On April 22, 2022, Reginald Turner, the President of the American Bar Association (ABA)—the largest voluntary association of attorneys and legal professionals in the world—wrote a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Israel’s
By Gabe Murphy Coverage of the war in Ukraine has rightly emphasized the critical role of civil society in responding to this moment. Both local civil society groups and international nongovernmental organizations have mobilized to
Today, 5 Palestinian organizations declared ‘unlawful associations’ by the Israeli military filed an objection to the designation, citing a lack of due process, a lack of evidence, conflict of interest, and violation of the rule
Following intense political pressure from the Israeli government and allied organizations, the Dutch government has decided to cut funding to a Palestinian NGO that aids farmers in areas targeted for Israeli settlement expansion, the Union
On Jan. 5, 2022, the Dutch Foreign Ministry published a letter to the Dutch Parliament announcing that it was cutting its financial support for the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC), a leading Palestinian civil
By Kay Guinane Over the last two decades humanitarian actors have experienced increasing legal restrictions on their operations and physical attacks on personnel and facilities. This long-standing problem is a manifestation of the larger trend
November 17, 2021 C&SN Founder and Senior Advisor Kay Guinane is quoted in the story, arguing that Israel's designations "mark a crescendo, not an opening salvo, in the Israeli government's long-standing campaign to suppress Palestinian
https://youtu.be/0CS_-wDLkns Description: On Thursday November 18, at 10 am eastern, C&SN hosted a presentation of our recent report: The Alarming Rise of Lawfare to Suppress Civil Society – the Case of Palestine and Israel. A
November 1, 2021 On October 29, the Charity & Security Network sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging the State Department to apply extreme scrutiny to any evidence brought forward by the
October 1, 2021 Philanthropy News Digest offers an overview of a recent Charity & Security Network report, The Alarming Rise of Lawfare to Suppress Civil Society: The Case of Palestine and Israel, and quotes Kay Guinane,
