Category: EU

Taken from UNHRC webcast:
MRAP (France):
“Despite the dozens of resolutions adopted by various UN bodies condemning the actions of the state of Israel, colonial occupation follows the destruction, massacres follow the abuses, and the international law is constantly trampled.”
FIDH, PCHR (Raji Sourani) (Norway, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, European Union):
“The smell of death and destruction [...]

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On July 22 and 23, 2009, The UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will hold an NGO conference examining “Responsibility of the international community to uphold international humanitarian law to ensure the protection of civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory in the wake of the war in Gaza”.  [...]

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The Arab League’s “Fact Finding” Mission to Gaza presented a report of its findings and called for future lawfare against Israel.  John Dugard, the notorious UN Rapporteur, led the team and the EU and European government funded PCHR “prepared the agenda for the mission and coordinated its meetings and field visits. It also provided technical [...]

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Over the years, NGO Monitor has seen NGOs do some pretty crazy stuff with their EU and European government money (promoting slogans like, “We are all Hezbollah, we are all Hamas”; organizing campaigns “to expose the lies of AIPAC and the Anti-Defamation League and to expose the Jewish and Zionist community’s double standards”; and parroting [...]

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PCHR issued a report supposedly documenting the status of the casualties in Gaza. The organization claims that 960 of the dead were civilians yet the group classifies arch-terrorist Nizar Rayan as a civilian as well as many members of the Qassam rocket brigades.  Groups such as CAMERA have debunked many more of the statistics.
The Jerusalem [...]

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In the EU’s “internal” report on East Jerusalem (which was leaked to ICAHD, and has been published online), right-wing Israeli groups are referred to as: “private settler organisations or affiliated extremist bodies, including Ateret Cohanim, Western Wall Heritage Fund, Temple Mount and El Ad.”
Why are these organizations condemned as “extremist,” while radical ICAHD is considered [...]

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Yesterday, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) put out a statement in honor of International Women’s Day.  Predictably, the statement solely blames Israel for the suffering of women in Gaza and calls on the international community to hold Israel “accountable”.  PCHR includes one sentence at the end of the lengthy statement claiming that “Palestinian [...]

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Following the pattern in previous conflicts, a number of NGOs immediately issued condemnations of Israel following the IDF response to increasing deadly rocket attacks from Gaza. Many of these statements reflect bias and double standards, which ignore or give little attention to Israeli human rights and casualties, and do not mention Hamas’ use of human [...]

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France Reiterates its Commitment to Boycott Durban II if it Fails to Respect its Objectives
August 8, 2008, UN Watch
In response to Roland Blum’s parliamentary question addressed to France’s Foreign Affairs and Human Rights Secretary, Minister Rama Yade writes on August 5, 2008 that “It is only by attending the [Durban Review Conference] and by remaining [...]

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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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