Non-Governmental Organizations
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House committee asks IRS to revoke tax-exempt status of anti-Israel groups that backed college protests by Josh Christenson, New York Post, September 24, 2024
The organizations are: Westchester Peace Action Committee Foundation (WESPAC), People’s Forum, Tides Foundation, Jewish Voice for Peace, United Hands Relief Inc., Alliance for Global Justice, Islamic Relief USA, Americans for Justice in Palestine Educational Foundation, and American Muslims for Palestine.
Academic Extremism: How a Faculty Network Fuels Campus Unrest & Antisemitic Violence, AMCHA Initiative, September 2024 (see also Are Anti-Israel Protests Plaguing Your School? That’s Likely Because It Has a Faculty for Justice in Palestine Chapter, Report Finds by Jessica Costescu and Lexi Boccuzzi, The Washington Free Beacon, September 26, 2024: “Jewish students are 7.3 times more likely to face physical violence at universities with anti-Israel faculty groups”)
‘See no tunnels, hear no tunnels, speak no tunnels’: On Human Rights Watch’s latest Gaza Report by Gerald M. Steinberg, Fathom, July 2024
The People Setting America on Fire by Park MacDougald, Tablet, May 6, 2024
An investigation into the witches’ brew of billionaires, Islamists, and leftists behind the campus protests
The Case for a Class Action RICO Lawsuit Against SJP to Combat Campus Antisemitism by Gregg Roman, The Middle East Forum Observer, April 29, 2024
Prince William and the Red Cross by Melanie Phillips, Substack, February 21, 2024
The humanitarian body poses as the disinterested champion of the suffering. It is not.
Students for Justice in Palestine by Shai Davidai, Twitter, December 20, 2023
Amnesty International’s Cruel Assault on Israel: Systematic Lies, Errors, Omissions & Double Standards in Amnesty’s Apartheid Report, NGO Monitor, April 2022
Amnesty has officially joined the war against Jewish sovereignty by Alex Nachumson, Israel National News, March 15, 2022
We should make sure that an organization that lives on donations to further its neo-colonialist war against the Jews is exposed.
Amnesty International’s Obsessive Fixation with Israel by Amb. Alan Baker, The Jewish Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Briefs, Vol. 22, No. 2, February 16, 2022
Amnesty International’s moral turpitude by Fiamma Nirenstein, Jewish News Syndicate, February 3, 2022
The world should demand an apology from the “human rights” NGO for its blatantly false accusations of Israeli “apartheid.”
Here’s Why Israel Designated Six Palestinian Charities as Terror Groups by Adam Kredo and Matthew Foldi, The Washington Free Beacon, December 6, 2021 (see also Investigation Findings: The foreign funding of the PFLP through the network of “civil society” organizations, Israel Security Agency, May 2, 2021)
Dossier makes case Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine operates a network of nonprofits to embezzle millions of dollars from the E.U., NGOs.
Believe it or not: There is a peacebuilding community in Israel and Palestine by Ron Kronish, The Times of Israel, December 6, 2021
Dozens of organizations keep a flicker of hope burning, engaging out of the limelight in dialogue, advocacy and grassroots cooperative programs. (Features ALLMEP, the Alliance for Middle East Peace)
CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad At Chicago Conference: The U.S. Embassy Must Return To Tel Aviv, Which Is Under Occupation And Will Be Freed Later; We Are Disgusted With The Biden Administration’s Lack Of Respect For Palestinian Human Rights, The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) Special Dispatch No. 9657, December 1, 2021 (video, 1’11”)
Palestinian NGO Terror Links: Assessing the Implications of Israel’s Designations by Gerald M. Steinberg, Fathom, November 2021
The Apartheid Accusation Against Israel is Baseless – and Agenda-Driven by Eugene Kontorovich, EJIL:Talk!, the Blog of the European Journal of International Law, July 8, 2021
Human Rights Watch’s new report accusing Israel of the crime of apartheid is, despite its length, a propaganda document: full of falsehoods and distortions. The world it describes is an alternate reality.
