In email correspondence (July 27, 2010), B’Tselem informed NGO Monitor that Mitchell Plitnick is no longer employed by the organization. (B’Tselem’s email did not indicate when he left; Plitnick’s blog indicates that this probably took place prior to June 15, 2010.) Plitnick was the first director of B’Tselem’s Washington, DC office, which opened in September [...]
Editor,
In the article “IDF Recognizes Help From Israeli Human Rights Group,” (Nathan Jeffay, The Forward, July 14, 2010) my detailed assessment of B’Tselem was greatly simplified and highly distorted. As I told Nathan Jeffay in our lengthy discussion of this issue, the IDF Advocate General relied on B’Tselem for the limited task of identifying and [...]
Lizi Sagie, B’Tselem’s data coordination director, resigned from the Israeli NGO following exposure of the Nazi analogy and other forms of anti-Israel demonization on her personal blog. After these items were published, Jessica Montell, B’Tselem’s executive director, repudiated Sagie’s comments and disassociated her organization from them.
First publicized by Yonatan D. HaLevi and then reported by [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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