Activities

• Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med Monitor) consistently spreads blood libels and conspiracy theories about Israel, and accuses Israel of “apartheid,” genocide,” “ethnic cleansing,” “collective punishment,” and “war crimes.”
• In Janaury 2026, Euro-Med Monitor held a “WikiRights” training course, designed to teach participants how to “enrich Wikipedia with the narratives of Gaza genocide victims.” The course covered “core Wikipedia principles, article structure, and methods for creating and editing entries, alongside practical training to apply the skills acquired during the course.”
• In September 2025, Euro-Med Monitor called for the European Union to “actively support the International Criminal Court’s efforts to prosecute Israeli officials responsible for atrocity crimes in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territory. This includes ensuring the prompt issuance and execution of arrest warrants and rejecting all political interference aimed at protecting perpetrators.”
• In June 2025, following Israeli and American strikes on Iranian nuclear and military sites and Iran’s targeting of Israeli population centers, EMHRM Chief of Programmes Muhammad Shehada tweeted, “If Iran falls, Israel will keep assaulting more countries to establish ‘operational freedom’ (AKA full hegemony) over the entire Middle East where their drones, fighter jets, & bombers would be able to raid any country any time to kill anyone that dares challenge their apartheid & to hell with the notions of sovereignty, international law or the UN! The only thing that matters is the ‘feelings’ of Israeli suprmacists [sic] who will keep claiming that they feel ‘unsafe’ as long as they don’t fully dominate the entire region!”
  • On June 16, 2025, in response to a video showing damage to a building from an Iranian missile, EMHRM Chief of Programmes Muhammad Shehada tweeted, “Oh no! A window fell out? Your army bombed my home & the homes of every single member of my family & every single person I know in Gaza while you stood lecturing journalists that if they try to be objective, ‘they’d serve khamas’ [sic]!”
• In April 2025, Euro-Med Monitor accused the Dutch government of being “complicit in Israeli war crimes” by “exporting military dogs to the Israeli army and other security agencies in the region, despite their use as tools of torture and systematic terror against Palestinians.”
• In April 2025, Euro-Med Monitor published an article titled “Israel’s brutality in Gaza surpasses all recent forms of terrorism.” According to Euro-Med Monitor, “The nature of Israel’s crimes in the Gaza Strip must be denounced, particularly the crimes’ horrifying scope, methodical execution, and wide-ranging effects, which surpass those of armed groups like ISIS.”
• In January 2025, Euro-Med Monitor accused the US of “directly supporting Israel’s expansionist and colonial policies, which systematically aim to remove Palestinians from their lands in favour of its illegal colonial settlement projects.”
• In January 2025, Euro-Med Monitor called for Israel to be “added to UN’s sexual violence blacklist.” According to Euro-Med Monitor, “Israel’s repeated refusal to cooperate with all UN investigations into sexual violence highlights the Israeli government’s exploitation of the allegations of this grave crime as a propaganda tool to manufacture consent for its full-fledged, live-streamed genocide…Israel merely uses these allegations to shame and smear critics and deflect blame from its formidable crimes against humanity.”
• In October 2024, Euro-Med Monitor tweeted, “A year of genocidal warfare in Gaza, with war crimes witnessed on the world’s screens… Today, Palestinians in Gaza are marking the first anniversary of the start of the genocide, while facing repeated and escalating phases of it.”
• In October 2024, Euro-Med Monitor published a report titled, “De-Gaza: A Year of Israel’s Genocide and the Collapse of World Order,”  “trac[ing] the clear elements of genocide perpetrated by the Israeli army, explores the legal frameworks defining the crime of genocide, and scrutinises both the context and ongoing circumstances.” According to EuroMed, “The Israeli authorities have provided figures indicating that over 1,200 Israelis and foreigners, including soldiers and civilians, were killed in this attack. Many Israeli soldiers were among the more than 200 individuals who were arrested and moved to the Gaza Strip, with the other individuals being civilians” (emphasis added).
• In June 2024, Euro-Med Monitor accused Israel of training police dogs to “rape prisoners and detainees.”
• In April 2024, Euro-Med Monitor urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to “begin investigating the situation in Palestine. The Court needs to take the long-awaited legal measures and issue arrest warrants for the Israeli officials involved in committing crimes against the Palestinians, prosecuting them and holding them accountable. This will end the impunity that Israel has long enjoyed.”
• In January 2024, Euro-Med Monitor provided the South African legal team with “memoranda about Israel’s mass killings, targeting of the Gaza Strip’s health sector, and various outcomes of the genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip” to aid in their case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) alleging that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. 
• In November 2023, Euro-Med Monitor published a statement promoting the blood libel that “The Israeli army has been holding the bodies of dozens of Palestinians killed during its genocide… called for… committee into organ theft suspicions… the Israeli army also dug up and confiscated the bodies from a mass grave… Israel is the only country that systematically holds the dead bodies of those it kills, and is classified as one of the world’s biggest hubs for the illegal trade of human organs” (emphases added).
• In November 2023, Euro-Med Monitor published a statement accusing Israel of using staff at Al Shifa hospital as human shields “to conduct an extensive combing and search operation in the hospital departments before carrying out horrific mass field executions… After failing to find any evidence of a military presence in the medical facility, the Israeli soldiers went crazy and deliberately carried out a series of executions, eliminating and directly shooting a number of the wounded in cold blood….” Euro-Med Monitor also  referred to “Israel’s absurd claims that Palestinian groups were using Al-Shifa Medical Complex and other hospitals in the Gaza Strip for military purposes…” 
• In October 2023, in the aftermath of the brutal Hamas attack on October 7, Euro-Med Monitor tweeted, “The crime scene has then been doctored & assault rifles appear to have been added to the bodies. These individuals may have been civilians who crossed the fence after its collapse. Their killing as they surrendered is an act of extrajudicial execution that constitutes a war crime.”
• In January 2023, Euro-Med Monitor published a report arguing that “Israeli army forces expanded the policy of summary executions… Targeting, shooting, and killing women and children was a routine practise of Israeli forces.”
• In February 2022 Euro-Med Monitor published a statement claiming, “the IHRA definition is being weaponized to suppress freedom of speech, muzzle Palestinian and pro-Palestinian voices and falsely equate legitimate criticism of Israel with anti-semitism.”
  • The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, adopted by more than 30 countries and counting, represents the international consensus definition of antisemitism, as well as how to distinguish between legitimate criticism of Israel and antisemitism. An example of the latter includes denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.
• In February 2022, Euro-Med Monitor published a statement defending a report published by Amnesty International accusing Israel of apartheid. According to the statement, “Demonizing Amnesty comes in the context of Israel’s systematic delegitimization campaign against human rights defenders.”
• In October 2021, Euro-Med Monitor published a statement claiming, “a civilian population caged in a toxic slum from birth to death are forced to witness the slow poisoning of their children and loved ones by the water they drink and likely the soil in which they harvest, endlessly, with no change in sight” (emphases added).
• In May 2021, Euro-Med Monitor published a statement claiming, “For decades Israel was successful in hiding these apartheid features from the world because the legacy of the Holocaust lent uncritical credence to the Zionist narrative” (emphasis added).

