Category: Ittijah

European Tax Dollars at Work: NGO Speeches to the UN Human Rights Council in Support of the Goldstone Report

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 [...]

NGOs in Glass Houses…

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 [...]

Civil Society Forum organizer complains of Jewish conspiracy against DRC

April 30th, 2009 | Category: Badil, Durban Review Conference, Ittijah, UN
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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 [...]

Durban II Update: Anti-Israel parallel events garner minimal attention

April 20th, 2009 | Category: Badil, Durban Review Conference, Ittijah, UN
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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 [...]

Palestinian NGO coalition uses Durban 2009 as political platform; ignore abuses in Latin America

June 19th, 2008 | Category: Badil, Boycott / Divestment, Durban Conference, Durban Review Conference, Human Rights, Ittijah, New Israel Fund, UN
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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 [...]

Radical NGOs pull out of ´Anti-Annapolis conference´ in Madrid hosted by Spanish government, after Spanish Foreign Ministry invites Israeli groups that oppose a ´one-state solution´

December 18th, 2007 | Category: Boycott / Divestment, EU, Government Funding, ICAHD, Ittijah, NGOs, Palestinian NGO Network
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According to a December 16, 2007 Ha’aretz report, “an investment of hundreds of thousands of dollars, loads of time and countless attempts at intensive Spanish-brokered talks between Israelis and Palestinians went down the drain,” when a “peace gathering” scheduled to take place December 14-16 in [...]