Éilíonn Al-Haq gur stát apartheid é Iosrael

At the end of May 2022, terror-designated Palestinian NGO Al-Haq submitted a 50-page document to the permanent UN Commission of Inquiry (COI), in which it describes its opposition to the existence of the State of Israel, claims that Israel is an apartheid state, and lays out recommendations to the international community to punish the “settler-colonial and apartheid regime” The document was co-signed by 90 organizations, including dozens of BDS NGOs and at least eight groups that are funded by European governments.

Al-Haq urges the UN to recognize that “Zionist settler colonialism is the root of the conflict ... since the founding of the Zionist movement at the end of the 19th century.”

The document ends with 17 different recommendations that Al-Haq demands the COI to adopt, including:

1) Recognizing that all laws, policies and actions in Israel are part of Zionist colonialism and an apartheid regime within all of Israel's borders.
2) Calling on Israel to dismantle its apartheid regime (within the 1948 borders), end the occupation of the territories and the annexation of Jerusalem, lift the siege on Gaza and allow the return of refugees.
3) Calling on third parties to stop cooperating with Israel, including economic and diplomatic sanctions on Israel, a ban on economic ties that could harm Palestinians, and more.
4) Calling on Israel to allow the return of Palestinian refugees to their original homes, the return of property and compensation for damages.
5) To formally adopt the notion of Israel as an apartheid state and expand the powers of the Special Envoy for Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories from the post-1967 borders to the 1948 borders
6) Calling on Israel to repeal the following laws: the (Jewish) Law of Return, the Citizenship Law, the Absentee Property Law, the Entry into Israel Law, the Nationality Law and others.

At the end of June 2022, EU diplomats in Ramallah were quoted in European media agus Al Jazeera as saying that the EU would renew its grant to Al-Haq. The European Commission – the EU’s executive branch – also sent letters to Al-Haq and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) informing them that their year-long suspensions were lifted unconditionally and with immediate effect. All funding had been frozen following the Israeli government’s 's declaration in October 2021 that Al-Haq was a terror-tied organization. Other major donors of Al-Haq include Norway, Ireland, Italy, France, and Spain and Sweden.

The EU gave the NGO a grant of €296,000, part of which has already been paid to the organization. It is intended “to empower Palestinian civil society in order to promote the reporting and implementation of international rights in the mechanisms to which Palestine joined in 2014.”

NGO Monitor’s research also uncovered a separate EU grant, amounting to €467,000, allocated to the production company Live Nation Israel for 2021-2023, with the aim of “contributing to the improvement of public knowledge within the European Union and the development of a positive dialogue on cooperation with Israel, and improve awareness of the importance of EU policies and programs among the Israeli public through communication, public diplomacy and informative events.”

The EU has a record of hiring PR firms and organizations in an attempt to improve its image among Israelis. According to NGO Monitor, in 2019, the EU gave €30 million to organizations operating in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza: 3 grants went to NGOs affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror organization, 7 grants to NGOs seeking to preserve the Palestinian identity of Jerusalem, 7 grants to NGOs that use antisemitic rhetoric, and 3 grants that seek to influence Israeli public opinion and make Israel “more democratic.”

Professor Gerald Steinberg, President of NGO Monitor, states that: “In public statements, senior EU officials call for deeper cooperation with Israel, but through the back door, they continue to fund hatred and demonization. This document rejects the right of the Jewish people to self-determination and is a blatant example of antisemitism under the IHRA definition, which the EU claims to accept. If the EU has indeed renewed funding to Al-Haq and similar NGOs, this will further damage Europe's credibility, particularly among Israelis and Jewish communities.”

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