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Blog Highlights

 

01/31/2020 Kairos Palestine Statement on Deal of the Century

09/25/2019 The Future Is Indigenous. The Future Is Us.

04/20/2017 Letter from D.C. faith leaders in support of Kareem El Hosseiny and Taher Herzallah

03/28/2016 Mads Gilbert's Prescription for Gaza

03/15/2016 March Update on Anti-BDS Legislation

01/12/2016 BDS Victory! - Methodists Declare 5 Israeli Banks Off Limits

12/16/2015 FOSNA Statement Against Islamophobia

12/13/2015 United Nations: Drop G4S

11/10/2015 BDS Victory! - Portland Take One More Step Toward Being Occupation Free

04/16/2015 BDS Victory! - Over 20 South African Business Drop Contracts with G4S

12/07/2014 Statement of Solidarity with Ferguson

11/07/2014 Interfaith Statement of Concern over Jerusalem

08/18/2014 Desmond Tutu Calls for Liberation through BDS

08/17/2014 Visit the Oakland-Palestine Solidarity Mural!

08/07/2014 How to secure a just and durable peace

07/30/2014 For the sake of the burning children of Gaza

07/29/2014 The Real Danger to Israel

07/03/2014 Sabeel Jerusalem: "For such a time as this, what is required?

07/03/2014 Reporting from Palestine, July, 2014

05/30/2014 The day I shook hands with Pope Francis

04/02/2014 Statement by Archbishop Tutu on US Efforts to Curb Freedom of Speech

03/06/2014 Palestinian evangelicals lead shift away from Christian Zionism

03/05/2014 Religious Zionism is a false theology

03/05/2014 Ash Wednesday Letter to Pope Francis: Protect Palestinian Children

02/19/2014 A Turning Point: BDS Reaches Critical Mass

01/13/2014 "Zionism Unsettled"-IPMN Study Guide

12/25/2013 SABEEL's Christmas Message

12/10/2013 Our Tribute to Nelson Mandela

12/09/2013 Mandela Had “A Unique Moral Authority”

11/21/2013 Reports from the Sabeel Conference in Jerusalem

06/24/2013 Beyond Anti-Semitism: and on to Fundamentals of Change

07/06/2012 Presbyterian Church Rejects Divestment; Passes Boycott Motion

05/01/2006 The Jerusalem Sabeel Document: Principles for Just Peace in Palestine-Israel

02/20/2006 Sabeel's Call for Morally Responsible Investment

Resource Archive

 

FOSNA's Resources

External Resources

  • Adalah:

  1. Adalah to Attorney General: shocking testimonies from Palestinian children who were tortured during arrest and interrogation, April 2014

  2. ​Military Police open 12 criminal investigations into Israeli soldiers' abuse of Palestinian children during their arrest, in response to Adalah's demands, July 2014

  • Addameer:

  1. Child Prisoners

  2. The Right of Child Prisoners to Education, October 2010

  3. Torture of Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Prisons, October 2003

  • B'Tselem:

  1. Absolute Prohibition: The Torture and Ill-treatment of Palestinian Detainees, May 2007 Report

  2. Abuse and torture in interrogations of dozens of Palestinian minors in the Israel Police Etzion Facility, August 2013 Report

  • BDS Movement: 

  1. ​G4S Timeline

  • Breaking the Silence:

  1. ​Children and Youth -Soldiers' Testimonies 2005-2011, August 2012

  2. Soldier Testimony on a Night-Time Raid in Ramallah/Al-Bireh Area

  • British Foreign Office:

  1. ​Children in Military Custody, June 2012 Report according to British jurists 

  • Corporate Watch:

  1. ​G4S Company Profile

  2. Imprisoned Voices: Corporate Complicity in the Israeli Prison System, April 2015

  • DCI Palestine:

  1. Child house arrests rise in Jerusalem clampdown

  2. DCI Videos

  3. Israeli authorities urged to investigate abuse of Palestinian teenagers

  4. Israeli exceptionalism at the United Nations

  5. Military Detention Fact Sheets

  6. Number of Palestinian Children (12-17) in Israeli Military Detention

  7. Palestinian Children in Israeli Military Custody Face Physical Violence

  8. Palestinian Children Victims of Israeli abuse designed to coerce confessions

  9. Report Details Ill-Treatment of Palestinian Children by Israeli Forces

  10. Report on Solitary Confinement, May 2014

  11. Rising number of Palestinian children subjected to solitary confinement

  12. Youth conviction: Palestinian children describe solitary confinement in Israeli military prisons

  1. Convention IV, 12 August 1949

  • Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights:

  1. "Know Your Rights" campaign for children in military custody and the UNICEF update, March 2015

  • Middle East Children's Alliance:

