Suppression of Palestinian Civil Society
Suppression of Palestinian Civil Society
Shrinking spaces for Palestinian Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), particularly Human Rights Organizations (HROs), has a dual approach in that it is being directly implemented by Israel and discursively imposed by the international donor community. Israel targets Palestinian CSOs through laws and policies designed to strain or sever their relations with foreign funding partners, while the international donor community imposes political conditions on funding. Palestinian civil society is thus left unable to properly meet the needs, nor vindicate the rights, of the Palestinian people. All of these accumulated policies and practices are not only inconsistent with the principles of humanitarian action, but also with the Palestinian people’s basic and inalienable rights, as recognized under international law, including the right to self-determination, and the right to resist by any legitimate means foreign oppression, colonization and apartheid.
Al-Majdal | Statements | Legal Interventions | Research
Al-Majdal
- Al-Majdal Magazine issue #60 – Shrinking Spaces in Palestine: An Israeli Colonial Strategy to De-Politicize Palestinian Civil Society
- Al-Majdal Issue #54 – Eight Years of the BDS Movement: Where have we come since 2005?
Statements
- BADIL Position Paper on the EU Conditional Funding’s Illegality and Political Implications
- Against Terrorism and Against Conditional Funding: Statement of the Palestinian National Campaign to Reject Conditional Funding
- Israel is behind the political funding conditions
- The Palestinian National Campaign to Reject Conditional Funding - International Funding Must Respect the Palestinian People’s Rights
- A United Palestinian Position: No to Political Conditions
- Palestinian Campaign to Reject Politically Conditional Funding - Funds contradicting our people's rights are unacceptable
- the EU’s Clarification letter: an attempt to normalize and market the unacceptable conditions in order to lure organizations to sign
- Exclusion of BADIL from the list of beneficiaries of the European Union grants due to refusal to sign the condition criminalizing the Palestinian struggle
- The Imposition of the European Union’s Conditional Funding opens the door for further Zionist-Israeli conditions
- The Palestinian National Campaign To Reject Conditional Funding Commends Burj Al Luqluq Position Against Conditional Funding
- No to Israeli Gantz requires No to American Gantz and European Gantz too!
Legal Interventions
- BADIL’s Written Submission to UN SR on RFPAA to inform on Thematic Report on Trends, Developments and Challenges to the Ability of CSOs to Access Resources, Including Foreign Funding
- BADIL’s written statement to the Human Rights Council: (based on the submission to the SR)
- BADIL’s oral statements to the Human Rights Council
- BADIL’s oral statements to the Human Rights Council 2
Research
- Forced Population Transfer Working Papers series: Suppression of Resistance: (Chapter 3)
- BADIL’s Q&A on conditional funding