Category: Ethics

While Human Rights Watch (HRW), headed by Kenneth Roth, attempts to defend itself from the powerful critique levelled by founder Robert Bernstein in the New York Times, Helena Cobban — on the board of HRW’s Middle East and North Africa division — added further evidence of total moral collapse.
In her October 22 posting, Cobban attacked Bernstein [...]

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On March 15, 2009, NGO Monitor issued a press release calling on Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and B’Tselem to end their silence on kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit. Executive Director Gerald Steinberg said, “Gilad Shalit has been denied even the most basic of human rights for almost 1,000 days.  The unwillingness of human [...]

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Seth Freedman’s latest offering on The Guardian’s “Comment is Free” site, provides an intriguing but somewhat deluded insight into the obsession and hysteria surrounding the Arab-Israeli conflict.  Having taken a gratuitous swipe at NGO Monitor in his opening paragraph, Freedman describes how a seemingly innocent enquiry about ‘Western gyms’ in Ramallah within the town’s NGO [...]

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Human Rights Watch (HRW), the powerful New York based NGO, has undergone some important policy changes since playing an active role in the catastrophic NGO Forum at the UN’s 2001 Durban Conference on Racism. On November 13 2008, HRW’s Geneva Director Juliette de Rivero wrote to the Libyan chair of the Preparatory Committee for the [...]

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On August 3, 2008, the BBC World Service led its news programs with a story based on allegations from an NGO known as Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I). PHR-I alleged that Israeli security services recruited Palestinian medical patients who receive care in Israeli hospitals to become informants against terror groups. This was the BBC’s second item [...]

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My oped — An NGO black hole in the Foreign Ministry, Jerusalem Post, July 08, 2008 — received a number of comments, some more serious than others, and a mix no surprise of criticism and agreement. While the main focus was on the failure of the Israeli government to respond seriously to the NGO role [...]

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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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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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