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
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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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May 6th, 2009 | Category:
ACRI,
Amnesty International,
B'tselem,
Gisha,
Human Rights,
Human Rights Watch,
Media,
NGO Monitor
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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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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 [...]
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March 12th, 2009 | Category:
Al Haq,
B'tselem,
Gisha,
Government Funding,
Hamoked,
Medecins Sans Frontieres,
Miftah,
NGO Monitor,
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
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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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March 5th, 2009 | Category:
Gisha,
International Humanitarian Law
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‘Waltz with Bashir’ animator draws Gaza, Jerusalem Post, March 4, 2009
In terms of content (not aesthetic value), Gisha’s video is worth very little. It is a visual representation of tired cliches — Gazans as “caged birds” — and inaccurate depictions of the conflict — not one Hamas terrorist. We are given a narrative of 1 [...]
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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 [...]
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July 14th, 2008 | Category:
EU,
Ethics,
Gisha,
Human Rights
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My oped — An NGO black hole in the Foreign Ministry, Jerusalem Post, July 08, 2008 — received a number of comments, some more serious than others, and a mix no surprise of criticism and agreement. While the main focus was on the failure of the Israeli government to respond seriously to the NGO role [...]
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August 29th, 2007 | Category:
EU,
Gisha,
UN
The provisional agenda has been released for the EU/UN “International Conference of Civil Society in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace,” to begin August 30 in Brussels. The agenda, which was kept secret for weeks, includes presentations by representatives of some of the most radical, anti-Israel NGOs operating in the conflict. [...]
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August 21st, 2007 | Category:
Gisha,
Physicians for Human Rights - Israel
Physicians for Human Rights–Israel and Gisha have published an August 19, 2007 position paper, after submitting a petition to the Israeli Supreme court (which the Court rejected), criticizing Israel’s system of classifying Palestinians at the Erez crossing seeking to enter Israel for medical attention.According to [...]
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