Since 1967, Israel has been occupying parts of Palestina. This has disastrous effects on the Palestinian population, both economically as in terms of human rights.
The EU orders that if a product comes from an “Israeli settlement”, that must be explicitly stated on the package or on the shelf. However, this is never done in Dutch supermarkets.
SOMO is trying to investigate the scope of imported fruit and vegetables to the Netherlands from illegal Israeli settlements.
read more lessSOMO and 55 other civil society organisations and trade unions wrote an open letter to the European Commission on the ongoing revision of the Union Customs legislation. They call on the Commission to ensure that…
Last Thursday, the Israeli army violently raided seven prominent Palestinian human rights organisations and sealed their doors. Last weekend, the director of Al Haq (Shawan Jabarin) was threatened by telephone and the director of Defense…
This morning, the Israeli military raided the office of our partner Al-Haq, a Palestinian human rights organization, in Rammallah West Bank, occupied Palestinian territory , and five other Palestinian civil society organisations. After forcibly raiding…
Documents from the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs show that two SOMO employees are no longer allowed to enter Israel because of research done by SOMO on companies in occupied Palestinian territory (OPT). The two…
On the eve of the possible annexation of (parts of) the West Bank, we present three related webinars on current developments in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel. On Thursday 4 June, three experts talked…
Sfard law firm files request for re-examination of travel ban Today, lawyers Michael Sfard and Haya Abu Warda, from the renowned law firm Michael Sfard in Tel Aviv (Israel), filed a request on behalf of…
Over 90 organisations call on the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms Bachelet, to release the database of all business enterprises involved in Israeli settlements, in fulfilment of UN Resolution 31/36. The undersigned organisations express…
SOMO endorses the letter of Palestinian civil society organisations that urge the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to publicly release the UN Database of businesses engaged in activities in illegal Israeli settlements, during…
In this joint open letter one hundred civil society organisations, among which SOMO, ask Michelle Bachelet (the new High Commissioner for Human Rights at the United Nations) to publish an online, dynamic, and regularly updated…
News / July 21, 2018 Two SOMO researchers denied entry into Israel on arbitrary grounds Continuity of SOMO investigation into the consequences of the occupation economy under threat SOMO has received notice from the Dutch…
In the summer of 2018, two of our researchers were denied entry into Israel, due to alleged support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. Consequently, MP Sadet Karabulut of the Dutch Socialist Party (SP) posed…
On Friday 20 July, two researchers of SOMO were denied access into Israel at Ben Gurion airport (Tel Aviv). The stated reason for the denial of entry was their alleged Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) activism….