Ties to Terror

• Ramy Abdu, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor Founder and Chairman
  • In November 2020, Israel Minister of Defense Benjamin Gantz signed an administrative seizure order against Ramy Abdu under Israel’s anti-terrorism law. The order was issued “in relation to his work with the [Israeli]-designated terrorist organization ‘IPalestine- International Platform of NGOs Working for Palestine…that belongs to and acts on behalf of…Hamas” Abdu served as a Board member.
    • The order was in effect until August 1, 2022.
  • Ramy Abdu appeared on a 2013 list, published by Israel, of Hamas’ “main operatives and institutions” in Europe. The institutions included The European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza (ECESG), European NGOs Empowerment Services (ENES), and the Council for European Palestinian Relations (CEPR).
    • A 2011 publication by Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center described Ramy Abdu as ECESG’s coordinator.
  • In 2013, Council for European Palestinian Relations (CEPR) and PALThink organized an event, “Hamas Movement within the International Context,” featuring Hamas leader Osama Hamdan. At the event, Ramy Abdu, then CEPR’s Palestine Office Manager in Gaza, sat next to Hamdan and was a keynote speaker.

• Mazen Awni Issa Kahel (Mazen Kahel), Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor chair 2015–2019
  • Mazen Kahel appeared on a 2013 list, published by Israel, of Hamas’ “main operatives and institutions” in Europe. The institutions included The European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza (ECESG), European NGOs Empowerment Services (ENES), and the Council for European Palestinian Relations (CEPR).

