[News] Six ‘Outlawed’ Organizations Urging Continued International Pressure on Israel

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  Al-Haq and Five ‘Outlawed’ Organisations Send Joint Letters to UN
  Offices and Representatives Urging Continued International Pressure on
  Israel

13، Nov 2021

On 5 November 2021, Al-Haq and five fellow Palestinian civil society 
organisations: Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association 
(Addameer), Bisan Center for Research and Development, Defence for 
Children International-Palestine (DCI-P), the Union of Agricultural Work 
Committees (UAWC), and the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees 
(UPWC) sent letters expressing our appreciation for the statement 
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the United Nations special rapporteurs condemning the designations as “a 
frontal attack on the Palestinian human rights movement, and on human 
rights everywhere”. The organisations welcome the strong statement 
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the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet that 
"claiming rights before a UN or other international body is not an act 
of terrorism, advocating for the rights of women in the occupied 
Palestinian territory is not terrorism, and providing legal aid to 
detained Palestinians is not terrorism”, as reiterated in separate 
statement 
<https://alhaq.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=10071401ba4201bc1a4992f68&id=6e70ae8889&e=08c14cf485> of 
the OHCHR in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Ramallah).

Additionally, our organisations sent letters to the UN Secretary-General 
António Guterres and the Human Rights Council President Nazhat Shameem 
Khan urging them to use their unique position to unequivocally condemn 
the Israeli designations and attempts to smear human rights work and to 
underline the importance of work by Palestinian civil society and the UN 
support of human rights advocacy, whether in Palestine or around the world.

Our organisations reiterate that Israel’s designation constitutes the 
latest in an escalating series of smear attacks 
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institutionalized violence against defenders of the Palestinian people’s 
human rights and fundamental freedoms. It forms part of Israel’s 
strategy to maintain its apartheid regime of institutionalized racial 
discrimination and domination over the Palestinian people as a whole, by 
silencing human rights defenders 
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The arbitrary designation, targeting six of the most eminent Palestinian 
CSOs places serious obstacles on their documentation and monitoring of 
human rights violations, accountability work to prosecute Israel’s war 
crimes and crimes against humanity, and legal and advocacy efforts. 
These obstacles include, but are not limited to, the negative impact on 
funding from international partners due to Israel’s delegitimization 
campaign 
<https://alhaq.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=10071401ba4201bc1a4992f68&id=0342502132&e=08c14cf485>, 
raids 
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the Israeli military on Palestinian CSOs 
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the concurrent raids on offices 
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confiscation of essential data 
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the arrest of the organization’s staff members and prominent human 
rights defenders 
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advocates.

Our organisations appreciate the massive outpouring of support, 
condemnations of the designation and condemnation of the Israeli claims 
as unsubstantiated, by international civil society as well as government 
and organizational representatives. In order to foster justice and 
dignity for Palestinians suffering daily violations of their basic right 
and in order to ensure the continuation of international human rights 
work, the six organisations call upon the international community, the 
UN member states and its high offices to:

1. Call on Israel, to urgently rescind the designations as acts which 
violate the freedoms of opinion and expression, and freedom of 
association, and amount to an acts of apartheid prosecutable under 
Article 7(2)(h) of the Rome Statute;

2. Publish a bulletin to banks and financial institutions, putting them 
on notice to dismiss as inapplicable, Israel’s terrorist designation of 
the six Palestinian organisations;

3. Communicate directly with, and recommend, that the European Union and 
Third States remove “terrorism” clauses as internal conditions placed on 
donor funding of civil society organisations in the occupied Palestinian 
territory (OPT);

4. Call on UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of 
human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Ms. 
Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, to examine the compatibility of the Anti-Terror 
Law, 2016 with International Human Rights Law and International 
Humanitarian Law;

5. Denounce the application of the Anti-Terror Law, 2016 to civil 
society organisations in the OPT as an overreaching of Israel’s domestic 
law to the OPT;

6. Call on Israel to repeal the Anti-Terror Law, 2016 effectively used 
to institutionalize the persecution of human rights defenders and 
entrench its colonial domination over the Palestinian people and their 
lands;

7. Urge Israel to immediately cease its systematic and ongoing policies 
and practices aimed at intimidating and silencing Palestinian civil 
society and human rights defenders, in breach of their right to freedom 
of expression, including through arbitrary detention, torture and other 
ill-treatment, institutionalized hate speech and incitement, residency 
revocation, deportations, and other forms of coercive or punitive measures.

Please see letters here 
<https://alhaq.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=10071401ba4201bc1a4992f68&id=65fb9a9a23&e=08c14cf485>, 
here 
<https://alhaq.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=10071401ba4201bc1a4992f68&id=14b5f38f3a&e=08c14cf485>.

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