Netanyahu v. UN blacklist: "Those who will confiscate us will be confiscated themselves"

Following the publication of the list of Israeli and foreign companies in the settlements, the Foreign Ministry will try to obtain international support for their continued operations. PM Olmert Criticizes UN Human Rights Council: "This Body Is Not Important"

Netanyahu v. UN blacklist: "Those who will confiscate us will be confiscated themselves"

Following the release of the UN Human Rights Council black list, the Foreign Office intends to work with the United States, Britain, France, and other countries to obtain backing and public support for the continued activity of the 112 Israeli and foreign companies included in the list. ) As a surrender to Bidias moves and attempts at pressure and economic boycotts on Israel.

The Foreign Office also argued that companies that cease operations as a result of publishing the list may be subject to legal proceedings in US states that have enacted anti-boycott laws in recent years. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has attacked the decision to publish the Black Business List that "Those who will confiscate us will be confiscated themselves. The UN Human Rights Council is a biased and influential body. It's not because I already ordered to cut off any connection with this body, and not because the US government has taken this step with us. "

Netanyahu added, "In recent years, we have promoted laws in most states in the United States that dictate that action should be taken against those who attempt to boycott Israel. Therefore, this body is immaterial." Netanyahu also said that "instead of the human rights organization, it is just trying to discredit Israel. We reject this experience with all validity and disgust."

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In the policy talks, Israel is expected to emphasize that the UN Human Rights Council is a biased body against Israel, and that this is an unprecedented historic decision, as the Human Rights Council's mandate is to assist countries on human rights and not act directly with business companies. Another message is that Israeli diplomats are expected The upshot is that corporate cooling will also hurt tens of thousands of Palestinian workers.

The Foreign Office instructed consulates and delegations in the United States to act at the level of government, Congress, and state governors to condemn the publication of the list, which also includes American companies. Over the past year, Foreign Ministry officials have been trying to meet with the new Commissioner for Human Rights, but she has not agreed to welcome Israeli representatives to the meeting. Jerusalem was not even updated in advance about the timing of the report's publication and list, and was notified about an hour before the publication, by US diplomats.

112 Business Bodies: The United Nations published the "blacklist" of the settlements

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In Israel, they argued that the process of formulating the list was arbitrary, unreasonable, and that the list did not reflect the will of the international community or international pressure, but a product of NGOs from the worlds of humanities and human rights organizations, which work to boycott Israel.

In July 2019, the Palestinians tried to mobilize the world countries for a declaratory decision calling for the list to be published as soon as the vast majority of the world countries refused to join the decision, but only the Arab League, Islamic States, South Africa and Venezuela and Cuba.

Foreign Minister Israel Katz said in response to the UN Commission on Human Rights that "publishing a 'black list' of business companies is a shameful surrender to the pressures of countries and organizations that want to hurt Israel, even though most countries around the world have refused to join this political campaign." "The Commissioner's decision to continue on the Human Rights Council's anti-Israeli line is a blemish on the UN Commission on Human Rights." According to him, "the commissioner has become a server tool and a partner of the boycott movement, even though it has no legal significance for the list."