Category: Durban Conference

Durban Review Summary
May 29, 2008
Israel-bashing agenda emerges as substantive discussion of Durban II gets underway in the first meeting of the Intergovernmental Working Group

May 29, Eye on the UN Press Release
This Eye on the UN press release reports on a UN-sponsored document (known as a “Working Group non-paper”), which was released in Geneva during […]

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Durban Review Summary
May 28, 2008
Jewish groups mull holding alternative to Durban II
May 27, Jerusalem Post, Etgar Lefkovits
The Jerusalem Report reports that Jewish organizations, including UN Watch, are “considering holding an event concomitant to a controversial UN anti-racism conference planned for next year.” Amos Hermon, chairman of the quasi-governmental Jewish Agency’s Task Force against Anti-Semitism, wants […]

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In contrast to many NGOs that have signed the joint statement declaring their moral opposition to a repetition of the antisemitic hatred that dominated the NGO Forum of the 2001 Durban conference, Human Rights Watch has waffled. HRW’s “Position Paper on the Durban Preparatory Committee”  (April 21, 2008) admits that “the NGO forum at the […]

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Prof. Michael Pinto-Duschinsky published an article in the 21 March edition of the Jewish Chronicle (UK) agreeing with NGO Monitor’s analysis on the political biases and false claims of leading “charities”, and “human rights groups”, including Amnesty International, Christian Aid and Oxfam.  As he notes, these groups systematically abuse the rhetoric of human rights, and […]

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Taken literally, the term ‘NGO’ or ‘non-governmental organization’ can be used to describe an almost never ending list of groups. However, to understand the role that NGOs seek to play and why they need to be monitored, we must first understand a little of their purpose and origins…During the nineteenth century, this is what […]

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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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“The international community must take a firm stand against any hate crime against anyone, anywhere. No one community under threat should be left to stand alone in the face of violent hatred and bigotry.”

Michael Posner, president of the NGO Human Rights First, made some refreshingly blunt statements on human rights in his op-ed on […]

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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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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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The New Israel Fund in the UK went ahead with a September 3 appearance by Danny Rubenstein (Ha’aretz columnist), despite his labeling Israel as an “ apartheid state” at the EU/UN “International Conference of Civil Society in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace.” (The British Zionist Federation […]

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