April 16th, 2008 | Category:
Human Rights,
Amnesty International,
Boycott / Divestment,
ICAHD,
Mossawa,
NGO Monitor,
Ethics
The draft report cited in the article “American Internships in Israel Promote Extremism, Report Says” (Chronicle of Higher Education, April 16, 2008) is part of NGO Monitor’s ongoing research focusing on the boundaries between human rights norms and partisan ideological campaigning. As quoted, the analysis of the activities of the NGOs chosen for these internships […]
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January 6th, 2008 | Category:
Durban Conference,
Human Rights,
Amnesty International,
Boycott / Divestment
Tags: none
Joshua Rubenstein, the Northeast Regional Director of Amnesty International USA has responded with criticism to Charles Jacobs (co-founder of the American Anti-Slavery Group) in the Boston Jewish Advocate. In his oped, Jacobs had noted the potential dangers of NGO participation in the plans for the 2009 UN “Durban” Review Conference.
Rubenstein rejected the emphasis Jacobs […]
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December 19th, 2007 | Category:
Durban Conference,
Human Rights,
Human Rights Watch,
Amnesty International,
Boycott / Divestment,
NGOs,
Government Funding,
Oxfam,
War on Want
Tags: none
In his Guardian article on NGO Monitor’s conference, Seth Freedman demonstrated that we are doing our job – “promoting critical debate and accountability on human rights NGOs in the Arab-Israeli conflict”. He is right that “nobody gets a free ride” – the halo effect which has protected political superpowers like Amnesty International and Human […]
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December 18th, 2007 | Category:
Boycott / Divestment,
NGOs,
Government Funding,
ICAHD,
Ittijah,
Palestinian NGO Network,
EU
Tags: none
According to a December 16, 2007 Ha’aretz report, “an investment of hundreds of thousands of dollars, loads of time and countless attempts at intensive Spanish-brokered talks between Israelis and Palestinians went down the drain,” when a “peace gathering” scheduled to take place December 14-16 in […]
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November 21st, 2007 | Category:
Durban Conference,
Boycott / Divestment,
NGOs,
Government Funding,
Badil,
Palestinian NGO Network,
EU,
Ford Foundation
Tags: none
The Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network (PNGO), a radical Palestinian NGO which played a prominent role at Durban 2001, has organized a conference – “First Palestinian Conference for the Boycott of Israel (BDS)” — along with other radical anti-Israel groups, including OPGAI-Coalition, Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), and the […]
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November 20th, 2007 | Category:
Boycott / Divestment,
Government Funding,
War on Want,
EU
Tags: none
Comic Relief is one of the UK’s major charity campaigns, which has raised over ₤67 million since its establishment in 1985. According to their website, “The idea was simple - use comedy and laughter to raise money and change lives - while making sure that everyone had great fun at the same time.”
But it […]
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October 21st, 2007 | Category:
Boycott / Divestment,
Separation Barrier,
UN,
Government Funding,
Badil,
ICAHD,
Palestinian NGO Network,
International Solidarity Movement,
EU
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 11th, 2007 | Category:
Boycott / Divestment,
Government Funding,
Badil,
EU
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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June 13th, 2007 | Category:
Boycott / Divestment,
NGOs,
Government Funding,
ICAHD
A June 12, 2007, article in the Jerusalem Post ) reported that The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) received a substantial donation from the US “to fund a campaign opposing the demolition of Palestinian and Bedouin homes throughout Israel and the Palestinian Authority.” The scope its advocacy and lobbying extends much […]
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May 15th, 2007 | Category:
Human Rights,
Boycott / Divestment,
Physicians for Human Rights - Israel
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I) is to participate in UCLA Palestine Solidarity Week during the week of May 20 ‘in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Israeli occupation’. PHR-I’s involvement in an event that demonizes Israel, provides further evidence of its political objectives, despite its stated ‘goal of struggling for human rights, in particular […]
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