ECI Seminar in Japanese Parliament marked the 92nd Anniversary of the San Remo Resolution

- Documents found in Japanese archives confirm the central role played by the Japanese Government in the creation of the Jewish State

Tokyo, 25th April, 2012 – On Wednesday a triple anniversary was marked in the Japanese Parliament in Tokyo, as the 92nd anniversary of the San Remo Resolution coincided with the 64th anniversary of Israel's Independence Day and the 60th anniversary of the establishment of bilateral relations between Israel and Japan. However this was the first time that the San Remo Resolution had been officially presented in the Japanese Parliament. This was despite the fact that the Government of Japan was one of the four countries who signed this historic resolution which paved the way for the creation of the modern state of Israel in 1948. Just one day before the conference, the original Japanese documents from the San Remo meeting were found in the national archives in Tokyo and were presented to the Parliament at the seminar.

Please watch our March video report from Brussels

On 22 March 2012 ECI was one of the organizers of the Symposium on Palestinian Responsibility for Human Rights. Please watch our report on the event, as well as on the first-ever Yound Adults Consultation and the expanding media work of ECI.

For the entire speech of Calev Myers please click here.

ECI seminar in the European Parliament:

- The Palestinian Authority is the greatest Human Rights abuser of the Palestinian people

Brussels March 22nd, 2012 – The Palestinian people need more dignity and human rights. This was the conclusion of an ECI seminar in the European Parliament on Thursday, where Chief Council Calev Myers from the Jerusalem Institute of Justice spoke about “Palestinian responsibility for the human rights violations in Gaza and the West Bank.”
In his 35-page report, which was presented in Brussels on Thursday, he concluded that the Palestinian Authority, not the Israeli Government, is the greatest abuser of the human rights of the Palestinian people. Furthermore, neighbouring countries, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, were criticised for completely ignoring the rights of their Palestinian population.

-‘Palestinian refugees in neighbouring countries should not be treated as second-class citizens but be fully integrated into their societies and given the same rights as other citizens’, he said.