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Palestinian and Regional
Organisations Send Joint
Submission to the UN
Secretary-General on
Intimidation and Reprisals for
Cooperation with the UN</h1>
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20، Apr 2021<br>
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April 2021, 16 Palestinian and
regional civil society
organisations sent a joint
submission the United Nations
(UN) Secretary-General,
highlighting Israel’s attacks
against civil society
organisations and human rights
defenders, carried out between
May 2020 and April 2021, for
their work in the field of
human rights, including with
UN. </p>
<p style="margin: 10px
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Israel’s systematic campaign
of silencing, intimidation,
harassment, and
delegitimisation of human
rights defenders, activists,
and organisations seeking to
challenge Israel’s widespread
and systematic human rights
violations against the
Palestinian people and calling
for justice and accountability
under international law, the
joint submission highlighted
how Palestinian civil society
organisations have continued
to be the subject of an
intensified online
disinformation and smear
campaign by Israel. This
campaign, orchestrated
predominantly through Israel’s
Ministry of Strategic Affairs
and government-affiliated
organisations, aims at
maintaining Israel’s regime of
racial domination and
oppression, including by
creating a climate of fear and
intimidation and preventing
Palestinian human rights
organisations from carrying
out their advocacy work.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px
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150%;text-align: left;">In
particular, the joint
submission highlighted
smear-publications produced by
Israel’s Ministry of Strategic
Affairs and its
government-affiliated
organisations, including NGO
Monitor. The
smear-publications, which
include inflammatory,
baseless, and false
allegations of “ties to
terrorism,” aim to silence
Palestinian organisations,
discredit their work, and
thereby delegitimise and
defund civil society
organisations. </p>
<p style="margin: 10px
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the joint submission offered
the following
recommendations: </p>
<ol>
<li
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Israel, as the Occupying
Power, and its conduct,
including through its
Ministry of Strategic
Affairs and
government-affiliated
organisations, in smearing
human rights defenders and
activists, restricting their
work and the right to
freedom of expression, and
threatening their right to
life, amongst other rights,
both offline and online,
including on social media
platforms; </li>
<li
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that Israel immediately
cease all practices and
policies intended to
intimidate and silence human
rights defenders, in
violation of their right to
freedom of expression,
including through arbitrary
detention, torture and other
ill-treatment,
institutionalised hate
speech and incitement,
residency revocation,
deportations, and other
coercive or punitive
measures;</li>
<li
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with online platforms, such
as Facebook and Twitter, to
ensure thatposts containing
death threats and
misinformation about human
rights defenders are
removed, that their best
efforts are taken to
guarantee that their
platforms are not employed
in coordinated attacks
within organised campaigns
that aim at denigrating
Palestinian human rights
defenders, that they test
their policies and
procedures periodically to
ensure that they do not
discriminate against any
person or group nor
influenced by political
whims and systematic
incitement campaigns, and
that Facebook, Twitter and
other online platforms
adhere to their human rights
responsibilities; and</li>
<li
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the root causes underpinning
Israel’s disinformation
campaign and quashing of
freedom of opinion and
expression in the occupied
Palestinian territory, and
call for an immediate and
unconditional lifting of the
13-year land, air and sea
closure of the Gaza Strip,
an end to the 53-year
occupation of the West Bank,
including East Jerusalem,
and the Gaza Strip, and an
end to the 72-year apartheid
over the Palestinian people
as a whole on both sides of
the Green Line, and as
refugees and exiles abroad
denied the right of return. </li>
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