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May 31st, 2007 by NGO Monitor Staff | Category: Government Funding
- “What Is a Gongo? How government-sponsored groups masquerade as civil society.”, Moisés Naím, Foreign Policy, May/June 2007
“Gongos are government-sponsored nongovernmental organizations. Behind this contradictory and almost laughable tongue twister lies an important and growing global trend that deserves more scrutiny: governments funding and controlling nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), often stealthily. Some Gongos are benign, others irrelevant. But many, including those mentioned above, are dangerous. Some act as the thuggish arm of repressive governments. Others use the practices of democracy to subtly undermine democracy at home. Abroad, the Gongos of repressive regimes lobby the United Nations and other international institutions, often posing as representatives of citizen groups with lofty aims when, in fact, they are nothing but agents of the governments that fund them. Some governments embed their Gongos deep in the societies of other countries and use them to advance their interests abroad.” - “Accurate: Don’t bank on it”, CAMERA, May 10, 2007
- “Shilling for Hamas”, CAMERA, May 4, 2007
“According to the World Bank and Oxfam’s own figures, aid to the Palestinians in 2006 actually increased by 20% over the prior year and funds directed to the PA doubled. But Adam Leach, Oxfam’s Middle East director, argues the aid is not being handled efficiently through the current arrangement wherein money is funneled to the office of President Abbas and aid groups rather than to the Hamas-controlled government ministries.” - ‘The Underbelly of Foundations’, Robert Stacy McCain, The Washington Times, April 26, 2007
“The Ford Foundation, with assets of more than $9 billion, has given millions of dollars worth of grants to Palestinian groups, including some accused of supporting terrorism. The foundation was also “prime underwriter” of a September 2001 U.N. World Conference Against Racism, held in South Africa, where Israel was denounced as a “racist, apartheid state.” - “Palestinian Liberation Theology”, Shelly Neese, Frontpage Magazine, April 20, 2007
‘Replacement Theology—the belief that the Christian Church replaced Israel in God’s plan—has found a new home in the work of the Sabeel Center—the Jerusalem-based ecumenical organization for Palestinian Christians.
