Category: Government Funding

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 […]

Response to the Seth Freedman´s “Selective Criticism” article in the Guardian

December 19th, 2007 | Category: Durban Conference, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Boycott / Divestment, NGOs, Government Funding, Oxfam, War on Want
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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 […]

Radical NGOs pull out of ´Anti-Annapolis conference´ in Madrid hosted by Spanish government, after Spanish Foreign Ministry invites Israeli groups that oppose a ´one-state solution´

December 18th, 2007 | Category: Boycott / Divestment, NGOs, Government Funding, ICAHD, Ittijah, Palestinian NGO Network, EU
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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 […]

Anti-Israel Boycott conference to be held November 22, 2007 in West Bank

November 21st, 2007 | Category: Durban Conference, Boycott / Divestment, NGOs, Government Funding, Badil, Palestinian NGO Network, EU, Ford Foundation
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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 […]

No Laughing Matter: UK Comic Relief funding radical NGO War on Want

November 20th, 2007 | Category: Boycott / Divestment, Government Funding, War on Want, EU
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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 […]

Birthright Unplugged: Hijacking a name, plugging into anti-Israel campaigning

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.

Oxfam promotes EU’s bias; ignores terrorism, Hamas and Palestinian responsibility

October 16th, 2007 | Category: Human Rights, Government Funding, Oxfam, EU

On October 11, Oxfam GB’s Jerusalem office distributed a copy of a press release detailing a resolution passed by the European Parliament, which “calls for the lift [sic] of the blockade in Gaza and free movement for people and goods on all [sic] the Occupied Palestinian Territories.” (The document NGO Monitor obtained appears to be […]

Badil’s Radical Motto - European Tax Dollars at Work

October 11th, 2007 | Category: Boycott / Divestment, Government Funding, Badil, EU
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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 […]

European Parliament to Host UN NGO Anti-Israel Propaganda Conference

August 1st, 2007 | Category: Durban Conference, UN, Government Funding, ICAHD, Palestinian Center for Human Rights
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            The United Nations has scheduled an “International Conference of Civil Society in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace”, to be held in the European Parliament in Brussels, August 30-31. This misleading not withstanding, this annual conference is held under the auspices of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, and […]

American Jew donates $1.5 million to ICAHD

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 […]