A number of New Israel Fund’s (NIF) factual claims regarding the activities of the NGOs it funds are not at all consistent with the evidence. For example, contrary to NIF’s latest press release (May 28, 2010) in response to NGO Monitor’s research, the facts plainly show that NIF funding goes to groups that are active in BDS campaigns [...]
In his New York Review of Books essay, “The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment” (June 10, 2010), journalist Peter Beinart makes several dubious claims about human rights NGOs. He makes similar statements in defense of Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a subsequent dialogue with Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic). The following is an analysis of [...]
Ron Kampeas’ version of the NIF-NGO Monitor advertisement exchange misses key points and contains significant errors. He is right about NIF mimicking our style, but in contrast to NGO Monitor’s quotes and references, NIF’s version highlighted tendentious and largely irrelevant commentary.
His main criticism of NGO Monitor focuses on the emphasis we give to the contrast [...]
Representatives from the radical Coalition of Women for Peace (CWP) and Israel Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), NIF- and EU-funded NGOs, respectively, participated in a May 12 anti-Israel divestment rally in Brussels. The event featured an antisemitic episode, when one rally leader drank fake blood out of a wine glass – an apparent reference to [...]
Al Haq submitted a report (signed by its Executive Director, Shawan Jabarin) to the UN Human Rights Committee in advance of the Committee’s July 2010 review of Israel. The report aims to chronicle alleged human rights violations by Israel.
One notable passage claims that Israel issues “travel bans on political activists, professors, and
human rights defenders prevent[ing] [...]
On April 4, 2010, the Sunday Times published a correction to Jonathan Foreman’s article (“Explosive Territory,” March 28) stating that “Marc Garlasco, the former senior military analyst for HRW, was not the only person in the organisation who had military experience; a number of the HRW staff have military expertise.” (Garlasco’s work experience at the [...]
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