#Standwiththe6
Statement from Milena Ansari of Addameer sent to the Anti-War Committee for our event in solidarity with the 6 Palestinian civil society groups at the U of MN on October 27, 2022
As we are marking one year since the unlawful designation and criminalization of six prominent Palestinian civil society organizations, we would like international solidarity to grow given the continued attacks against civil society and human rights defenders.
For over three decades, Addameer lawyers and researchers have worked relentlessly to document and produce reports detailing gross systematic practices of arbitrary detention, torture, and the absence of fair trial standards. The majority of our work takes place under the auspices of the Israeli military judicial system, a system built to entrench the Israeli occupation, apartheid, and colonial regime on Palestinian land. Addameer’s advocacy and accountability efforts on the national and international fora, via UN forums and human rights mechanisms, and in close work with international human rights organizations and civil society, have been instrumental in the current paradigm shift towards discussions of a total Israeli apartheid regime.
In retaliation, we have faced decades of an ongoing systematic harassment campaign by Israeli occupation authorities targeting Addameer through arbitrary arrests of staff, military raids on its offices in Ramallah, gag orders on prisoners’ cases, travel bans, residency revocation, and disinformation campaigns
On the one-year ‘anniversary’, the six organizations are painting the picture of a world without them – a dystopian outcome of the designations that is a real possibility, if serious political pressure and actions are not taken against Israeli apartheid and its practices. The current response of the international community will prove to be the most imminent test of its resolve to protect Palestinian human rights, and those advocating for them.
We invite you to join us for a social media day of action on November 1st, 2022, and support existing civil society led campaigns to help us continue our work to hold Israel accountable:
– Share the petition and support the campaign calling for the release of Ahmad Manasra.
– Support the ongoing campaign against the harassment of lawyer and human rights defender Salah Hammouri.
– Tell Congress to end military funding to Israel and sanction Israeli apartheid today.
– USCPR Action : Tell your elected officials to sign onto H.Res 751 and urge the US to reject Israel’s criminalization of DCIP. https://nwttac.dci-palestine.o