Jewish-American Nonprofit, IfNotNow, (Again) says Kaddish for Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad Terrorists, The Jerusalem Post, May 31, 2021
Not for the first time, IfNotNow have been blasted for mourning the death of terrorists. During the 2014 Gaza war the group organized similar demonstrations
Human Rights Watch crosses the line with latest attack on Israel by Clifford D. May, Washington Times, May 4, 2021
Investigation Findings: The foreign funding of the PFLP through the network of “civil society” organizations, Israel Security Agency, May 2, 2021
Understanding KKL-JNF’s Role in the West Bank by Evan Gottesman, Israel Policy Forum, February 17, 2021
New York court rules against Students for Justice in Palestine in Fordham case by Melissa Weiss, Jewish Insider, December 23, 2020 (see also: Appeals court overturns ruling forcing Fordham University to recognize SJP chapter, Jewish News Syndicate, December 22, 2020)
The decision overturned a 2019 ruling that forced Fordham University to recognize the group as an official campus organization
Politico Plays Defense for Anti-Israel Groups by Sean Durns, The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA), October 30, 2020
On Oct. 21, 2020 Politico magazine reported that “the Trump administration is considering declaring that several prominent international NGOs — including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam — are anti-Semitic and that governments should not support them.” The ruling, Politico reporter Nahal Toosi wrote, would come from the U.S. State Department. Yet instead of providing readers with the troubling background of these organizations, Politico played defense for them.
Video: A Deep Dive Into the Radical Anti-Israel Group ‘IfNotNow’ (9’58”), Ami Horowitz, The Daily Wire, October 7, 2020
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine NGO Network, NGO Monitor, January 2020
NGO Monitor has published a series of reports detailing 8 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization. These include Addameer, Al-Dameer, Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCI-P), Health Work Committees (HWC), Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC), Union of Health Work Committees (UHWC), and Union of Palestinian Women Committees (UPWC).
A Selective Opponent of ‘Settlers’ by Eugene Kontorovich, The Wall Street Journal, January 14, 2020
Human Rights Watch’s Sara Leah Whitson has one standard for Israel, another for Armenia.
Study: Amnesty International’s anti-Israel bias extends to overlap with BDS by Eldad Beck, Israel Hayom, December 23, 2019 (see also Amnesty International – from bias to obsession by David Collier, December 22, 2019)
Report commissioned by UK-based Jewish Human Rights Watch group details an alarming rate of anti-Israel “obsession” on the part of position-holders who are also identified with pro-Palestinian and pro-BDS agendas.
Who can speak for American Jews against anti-Semitism? Not the ADL by Jonathan S. Tobin, Jewish News Syndicate, November 27, 2019
While British Jewry has pulled together against the threat of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party, American Jews seem more focused on partisan grudges then on combating hate.
How BDS Mainstreamed Antisemitism on the American Campus — and Beyond [on Students for Justice in Palestine] by Adam Milstein, The Algemeiner, November 5, 2019
The Flawed Human Rights Watch Report on Gaza by Geoffrey S. Corn and Rachel E. VanLandingham, Lawfare Blog, June 26, 2019
Brother where art thou? A call to join the defense of Israel’s right to exist by Ariel Bem, The Times of Israel, May 19, 2019
On a visited to US colleges with Reservists on Duty, I found not only anti-Zionism, but also anti-Semitism in the mainstream
The ACLU’s Shameful Role in Promoting Antisemitism by David E. Bernstein, The Volokh Conspiracy, March 11, 2019
By falsely portraying state anti-BDS laws as requiring “loyalty oaths,” the ACLU is appealing to latent and blatant antisemitism.
Not So Jewish, Not For Peace by Joshua Muravchik, Commentary, March 2019
How Jewish Voice for Peace falsifies Judaism and glorifies terrorism. A deep dive.
