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“In 1967, when Israel annexed Jerusalem, they only gave 13% to Palestinian residential use, which was already fully built up,” Godfrey-Goldstein tells me. “So from the get-go, the policy was forcible transfer, which is a war crime.” This isn’t the only land grab disguised as tourism. Just beyond Valley Farm you’ll see the Guy Ben Hinnom Bridge, “the longest suspension bridge in Israel.” It connects Ben Hinnom Gorge to Mount Zion for no apparent reason other than to encourage the country’s Israeli population to edge closer into East Jerusalem without fear.

Eyal Weizman

Some of these offences further criminalised women rather than those exploiting them. For example, if two or more sex workers operated in shared premises for safety, they could become liable for brothel-keeping – that is still the law today. A late amendment introduced by Henry Labouchere MP also outlawed all consensual sexual activity between men; the new offence was used to convict the writer Oscar Wilde a decade later. Ironically, only Stead and several of his colleagues were convicted as a result of these events. They were imprisoned for the kidnapping of Eliza Armstrong. Meanwhile, the men accused by campaigners of exploiting underage girls were unprosecuted and unpunished.

This report investigates the corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project of displacement and replacement of the Palestinians in the occupied territory. While political leaders and governments shirk their obligations, far too many corporate entities have profited from Israel’s economy of illegal occupation, apartheid and now, genocide.

a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty.