Mundubat

Activities

• According to its website, “From the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 (Nakba) and the occupation of 1967 (Naksa), the Palestinian people live under a regime of occupation, colonialism and apartheid.”
• Mundubat, together with the Palestinian NGO Defence for Children International – Palestine (DCI-P), runs the platform “The other Jerusalem,” which “questions the illegal Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem, as well as the false notion of a ‘unified Jerusalem’.” One of their “action points,” offers visitors to sign a petition calling “on the European Union, United Nations Secretariat, and members of the UN Security Council to take urgent action that ends and holds Israeli authorities accountable for systemic and deliberate discrimination toward Palestinians in Jerusalem.”
• In January 2024, Mundubat was a signatory on a statement commending South Africa for bringing Israel before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) alleging that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. According to the statement, “Israel’s killing, injuring, traumatizing, and displacing large numbers of Palestinians and denying water, food, medicine, and fuel to an occupied population meet the criteria for the crime of genocide. If a majority of the world’s nations call for a ceasefire, yet fail to press for prosecution of Israel – what is to stop Israel from ethnically cleansing all Palestinians?”
• In December 2023, Mundubat was a signatory on a statement calling to “Stop the Genocide of the Palestinian People.” According to the statement, “The brutal and merciless attack cannot under any point of view be considered the ‘right to self-defense’, that is genocide, they are crimes against humanity, which reveal that Israel seeks to expel the Palestinian people from their lands to appropriate them and expand their country. of settlers. The world must react and stop this unprecedented massacre, otherwise this tragedy will be repeated again and again until the Zionist government of Israel achieves its goal of taking over all of Palestine.”
• In August 2022, Mundubat signed a joint statement condemning the decision by the Israeli Ministry to designate six Palestinian NGOs as terrorist organizations. The statement called for the international community to “take effective measures to end all other actions that deny Palestinians their inalienable human rights” and to “their support and increase funding to the organizations and engage with financial institutions to ensure the transfer of funds to the organizations.”
• In March 2022, Mundubat co-hosted an event titled “Apartheid: The racist practices of Israel against the Palestinian people.”
• In October- November 2021, Mundubat held an online course titled “Colonialism and Apartheid against the Palestinian People:The Jerusalem Case Study.” 
• In October 2021, Mundubat was a signatory on a statement condemning the decision by the Israeli Ministry to designate six Palestinian NGOs as terrorist organizations. According to the statement, “This unprecedented designation is merely the latest escalation in Israel’s widespread and systematic institutionalized campaign that has aimed to silence and discredit any Palestinian individual or organization that dares seek accountability for Israel’s grave human rights violations, war crimes, and crimes against humanity…the international community, especially the European Union and its member states who are key supporters of and donors to Palestinian civil society, should ensure that banks and financial institutions in their jurisdiction are notified Israel’s designation of Palestinian organizations is unfounded and inapplicable.”
• In August 2021, Mundubat called for people to send letters to the Spanish government to “exert international pressure to stop the ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem.”
• In May 2021, Mundubat signed a joint statement calling for the release of Health Work Committees fundraiser Juanna Sanchez Rishmawi. According to the statement, “The organizations that have worked with the Committees of Workers for Health [HWC], some for almost 30 years, categorically deny that the money from Spanish cooperation is used for anything other than carrying out health and humanitarian projects in Palestine.”
  • In November 2021, Rishmawi pled guilty to “carrying out services on behalf of a banned organization,” the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). According to the charge sheet, HWC is “controlled by the PFLP” and was involved in “raising funds for the PFLP’s activities, financing PFLP activities and carrying out PFLP’s activities.”
• In March 2020, Mundubat published the article “Palestine: Fight against apartheid, occupation and patriarchy,” describing “Women who are dedicated to defending and protecting human rights in Palestine.” One of the pictures used in the article portrays Ali Mahmoud Safi, who “died of serious injuries he suffered, during clashes that took place after Israeli soldiers invaded the al-Jalazoun refugee camp.” According to PFLP, Safi was one of its members.
• In 2019, Mundubat developed the app “AppQuds” for “ethical tourism in Jerusalem,” funded by the Basque Government. The App enables tourists to “enjoy ethical tourism in East Jerusalem, respecting the human rights of the people and cultures that inhabit the territories visited,” and “invites travelers to make ‘responsible and sustainable’ tourism and pilgrimage to the Occupied Palestinian Territory.”
• In December 2019, Mundubat met with Ismat Shakhshir, “member of Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees.”
  • Shakhshir ran “for the PLC [Palestinian Legislative Council] seat at the 2006 election representing the PFLP but did not pass.”
  • Shakhshir is also reported to be a “member of the director committee” of the Health Work Committees, a Palestinian organization with ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
• In November 2018, Mundubat organized the “Dalia Nassar Conference: Palestinian resistance through women.” Nassar has been described as “one of the first women to participate in clashes with the IDF alongside the men.”
  • An October 2015 interview with Dalia Nassar in Alaraby states that “her mother was a member [sic] the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a leftist political party” and quotes Dalia Nassar stating that “I am proud of my mum and I want to follow in her footsteps.”
• In November 2018, Mundubat organized an event titled “Palestine: a people under apartheid” that featured Salah Hamouri.
  • In 2005, Salah Hamouri was arrested and convicted for “attempting to assassinate Ovadia Yosef…and for his involvement with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.” The PFLP has referred to Hamouri as a “comrade.” Hamouri works as a field researcher and lawyer for the Palestinian NGO Addameer, an “affiliate” of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist group.
• On February 7, 2017, Mundubat was a signatory on a call to “end the European complicity – marking 100 years of injustice against the Palestinian people.” The call “solemnly reaffirm[ed] that in 2017, after 100 years of dispossession, denial and ethnic cleansing, the rights of the Palestinian people must, at last, be respected.”
• In 2015, Mundubat, funded by the Government of Aragon, participated in a project with the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) for the “Rehabilitation of family farming infrastructure affected by the latest Israeli military intervention in the Gaza Strip.” (Read more about UAWC below.)
• In October 2016, Mundubat was a signatory on a call to restaurant chefs to “Take Apartheid off the Menu” and cancel their participation in the Tel Aviv “Round Tables Tour” as Tel Aviv is “the center of Israel’s regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid and deeply complicit in whitewashing Israeli violations of Human Rights and International Law.”

