Israel organizes Legal Seminar in London: to confront growing boycott campaigns
Posted on: June 19, 2012
Israel organizes Legal Seminar in London: to confront growing boycott campaigns
Faced with increased boycott campaigns, over a hundred European lawyers set to discuss various legal aspects of pro-Israel advocacy and universal jurisdiction law. It is “lawfare” alternative, big time, as during the campaigns to make it illegal to criticize research and opinions on the holaucost and “antisemitic” studies…
One hundred and fifty lawyers from around Europe have gathered in London on Sunday for a two-day seminar, organized by the Israeli embassy in Britain, to discuss the various legal aspects of pro-Israel advocacy.
The seminar is taking place amid growing concern regarding boycott campaigns and as part of the emphasis Israel’s foreign service is recently putting on legal activism and the attempt of Israel’s critics to employ what is dubbed as “lawfare.”
The seminar, taking place in a London hotel, was closed to the media by the embassy
The seminar is the initiative of Ambassador Daniel Taub, who before his appointment to the Court of St. James a year ago served as the deputy legal adviser at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem.
A seminar’s participants said: “The lawyers hail from Britain and around Europe, mainly Jewish but not only, who are active or want to be active in various legal and public-affairs fields in support of Israel. This is an important opportunity for them to network, connect with the foreign ministry and receive useful background information.”
The subjects of discussion include the universal jurisdiction laws that permit the arrest of high-ranking Israeli officers and officials in some European countries over allegations of war-crimes.
Last year, Britain altered its universal jurisdiction law, allowing only the Director of Public Prosecution to issue universal jurisdiction arrest warrants, but the Israeli government is still concerned that this is insufficient.
Other issues include facing the BDS (boycott, divestment, sanctions) movement, lobbying and legal action against Iran’s financial system, tackling anti-Semitism and the de-legitimization of Israel.
The Embassy in London would not comment on the seminar.
Instead of realizing that this apartheid behavior and policies are driving Israel to the wall pretty soon, the politicians and leaders in Israel are doing just that: experiencing the exhilarated feeling of a bolide crashing in a wall…
Ilan Pappe has demonstrated that sanction and boycott against apartheid Israel work https://adonis49.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/unbearable-reality-of-israel-and-palestine-can-only-be-changed-from-within-sanctions-and-boycott-of-israel-can-work/
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