Category: Palestinian Center for Human Rights

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 [...]

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”.  [...]

YORK UNIVERSITY VS. ISRAEL: “ACADEMIC FREEDOM” OR ACADEMIC FARCE?[UPDATED]

June 19th, 2009 | Category: Boycott / Divestment, ICAHD, Miftah, Palestinian Center for Human Rights, Sabeel
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The President of York University in Toronto has issued a statement attempting to defend his university’s sponsorship of an event headlined “Israel/Palestine: Mapping Models of Statehood and Paths to Peace”, scheduled for June 22 to 24. This response to intense criticism of the program attempts to portray serious criticism as an attack on academic freedom. [...]

NGO Monitor submits report to UN Gaza commission of inquiry

June 10th, 2009 | Category: Al Mezan, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, NGO Monitor, Palestinian Center for Human Rights, UN
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Given the heavy dependence by the UN Inquiry on the Gaza War on NGO reports and testimonies, NGO Monitor submitted a report to the commission led by Judge Richard Goldstone. NGO Monitor provided fact sheets on the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), Al Mezan, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW). NGO Monitor’s report [...]

EU-funded PCHR Aids Arab League in Lawfare Mission/Gives Hamas a Free Pass

May 14th, 2009 | Category: EU, Government Funding, International Humanitarian Law, Palestinian Center for Human Rights, UN
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The Arab League’s “Fact Finding” Mission to Gaza presented a report of its findings and called for future lawfare against Israel.  John Dugard, the notorious UN Rapporteur, led the team and the EU and European government funded PCHR “prepared the agenda for the mission and coordinated its meetings and field visits. It also provided technical [...]

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 [...]

Another lawfare weapon from PCHR: unverifiable casualty statistics

March 15th, 2009 | Category: EU, International Humanitarian Law, Lawfare, Palestinian Center for Human Rights
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PCHR issued a report supposedly documenting the status of the casualties in Gaza. The organization claims that 960 of the dead were civilians yet the group classifies arch-terrorist Nizar Rayan as a civilian as well as many members of the Qassam rocket brigades.  Groups such as CAMERA have debunked many more of the statistics.
The Jerusalem [...]

Norwegian NGO Funding: Boycotts and Apartheid Rhetoric instead of Peace and Coexistence

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 [...]

For EU-funded PCHR, “Resistance” takes precedence over the Rights of Women

March 9th, 2009 | Category: EU, Palestinian Center for Human Rights
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Yesterday, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) put out a statement in honor of International Women’s Day.  Predictably, the statement solely blames Israel for the suffering of women in Gaza and calls on the international community to hold Israel “accountable”.  PCHR includes one sentence at the end of the lengthy statement claiming that “Palestinian [...]

European Parliament to Host UN NGO Anti-Israel Propaganda Conference

August 1st, 2007 | Category: Durban Conference, Government Funding, ICAHD, Palestinian Center for Human Rights, UN
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            The United Nations has scheduled an “International Conference of Civil Society in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace”, to be held in the European Parliament in Brussels, August 30-31. This misleading not withstanding, this annual conference is held under the auspices of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, and [...]