Ramy Abdu and Mazen Kahel posing next to Hamas political bureau leader and former Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh (2011)

BDS

• In September 2025, in a statement before the UN Human Rights Council, Euro-Med Monitor’s Head of Legal Unit Lima Bustami stated, “You knew your arms fell on the defenseless in the name of self-defense. You knew your trade, diplomacy, and silence—invoked as security and civilization, wrapped in historic guilt for the past but blind to the present—turned your territories into channels for crime, not barriers against it, as international law demands…A few may sit here sincerely debating human rights. But to all others I ask: was normalizing genocide really worth it?”
• In June 2025, Euro-Med Monitor stated, “As Israel’s largest trading partner, second-largest arms supplier, and a key enabler of its access to global markets, finance, and mobility, Europe holds immense leverage—yet it chooses not to use it. Measures that are readily available include imposing a comprehensive arms embargo; enacting targeted sanctions against officials and entities responsible for the genocide; suspending the EU–Israel Association Agreement; blacklisting financial institutions complicit in international crimes; banning products from illegal settlements; revoking Schengen visa privileges; and recognising the State of Palestine. The fact that these tools remain unused is not a matter of capacity—it is a failure of political will, legal integrity, and moral courage.”
• In March 2025, Euro-Med Monitor called on states to “enact economic, diplomatic, and military sanctions to force Israel to stop its crimes, in light of the overwhelming evidence that it has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip. The financial assets of officials implicated in crimes against Palestinians must be frozen, trade privileges and bilateral agreements suspended, arms exports and purchases from Israel prohibited, and military cooperation with Israel suspended.”
• In February 2025, Euro-Med Monitor called on the international community and the United Nations to “act urgently to hold Israel accountable for its ongoing crimes against Palestinians. This includes enforcing effective sanctions, halting all military, financial, and political support, and immediately suspending all arms sales, transfers, and purchases, including export licenses and military aid.”
• In January 2025, Euro-Med Monitor urged, “The sale, export, and purchase of weapons to and from Israel must be completely prohibited. Additionally, all licences and agreements pertaining to arms, imports, and exports, including dual-use materials and technology that Israel could use against the Palestinian people to violate their rights, must be stopped, as must any assistance in the military and intelligence sectors.”
• In August 2024, Euro-Med Monitor called for all nations to “impose strong sanctions on Israel and halt all forms of military, political, and financial assistance. This includes immediately cutting off all arms transfers to Israel, including export permits and military aid; otherwise, these nations will be complicit in and partners in the Israeli crimes committed in the Gaza Strip, including the crime of genocide.”
• In May 2024, Euro-Med Monitor petitioned the International Olympic Committee and the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) to “take decisive action against Israel, to hold it accountable for the crimes against Palestinian athletes committed in the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip that began on October 7.”
• In February 2024, Euro-Med Monitor called for countries to “to cut off all forms of political, economic, and military relations with Israel.”
• In October 2023, Euro-Med Monitor published a statement calling for “an immediate comprehensive arms embargo on Israel.” 
• In April 2023, Euro-Med Monitor published a statement calling on Denmark to “Investigate a company’s potential implication in Gaza war crimes” and “immediately put an end to both direct and indirect export of all kinds of military equipment to the Israeli government.”
• In December 2020, Euro-Med Monitor published an article titled, “Sanctions not normalisation are needed to stop Israel’s human rights abuses.” According to the article, “despite its long history of war crimes and violations of international law over the course of 72 years, successive Israeli governments are repeatedly rewarded with favored trading status, state welcomes for officials, and more. Yes, resolutions have been passed chiding their behavior, but actions are needed if anything is to change. Sanctions must be deployed consistently, fairly and humanely.”
• On March 11, 2019, Euro-Med Monitor spokeswomen Sarah Pritchett said, “Whether we agree with the BDS movement or not, one cannot deny that its activities as a peaceful campaign are legal.”
• In September 2017, Euro-Med Monitor published a statement calling for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights “to commit to the publication of the [black] list as scheduled before the end of this year…the biggest step compared to all previous efforts calling for the boycott of occupation and the normalization of settlements.”

