Israeli Firms Are Selling Stolen Palestinian Lands To U.S. Jews

The Palestinian Assembly for Liberation (PAL) Law Commission has slammed five land sale events in the US and Canada this year, saying they “are illegal under the Fair Housing Act of 1968 and Civil Rights Act of 1965, since registration, entry, and participation are denied on the basis of identity (i.e., race, ethnicity, national origin, and religion,” Eleanor Goldfield reported for Truthout.

The land up for sale in Israel is limited to Jewish buyers, preferably Zionists, since the properties were stolen from Palestinians.

The commission added that these events violate not only US law but also international law with regard to hosts “exhibiting and offering properties on West Bank settlements recognized as illegal by the US Department of State and by international law” including “Article 49 of the Geneva Convention … Settlements have been found to be grave breaches of international law, and therefore war crimes, by the International Court (ICJ) of Justice in 2004, and are also currently under review by the ICJ in the context of the case of South Africa v. Israel for crimes of genocide, and by the International Criminal Court.”

PAL Law Commission has filed notices and complaints with attorneys general and real estate licensing authorities and has also served formal cease and desist letters alongside notice and demand letters regarding their findings.

The land up for sale in Israel is limited to Jewish buyers, preferably Zionists, since the properties were stolen from Palestinians. All of them are in the West Bank and Nora Barrows-Friedman, an associate editor at the Electronic Intifada, said they are all occupied land.