  1. The Impact of Child Arrest and Detention, 2012

  1. ​Fact Sheet

  2. Children in Israeli Military Detention, April 2015 Progress Report

  • National Lawyers Guild International Committee​​

  1. Letter to Ambassador regarding prisoner, Ayman Nasser

  2. Prisoners of Injustice, Delegation to Palestine, Report May 2014

  • No Way to Treat a Child:

  1. Project Overview

  • Palestine Legal:

  1. The Palestine Exception

  • Public Committee Against Torture in Israel:

  1. Childhood is a Right, December 2013

  • Room No. 4:

  1. Handcuffed and Blindfolded

  2. No Food, Water, or Toilets

  3. Room No. 4 Campaign and Project

  • Samidoun:

  1. ​Lina Khattab and fellow women political prisoners report abuse and mistreatment, January 2015

  • Save the Children, Sweden:

  1. The Impact of Child Detention: Occupied Palestinian Territory, January 2012

  2. "One Day in Prison Feels Like a Year", Palestinian children tell their own stories, September 2003

  • Stop G4S:

  1. ​Detention of Children hand out

  1. ​When the Boys Return, A Documentary

  • United Nations:

  1. Special Rapporteur on Torture Tells Third Committee Use of Prolonged Solitary Confinement on Rise, Calls for Global Ban on Practice, October 2011

  2. Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, May 1977

  1. UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

  • United Nations Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights:

  1. Children in solitary confinement: "Israel's pattern of abuse is inhumane, cruel, degrading and unlawful" -UN expert

  2. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, March 1976

  • UNICEF:

  1. UNICEF Bulletin No. 2, February 2015

  2. Children in Israeli Military Detention , March 2013 Observations and Recommendations

  3. Palestinian children need improved protection in Israeli military detention, March 2013

  • United Methodist Church:

  1. What Does the Lord Require of the Ecumenical Movement Today? Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions as Nonviolent, Loving Actions

  • Who Profits:

  1. G4S Profile

Publications:

  • AlJazeera:

  1. Palestinian children "abused" in Israeli jail, August 2012

  • Al-Monitor:

  1. Palestinian girl recounts imprisonment, February 2015

  • Corporate Watch:

  1. ​Life for a Sick Palestinian Prisoner in the Israeli Prison Complex, June 2014

  • The Electronic Intifada:

  1. Children Describe Torture in Israeli Solitary Confinement

  2. ​G4S Feels the Heath of the International Boycott Campaign

  3. Half Israel's Palestinian Child Prisoners Are Held Illegally Outside West Bank in G4S-equipped Prisons

  4. Israeli Should Respect the Rights of Child Detainees, August 2004

  5. Israelis Torturing Palestinian Children, April 2007

  6. Targeting Silwan's Children, December 2010

  7. Young Palestinian father dies after Israeli interrogation in G4S-equipped prison, February 2013

  • Euro-Mid Observer for Human Rights:

  1. From Abduction to Prison: Israeli Cruelty to Palestinian Children, July 2014

  • FOSNA:

  1. ​BDS Victory! Over 20 South African Business Drop Contracts with G4S

  • G4S:

  1. ​Analysis of its own Legal Exposure to Future Human Rights Cases

  • The Guardian:

  1. Cell 36, Palestinian Children Are Locked in Solitary Confinement for Days​

  2. Desmond Tutu's Statement Against G4S, June 2014

  3. ​G4S Complicity in Israel's Abuse of Child Prisoners

  4. Group 4 Security Firm Pulls Guards Out of West Bank, October 2002

  5. Palestinian stone throwers could face 20 years in jail, November 2014

  6. Report on Desmond Tutu's Open Letter to G4S, June 2014

  7. The Palestinian children -alone and bewildered- in Israel's Al-Jalame jail, January 2012

  • Haaretz:

  1. Nearly 100% of all military court cases in West Bank end in conviction, Haaretz learns, November 2011

  • The Independent:

  1. How Israel takes its revenge on boys who throw stones

  • International Business Times:

  1. Israel: 240 Palestinian Children "Sexually Abused" in Jerusalem Detention Centres, Group Claims, November 2014

  • International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC News):

  1. Sexual Abuse Against Palestinian Child Detainees Reported, November 2014

  • Ma'an News Agency:

  1. 30 Children Shot by Israeli Forces Since the Start of 2015, March 2015

  • Middle East News Minitor:

  1. Israel using tents to accommodate Palestinian prisoners, June 2012

  2. Nearly four hundred Palestinian children subject to serious abuse in Israeli prisons

  3. Palestinian prisoner, 14, tortured in Israeli jail, March 2014

  • Mondoweiss:

  1. New testimonies from Palestinian children tortured by Israeli authorities, June 2014

  2. Palestinian youth face psychological trauma and educational neglect following Israeli detention, February 2015

  3. ​UN Doing Business With G4S

  • Salam TV 1:

  1. Release of Malak Al-Khatib, February 2015

  • The Telegraph:

  1. Israeli police under investigation for abusing Palestinian children, August 2013

  • VICE:

  1. ​Israel Holding Increasing Numbers of Palestinian Children for Rock Throwing

  • Wikipedia:

  1. ​G4S

  • 972 Mag:

  1. Palestinian kids detail abusive interrogations, arrests

  2. ​Worsening Conditions for Palestinian Children in Israeli Military Prisons

Denominational Divestment Wins!

