Al-Haq

But, um, you look at how he's financed, like pro-Palestine organizations, for example.

I mean, in some cases, these are terrorist-aligned organizations, like Al-Haq.

And you have, um...

Well, and you have to wonder if there's a connection with, a connection with how he collaborated with Nazis as a teen.

That, that should tell people about the way their government not only views Palestinians, but views them, how they look at you, right? And that should, again, make you so angry, and you should take that anger to the polls or not go to the polls or refuse to vote until something changes, right? But you, the, that, like, everyone should just be absolutely indignant and insulted that this is the case.

On the one hand, uh, I'm rethinking my position because on the one hand, you've got the UN Commission of Inquiry, the UN Special Rapporteur, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Al-Haq, the Palestinian Center, B'Tselem, you know, Oxfam, a global consensus across international law and international human rights experts and, uh, organizations.

You know, uh, uh, on one side, you've got that, who all agree that this is a textbook case of genocide.

But on the other side, you've got Boy George and Debra Messing, uh, and, uh, nobody loves, uh, Debra.

Finally, on this, before we go to your previous documentary, Ben, um, where you got a lot of the documents that you base Britain's Gaza Secrets?

There was a court, uh, case taken by Al-Haq, um, uh, through a- an organization called GLAN, where they were trying to, um, stop the UK government selling arms to Israel.

And so in that, there was disclosure of the assessments that were being made.

Um, and we managed to get ahold of these because they are court documents.

Michael Kearney is actually originally from Cork.

These two are Al-Haq legal researchers, and Al-Haq is a Palestinian human rights organisation.

So they'll be speaking about the current situation in the West Bank.

It seems to be definitely the case that under cover, as it were, of the war against Gaza, Israel has also turned its attention to the West Bank and is making life impossible for Palestinians there.

And under his watch, six Palestinian charities were rendered terrorist by designation in 2021.

Al-Haq, Friends of Children International, Agricultural Workers Union.

In other words, purely civil organized human rights groups.

were declared terrorists.

[short piano jingle] Now Raja Shehadeh is one of the most prominent Palestinian writers.

He's also a lawyer and activist who co-founded the Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq back in 1979.

And because of all that, he spent his life not only writing about his own life in the West Bank and the wider Palestinian experience, as well as Israel's occupation, but also documenting its many injustices, as did his father, in fact, going back to before the state of Israel was even created.

Well, in his 75 years, he's amassed a huge archive, which has this month been transferred for safekeeping from the occupied West Bank to two universities in the UK, Edinburgh and Exeter.