ISRAEL: Call on UN to investigate treatment of Palestinian people

During 2020, a coalition of Palestinian, national and international CSOs called on the UN to reconstitute the UN Special Committee against Apartheid to investigate the Israeli government’s treatment of Palestinian people. However, in October, Israel’s representative interrupted the presentation of a joint statement by civil society on the issue, using a point of order to accuse the CSOs making the statement of using inappropriate language, in a move that seemed to signal an increasing boldness by the government of Israel to call into question civil society’s role in international scrutiny and accountability.