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Tory leader’s video was ‘an insult to the innocent civil rights protesters who were murdered in Derry in January 1972,’ says SDLP MP Colum Eastwood
FRANCE violated the freedom of expression of pro-Palestinian activists who were convicted for campaigning for a boycott of Israeli goods, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled today.
In a ruling hailed as a major victory by the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, the court ordered the French government to pay €101,000 euros (£90,602) in damages to a group of 11 activists.
The protesters, led by French activist Jean-Michel Baldassi, were convicted of incitement to economic discrimination after taking part in a 2009 demonstration at a hypermarket in the eastern French town of Illzach, where they handed out leaflets calling for a boycott of Israeli products.
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
After NGOs and the EU, UN condemns Germany’s crackdown on Palestine Solidarity, writes LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI
ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians