Category: Adalah

European Tax Dollars at Work: NGO Speeches to the UN Human Rights Council in Support of the Goldstone Report

October 29th, 2009 | Category: Adalah, Al Haq, Amnesty International, Badil, Defence for Children International-Palestine, EU, Government Funding, Human Rights Watch, International Commission of Jurists, International Humanitarian Law, Ittijah, Palestinian Center for Human Rights, UN
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Taken from UNHRC webcast:
MRAP (France):
“Despite the dozens of resolutions adopted by various UN bodies condemning the actions of the state of Israel, colonial occupation follows the destruction, massacres follow the abuses, and the international law is constantly trampled.”
FIDH, PCHR (Raji Sourani) (Norway, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, European Union):
“The smell of death and destruction [...]

HRW to Participate in anti-Israel UN Question of Palestine Event

July 20th, 2009 | Category: Adalah, Al Haq, Badil, EU, Government Funding, Human Rights Watch, Lawfare, New Israel Fund, Palestinian Center for Human Rights, UN
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On July 22 and 23, 2009, The UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will hold an NGO conference examining “Responsibility of the international community to uphold international humanitarian law to ensure the protection of civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory in the wake of the war in Gaza”.  [...]

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 [...]

NIF UK promotes Danny Rubenstein, despite his “apartheid” comment at EU/UN conference

September 6th, 2007 | Category: Adalah, Durban Conference, Mossawa, New Israel Fund

The New Israel Fund in the UK went ahead with a September 3 appearance by Danny Rubenstein (Ha’aretz columnist), despite his labeling Israel as an “ apartheid state” at the EU/UN “International Conference of Civil Society in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace.” (The British Zionist Federation [...]

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, [...]