BDS Activities

• In November 2023, Mundubat was a signatory on a statement urging states to issue a “Two-Way Arms Embargo on Israel,” demanding that “The US, the UK, Germany, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands and other States that authorise the continued transfer of arms, and other forms of military support to Israel to immediately bring an end to such transfers…and immediately halt the provision of any materiel, equipment or other commodity that may foreseeably be used in the commission of serious international law violations including international crimes.” 
• In February 2023, Mundubat was a signatory on a statement “welcom[ing] the historic announcement by the Barcelona City Council to suspend all institutional relations with apartheid Israel.” The statement called for “arms embargo against apartheid Israel, stopping trade with Israel’s illegal colonial settlements, and ending projects and agreements that sustain the illegal situation, including the EU-Israel Association Agreement, the EU-Israel Association Council, international agreements for gas pipes through the Gaza coast, and the Euro-Asia Interconnector project receiving electricity from Israel’s colonial settlement enterprise.”
• In February 2022, Mundubat participated in a campaign titled “#StopTradeWithSettlements,” calling “for an EU law that will end trade with illegal settlements once and for all.”
• In September 2020, Mundubat called for the UN General Assembly to “Launch international investigations into Israel’s apartheid regime over the Palestinian people as a whole, as well as associated State and individual criminal responsibility,” to “Ban arms trade and military-security cooperation with Israel,” and “Prohibit all trade with illegal Israeli settlements and ensure that companies refrain from and terminate business activities with Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise.”
• In July 2020, President of Mundubat Eneko Gerrikabeitia stated that it is important to continue BDS campaigns “Because we cannot be complicit in the occupation and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. And in that sense, BDS has been seen as a powerful tool to isolate and denounce the policies of the occupying Palestinian power, Israel.”
• In February 2020, Mundubat promoted BDS-Spain’s campaign, “CAF, get off the apartheid train,” calling on the Basque railway company CAF to withdraw from their work on the “rail network linking illegal settlements in occupied Palestinian territory, known as the Jerusalem Light Rail (JTA).” According to Mundubat “The tram violates the human rights of the Palestinian population, because it is born to connect all the colonies of Israeli populations in occupied Palestinian territory. It therefore strengthens the illegal annexation of Jerusalem and colonialist policies.”
• In October 2019, Mundubat thanked the Association of Norwegian NGOs for Palestine and BDS Norway for their campaigning of the Oslo City Council that led to the decision to “ban Israeli goods and services from public procurement.”
• In July 2019, together with BDS Madrid and Grassroots Jerusalem, Mundubat organized the event “On your visit to Jerusalem, do not contribute to the occupation!” According to the event description, the NGOs “propose to visitors a form of “responsible tourism” that does not contract their trip with agencies, tour operators, hotels, shops or companies in the sector that collaborate with the occupation and profit from apartheid policies.”
• In May 2019, Mundubat participated in the BDS campaign to boycott Eurovision calling people to “RESPECT TO THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE, DON ‘ T SEE EUROVISION TODAY,” stating that “The State of Israel uses this kind of acts like this to perform ‘justification’ and, to hide war crimes against the Palestinian people.”
• Between February 20 and March 4, 2017, Mundubat participated in a BDS campaign “against Israel for the constant violations of Human Rights committed in the Occupation of Palestine” by “disseminat[ing] … testimonies” of BDS activists and public officials “who reject Israeli apartheid against Palestine.”
• In January 2017, Mundubat organized the “BDS Forum for the promotion of institutional initiatives in defense of Human Rights in Palestine,” featuring Omar Barghouti.
  • Omar Barghouti is the co-founder of Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and a leader in BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanction) campaigns against Israel. He supports a “right to resist,” including armed resistance, uses Nazi rhetoric, and supports a one-state solution.
• A June 2016 video prepared by Mundubat in support of the “International Campaign for the Right to Boycott” narrates: “If you were Palestinian, you would have been kicked out of your house in 1948 . . . you would have died while playing football on a Gaza beach. If you were Palestinian, if you had complained about the conditions in which you live, you would be a terrorist, you would be imprisoned, exiled, or dead. . .”
• Another video in support of BDS campaigns from April 2016 features an assortment of speakers from an event held by Mundubat, among them Ayed Abu Eqtaish of Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCI-P) and Sergio Yahni of the Alternative Information Center (AIC). In the video, Yahni is filmed saying: “The processes of physical destruction, like the processes of psychological destruction of the children, are part of a policy of what has been called ‘thanatopolitics’ [death politics], which is to keep the different layers of Palestinian society a centimeter from death, not to kill them. There is death, I’m not denying that, but the aim is not death as such, but the feeling of living on top of death.”