Human Rights Watch, which was largely created and funded by Jewish donors to promote traditional human rights concerns, is now cooperating and seeking funding from the leaders of Saudi Arabia – one of the major violators of the norms that HRW claims to promote. This is consistent with HRW’s central role in the demonization of [...]
The long history of “Lawfare” use by NGOs is in jeopardy due to a change in Spanish universal jurisdiction laws. Pressure by foreign governments including Israel caused the move as NGOs respond with upset and claims that impunity will increase.
“Lawfare” has been a popular NGO tool for political campaigns against Israel since the first UN [...]
The Arab League’s “Fact Finding” Mission to Gaza presented a report of its findings and called for future lawfare against Israel. John Dugard, the notorious UN Rapporteur, led the team and the EU and European government funded PCHR “prepared the agenda for the mission and coordinated its meetings and field visits. It also provided technical [...]
Over the years, NGO Monitor has seen NGOs do some pretty crazy stuff with their EU and European government money (promoting slogans like, “We are all Hezbollah, we are all Hamas”; organizing campaigns “to expose the lies of AIPAC and the Anti-Defamation League and to expose the Jewish and Zionist community’s double standards”; and parroting [...]
NGO superpower, Human Rights Watch, has long promoted Palestinian NGO, Al Haq, in its publications. It regularly cites to Al Haq reports and has been the leader in the campaign to end the travel restrictions on suspected PFLP senior activist and Al Haq’s General Director, Shawan Jabarin. Based on information discovered by NGO Monitor, it [...]
Dear Editor,
Kobi Ben-Simhon’s insightful assessment of the campaign to free Gilad Shalit, (‘Lost Cause’ , 24 April) overlooked an important contributing factor in the failure to yet bring Shalit home.
As Shalit’s basic rights continue to be denied, the virtual silence of human rights NGOs on the issue is striking. As reported by NGO Monitor, international [...]
A UN report accusing Israel of intentionally attacking UN buildings in Gaza strongly reflects the biases and lack of credibility of the NGO network during the Gaza fighting. As demonstrated in NGO Monitor’s comprehensive study, The NGO Front in the Gaza War: The Durban Strategy Continues, NGO reports exhibited double standards, focused overwhelmingly on condemning [...]
Who: New Profile is an active member of the Coalition of Women for Peace (CWP) - an umbrella organization which includes members such as Machsom Watch and Women in Black. CWP engages in demonization of Israel using “apartheid” and “Naqba” rhetoric and promotes boycotting Israeli goods.
What: New Profile’s charter claims that Israel “need not [...]
French philosopher and writer, Bernard-Henri Lévy, attended the Durban Review Conference which he considers a “total failure”. Here he argues that the only condition under which a repeat can be avoided is the dissolution of the Human Rights Council.
After Durban II, the Question of the United Nations, Bernard-Henri Levy, Huffington Post, April 28, 2009
Now the [...]
In its recent letter to Secretary Clinton, HRW has continued its lobbying efforts to drive a wedge between the US and Israel, urging Clinton to condemn the supposed “unlawful collective punishment” of the Palestinians. HRW continues to misrepresent the definition of “collective punishment” to support its political agenda.
Israel/US: Clinton Should Press to End Gaza Blockade, [...]
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