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 [...]
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July 20th, 2009 | Category:
Adalah,
Al Haq,
Badil,
EU,
Government Funding,
Human Rights Watch,
Lawfare,
New Israel Fund,
Palestinian Center for Human Rights,
UN
Tags: none
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”. [...]
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May 7th, 2009 | Category:
Al Haq,
Badil,
EU,
Gisha,
Government Funding,
ICAHD,
International Humanitarian Law,
Ittijah,
Palestinian Center for Human Rights,
Physicians for Human Rights - Israel
Tags: none
Over the years, NGO Monitor has seen NGOs do some pretty crazy stuff with their EU and European government money (promoting slogans like, “We are all Hezbollah, we are all Hamas”; organizing campaigns “to expose the lies of AIPAC and the Anti-Defamation League and to expose the Jewish and Zionist community’s double standards”; and parroting [...]
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April 30th, 2009 | Category:
Badil,
Durban Review Conference,
Ittijah,
UN
Tags: none
Jan Lonn, head of the Swedish-based World Against Racism Network, is active in many radical NGO activities. Lonn has recently implied that Jewish groups sabotaged the DRC in an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) saying “there has been very strong opposition from some NGO circles, some interest groups, against the Durban Review Conference.”
The [...]
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April 20th, 2009 | Category:
Badil,
Durban Review Conference,
Ittijah,
UN
Tags: none
On Sunday, April 19, 2009, the Simon Wiesenthal Center reported from Geneva on the Israel Review Conference and the Civil Society Forum – two NGO-organized parallel events designed to demonize Israel in the fashion of the first Durban conference in 2001 which notoriously embarrassed the UN for its blatant anti-semitism. (See Durban parallel slams ‘Israeli [...]
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April 7th, 2009 | Category:
Badil,
Durban Review Conference,
NGO Monitor,
UN
Tags: none
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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February 26th, 2009 | Category:
ACRI,
Adalah,
B'tselem,
Badil,
Gisha,
Hamoked,
Human Rights,
Mossawa,
NGOs,
Physicians for Human Rights - Israel
Tags: none
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 [...]
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June 19th, 2008 | Category:
Badil,
Boycott / Divestment,
Durban Conference,
Durban Review Conference,
Human Rights,
Ittijah,
New Israel Fund,
UN
Tags: none
On June 2, various NGOs active in the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment campaign sent a letter to the “people, government, movements, and organizations” of Latin American maintaining that the treatment of Palestinians should take priority as the most important human rights issue on the Durban 2009 agenda. Latin American human rights issues, such as human [...]
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November 21st, 2007 | Category:
Badil,
Boycott / Divestment,
Durban Conference,
EU,
Ford Foundation,
Government Funding,
NGOs,
Palestinian NGO Network
Tags: none
The Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network (PNGO), a radical Palestinian NGO which played a prominent role at Durban 2001, has organized a conference – “First Palestinian Conference for the Boycott of Israel (BDS)” — along with other radical anti-Israel groups, including OPGAI-Coalition, Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), and the [...]
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October 21st, 2007 | Category:
Badil,
Boycott / Divestment,
EU,
Government Funding,
ICAHD,
International Solidarity Movement,
Palestinian NGO Network,
Separation Barrier,
UN
Birthright Unplugged–partnered with a number of radical NGOs, some of which receive EU funding—advances an extreme anti-Israel narrative via its “alternative” tours. It is not affiliated with the Taglit-Birthright Israel group; in fact, Birthright Unplugged has hijacked Taglit-Birthright’s name in order to advance a radically different, anti-Israel agenda.
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