Legal Scholar: Anti-Israel Ideology Pushes ACLU to Undercut Anti-Discrimination Norms It Had Established, TheTower.org, February 12, 2019 (see also For the ACLU, Antipathy to Israel Trumps Antidiscrimination by Eugene Kontorovich, The Wall Street Journal, February 11, 2019; link for WSJ subscribers only)
How Terrorists, NGOs Promoting BDS Work Together to Attack Israel By Aaron Kliegman, The Washington Free Beacon, February 5, 2019 (see also report, Terrorists in Suits: The Ties Between NGOs promoting BDS and Terrorist Organizations, Israel Ministry of Strategic Affairs, February 2019)
Why has Human Rights Watch become an anti-Israel activist group? by David May and Jonathan Schanzer, Washington Examiner, February 4, 2019
Canary Mission’s effectiveness against BDS by Edwin Black, Weekly Blitz, January 3, 2019
Palestinian Aid Groups Perpetuate the Conflict by Odelia Azoulay, Israel Hayom, November 29, 2018
Nashville’s Jewish Community Schadenfreude by Gregg Roman, Jewish News Syndicate, May 23, 2018
As a JCRC alumnus and the current director of the Philadelphia-based think-tank, the Middle East Forum, I was doubly dismayed when I found that the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Nashville is scheduled to host a representative of one such occasional ally: the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
Pro-Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Shaft Palestinians and Human Rights by Bassam Tawil, Gatestone Institute, May 21, 2018
Israeli group seeks ICC action against Hamas for using children as human shields by Yair Altman, Jewish News Syndicate, April 25, 2018
Shurat Hadin Israel Law Center names three senior Hamas figures as war criminals, says Hamas should be made to answer in International Criminal Court; Case based on Rome Statute clause stating recruiting children under 15 to militant groups is war crime.
Group [IfNotNow] plans to infiltrate Jewish summer camps to turn campers against Israel by Miriam Elman, Legal Insurrection, April 8, 2018
How the ADL Used Fake Stats To Minimize Islamic Terror by Daniel Greenfield, FrontPageMag.com, March 6, 2018
Video: Breaking the Silence Executive Director Avner Gvaryahu (23’52”) interviewed on BBC’s HARDtalk by Stephen Sackur, February 15, 2018
Students for Justice in Palestine Unmasked by Dan Diker and Jamie Berk, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, November 2017 [PDF]
The Embassy, the NIF, and the U.S.-Israeli Jewish divide by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, October 24, 2017
Jewish Voice for Peace Is Spreading Hate on Campus. It’s Time for Jewish Academics to Speak Up. by Jarrod Tanny, Tablet, July 5, 2017
PA abuses goodwill of International Red Cross (ICRC) to pay salaries to Palestinian terrorists in Israeli prisons by Itamar Marcus and Maurice Hirsch, Adv., Palestinian Media Watch, June 22, 2017
What’s Happened to the Anti-Defamation League? by Charles Jacobs, The Algemeiner, June 4, 2017
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund and BDS by Armin Rosen, Tablet, May 24, 2017
An Open Letter to Ed Asner on Israel by Jack Saltzberg, The Algemeiner, April 30, 2017
On the true nature of Jewish Voice for Peace
The Politics of Netanyahu vs. Germany by Michael J. Koplow, Israel Policy Forum, Matzav Blog, April 27, 2017
On the German Foreign Minister’s meetings with Israeli NGOs Breaking the Silence and B’Tselem
Israel’s Wrongheaded Retreat on BDS by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, April 26, 2017
Israel should have denied a visa to Human Rights Watch Israel and Palestine director, Omar Shakir, because “people are policy.”
There Must Be Limits to American Jewish Community’s ‘Big Tent’ [on Jewish Voice for Peace] by Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS.org, April 14, 2017
Amnesty apology for Israeli ban post by Joshua Levi, The Australian Jewish News, February 9, 2017
Amnesty International Australia has been forced to apologise after it justified the fact that a number of countries ban Israeli passport-holders because “of the atrocities committed by the Israel Defence Force”.
‘Jewish Voice for Peace’ to Host Convicted Palestinian Terrorist at Upcoming National Conference by Lea Speyer, The Algemeiner, February 6, 2017
EU Funding to NGOs Active in Anti-Israel BDS Campaigns, NGO Monitor, January 23, 2017
Jew-hatred dressed as ‘’justice’ by John Parazzo, FrontPageMag.com, January 17, 2017
A look at the hate group Students for Justice in Palestine.
World Vision’s Decades-Long Hate Campaign Against Israel by Luke Moon, The Tower Issue #45, December 2016
It shouldn’t have been terribly surprising when an employee of the Christian charity World Vision was charged with funneling money to terrorists. The organization has been on a crusade against Israel for decades.
