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Since the beginning of the year, Israeli war criminal
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0 0 1em;">Since the
beginning of the
year, Israeli war
criminal and
"Minister of
Defense" Benny Gantz
has repeatedly
designated
Palestinian and
international
organizations
working to defend
Palestinian rights
and organize for
Palestinian
liberation as
"terrorist." <strong>Today,
22 October, Gantz
designated six
Palestinian
organizations, all
known for their
defense of
Palestinian human
rights: Al-Haq,
Addameer Prisoner
Support and Human
Rights
Association,
Defence for
Children
International
Palestine, Bisan
Center for
Research and
Development, the
Union of
Palestinian
Women's Committees
and the Union of
Agricultural Work
Committees.</strong></p>
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follows Gantz and
the Israeli
regime's <a
style="color:
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href="https://samidoun.net/2021/02/samidoun-we-will-not-be-silenced-by-israels-terrorist-designation/"
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organization on 21
February 2021.</strong>
In late August 2021,
without issuing a
press release, Gantz
also designated
EuroPal Forum, the
International Legal
Coalition for
Palestine and the
Popular Conference
of Palestinians
Abroad. <strong>It
is clear that the
Israeli regime has
fully adopted as
standard practice
and policy the
"terrorist"
designation of
organizations that
effectively
challenge its
control and expose
its crimes on the
local, regional
and international
levels.</strong></p>
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0 0 1em;">All of
these designations
are meant primarily
as an attack on
Palestinian
organizing,
research,
agriculture, and the
Palestinian
prisoners' movement.
<strong>We express
our full
solidarity with
all of the
organizations
designated in this
manner and once
again affirm that
we will not be
silenced or
deterred by
Israeli smear
campaigns or
attempted
collective terror
against
Palestinians,
Arabs and
internationals
struggling for
justice.</strong>
<strong>This
repression must
inspire us to
organize more and
build greater
mutual defense and
solidarity against
all attempts to
use the
"terrorist" label
to criminalize
Palestinian
resistance, action
and organizing.</strong></p>
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0 0 1em;">Once
again, the Israeli
designations appear
to essentially be
copied-and-pasted
from right-wing
propaganda
organizations like
NGO Monitor that aim
to shield Israel
from international
accountability by
smearing and
attacking
Palestinian human
rights defenders.
Their <a
style="color:
#2585B2;"
href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20181001-new-israel-report-exposes-role-of-ngo-monitor-in-defaming-rights-activists"
moz-do-not-send="true">shoddy reporting, baseless claims</a> and factual
inaccuracies are
part and parcel of
their attempt to
defend Israeli
colonialism,
military occupation,
apartheid, siege and
mass arbitrary
detention of
Palestine and the
Palestinian people.
These types of
propaganda
organizations have
done so by
attempting to
prevent Palestinian
non-governmental
organizations from
receiving grants;
for example, the
Union of
Agricultural Work
Committees has faced
such attacks from
these organizations
in Australia, the
Netherlands, and
elsewhere.</p>
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"terrorist"
designations can be
used as a
justification for
arresting members,
closing down
organizations and
centers or labeling
the organizations
"illegal" inside the
occupied West Bank.<strong>
In our experience
with this
designation since
February of this
year, these
designations are
used as ammunition
by Zionist
"lawfare" groups
in various
countries in an
attempt to create
a climate of fear
to undermine
collective
solidarity, cut
off funding or
access to banking,
and silence
advocates for
justice, rights
and liberation in
Palestine at
international
venues.</strong></p>
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0 0 1em;">Through
these designations,
Israel has made
clear that its
definition of
"terrorism" is any
action that resists
its colonialism
throughout occupied
Palestine. <strong>In
many cases, such
as with today's
designations of
Addameer and DCI
Palestine, as well
as the existing
designation of
Samidoun, it is
clear that this is
an attempt to cut
off Palestinian
political
prisoners --
including
imprisoned
children -- from
growing legal,
political and
moral support and
to attack the
Palestinian
prisoners'
