Category: ACRI

Letter to Haaretz: NGO Silence on Gilad Shalit

May 6th, 2009 | Category: ACRI, Amnesty International, B'tselem, Gisha, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Media, NGO Monitor
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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 [...]

NGOs discredit Israel in int’l news without evidence

March 31st, 2009 | Category: ACRI, Adalah, B'tselem, Gisha, Hamoked, Media
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Israeli NGOs question the IDF investigation in the international media, but without evidence.
Israeli military rejects Gaza abuse claims, CNN, March 30, 2009
The conclusion follows a military police investigation into claims made at a conference that the army had intentionally killed civilians and damaged property during Israel’s incursion into Gaza in December and January. Israeli military [...]

US Human Rights Israel Report relies on NGOs with little credibility

February 26th, 2009 | Category: ACRI, Adalah, B'tselem, Badil, Gisha, Hamoked, Human Rights, Mossawa, NGOs, Physicians for Human Rights - Israel
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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 [...]

ACRI and Adalah: Civil behavior?

June 18th, 2007 | Category: ACRI, Adalah, Hamoked, Lebanon War 2006, NGOs, New Israel Fund, UN

In the past few months, former head of the IDC-Herzilya and current member of Knesset, Professor Amnon Rubinstein, published two articles calling into question the intentions and legitimacy of claims made by the politicized NGOs the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and Adalah.
Rubinstein’s first article, published in the Jerusalem Post on April 17, [...]