In many NGOs, internal communication portals have become forums for strident rhetoric that arguably contravenes internal conduct policies, and general policies and values. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) formally commits to “impartiality,” “neutrality,” and “bearing witness.” It describes the prupose of its internal“Souk” platform as being to "make information about MSF‘s missions and its associative life available to the MSF community, offer space for comment and discussions and provide tools for promoting associative life." It also requires that posts be signed, and says that “abusive, slanderous or libelous comments or personal attacks are forbidden and will be deleted.”
In practice, portal users have described the platform as a forum for strident rhetoric that has at times appeared anonymously, with moderators failing to intervene in exchanges that Jewish and non-Jewish staff alike have experienced as hostile, exclusionary, and discriminatory.
• “The fight for freedom … is about liberating the world from the grip of Zionism…”
• Israelis a “76-year-old crime scene.”
• “Asfor the accusation of rape against Palestinian resistance fighters, I believethese are propaganda.”
• Israelis “the colonizer” that “wants to be the victim too.”
• “Stopplaying the Jewish card.”
• “Zionismis…” pictogram, with images related to “scholasticide,” “battle-testing murdertech” and “300 Palestinian children in cages/year.”
(Rules as of March 2026, not exact date as posted
