27/05/2026
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has taken exceptional and involuntary measures in response to a systematic Israeli campaign of disinformation, defamation, incitement, and direct and indirect threats targeting the organisation, its chairman, and members of its team. The campaign escalated after false accusations linked the organisation to a New York Times investigation into systematic sexual violence against Palestinians inside Israeli prisons.
Following an intense wave of incitement and threats, a restructuring of field and institutional operations has become necessary. These measures include downsizing the team and reducing activities across the occupied Palestinian territory and the wider region, suspending operations at the central office, closing offices in the occupied Palestinian territory and , and shifting toward virtual and essential field-based work as circumstances require.
Among the latest repressive measures documented is an agreement concluded by Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli with ’s Population and Immigration Authority to bar nearly 40 staff members and affiliates from entering Israel and the occupied territory, including founder and chairman Ramy Abdu, senior officials, board members, and employees.
The ongoing campaign constitutes a systematic attempt to silence independent human rights voices and undermine efforts aimed at exposing the truth and ensuring accountability for grave crimes and violations committed against Palestinians.
The campaign has included the distortion and manipulation of public statements, the fabrication of false allegations regarding political or organisational affiliations, and widespread incitement campaigns accompanied by threats that have extended to calls for the physical assassination of the organisation’s chairman and several staff members.
What Euro-Med Monitor is facing today forms part of a broader policy targeting anyone who documents crimes or approaches the truth.
