[News] Position Paper: Dangerous Designations, Israel’s Authoritarian Dismantling of Palestinian Civil Society, an Attack on Human Rights and the Rule of Law
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Position Paper: Dangerous Designations, Israel’s Authoritarian
Dismantling of Palestinian Civil Society, an Attack on Human Rights and
the Rule of Law
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Position Paper: Dangerous Designations, Israel’s Authoritarian
Dismantling of Palestinian Civil Society, an Attack on Human Rights
and the Rule of Law
30، Oct 2021
On 30 October 2021, Al-Haq along with five organisations released the
position paper, “Position Paper: Dangerous Designations, Israel’s
Authoritarian Dismantling of Palestinian Civil Society, an Attack on
Human Rights and the Rule of Law”. On 19 October 2021, the Israeli
Minister of Defense Benny Gantz announced the designation of six leading
Palestinian civil society organizations (CSOs) as “terror organizations”
under Israel’s domestic Anti-Terrorism Law (2016), effectively outlawing
the organizations and placing them at risk of imminent reprisals. The
six targeted organizations are: Addameer Prisoner Support and Human
Rights Association (Addameer), Al-Haq Law in the Service of Man
(Al-Haq), 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).
For decades, these organizations have been at the forefront of the
Palestinian civil society and significantly contributed to the
advancement of human rights, prisoners’ and children rights, women
empowerment, socio-economic, agricultural and environmental development,
in an effort to represent Palestinian voices, in Palestine and the
world. Addameer provides legal support to Palestinian political
prisoners, exposing human rights violations committed against them by
Israel, the Occupying Power.[1] Al-Haq works to protect the rule of law
and human rights, documenting human rights violations and seeking
accountability for Israel’s war crimes and crimes against
humanity.[2] Bisan Center defends the socio-economic, political, and
civil rights of the poor and marginalized in the Palestinian
society.[3] DCI-P supports the rights of Palestinian children, through
the provision of legal services to the most vulnerable, as well as
national and international advocacy.[4] UAWC seeks agricultural
development through empowering Palestinian farmers within a sustainable
community-based framework.[5] UPWC is a feminist organization aimed at
empowering Palestinian women to build a progressive Palestinian society
free from all forms of discrimination.[6]
Israel’s designation constitutes the latest in an escalating series of
smear attacks and institutionalized violence against defenders of the
Palestinian people’s human rights and fundamental freedoms that form
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. The
arbitrary designation targets six of the most eminent Palestinian CSOs
and Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) engaged in critical human rights work
in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), placing 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 to bring Israel’s occupation,
settler-colonialism and apartheid regime to an end.
In light of the above, the six Palestinian organisations recommend that
the international community, UN Member States and civil society:
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 organizations;
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 organizations in the
occupied Palestinian territory;
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 organizations 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 find link to position paper here
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[1] See Addameer’s website, https://www.addameer.org/
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[2] See Al-Haq’s website, https://www.alhaq.org/
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[3] See Bisan Center’s website, https://www.bisan.org/
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[4] See DCI-P’s website, https://www.dci-palestine.org/
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[5] See UAWC’s website, https://www.uawc-pal.org/UAWCAbout.php
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[6] See UPWC’s website, http://www.upwc.org.ps
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