October 11th, 2007 by NGO Monitor Staff | Category: Boycott / Divestment, Government Funding, Badil, EU

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 2001 Durban conference.

BADIL’s radicalism is on display in a logo it created which was distributed during the UN Human Rights Council’s meetings, September 2007 in Geneva. In English the sticker promotes the highly divisive ‘right of return’, which amounts to a call for the end of Israel as a Jewish state (”the Right to Return Home is Inalienable”); the logo’s Arabic portion simply reads: “Efface Israel from the map. All of Israel is illegitimate, occupied and belongs to the Palestinian Arabs.”

With a budget of over $800,000, BADIL receives funding from sources including Oxfam, Irish Charity & Development Agency - Trócaire, Norwegian People’s Aid, the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and various church groups.