Category: B'tselem

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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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 [...]

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In an email to its “supporters,” Mitchell Plitnick, Director or B’Tselem’s US office, called for “support [for] the Obama Administration’s efforts to end house demolitions in East Jerusalem.”
Shockingly, his email concluded with the following sentence: “Please let President Obama know that you support Secretary Clinton’s statement and urge the whole administration to follow these words [...]

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On March 15, 2009, NGO Monitor issued a press release calling on Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and B’Tselem to end their silence on kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit. Executive Director Gerald Steinberg said, “Gilad Shalit has been denied even the most basic of human rights for almost 1,000 days.  The unwillingness of human [...]

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NGO Monitor Report, Norwegian NGO Funding: Boycotts and Apartheid Rhetoric instead of Peace and Coexistence, March 12, 2009
Norwegian money continues to be channeled from the MFA and NORAD to many politicized Norwegian, Palestinian and international NGOs. The radical political campaigns promoted by some of these NGOs continue to contradict objectives which the Norwegian government sets [...]

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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 [...]

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In its 10 November 2008 edition, the New Statesman (UK) published an article by Samira Shackle on B’tselem “Filming Israel’s trouble spots” which included quotes from Gerald Steinberg of NGO Monitor. As these quotes were garbled and rewritten (particularly the final sentence), leading to some distortion and confusion, we are posting the texts of the [...]

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Reporters Without Borders has condemned a Palestinian sniper who took shots at the media as they tried to report on the murder of Carlos Andres Muscara Chavez, a 21 year old volunteer from Ecuador. We reported on B’tselems condemnation of Carlos’ murder previously and we are still waiting to see more of a response from [...]

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B’tselem (an Israeli human rights NGO) condemned the murder of Carlos Andrés Muscara Chávez, a 21 year old Kibbutz volunteer and visitor to Israel from Ecuador.  He was killed by a Palestinian sniper as he worked in a potato field. Condemnation for this senseless and deliberate murder should be heard from many human rights organisations. [...]

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9 July 2007 — In an email to subscribers, Jessica Montell, Executive Director, announced that B’Tselem is establishing an office in Washington,  D.C..  But B’Tselem is also (and perhaps primarily) a political lobby, founded “to change Israeli policy in the Occupied Territories”, according to its mission statement, and to restore the 1949-1967 armistice lines, with [...]

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