Statement by the Balfour Project
On 22 October Israel’s Defence Minister designated six Palestinian human rights NGOs as ‘terrorist’.
The aim appears to be to stem the flow of information about breaches of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The Balfour Project joins Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Israeli human rights organisations in condemning this decision, and calls upon the British Government to demand that it be rescinded. Peaceful Palestinian human rights defenders must not be subjected to such allegations, without any recourse to independent scrutiny.
Please consider drawing this statement to your MP’s attention.
Click here to read more in Haaretz.
Click here to read more in The Guardian.
Click here to read commentary on this issue by Raja Shehadeh in The Guardian.
Click here for the statement from 16 UK charities,