Category: New Israel Fund

NGO Monitor: Correcting Michael Pinto-Duschinsky’s Mistakes

March 27th, 2008 | Category: Durban Conference, Human Rights, Amnesty International, Christian Aid, Oxfam, CARE, New Israel Fund, NGO Monitor, Ethics
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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: Durban Conference, Adalah, New Israel Fund, Mossawa

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: Lebanon War 2006, UN, NGOs, Adalah, Hamoked, ACRI, New Israel Fund

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, […]