United Nation’s Special Rapporteur’s Francesca Albanese and Mary Lawlor condemn Israel’s attacks on Palestinian civil society organizations.
United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Miloon Kothari discusses the first report of the Pillay Commission into the “underlying root causes of recurrent tensions” in Palestine.
UN Human Rights Commissioner Miloon Kothari explains why Apartheid is a useful paradigm but not enough to explain the root causes of the Palestinian crisis.
The European Commission has restored funding to the Palestinian human rights groups Al-Haq despite an Israeli attack on it and five other Palestinian human rights and civil society organizations as having supposed terrorist links. “They can do anything they want. They can confiscate [our laptops and files]; they can close the office; they can arrest people; they can arrest me and criminalize me,” Shawan Jabarin of Al-Haq says. “We will not give up. I assure you we will not give up, and we will not step back.”
The new Legal Centre for Palestine (LCP) will counter the harassment and intimidation of Canada’s Palestinian community and its allies by pro-Israel organizations. “We defend the right of Palestinians to exist,” co-founder Emilio Dabed says. “Law, on its own, cannot liberate Palestinians or Palestine. Law is a complementary tool for a struggle that needs to combine grassroots organization and mobilization.”
The story of the secret dossier aimed at silencing Anna-Esther Younes reveals the structural racism towards Palestinians at the heart of German society, and serves as a cautionary tale for Palestine advocates around the world.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has ruled that “Product of Israel” labels affixed to wines produced in Israel’s illegal West Bank settlements violate Canadian consumer protection law.
Michael Lynk reflects on his time as UN Special Rapporteur for the human rights situation in the Palestinian Territories.
When Canadian human rights lawyer Michael Lynk ended his term as the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian territories on May 1 he left a series of reports and statements laying out the realities of Israeli apartheid. Now in an extended interview with Mondoweiss, Lynk describes the process that led to his apartheid declarations, and what steps the international community can take to force Israel to abandon its “fever-dream of settler-colonialism.”
The conclusions the UN Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination reaches may have huge consequences for Israel as it tries to weather the apartheid storm, and for Palestinians seeking justice.