Palestinian Rights

January 18, 2017 Jibril Rajoub 18 January 2017 President, Palestinian Football Association Dear General Rajoub, You may recall we met in the Russell Square Hotel several years ago through the good offices of Manual Hassassian. I am writing to you now about the Israeli settlement football teams, and specifically the… Read More »EJJP encourages the President of the Palestinian Football Association to insist that FIFA expels the Israeli Football Association from FIFA

January 6, 2017 Dear Mr. Infantino, Ms. Samoura and Mr. Sexwale, We are writing again about the Israeli football teams based in illegal settlements, following the United Nations Security Council Resolution on settlements, passed on 23 December. The resolution reaffirms the international community’s universal condemnation of Israel’s settlement enterprise in… Read More »EJJP lobbies FIFA again to expel the Israeli football Association

October 5, 2016 Gianni Infantino, President Fatma Samoura, General Secretary Tokyo Sexwale, Chairman, Monitoring Committee Israel-Palestine FIFA Dear Mr. Infantino, Ms. Samoura and Mr. Sexwale, Following our letter of 11 August about the Israeli football teams based in illegal settlements, and Mr. Sexwale’s reply of 18 August, we are writing… Read More »EJJP lobbies the President of FIFA to expel the Israeli Football Association from FIFA

October 7, 2015 Vice-President and High Representative Federica Mogherini Dear Ms. Mogherini, We are writing to urge the Commission to remain steadfast in its intention to publish a robust interpretative note to member states so that they will verify the accuracy of the label of origin applied to settlement goods… Read More »EJJP supports High Representative Mogherini: correct labelling of settlement goods should be strictly enforced

July 2, 2015 Dr. Gerhard Conrad Minister for Political Affairs German Embassy London I am writing about the vote tomorrow in the United Nations Human Rights Council on the compromise resolution being tabled by Palestine on the report of the independent Commission of Enquiry into the 2014 Gaza conflict. Palestine… Read More »EJJP lobbies the German Embassy in London: Germany should support the Independent Commission of Enquiry report on the recent attack on Gaza

November 24, 2014 Manfred Weber (EPP Group President), Cristian Dan Preda (EPP Lead Negotiator), Jan-Willem Vlasman (Advisor) Dear Sirs, We are writing about the draft resolution for recognition of the new Palestinian State that the EPP group is now discussing. We urge you to frame a clear, positive text for… Read More »EJJP lobbies European Peoples Party to take the lead in recognising the State of Palestine

November 24 2014 Parliamentary Co-Presidents Philippe Lamberts, Rebecca Harms and Raphael Fisera Dear Mr. Lamberts, Ms. Harmsand Mr. Fisera, We are writing about the draft resolution for recognition of the new Palestinian State that the political groups are now discussing. We urge you to use your influence to frame a… Read More »EJJP lobbies the European Parliament co-Presidents to support recognition of the state of Palestine

July 22, 2014 To High Representative Ashton, Pierre Vimont, Christian Berger, Permanent Representatives and Political Advisors. c.c. Leonello Gabrici, Helga Schmid Dear High Representative Ashton et al, The Israeli ground invasion of Gaza continues. The casualty toll now stands at 500+ killed and thousands wounded. Although leaders in the international… Read More »EJJP lobbies High Representative Ashton: the EU should do all in its power to stop the Israeli assault on Gaza.

July 13, 2014 To Permanent Representatives. c.c. Political Advisors Dear Permanent Representative, We are writing about the fighting between Israel and Hamas, which has now escalated into long range rockets being fired by Hamas and major Israeli air attacks on Gaza, aiming at military and civilian objects alike. We are… Read More »EJJP lobbies member state Permanent Representatives: the EU must do all it can to de-escalate the fighting in Gaza.

January 1, 2014 To High Representative Ashton, Pierre Vimont, Christian Berger, Commissioner Geoghegan-Quinn, Commissioner Tajani, Permanent Representatives and Political Advisors c.c. Leonello Gabrici, Helga Schmid Dear High Representative Ashton et al, We write further to our letter of 18 November. In the last few days, Prime Minister Netanyahu has announced… Read More »EJJP lobbies High Representative Ashton and others: hold firm on the Territorial Guidelines, do not concede to Israel.

October 6, 2013 To the Members of the Research, Industry, and Energy Committee, We have already written to High Representative Ashton, the Permanent Representatives and others in support of the Commission’s new Territorial Guidelines relating to Israel, and we are now writing to you as Israel and its lobbyists have changed… Read More »EJJP lobbies the Parliament’s Research, Industry, and Energy Committee to hold firm against Israel’s latest attempt to nullify the Territorial Guidelines

September 16, 2013 To the Permanent Representative and the Political Advisor, Further to our letter of 31 August, we are now writing to you about Secretary of State Kerry’s tactic in asking the European Union to postpone implementing the Guidelines in order to give the peace negotiations a chance by… Read More »EJJP lobbies EU member states to resist US pressure to postpone the Guidelines

August 15, 2013 Dear Vice President and High Representative Ashton, Commissioner Geoghegan-Quinn, Commissioner De Gucht, and Commissioner Tajani, We are writing both to commend the Commission for the recently published Guidelines on the territorial limitation of grants, prizes and financial instruments relating to Israel, funded by the EU from 2014… Read More »EJJP commends High Representative Ashton and others for creating the Territorial Guidelines to deny EU finance to Israeli entities that operate in the occupied territories