Russell Tribunal on Palestine
The Russell Tribunal on Palestine is a private, non-governmental organization committed to prosecuting alleged violations of international law and war crimes against the Palestinians by the State of Israel . This should lead to a just and sustainable solution to the conflict.
The tribunal was founded in March 2009 as a result of the Israeli military action in Gaza and is based in its functioning and objectives on the Vietnam Tribunal of 1966 in London, which was founded by Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre . That documented human rights violations by the US Army during the Vietnam War . Based on this, the organization also wants to investigate the actions of the Israeli army during the Gaza war .
The first two sessions of the tribunal took place in Barcelona and London in March and November 2010 . The third session took place from November 5 to 7, 2011 in Cape Town , South Africa and was themed “Do Israeli practices against the Palestinian people violate the prohibition of apartheid under international law?”. The jury of the tribunal came to the conclusion that "Israel is subjecting the Palestinian population both in the occupied Palestinian territories and in Israel itself to an institutionalized regime of domination, which can be identified as apartheid, as defined by international law ".
The founders of this committee are Ken Coates , President of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation , Nurit Peled-Elhanan , who teaches at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem , and Leila Shahid , the current Palestinian envoy to Europe.
supporter
Supporters included and still include the former UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali , Nguyễn Thị Bình , Vietnamese delegates at the peace negotiations in Paris until 1973, the former Algerian President Ahmed Ben Bella †, the former Slovenian President Milan Kučan , the former Prime Minister of the Netherlands Dries van Agt , writers like Tariq Ali , Russell Banks , Norman Finkelstein , Eduardo Galeano , scientists like Noam Chomsky , Johan Galtung and Jean Ziegler ; the President of the Olof Palme Foundation Anna Balletbò, the winners of the Right Livelihood Award 1990 Felicia Langer , 1995 Carmel Budiardjo , 1998 Sulak Sivaraksa , 2002 Martín Almada and the winners of various Nobel Prizes such as Mairead Corrigan Maguire , Harold Pinter †, José Saramago †, Betty Williams and Jody Williams .
criticism
Judge Richard Goldstone denied the Russell Tribunal on Palestine from being a tribunal in an October 2011 article for the New York Times . The 'evidence' is gathered unilaterally and the members of the 'jury' are critics whose sharp views on Israel are well known. There is no apartheid in Israel. Nothing there equates to the definition of apartheid under the 1998 Rome Statute. "
The South African journalist and human rights activist Benjamin Poground , who now lives in Israel, describes the session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine as a staging. The participants would be like actors, would know their roles and the result would be clear before they even begin. Israel should be dragged into the mud.
literature
- Asa Winstanley, Frank Barat: Russell Tribunal Palestine. The meetings in Barcelona in March 2010 and in London in November 2010. Laika-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-942281-07-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.russelltribunalonpalestine.com/en/
- ↑ http://bewegung.taz.de/termine/das-russell-tribunal-zu-palaestina
- ^ "Dès mars, un Tribunal Russell sur la Palestine" , Mediapart, 20 Feb. 2009
- ^ "Création d'un" Tribunal Russell "pour la Palestine" , in Le Nouvel Observateur , March 4, 2009
- ↑ Supporter list on the official website , last accessed on August 4, 2009
- ↑ Israel and the Apartheid Slander Richard J. Goldstone. New York Times , October 31, 2011
- ↑ Read Told About Israel are Beyond Belief