Category: Human Rights

David Reiff’s article in The New Republic, “NG-Uh-O: The trouble with humanitarianism” (June 10, 2010), underlines important developments in the NGO network: their influence as major players in the political arena, the “weaponization” of so-called human rights organizations by terror organizations, the government funding that NGOs receive, and the control those governments exert over them. [...]

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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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As Nixon taught us, the cover-up is often worse than the original crime. So for those of us following the HRW-Saudi cover up campaign, here is a contribution from Ken Roth, quoted on Human Rights Watch and Its Saudi Donors (July 22). Roth told the Forward that the quotes from the dinner regarding “pro-Israel pressure groups” [...]

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Dear Editor,
Kobi Ben-Simhon’s insightful assessment of the campaign to free Gilad Shalit, (‘Lost Cause’ , 24 April) overlooked an important contributing factor in the failure to yet bring Shalit home.
As Shalit’s basic rights continue to be denied, the virtual silence of human rights NGOs on the issue is striking.  As reported by NGO Monitor, international [...]

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French philosopher and writer, Bernard-Henri Lévy, attended the Durban Review Conference which he considers a “total failure”. Here he argues that the only condition under which a repeat can be avoided is the dissolution of the Human Rights Council.
After Durban II, the Question of the United Nations, Bernard-Henri Levy, Huffington Post, April 28, 2009
Now the [...]

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Amnon Rubinstein’s powerful op-ed in the Jerusalem Post, “My own humanitarian crisis,” captures the distressing double-standards that human-rights NGOs apply in the Israeli-Arab conflict:
Any Israeli taken prisoner by terrorists there will not enjoy any human right accorded under international law, and his relatives and friends will not know anything about him. No human rights organization [...]

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The US has released its 2008 Human Rights Report: Israel and the occupied territories February 25, 2009
It quotes the following NGOs which lack credibility: ICAHD, Mossawa, Adalah, B’Tselem, Yesh Din, PHR-I, PCATI, ACRI, HaMoked, Gisha, Peace Now, Ir Amim, Badil, Bimkom and the Arab Association for Human Rights.
See NGO Monitor’s analyses of the US State [...]

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NGO Monitor today uncovered the radical political and ideological background of Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor providing highly one-sided criticism of Israel in the media, including The Times (UK), BBC, Sky News and the Norwegian press. 
 
Dr Gilbert traveled to Gaza’s

Al-Shifa
Hospital as a member of the Norwegian Aid Committee, NORWAC an NGO funded by the [...]

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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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In its 10 November 2008 edition, the New Statesman (UK) published an article by Samira Shackle on B’tselem “Filming Israel’s trouble spots” which included quotes from Gerald Steinberg of NGO Monitor. As these quotes were garbled and rewritten (particularly the final sentence), leading to some distortion and confusion, we are posting the texts of the [...]

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