision of a Lebanese engineer.. and I will not address the suffering of the Lebanese from the medical field in Lebanon in terms of efficiency, costs and fatal medical errors, and their flight to Syria to extract a tooth or perform an appendix operation, which is the simplest operation that the Lebanese fear to perform in Lebanon . It is necessary to look at matters closely and examine the reality.. Then it is possible to report and talk about rights and preferences. The employment of the Palestinian is not a robbery of the right of the Lebanese worker, and it is not considered a competition, as it is said.. (Give the baker his bread even if he eats half of it).. For every interest of the people and the Lebanese citizen can rule. I do not underestimate the Lebanese in my stories, but I will address one of the categories to which the Lebanese himself testifies. Every nation is good and bad, knowledgeable and ignorant... Every person has his own livelihood and he does not take from the livelihood of others except what is destined for him.
Read more
The Palestinian cause has become a wound to the Palestinians alone, and the only means for the Arabs to trade and bargain and achieve their only goal.. It is not a prosperous economy, nor a repulsive development, nor a manifestation of existence, and hegemony over the Palestinian cause and robbed it of the aggressors and returned it to its people.. But the goal is to remain in power until the end of the world ...and let the Palestinian cause go to hell, and let the seat of government remain... It is the truth that the developments of the Palestinian cause reveal to us every day, and we are satisfied with the normalization of the Arab countries that used to stand out in international forums and call for the rights of the Palestinians.
Read more
The Declaration of Human Rights did not exclude a person from the list of natural rights it stipulated, most notably the "right to work". Article 23 of it states the following: “Everyone has the right to work, to freely choose his work, to just and satisfactory working conditions, and to protection from unemployment.” Therefore, any emergency does not cancel the needs of any human being or lose his dignity.. This concept recognizes Everyone is against their languages and cultures, unless you are weak.
Read more
Jan 20, 2025
Jan 20, 2025
Jan 17, 2025
Jan 16, 2025