movement.</strong>
In the case of
organizations like
Al-Haq, it is clear
that Israel wants to
use the "terror"
designation to
provide itself with
impunity from
international
prosecution, while
the designations of
organizations like
Bisan, UPWC and UAWC
aim to undermine and
target Palestinian
self-organization,
research, and food
sovereignty.</p>
<p style="direction:
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14px; line-height:
1.4em; color: #444;
font-family:
"Helvetica
Neue",
Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif; margin:
0 0 1em;">When Ben
& Jerry's ice
cream brand
announced that it
would simply no
longer sell ice
cream in the future
to illegal colonial
settlements
following an
extensive campaign
by social justice
and Palestinian
rights
organizations,
Israeli president
Isaac Herzog labeled
even this attempt of
a company to come in
line with
international law --
and all boycotts of
Israel -- <a
style="color:
#2585B2;"
href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/citing-ben-jerrys-snub-herzog-says-israel-boycotts-a-new-kind-of-terrorism/"
moz-do-not-send="true">as "terrorist."</a></p>
<p style="direction:
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Neue",
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sans-serif; margin:
0 0 1em;">While this
example is
rhetorical, it
indicates just how
meaningless the term
"terrorist" is in
the hands of the
Israeli regime. It
means precisely any
organization,
activist, or freedom
fighter that
challenges Zionist
colonialism through
any method or means
of resistance at
all. The flurry of
"terrorist"
designations for
organizations
working to expose
Israel's crimes and
organize
Palestinians
underlines this
reality.</p>
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further highlights
exactly why all
such designations
should be
considered
propaganda stunts
and tossed out by
courts,
governments,
financial
institutions and
any other party
called upon to
repress
Palestinian
organizing on the
basis of these
bogus labels.</strong>
<strong>Such
designations have
no international
effect and do not
require anyone to
stop supporting
these
organizations.</strong>
<strong>Instead,
these designations
must mobilize us
to build greater
popular support
for Palestinian
rights
organizations
designated by the
Israeli
occupation.</strong></p>
<p style="direction:
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0 0 1em;">Further,
such designations
should also inspire
international
advocates for
Palestine and
organizations
concerned with
justice and human
rights to <strong>adopt
the boycott and
international
isolation of
Israel</strong>,
which has once again
-- as it has for
over 73 years --
shown itself to be
dedicated to the
expulsion and
suppression of the
Palestinian people
with complete
disregard for any
principles of law or
justice.</p>
<p style="direction:
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style="color:
#2585B2;"
href="https://samidoun.net/2021/02/samidoun-we-will-not-be-silenced-by-israels-terrorist-designation/"
moz-do-not-send="true">noted in February</a>, these designations are
also an attempt to
divert attention
from the serious
problem facing
hundreds of Zionist
officials –
including Gantz
himself – who are
afraid from the next
steps of the
investigations by
the International
Criminal Court (ICC)
after its last
announcement on 5
February 2021
affirming that it
has the authority to
investigate war
crimes in the
Palestinian occupied
territories.</p>
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designations are not
attacks on
individual
organizations but
against Palestinian
human rights
defenders and those
around the world who
stand up for
Palestinian
liberation -- and,
fundamentally, the
Palestinian people
as a whole,
especially the
Palestinian
prisoners in Israeli
occupation prisons.
They attempt to
repress growing
support for the
legitimate
resistance of the
Palestinian people
and confrontation of
imperialism and
Zionism.</p>
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express our firm
commitment to
mutual defense and
collective
solidarity with
all similarly
targeted
organizations
working for a
liberated
Palestine. The
primary way that
we can confront
these designations
is by intensifying
our organizing,
action,
mobilization and
resistance to
bring down the
structures of
colonialism,
implement the
right to return
for Palestinian
refugees, and
support the
liberation of all
Palestinian
prisoners and of
Palestine, from
the river to the
sea.</strong></p>
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