Russell Tribunal on Palestine

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Ingrid Jaradat

Ingrid Jaradat		Is he objective?

		Ingrid Jaradat is the director of BADIL.
		Badil’s Main declared objective is to “defend and promote the rights of Palestinian refugees and IDPs.” BADIL seeks to “advance the individual and collective rights of the Palestinian people” on the basis of “the principles of international law, in particular international human rights law.”
		Ideological agenda centers on promoting a so-called Palestinian “right of return.” The NGO’s language regularly exploits human rights terminology, accusing Israel of “genocide” and “slow genocide.”
		An antisemitic cartoon won a monetary award for 2nd prize in BADIL’s 2010 Al-Awda Nakba caricature competition. The cartoon is a blatant representation of classic antisemitic tropes, including a Jewish man, garbed in traditional Hasidic attire, with a crooked nose and side locks. He stands above a dead child and skulls, holding a pitched-fork dripping with blood. The antisemitic caricature was removed from parts of BADIL’s website (though it is still available on the site) after NGO Monitor approached BADIL partner DanChurchAid on the issue.
		In December 2010, BADIL participated in the 10th Annual Meeting of the Global Palestine Right of Return Coalition. The final statement from the meeting explicitly rejects the Roadmap for Peace and the Arab Peace Initiative: “The Rejection of any settlement to the Palestinian/Arab – Zionist conflict...to emphasize that the terms of reference of the current purposed settlements such the Roadmap Plan and the Arab Peace Initiative do not meet the minimum rights of our people but only perpetuate the arr
		Involved in lawfare attempts to prosecute Israeli military officials in international and European courts, and has published in 2009 a report titled “Litigating Palestine,” in which BADIL notes the different venues that can be used to file claims against Israel and the “progress” made in recent years.