Category: New Israel Fund

HRW “sockpuppets” and Akiva Eldar vs. NGO Monitor: Connecting the dots

February 24th, 2010 | Category: Human Rights Watch, New Israel Fund
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HRW “sockpuppets” and Akiva Eldar vs. NGO Monitor: Connecting the dots
On February 23, 2010, Akiva Eldar, a reporter for Haaretz, emailed NGO Monitor with a number of “questions” allegedly related to compliance with Israel’s Amuta (non-profit) laws. The questions appeared to be part of a fishing expedition designed to find some mud in order [...]

HRW to Participate in anti-Israel UN Question of Palestine Event

July 20th, 2009 | Category: Adalah, Al Haq, Badil, EU, Government Funding, Human Rights Watch, Lawfare, New Israel Fund, Palestinian Center for Human Rights, UN
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On July 22 and 23, 2009, The UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will hold an NGO conference examining “Responsibility of the international community to uphold international humanitarian law to ensure the protection of civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory in the wake of the war in Gaza”.  [...]

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 [...]

NIF-funded Coalition of Women for Peace brings controversial play to Israel

June 11th, 2009 | Category: Boycott / Divestment, Coalition of Women for Peace, Medical Aid for Palestinians, New Israel Fund
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As part of its “10 days against the siege” campaign, the Coalition of Women for Peace (CWP) has brought Caryl Churchill’s “Seven Jewish Children - A Play for Gaza” to Israel to play tonight in Hebrew in Tel Aviv. The 10 minute play has caused heated protest and debate in the UK, Australia and the [...]

NIF’S LARRY GARBER ATTACKS THE MESSENGER, MISSES THE MESSAGE

June 9th, 2009 | Category: NGO Monitor, New Israel Fund
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10 June 2009
Editor
Jerusalem Post
In his eagerness to libel me and NGO Monitor’s research, Larry Garber, CEO of New Israel Fund has again misread the text. (‘Many Narratives, Not Just One’, June 7 2009).
My article on the fictitious narrative that is used by many NGOs to demonize Israel did not endorse the “Nakba Law”. (‘Taking Back [...]

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 [...]

NGO Monitor: Correcting Michael Pinto-Duschinsky’s Mistakes

March 27th, 2008 | Category: Amnesty International, CARE, Christian Aid, Durban Conference, Ethics, Human Rights, NGO Monitor, New Israel Fund, Oxfam
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Prof. Michael Pinto-Duschinsky published an article in the 21 March edition of the Jewish Chronicle (UK) agreeing with NGO Monitor’s analysis on the political biases and false claims of leading “charities”, and “human rights groups”, including Amnesty International, Christian Aid and Oxfam.  As he notes, these groups systematically abuse the rhetoric of human rights, and [...]

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 [...]

B’Tselem Goes to Washington - Politics first

July 10th, 2007 | Category: B'tselem, New Israel Fund
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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 [...]

ACRI and Adalah: Civil behavior?

June 18th, 2007 | Category: ACRI, Adalah, Hamoked, Lebanon War 2006, NGOs, New Israel Fund, UN

In the past few months, former head of the IDC-Herzilya and current member of Knesset, Professor Amnon Rubinstein, published two articles calling into question the intentions and legitimacy of claims made by the politicized NGOs the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and Adalah.
Rubinstein’s first article, published in the Jerusalem Post on April 17, [...]