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| August 14, 2019
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UN Questions Palestinians About Its State Sponsored Antisemitism

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination held in Geneva today, called on the PA to explain its systematic use of hate speech & antisemitism in official statements and in its anti-Israel prejudice and incitement to hatred in its textbooks.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

 

The Palestinian Authority was called to task for hate speech and antisemitism in its official statements and in its textbooks during the government’s first ever review by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination held in Geneva on Tuesday.

“Several NGO reports pointed out antisemitic and anti-Israel prejudice and incitement to hatred, especially in the [Palestinian] media and speeches of state officials. Continue Reading »

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| February 10, 2018
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Report: UNICEF finances anti-Israel organizations

The watchdog group, NGO Monitor, calls for UNICEF to sever all ties with BDS groups after it transferred $1 million donated by Canada to Palestinian ‘educational’ groups that back BDS boycotts of Israel.
• The non-Governmental organization urges increased oversight on donated funds to Palestinian groups.

By Israel Hayom Staff

 

The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund is actively supporting anti-Israel boycotts, NGO Monitor watchdog group president Gerald Steinberg contends.

Steinberg recently revealed to members of the Canadian Parliament how money donated by their government for educational programs was being misused by organizations to which UNICEF had transferred the money and which promote the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement. Continue Reading »

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| July 12, 2017
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PM Netanyahu asks visiting Irish FM: ‘Why does Ireland finance NGOs that seek Israel’s destruction?’

Simon Coveney, who became Ireland’s foreign minister in a cabinet reshuffle last month, was asked by Israel’s PM and Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely, “why Ireland helps NGOs that call for the destruction of Israel.”

By HERB KEINON

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took visiting Irish foreign Minister Simon Coveney to task on Tuesday for Dublin’s support of NGOs operating in Israel and the territories.

The Prime Minister’s Office issued a statement after the meeting with Coveney, who arrived Monday for a three day visit, saying that Netanyahu asked the Irish foreign minister “why Ireland helps NGOs that call for the destruction of Israel.” Continue Reading »

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| June 19, 2017
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UN Watchdog: UNHRC’s attacks on Israel prove corrupt, entrenched political bias

According to NGO Monitor, “The UN Human Rights Council is singling out Israel through the misuse of int’l law and the employment of double standards…The attacks on Israel prove that the entrenched political bias of the council requires immediate action.”
• NGO Monitor plans to confront UNHRC in Geneva.

By Lital Shemesh

 

Jerusalem-based watchdog group NGO Monitor is accusing the U.N. Human Rights Council of deception and bias for its decision to compile a “blacklist” of companies from or with ties to Israel that operate beyond the Green Line, with the aim of declaring them illegal.

UN Human Rights Council – Photo courtesy: Wikipedia Commons

At the council’s headquarters in Geneva on Monday, members of the watchdog group were set to argue the move by the UNHRC unfairly singles out Israel, while ignoring other conflict zones around the world where international companies are free to do business. Continue Reading »

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| May 19, 2017
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Unbeknownst to his gov’t Danish FM transfers $8.3 million to anti-Israel groups

 

PM Netanyahu urges Danish Foreign Minister who is currently in Israel to stop funding radical Palestinian groups that incite, impede peace.
• Watchdog group: “Danish Members of Parliament should debate whether Danish taxpayers should transfer their hard-earned money to organizations that incite violence, glorify terror, and promote blatant anti-Semitism and BDS.”

By Israel Hayom

 

Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen is scheduled to hold a series of meetings in Ramallah on Thursday, where, according to official documents issued by the Danish government, he will announce an additional 30 million shekels ($8.3 million) in Danish funding for an organization that in turn funds a string of anti-Israel groups.
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| April 26, 2017
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REPORT: European gov’s, UN bodies financing Palestinian terror group PFLP

 

In its report, NGO Monitor exposes financial links between UN agencies and European governments with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, designated a terrorist organization by the US, EU & Israel.

By Amit Mizrahi

 

European governments finance civilian Palestinian organizations with clear ties terrorist groups to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a new NGO Monitor report said Monday.

Leila Khaled came to public attention for her role in a 1969 hijacking in one of four simultaneous airline hijackings by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorists.

NGO Monitor, is a watchdog group that promoted greater transparency among foreign-funded Israeli nongovernmental organization. Continue Reading »

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| March 9, 2017
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Unprecedented #BDSfail: Swiss gov’t prohibits state funding of BDS

Marking the first time any European parliament acknowledged the moral equivalence and/or correlation between anti-Semitism and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, the Swiss parliament now prohibits government funding of BDS, categorizing it along with other racist and anti-Semitic organizations.

By Ben-Dror Yemini

 

Switzerland’s parliament made an unprecedented decision on Wednesday to prevent the state from “financing any organization which supports racism, anti-Semitism, or the BDS.”

The BDS, for the first time in any European parliament, was lumped in by the Swiss parliamentarians next to racism and anti-Semitism. The decision was passed with 111 votes for it and 78 against, while 4 abstained. Continue Reading »

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| January 31, 2017
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Publicly EU denounces BDS, then passes €MILLION$ to pro-BDS organizations

 

Despite the often repeated, publicly given anti-BDS declarations, the EU continues funding millions of euros to pro-BDS organizations that promote anti-Israel protests, accuses Israel of perpetrating “massacres,” “cultural genocide,” “apartheid” and regularly issues posters and caricatures demonizing the Jewish State, some of which are virulently antisemitic.

