Category: Amnesty International

In his New York Review of Books essay, “The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment” (June 10, 2010), journalist Peter Beinart makes several dubious claims about human rights NGOs. He makes similar statements in defense of Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a subsequent dialogue with Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic). The following is an analysis of [...]

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Ma’ariv (p. 4) by Ben-Dror Yemini — Human rights are too important an issue to be left in the hands of human rights organizations. This isn’t the first time that I’ve written that. It’s just that this issue is becoming increasingly important. This time, the organization at hand is Amnesty, once again Amnesty, which has [...]

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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 [...]

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The denial of Palestinian agency or culpability has been a long standing theme in NGO publications on the Arab-Israeli conflict.  Examples include failing to hold Palestinian society responsible for electing a genocidal terror organization and the consequences that have resulted; ignoring Palestinian corruption, and minimizing the Palestinian choice to engage in violence to achieve political [...]

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In an article published in the Guardian (“Doctors demand Yoram Blachar resign as ethics chief over Israeli torture,” June 21, 2009), health editor Sarah Boseley publicized a campaign to remove an Israeli doctor as the head of the World Medical Association. Dr. Blachar, also the head of the Israeli Medical Association, is accused of “turn[ing] [...]

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Given the heavy dependence by the UN Inquiry on the Gaza War on NGO reports and testimonies, NGO Monitor submitted a report to the commission led by Judge Richard Goldstone. NGO Monitor provided fact sheets on the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), Al Mezan, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW). NGO Monitor’s report [...]

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The long history of “Lawfare” use by NGOs is in jeopardy due to a change in Spanish universal jurisdiction laws. Pressure by foreign governments including Israel caused the move as NGOs respond with upset and claims that impunity will increase.
“Lawfare” has been a popular NGO tool for political campaigns against Israel since the first UN [...]

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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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A UN report accusing Israel of intentionally attacking UN buildings in Gaza strongly reflects the biases and lack of credibility of the NGO network during the Gaza fighting. As demonstrated in NGO Monitor’s comprehensive study, The NGO Front in the Gaza War: The Durban Strategy Continues, NGO reports exhibited double standards, focused overwhelmingly on condemning [...]

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Yesterday the Guardian printed NGO “war crimes” allegations as fact, saying that despite IDF refutations, “human rights organizations” had evidence to corroborate their claims.  Yet, NGO Monitor analyses have revealed that Amnesty’s and HRW’s claims are often inacurrate, unsourced, revealing a readiness to manipulate “evidence” to match pre-determined ideological conclusions.
Guardian investigation uncovers evidence of alleged [...]

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