Category: Physicians for Human Rights - Israel

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 [...]

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 [...]

PHR-I and the BBC - Politics, Human Rights, and the NGO “Halo Effect”

August 4th, 2008 | Category: Boycott / Divestment, EU, Ethics, Physicians for Human Rights - Israel
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On August 3, 2008, the BBC World Service led its news programs with a story based on allegations from an NGO known as Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I). PHR-I alleged that Israeli security services recruited Palestinian medical patients who receive care in Israeli hospitals to become informants against terror groups. This was the BBC’s second item [...]

PHR-Israel, Gisha petition Israeli Supreme Court, publish report criticizing Israel’s procedures on admitting Palestinians seeking medical attention through Erez crossing

August 21st, 2007 | Category: Gisha, Physicians for Human Rights - Israel

Physicians for Human Rights–Israel and Gisha have published an August 19, 2007 position paper, after submitting a petition to the Israeli Supreme court (which the Court rejected), criticizing Israel’s system of classifying Palestinians at the Erez crossing seeking to enter Israel for medical attention.According to [...]

Amnesty International Israel-led ad campaign on Sudanese refugees features ‘Hatikva’ alongside Holocaust imagery

August 8th, 2007 | Category: Amnesty International, Darfur, Physicians for Human Rights - Israel

As reported on Ynet August 8, the Israel branch of Amnesty International, in cooperation with Hotline for Migrant Workers and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, have launched a campaign calling on the Israeli Interior Ministry not to deport the Sudanese asylum seekers who have entered Israel illegally. The campaign features a highly [...]

Palestinian-Israeli Peace NGO Forum

June 7th, 2007 | Category: B'tselem, Government Funding, NGOs, Physicians for Human Rights - Israel

Created in November 2005 and funded by the European Union, the Palestinian-Israeli Peace NGO Forum seeks to “influence decision making and public opinion, support the peace process and reconciliation efforts by mobilizing civil society and greater populations of the region.” Made up of over 100 organizations, members of the Forum include B’Tselem, Gisha, ICAHD, [...]

Physicians for Human Rights-Israel to participate in UCLA Palestine Solidarity Week

May 15th, 2007 | Category: Boycott / Divestment, Human Rights, Physicians for Human Rights - Israel

Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I) is to participate in UCLA Palestine Solidarity Week during the week of May 20 ‘in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Israeli occupation’. PHR-I’s involvement in an event that demonizes Israel, provides further evidence of its political objectives, despite its stated ‘goal of struggling for human rights, in particular [...]