By Mordechai Sones

 

Organizations receiving European Union funding to promote goals such as peace, cooperation and human rights, exploit the largesse to promote the anti-Israel boycott campaign (BDS) and legal warfare operations that deny Israel’s legitimacy to exist as a Jewish state, according to a study conducted by the NGO Monitor research institute. Continue Reading »

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| August 30, 2016
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NGO Watchdog says Norway funds groups that finance BDS activities

NGO Monitor reports Norway has been funding groups that contributed millions to Palestinian NGOs that support anti-Israel activity and maintain relationships with recognized illegal terrorist organization.

By i24news

 

Norway’s government has donating to an organization that gives millions to groups supporting the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, the Jerusalem Post reports, citing NGO Monitor.

BDS supporters, London 2009 – Photo: CLAUDIA GABRIELA MARQUES VIEIRA/ WIKIPEDIA

Norway allocated more than $600,000 to the Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Secretariat for the second half of 2016, according to the report.

The Secretariat has over the past four years contributed $5.78 million to NGOs that support BDS – over half of its operating budget. Continue Reading »

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| July 31, 2016
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Israel’s Golan Druze leader laughs at UN claim of ‘hardship of occupation’

 

“I don’t understand what they’re talking about, it’s laughable,” the mayor of Majdal Shams said. Druze in the Golan “don’t serve in the IDF, and so far are only receiving from the state. Why don’t they condemn the horrors in Syria, where dozens of children are killed daily? (Israel’s) Golan residents have a good life.”

By JTA

 

A leader of the Druze population of the Golan Heights disputed the assertion of a United Nations committee that accused Israel of imposing economic and social hardships on his community.

Golan Heights, Druze village square in Majdal Shams – Photo: Avihu Shapira

Dulan abu-Saleh, the mayor of Majdal Shams, the largest Druze town in the Golan, told Makor Rishon that the U.N. Continue Reading »

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| July 14, 2016
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EU condemns Israel’s new NGO ‘transparency’ law

 

The European Union and the White House are “concerned” over Israel’s new law for good reason: Covert, anti-Israel funding by foreign governments will now be exposed.

By Associated Press

 

The European Union has criticized the new NGOs Transparency Law that increases regulation of many human rights organizations, saying it risks “undermining” Israel’s democratic ideals.

EU foreign policy chief Mogherini meets with Prime Minister Netanyahu in Jerusalem – Photo: Amit Shabi

The law, passed late Monday, imposes new reporting requirements on nonprofit groups that receive more than half of their funding from foreign governments.

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While its supporters, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, say the law is meant to increase transparency, it applies almost exclusively to liberal groups, often funded by the EU, that are critical of Israeli policies toward the Palestinians. Continue Reading »

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| June 8, 2016
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Israel’s Ex-Shin Bet Chief Tells Danish Parliament Speaker: Stop Funding BDS

 

Former Shin Bet Chief and current MK, Yaakov Perry of Yesh Atid, points out that the Danish government is defying the EU’s policies against boycotting Israel by clandestinely funding the BDS through proxy NGOs.

By LAHAV HARKOV

 

MK Yaakov Perry (Yesh Atid), presented Danish Parliament Speaker Pia Kjærsgaard with a list of organizations her country funds that promote boycotts of Israel, calling on her to fight the anti-Semitic boycott, divestment and sanctions movement during her visit to the Knesset Wednesday.

Ynet lego #stopBDS

“Denmark is part of the European Union, and it cannot be that it’s government funds anti-Israel organizations. These actions defy the EU’s policies against boycotting Israel,” Peri, the head of the Knesset’s delegation to the European Parliament, said. Continue Reading »

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| June 2, 2016
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New NGO ‘transparency bill’ will identify sources to 27 foreign-gov’t-funded groups

 

The new bill requires any NGO receiving more than half its funding from a foreign political entity, to identify itself as such in any publications, & any meetings with public officials.

By LAHAV HARKOV

 

Legislation requiring greater transparency for organizations getting most of their budgets from foreign governments will affect 27 NGOs, Nonprofits Registrar representative Yafit Shemer told the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee Wednesday.

A woman reads testimonies during a gathering in Tel Aviv to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Israeli NGO “Breaking the Silence”. – Photo: AFP

Committee chairman Nissan Slomiansky (Bayit Yehudi) prohibited Shemer from presenting the list to the MKs, arguing that he wants the bill to be “clean” of being drafted in a way that would target specific NGOs, sparking vocal debate among lawmakers. Continue Reading »

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| April 8, 2016
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NGO Monitor Report: UN agency manipulates data to demonize Israel

 

NGO Monitor’s Report: “OSHA [Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs] rarely, if ever, cites relevant Israeli gov’t information, including detailed statistics published by COGAT, the IDF, or the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.” and it’s website shows “videos [that] are devoid of all context and are aimed solely at demonizing Israel.”

By HERB KEINON

 

NGO Monitor on Thursday released a report highly critical of a UN agency deemed so biased in Jerusalem that the Foreign Ministry, according to diplomatic sources, stopped cooperating with it in any meaningful way several years ago.

A Palestinian refugee knocks on the closed gate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters with his walking stick.

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| April 4, 2016
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UK finally ends funding NGO for inciting to hatred & violence against Jews

 

After the Telegraph released secret recordings of the Pro-Palestine ‘War on Want’ activities of promoting an academic boycott of Israel (since 2003) and its funding Apartheid Week on various UK university campuses, the British gov’t ended its funding.

By Itamar Eichner

 

The British government ended its support for the NGO War on Want, founded in 1951, and initially focused on fighting poverty around the world, for inciting to hatred and violence against Jews.

UK NGO War on Want’s website

War on Want has promoted an academic boycott of Israel since 2003 and has funded Apartheid Week on various UK university campuses. Continue Reading »

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