Category: Ethics

INTERNSHIPS WITH RADICAL NGOs UNDERMINE HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION

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 […]

NGO Monitor: Correcting Michael Pinto-Duschinsky’s Mistakes

March 27th, 2008 | Category: Durban Conference, Human Rights, Amnesty International, Christian Aid, Oxfam, CARE, New Israel Fund, NGO Monitor, Ethics
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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 […]

NGO Suicide Bombing Condemnation Watch: Will any condemn the latest attack in Israel?

February 4th, 2008 | Category: Human Rights, NGOs, EU, Ethics
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In recent weeks, many NGOs funded by the EU and the New Israel Fund have issued harsh condemnations of Israel’s alleged “blockade” and “collective punishment” in Gaza. HRW and Amnesty have been some of the most vocal critics of Israel’s anti-terror measures claiming that Israel’s “security concerns” regarding the Gaza border are a […]

Funding Human Rights organisations: whose world is this money spinning?

February 2nd, 2008 | Category: Human Rights, Government Funding, Ford Foundation, Ethics

Over the past few decades the world of charitable giving and philanthropy has changed beyond recognition. Long gone are the days when generous benefactors, heirs to the family fortune, simply signed a large check to a faceless, but undoubtedly good cause. Previously the benefactor typically remained somewhat aloof to the cause itself, trusting that […]

Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth, and Gaza: Politically Correct, Morally Incorrect

January 30th, 2008 | Category: Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Ethics

Kenneth Roth, who runs HRW, asks: Is Israel’s Blockade of Gaza the Right Way to Respond to Palestinian Rocket Attacks?
Roth and HRW ask whether Israel’s response to the hundreds of Hamas rocket attacks is “the right way”. Roth runs a human rights organization, and has no experience or specialized knowledge in security and anti-terror […]

A new Gaza crisis: is Gaza drowning in aid?

January 29th, 2008 | Category: Human Rights, Ethics

Is too much aid ever a problem? According to Martin Kramer’s Sandbox, if a report in the Boston Globe is accurate Gaza may soon be “buried in flour”.
The Globe’s report is written by Eyad al-Sarraj, founder of the Gaza Community Mental Health Program, and Sara Roy, a political economist and researcher at the Center for […]