October 31st, 2007 | Category:
Ford Foundation
(A response to Scott Sherman’s “Fixing the Ford Foundation,” October 21, 2007, LA Times)
NGO Monitor and others exposed the Ford Foundation’s funding of NGOs that hijacked the 2001 Durban Conference to promote anti-Israel demonization under the guise of human rights. This started a much-needed public debate, and led the President of Ford, Susan Berresford, [...]
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October 28th, 2007 | Category:
Human Rights Watch,
Lebanon War 2006
Tags: none
October 28, 2007 Today’s Ha’aretz English edition (October 28 2007) included Ken Roth’s latest salvo regarding the 2006 Lebanon War. During and after the war, Roth and Human Rights Watch, which he heads, were central in the political assault on Israel, publishing 30 statements, opeds, and reports — almost all condemning the Israeli response to [...]
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October 21st, 2007 | Category:
Badil,
Boycott / Divestment,
EU,
Government Funding,
ICAHD,
International Solidarity Movement,
Palestinian NGO Network,
Separation Barrier,
UN
Birthright Unplugged–partnered with a number of radical NGOs, some of which receive EU funding—advances an extreme anti-Israel narrative via its “alternative” tours. It is not affiliated with the Taglit-Birthright Israel group; in fact, Birthright Unplugged has hijacked Taglit-Birthright’s name in order to advance a radically different, anti-Israel agenda.
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October 17th, 2007 | Category:
Human Rights,
Jenin,
Lebanon War 2006,
NGOs,
Palestinian-Israeli Peace NGO Forum
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NGO attempts to defile Israel’s moral credibility is a focus of Noah Pollack’s piece in the most recent issue of Azure, a quarterly journal published in English and Hebrew by the Shalem Center in Jerusalem. According to Pollack, a “a dominant culture of opinion shared by human rights organizations, NGOs, Middle East Studies departments and [...]
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October 16th, 2007 | Category:
EU,
Government Funding,
Human Rights,
Oxfam
On October 11, Oxfam GB’s Jerusalem office distributed a copy of a press release detailing a resolution passed by the European Parliament, which “calls for the lift [sic] of the blockade in Gaza and free movement for people and goods on all [sic] the Occupied Palestinian Territories.” (The document NGO Monitor obtained appears to be [...]
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October 14th, 2007 | Category:
Ford Foundation
As the New York Sun reported in September, The Ford Foundation, which came under US congressional scrutiny in 2003 “for supporting groups committed to destroying Israel,” again has drawn censure from American elected officials, this time for funding a panel at Columbia University “highlighting a professor who blames Israel and its American supporters for the [...]
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October 11th, 2007 | Category:
Badil,
Boycott / Divestment,
EU,
Government Funding
Tags: none
As NGO Monitor has reported, BADIL (Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights) is one of the most active NGOs in promoting extremist Palestinian political positions in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. BADIL was a signatory to an August 2002 call to boycott Israel, including an endorsement of the NGO Declaration of the [...]
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October 2nd, 2007 | Category:
Christian Aid,
ICAHD,
Sabeel,
War on Want
A number of British charities that claim to promote universal human rights and humanitarian assistance, including Christian Aid, War on Want, and Pax Christi, allied with fringe pro-Palestinian political groups such as Sabeel, “Jews Against Zionism”, Medical Aid for Palestinians, ICAHD (funded by the EU), the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and the antisemitic MPAC (Muslim Public [...]
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October 2nd, 2007 | Category:
Human Rights Watch
On September 24th, San Francisco Chronicle published an article, ‘Human Rights Watch – Scrutinizing War from Both Sides’, in which HRW’s Executive Director Ken Roth boldly claims that ‘in a war, we will always report both sides’. He even uses HRW’s investigations of the 2006 Second Lebanon War as a prime [...]
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