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Now Available: Al Majdal No. 35 (Autumn 2007)

For Immediate Release

No. (E/19/07)

27 November 2007


 

Bethlehem, July 2007: BADIL Resource Center announces the release of the Fall 2007 issue of al-majdal English-language quarterly magazine, which focuses on the role of accountability in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

This issue aims to contribute to the discussion on how Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons, states, civil society and lawyers can and/or do hold accountable their representatives, Israel, the UN and other members of the Quartet.

Included in this issue, among others, is an analysis of the political context on the eve of the Annapolis Meeting and the need for Palestinian and international civil societies to build an anti-apartheid movement, including the Boycott-Divestment-Sanction (BDS) campaign, in order to hold Israel to account for its continued violations of international law.  A comparative analysis of the Bosnian and Palestinian peace agreements examines how peace agreements have addressed remedies for the crime of population transfer, while another article discusses the role of refugees in bringing about an 'agreed upon' solution to the refugee question. Based on the concept of a responsibility to protect, an overview is presented of the actions states and international organizations can undertake to end Israel's violations of human rights and humanitarian law. Finally, the emerging principle of universal jurisdiction and its applicability to the Palestinian case is examined.

60 years after India's partition and the failed UN partition plan for Palestine, other articles in this issue explore Israel's manipulative use of the Indian case to justify its discriminatory regime in Palestine, assess the importance of building a Palestine lobby in the US, and report about current forced displacement of Palestinians, as well as recent efforts at building accountability.  


To download the online PDF version of al Majdalhttp://www.badil.org/al-majdal/al-majdal.htm
Annual subscriptions are available online (www.badil.org) or from [email protected] for Euro 25 (for four issues)