Category: NGO Monitor

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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The absence of an official NGO Forum at the Durban Review Conference has led politicized NGOs to take their anti-Israel message to the streets of Geneva with a slew of parallel events set to take place before and during the conference.
Pro-Israel activists set to do battle at Durban II, Michael J. Jordan, JTA, April 6, [...]

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HRW’s Gaza Campaign: Advocacy not Accuracy, NGO Monitor, March 25, 2009
HRW’s record exhibits a strong anti-Israel bias. Its reporting in 2008 reflected the portrayal of Israel as the second worst abuser of human rights in the Middle East. Even before the renewal of the military conflict on December 27, 2008, HRW focused disproportionately on Gaza: [...]

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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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NGO Monitor Report, Norwegian NGO Funding: Boycotts and Apartheid Rhetoric instead of Peace and Coexistence, March 12, 2009
Norwegian money continues to be channeled from the MFA and NORAD to many politicized Norwegian, Palestinian and international NGOs. The radical political campaigns promoted by some of these NGOs continue to contradict objectives which the Norwegian government sets [...]

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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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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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NGO Monitor understands that the Swiss Mission in Geneva has invited Nord Sud XXI to join a NGO discussion about Durban to be held on Tuesday, November 18.  Not only is Nord Sud XXI a group that has given an award to a convicted French Holocaust denier (Roger Garaudy, in 2002) and other anti-Semites, but [...]

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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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In contrast to many NGOs that have signed the joint statement declaring their moral opposition to a repetition of the antisemitic hatred that dominated the NGO Forum of the 2001 Durban conference, Human Rights Watch has waffled. HRW’s “Position Paper on the Durban Preparatory Committee”  (April 21, 2008) admits that “the NGO forum at the [...]

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