 

To get involved in supporting church denominational effort or to bring the national decisions into action in your congregation contact advocacy@fosna.org. 

June 26, 2020
Unitarian Universalist Association Adopts Business Resolution on Investing in Accord with Human Rights with 95% Votes – National

July 13, 2018 
Episcopal Church votes to divest from Israel’s human rights abuses – International

June 21, 2018
Presbyterian Church (USA) General Assembly defends the right to boycott, votes for repeal of anti-BDS measures – National

March 28, 2018
Quaker Friends Fiduciary Corporation excludes from investment all companies involved in occupation – National

January 14, 2018
Tikkun Olam Chavurah Becomes HP-Free Jewish Community in the US – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

July 19, 2017
Seventeen churches pledge to boycott Hewlett Packard to end complicity with Israel’s human rights abuses of Palestinians

July 12, 2017
Disciples of Christ call on Israel to guarantee basic due process rights and prohibit torture and ill-treatment of detained children – National

July 6, 2017
Mennonite Church (USA) votes by 98% to create an investment screen for the purpose of withdrawing investments from companies that are profiting from the occupation– National

July 3, 2017
United Church of Christ calls for military sanctions on Israel for its mistreatment of Palestinian children in Israeli detention – National

June 12, 2017
By a vote of 144-5, Minnesota Conference of the United Church of Christ divests from companies that profit from the Israeli occupation of Palestine – Minnesota

January 19, 2017
Majilis Ash-Shura / Islamic Leadership Council of New York endorse BDS – New York, New York

December 10, 2016
Pax Christi International endorses BDS – International

August 13, 2016
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Overwhelmingly Passes Investment Screen

August 13, 2016
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Votes 82% Against Unconditional U.S. Aid to Israel

April 10, 2016
Alliance of Baptists Divests from Companies Profiting from Israel’s Occupation of Palestinian Land

April 7, 2016
Unitarian Universalists Divest from Companies Profiting from Israel’s Occupation

March 30, 2016
Catholic Conference of Major Superiors of Men Calls for Boycott of Illegal Settlements

January, 2016
United Methodist Church Excludes Top 5 Israeli Banks for Involvement in Illegal Settlements

 

December 2015

United Methodist Church declares Israeli company Elbit Systems, long excluded for weapons production, also ineligible for investment due to involvement in human rights violations

June 30, 2015 
United Church of Christ General Synod votes overwhelmingly to boycott and divest from Israeli occupation

 

June, 2015 

National Council of Fellowship of Reconciliation Unanimously Endorses BDS

 

July 31, 2014 
No Más Muertes endorses Palestinian call for BDS

 

June 20, 2014 

Presbyterian Church (USA) General Assembly divests from companies involved in Israeli occupation

June 12, 2014 
United Methodist Church divests from G4S in response to role in Israeli prisons

Winter 2013/2014
United Methodist Church General Board of Church and Society Boycotts Sodastream

March 16, 2013 
Mennonite Central Committee unanimously adopts AFSC 29-company no-buy list for divestment

18 Victories spanning 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 
18 Quaker Meetings Across 15 States Endorse Boycott, Divestment, and, in some cases, Both

September, 2012 
Quaker Friends Fiduciary Corporation divests from HP, Veolia

July, 2012 
Presbyterian Church (USA) General Assembly votes to boycott settlement products

May, 2012 
United Methodist Church General Conference votes to boycott settlement products

May, 2012 
Quaker Friends Fiduciary Corporation divests from Caterpillar

June, 2010
Presbyterian Church (USA) General Assembly calls for U.S. Government to place sanctions on military assistance to Israel

March 8, 2008
American Friends Service Committee approves Israel-Palestine Investment Screen

 

October 21, 2007 

National Coalition of American Nuns Publicly Urges Boycott of Caterpillar

Summer, 2005 
United Church of Christ General Synod calls for the use of Economic Leverage — including ending military aid and divestment — to promote peace in Middle East

Dozens of Victories spanning 2005 – 2015 
18 United Methodist Church Annual Conferences — representing thousands of churches and hundreds of thousands of members — adopt 30 resolutions and statements calling for divestment; several divest their own conference funds

July 2004
Presbyterian Church (USA) votes overwhelmingly to begin the process of selective divestment – National