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Belgian Diplomat Praises Demonization at ICAHD/ISM “summer camp”

July 23rd, 2007 | Category: ICAHD, International Solidarity Movement
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Jeff Halper’s ICAHD group is funded by the European Union and is heavily involved in promoting the Durban agenda of anti-Israel demonization, including boycott campaigns and use of terms such as “apartheid”, often in cooperation with Naim Ateek of Sabeel.  ICAHD runs a so-called “summer camp” with ISM participation, and with an emphasis on radical […]

ICAHD and NGO Monitor Comment on “European Commission outlines new guidelines for 2007 NGO funding”

July 22nd, 2007 | Category: Durban Conference
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Fred — the real mystery is how EU officials explain funding NGOs like ICAHD that use the rhetoric of incitement, and campaign against the EU’s own policies. ……….
Fred Schlomka, on July 22nd, 2007  wrote:
It’s a mystery to me why NGO Monitor used the term ‘politicized NGO’ as if there is some kind of contradiction. Many […]

New NGO with Jimmy (apartheid) Carter & Mary (Durban) Robinson: Global Elders

July 18th, 2007 | Category: Durban Conference, Human Rights
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Jimmy Carter, whose Presidency was marked by “malaise” and global failure, is a central figure in the anti-Israel demonization machine.  In addition to lying systematically about Israel and the late Prime Minister Begin, his book “Peace not Apartheid” displays a racist approach to Israel erases the suffering of the real victims of apartheid in South […]

Israel’s Darfuri Dilemma: Moral imperatives, real concerns, painful choices

July 13th, 2007 | Category: Human Rights, Amnesty International, Darfur
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July 3 2007: Eran Lerman, Director Israel/Middle East Office, American Jewish Committee
(NOTE: While a number of political NGOs, including Amnesty International, were quick to condemn Israeli hesitation regarding the Sudanese refugees entering from Egypt, the issues are far more complex than acknowledged in their slogans and press statements.  In contrast, Eran Lerman’s analysis, summarized here, […]

B’Tselem Goes to Washington - Politics first

July 10th, 2007 | Category: B'tselem, New Israel Fund
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9 July 2007 — In an email to subscribers, Jessica Montell, Executive Director, announced that B’Tselem is establishing an office in Washington,  D.C..  But B’Tselem is also (and perhaps primarily) a political lobby, founded “to change Israeli policy in the Occupied Territories”, according to its mission statement, and to restore the 1949-1967 armistice lines, with […]

Human Rights Watch — One Step Forward, One Step (or More) Back - Gerald M. Steinberg

July 7th, 2007 | Category: Human Rights, Human Rights Watch
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(See also One Step Forward? New York Sun, July 9 2007 and Immoral balance Ynetnews “Human Rights Watch shows more balance, but has it changed its agenda?” 10 July 2007)
           Responding to the growing criticism of its biases, Human Rights Watch, an NGO superpower based in New York, has published two statements which are unusually “balanced”.  […]

Powerful and politically incorrect animation — Amnesty International - France

July 4th, 2007 | Category: Human Rights, Amnesty International
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGrJkRst-7E
Amnesty International - France has posted a powerful anti-torture animation that is far from politically correct, and does not display the biases and double standards that have become common. If this is the new trend in Amnesty-France, it marks a very important return to basic support for universal human rights. (July 2007)

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But HRW does “pick on Israel” (Reply to Peggy Hicks; Washington Post)

July 2nd, 2007 | Category: Durban Conference, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Lebanon War 2006, UN
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In an oped “A Shadow on the Human Rights Movement” published in the Washington Post on June 25, Jackson Diehl, showed that NGO Monitor’s message is getting through. Diehl, a senior journalist who cannot be accused of being soft on Israel, condemned the hypocrisy of the UN Human Rights Council and NGOs that are part […]