Category: NGOs

On December 7, 2010, Amnesty International issued a statement (“Israeli rabbis ban home sales and rentals to non-Jews”) condemning “a religious ruling signed by dozens of Israel’s municipal chief rabbis that bans the renting or sale of homes to non-Jews.” Although the press release acknowledged that “the ruling is not official government policy,” Amnesty official [...]

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Charles Enderlin, the France 2 journalist who initially publicized and gave false credibility to the Muhammad al-Dura* incident, has released a new book entitled A Child is Dead (original French title: Un enfant est mort), an effort to further promulgate the al-Dura narrative. In the book, Enderlin rejects Israeli military investigations as “non-credible,” and claims [...]

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Why has Hamas failed to conduct investigations into massive violations of human rights during the 2009 Gaza war? Human Rights Watch Senior Researcher Fred Abrahams blames the “campaign waged by countries like the United States and Israel to deny the group legitimacy.” As Abrahams told the Forward, “In its stance towards Hamas, the U.N. is [...]

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Reposted from Elder of Ziyon:
The New York Times mentions the new Lebanese law allowing Palestinian Arabs some new rights to employment - but notes that this supposed improvement is, in many way, only on paper:
The law lifts restrictions on Palestinians’ employment in the formal labor market, though they would still be officially treated as foreigners. [...]

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In email correspondence (July 27, 2010), B’Tselem informed NGO Monitor that Mitchell Plitnick is no longer employed by the organization. (B’Tselem’s email did not indicate when he left;  Plitnick’s blog indicates that this probably took place prior to June 15, 2010.) Plitnick was the first director of B’Tselem’s Washington, DC office, which opened in September [...]

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Despite HRW’s disproportionate and obsessive focus on Israel, as documented in NGO Monitor’s systematic research, Hamas officials still feel they are being treated unfairly by the organization.  To reassure Hamas that this was not the case, the head of HRW’s Middle East and North Africa Division, Sarah Leah Whitson, paid a visit to Gaza.
A May [...]

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Human Rights Watch’s press release “Israel: Withdraw Legislation Punishing Human Rights Activists” (July 25, 2010) presents a long list of complaints against the Israeli government, closely echoing the New Israel Fund (NIF) and NIF-funded political NGOs. HRW’s allegations of “silencing” critics, “threats” to Israel’s “vibrant” civil society, and the “harm” to Israel’s democracy are taken [...]

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Editor,
In the article “IDF Recognizes Help From Israeli Human Rights Group,” (Nathan Jeffay, The Forward, July 14, 2010) my detailed assessment of B’Tselem was greatly simplified and highly distorted. As I told Nathan Jeffay in our lengthy discussion of this issue, the IDF Advocate General relied on B’Tselem for the limited task of identifying and [...]

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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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Eric Posner’s Wall Street Journal article (June 4, 2010), “The Gaza Blockade and International Law,” examines the legality of Israel’s actions aboard the Mava Marmari “Gaza flotilla.” Posner also debunks legal claims made by Human Rights Watch (HRW) regarding Israel’s policies in Gaza and aboard the ship. NGO Monitor previously documented HRW’s flawed methodology and [...]

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