Two Jewish businessmen are believed to be among the stakeholders in a secretive company that recently purchased a Jerusalem property from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate.
Approximately 190 companies have received notice that they have been blacklisted by the UN due to their operations in the “occupied Palestinian territories”.
U.N. General Assembly approved a budget of $138,700 to fund the compilation of a first-ever blacklist of private Israeli companies doing business in the disputed territories.
“There are millions of Israel supporters across the world who are looking to support Israel in some way – they want to be real partners,” Rom told TPS.
A group of Italian academics is circulating a petition to end cooperation agreements with Haifa’s Technion Institute on the grounds that it promotes Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands.