Activities

• PCDCR refers to Palestinian “victims of Gaza holocaust,” accuses Israel of “state terrorism,” and supported the discredited 2009 Goldstone Report, which accused Israel of “war crimes,” “crimes against humanity,” and deliberately targeting “the people of Gaza as a whole.”
• Participates in discriminatory campaigns such as “Love in the Time of Apartheid Campaign: The Palestinian Campaign for Repealing Israel’s Racist Law Denying Family Reunification.”
• In December 2023, PCDCR was a signatory on an NGO statement denying that Hamas perpetrated sexual violence on Oct. 7 and after, and titled, “‘Sexual assault’ as propaganda to facilitate Genocide in Gaza.” According to the NGOs, “Within their narration to justify the genocide, the US administration adopted, via recitations of its president, the allegations promoted by the Israeli occupation’s propaganda machine regarding the occurrence of ‘sexual assaults’ against Israeli female hostages in the Gaza Strip. No credible evidence or reports from independent international investigative bodies in this regard was provided. Such conduct in endorsing unfounded allegations without due diligence serves as a deliberate distortion of the struggle of the Palestinian people for liberation and their legitimate resistance against an occupying colonial entity.”
• On February 2023, PCDCR deputy general director Iyad Abu Hjayer posted on Facebook, “#Khairy_Alkam is the response.” On January 27, 2023, Khairy Alkam carried out a mass shooting attack in Jerusalem’s Neve Yaakov neighborhood, killing 7, including a 14-year-old boy, and injuring 3 others. 
• In January 2023, Abu Hjayer wrote following a terrorist attack on a synagogue: “The arrogant #occupation cannot be educated, but by way of the martyr of Jerusalem. May Allah have mercy on you, oh you #commando_fighter, you have delivered a response and peace to our hearts after we have been hurt by Jenin.” In a second post, on the same day, he wrote, “I wish that our experienced organizations, even one, would volunteer and claim the martyr of Jerusalem. Let the occupation be worry. Simply put, this great mighty man is the son of #Palestine.”
• In May 2021, during the 2021 Gaza war between Israel and Palestinian terror groups, Abu Hjayer wrote, “Allah wanted to extend my life in order for me to witness my city #Gaza bombard Tel Aviv in a sight that even the capitals of the great Arab nation could not achieve…#Gaza_is_our_pride…”
• In October 2021, PCDCR was a signatory on a statement condemning the decision by Israel to designate six Palestinian NGOs as terrorist organizations. According to the statement, “This illegitimate decision comes in the context of the continuation of the occupation and apartheid state’s attacks on the rights of the Palestinian people, especially their right to struggle, in all forms, for freedom, return, self-determination, and building their independent Palestinian state…The undersigned organizations salute the struggles of the Palestinian people and their legendary steadfastness; and they appreciate the efforts of human rights organizations and Palestinian civil society organizations, especially the organizations targeted by this illegitimate decision.”
• On May 18, 2018, PCDCR and Save the Children sponsored a workshop at the Dar al Huda kindergarten, “Training of Teachers on Positive Discipline in Everyday Teaching.”
  • On May 26, 2018, the Dar al Huda kindergarten in Gaza held a graduation ceremony that included the mock killing and kidnapping of Israelis by children dressed as combatants.¹ The simulation included sophisticated equipment such as drones, body cameras, military fatigues, body armor, and sniper camouflage. Children wore headbands representing Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), designated as a terrorist organization by theUS, EU, and others.
  • According to the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, Dar al Huda held similarly exploitative military-style events in in 2017 and 2016.
• Together with Al-Mezan, Addameer, Palestinian NGO Network, and Badil, PCDCR signed on a “Joint Call to Action: July 2014 – Month against the Apartheid Wall,” stating: “….it is time for a ‘legal intifada’, an intensified popular struggle and more boycotts, divestment and sanctions. It is time for accountability…. to overcome Israeli apartheid, colonialism and occupation. We ask you to expand and deepen the global BDS movement for justice…”
• In 2014, Deputy Director Iyad Abu Hjayer signed a public letter accusing Israel of “the intended genocide of 1.8 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip” and “indiscriminate [] shelling.”
• Endorsed the making of the film “Stay Human” (2012) which alleges “22 days of massacre during the military operation called ‘Cast Lead‘, unleashed by the Israeli government against the Gaza Strip’s civilians…The historical document of a crime against humanity, today still unpunished by the international community.”
• PCDCR is a partner on a legal project by the Norwegian Refugee Council involved with hundreds of cases in Israeli courts. A lawyer with the program reportedly stated that the purpose was to “try every possible legal measure to disrupt the Israeli judicial system … to increase the workload of the courts and the Supreme Court to such an extent that there will be a blockage”
• In 2003, General Director Saeed el-Maqadmah published a report, “Impact of Israeli Practices on Development of Children’s Aggressive Behaviour,” alleging that “Israeli policies aim to create such imbalance especially for the children who are the heirs to the Palestinian issue.” The publication was followed by a campaign for “Universal Children Day,” showing the international community the “suffering of the Palestinian children caused by the Israeli occupation and years of blockade.”

Foreign-funded projects in Gaza where PCDCR is a partner (source: UN Financial Tracking Service database)