Category: Mossawa

Radical activist resigns from B’Tselem

April 25th, 2010 | Category: B'tselem, Machsom Watch, Mossawa, New Profile
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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 [...]

Lawfare Attack vs. NGO Monitor Thrown Out of Court

March 7th, 2010 | Category: Mossawa
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On March 1, 2010, the Nazareth District Court dismissed a lawsuit filed by NIF- and European- funded NGO Mossawa against NGO Monitor for alleged defamation.
NGO “Lawfare” is a central part of the Durban strategy of demonization, and consists of filing frivolous lawsuits around the world to harass Israeli officials and those doing business with Israel. [...]

Playing fast and loose with the facts — JTA Blog on NIF/NGO Monitor

June 18th, 2009 | Category: ICAHD, Mossawa, NGO Monitor, New Israel Fund
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June 18, 2009
Uriel,
I have no objection to being criticized, just as I expect NGOs and their funders, like NIF, to accept the legitimacy of criticism and the importance of informed public debate on these important issues. However, I do think that your blog item was unfair and inaccurate, and that you seem to be targeting [...]

US Human Rights Israel Report relies on NGOs with little credibility

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 [...]

INTERNSHIPS WITH RADICAL NGOs UNDERMINE HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION

April 16th, 2008 | Category: Amnesty International, Boycott / Divestment, Ethics, Human Rights, ICAHD, Mossawa, NGO Monitor

The draft report cited in the article “American Internships in Israel Promote Extremism, Report Says” (Chronicle of Higher Education, April 16, 2008) is part of NGO Monitor’s ongoing research focusing on the boundaries between human rights norms and partisan ideological campaigning. As quoted, the analysis of the activities of the NGOs chosen for these internships [...]

NIF UK promotes Danny Rubenstein, despite his “apartheid” comment at EU/UN conference

September 6th, 2007 | Category: Adalah, Durban Conference, Mossawa, New Israel Fund

The New Israel Fund in the UK went ahead with a September 3 appearance by Danny Rubenstein (Ha’aretz columnist), despite his labeling Israel as an “ apartheid state” at the EU/UN “International Conference of Civil Society in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace.” (The British Zionist Federation [...]