Gaza _ Palestine News Network
The Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs announced on Thursday that it would monitor a budget of 3 million shekels to form a "network of International Lawyers" and fund legal organizations around the world, with the aim of combating the boycott of Israel, withdrawing investment and imposing sanctions on it (BDS) and carrying out activities Against.
The "News Company" (formerly the second Israeli Channel) stated that the move was initiated by the Minister of Strategic Affairs, Gilad Ardan, and that the decision was taken in accordance with a decision taken by the Small Ministerial Council for Political and Security Affairs (Capinet) in 2015.
"The need to establish a network of international lawyers arose in the wake of many attempts to boycott Israel, especially in Europe and the United States," the ministry said in a statement.
Israel does not differentiate between anti-Semitism and anti-Palestinian policies, nor does it differentiate between Israel and the settlements in the territories occupied in 1967, especially the West Bank and Jerusalem.
The Ministry of Strategic Affairs will head to the international legal body, which maintains relations with around 1,000 lawyers around the world, the statement said. According to the statement, the "international legal body" will form a professional team working with the lawyers ´ network with a view to broadening and strengthening it and finding potential partners in different countries.
"This is an important step, initiated by the move from defense to attack against anti-Semitic boycott organizations," he said, noting that many provincial activists are Jews, especially among Jewish Americans.
"The judicial war is an important arena of conflict against BDS in order to expose the irregularities committed by the provincial organizations to laws around the world, including racist activity," he said. We form a global network of lawyers that will fight around the world to thwart decisions in the province, which are essentially racist and anti-Semitic, "he said.
