Detroit Jews ask: Are settlement boycotts the same as BDS?

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12. The Illegality of all Israeli Settlements

Source: Adalah NY

The Geneva Conventions outline the responsibilities of an occupying power. Under the Fourth Geneva Convention, to which Israel is a party, states are prohibited from transferring civilians from the occupying power's territory into the occupied territory, and from creating permanent changes in the occupied territory that are not for the benefit of the occupied population.

There is broad international consensus that that all Israeli settlements in the West Bank – which includes East Jerusalem - violate the Fourth Geneva Convention and are, therefore, illegal according to international law. This position has been affirmed by the UN Security Council in Resolution 465, the International Court of Justice, the world's highest legal body, and by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the respected Israeli human rights organization, B'Tselem. Not only did the US government repeatedly affirm this position throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the Israeli Supreme Court has acknowledged de facto its validity by ruling that the West Bank and Gaza Strip are under "belligerent occupation."

Read more: https://adalahny.org/campaign-main-document/538/illegality-all-israeli-settlements

There's no consensus whatsoever that Israel should be allowed to keep the "settlement blocs", and Netanyahu hasn't offered any swaps. According to UN resolutions and international law, they've got to go.