Staff

• Muhammad Shehada, Chief of Programmes
  • Shehada is a visiting fellow with European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR)’s Middle East and North Africa programme.
  • In December 2023, Shehahda, Euro-Med Monitor Chief of Programmes, accused the IDF of “sexual assault” and “stripp[ing[ almost naked & torture” of two women prisoners, based on an image apparently showing “One … with her blue hijab on but with bare arms; the other had her hijab removed & is stripped down to her sleeping clothes!” 
  • In August 2023, Shehada published an article claiming, “When it comes to Palestinians, however, the Supreme Court has been fully complicit in legitimising, sustaining, and advancing a grim reality that the world’s largest human rights groups describe as ‘apartheid’ as well as ‘crushing Palestinian rights’… as it okayed the ethnic cleansing…”
  • In November 2014, Shedada tweeted a picture of himself with Ismail Haniyeh with the caption, “Talking a gently walk and a selfi with the ex-Prime Minister of#Gaza and the leader of #Hamas: #Ismail_Haniya.”
  • In February 2021, Shehada argued in an article that “Palestinian leaders who advocate for ‘armed resistance,’ because they say that negotiations have not worked, are ‘not wrong.’”
  • In January 2021, Shedada published an article calling on, “US President Joe Biden to ‘engage constructively’ with the Palestinian Authority, even if includes (sic) representatives deemed as terror-supporters, from Hamas or the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.”
  • In August 2020, Shehada published an article referring to the launching of incendiary balloons towards southern Israel as “distress signals.”
• Richard Falk
  • Richard Falk, Chairman of Board of Trustees of Euro-Med Monitor, is a “9/11 conspiracy theorist” who has been widely denounced, including by the former Secretary-General of the UN, for vile comments blaming the Boston terrorist attack on “the American global domination project” and “Tel Aviv.” He is also the author of an article “Slouching toward a Palestinian Holocaust” that compares Israel to Nazi Germany and has been condemned for publishing an antisemitic cartoon on his blog.
  • In February 2024, Falk published an article referring to Hamas as “Iran’s supposed proxy…This way of denying agency to pro-Palestinian actors and attributing behavior to Iran is a matter of state propaganda trying to promote belligerent attitudes toward Iran to the effect that Iran is our major enemy in the region, while Israel is our loyal friend.”
  • In August 2022, Falk is quoted as describing “the siege of Gaza as ‘prelude to genocide.’”
  • On March 15, 2017, the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia published a report, co-authored by Falk, that relied heavily on NGO sources, accusing Israel of being “guilty of policies and practices that constitute the crime of apartheid.” UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres demanded the report’s removal. The head of UNESCWA resigned shortly thereafter.
• Ramy Abdu
  • In 2013, Euro-Med Monitor Chairman Ramy Abdu was listed by the Israel Ministry of Defense in 2013 as “main operatives” for institutions considered by Israel to be fronts for Hamas in Europe.
  • In March 2025, following the killing of Mohammed Daoud al-Jamasi, also known as Abu Obaida, a senior member of the Hamas political bureau, and head of the organization’s administrative body in the southern Gaza Strip, in an Israeli airstrike, Abdu tweeted, “I am mourning before you the death of our great commander and my sister’s beloved partner, the engineer Mohammed Daoud al-Jamasi, Abu-Obaida. I testify before you Abu-Obaida – you were a remarkably pure person and a greatly righteous one with Allah. You lived as a brave hero who did not fall back even for one day, despite everything you faced on this road. May Allah have mercy upon you and we shall keep marching on your path.”
  • In January 2024, Abdu absolved the Mujahadeen Brigades, the terror group that abducted and murdered the Bibas family, of responsibility for their deaths, falsely  alleging, “this Israeli family was killed by Netanyahu and his army after he refused to bring them back alive and bombed them while they were sleeping.”
  • In December 2023, Abdu, Euro-Med Monitor Chairman, accused the ICC prosecutor of “clear double standards” for not taking “a practical action” on “developments in occupied Palestinian territories and Gaza… which fit the definition of a genocide in the making under international law, Khan’s selective vision is a shameful affront to justice.”
  • In November 2023, Abdu tweeted, “The Arab governments misunderstand what is happening in Gaza.. What is going on is an ongoing, ongoing genocide… it is urgent to stop the Holocaust and genocide.”
  • In November 2023, Abdu referred to the IDF as “The most psychopath army in the world.”
  • In June 2022, Abdu sent a letter to the European Parliament demanding that EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen withdraw her acceptance of an honorary doctorate from Ben-Gurion University claiming, “acceptance of the BGU doctorate signals condoning the role Israeli academic institutions play in the occupation of Palestine.”