MOSCOW (Sputnik), Alexander Mosesov — The CODEPINK anti-war organization continues its campaign against the US RE/MAX real estate company's business in the West Bank, the group's Washington DC representative told Sputnik on Tuesday.
The selling of real estate property in the West Bank by RE/MAX Israel raised concern on the part of human rights activists in 2014 after a report of the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories Richard Falk on the issue.
According to the United Nations and the International Court of Justice, the West Bank is considered to be an occupied Palestinian territory.
Stallard added that it has been six months since the group started campaigning against the business of RE/MAX Israel.
Answering the question why RE/MAX was inert on reacting, the activist said that "they [RE/MAX] don't have a good spinning position to which they can stay."
"They have been caught 'with their pants down' on stealing of what does not belong to them," she added.
As for the reason, why people buy real estate in the West Bank from RE/MAX Israel, Stallard cited the buyers' "dislike of the Palestinians."
The West Bank, as well as East Jerusalem, partially occupied by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war, and the Gaza Strip, are the territories where the Palestinians seek to create an independent state.