The Palestinians’ unsporting and illegal ‘football war’ against Israel by Eugene Kontorovich, The Washington Post, September 26, 2016
Adalah, the New Israel Fund and BDS: The mystery of the Black Lives platform by Gerald M. Steinberg, The Times of Israel, August 23, 2016
Meet the NGO Writing Israeli Policy in the West Bank [Regavim] by Emma Goldman, Israel Policy Forum, Matzav Blog, August 15, 2016
Where Palestinian Aid Really Goes by Jonathan S. Tobin, Commentary, August 11, 2016
What EU Wants Israelis Not to Know by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, July 14, 2016
An organization that gets most of its funding from a foreign government isn’t a “nongovernmental” organization at all, but an instrument of that government’s foreign policy.
Why Critics of Israel’s New NGO “Transparency Law” Are Wrong by Eugene Kontorovich, Tablet, July 13, 2016
Pro-BDS group blames Israel for US deaths by Tal Polon, Arutz Sheva/Israel National News, July 11, 2016 (see also ZOA Letter to NYU President: Students for Justice in Palestine’s Anti-Semitic Facebook Post)
The New York University chapter of Palestinian group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) has accused Israel of complicity in recent shootings of African-Americans by U.S. police.
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International Have a Problem With Israel by Jeff Robbins, Observer, June 17, 2016
When it comes to the Jewish State, NGO bigs are as biased as the UN
Who is really behind the SJP organization? by Max Samarov and Philippe Assouline, San Diego Jewish World, June 8, 2016
Who’s Really Driving “Grassroots” Anti-Israel Activism in America? by Max Samarov and Philippe Assouline, Medium, May 10, 2016 [on American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)]
What NGOs Think About Israel Matters by Sarah E. Yerkes, Israel Policy Forum, Matzav Blog, May 3, 2016
Freedom House drinks anti-Israel Kool-Aid by Jennifer Rubin, The Washington Post, April 26
Refugees Expose ‘Rights Groups’ by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, April 4, 2016
How Non-Governmental Organizations Became a Weapon in the War on Israel by Gerald Steinberg, The Tower, Issue 35, February 2016
One of the biggest controversies in Israel today is over the role of foreign-funded NGOs in influencing the country’s domestic politics. As always, you need to follow the money.
Breaking the Silence Is No Human Rights Organization – and I Should Know by Natan Sharansky, Haaretz, January 31, 2016
Why Israel’s NGO Bill Is Vital by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, January 22, 2016
The Problem is the EU, not the NIF by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, January 19, 2016
Soros-Linked Human Rights Group Calls on Businesses to Boycott Israel by Adam Kredo, The Washington Free Beacon, January 18, 2016
Why The NGO Bill Does And Doesn’t Matter by Michael J. Koplow, Israel Policy Forum, January 14, 2016
NGO Transparency, Jerusalem Post editorial, December 29, 2015
How the Israel Fixation Feeds Terror by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, December 10, 2015
Who’s Funding Pro-Palestinian Israeli ‘Human Rights’ Groups? by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, August 27, 2015
Europe’s NGO Jihad Against Israel by Susan Warner, Gatestone Institute, August 27, 2015
The NGO Campaign to Destroy Israel by Denis MacEoin, Gatestone Institute, July 17, 2015
Amnesty’s Reports on Hamas Refute Its Allegations Against Israel by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, May 28, 2015
The Latest “Breaking the Silence” Report Isn’t Journalism. It’s Propaganda. by Matti Friedman, Mosaic, May 14, 2015. See also:
- Curbing the self-loathing Jewish defamers of Israel by Isi Leibler, Jerusalem Post, June 18, 2015
- Israeli Soldiers Call ‘Breaking the Silence’ Report on Gaza War a ‘Total Lie’ by David Daoud, The Algemeiner, May 8, 2015
- New “Breaking the Silence” Report Maliciously Defames Israel by Dore Gold, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, May 5, 2015
Why Is Israel Criticized [by Human Rights Watch] for Helping Nepal Earthquake Victims? By Steven A. Cook, Newsweek, May 4, 2015
Oxfam and other NGOs lie, blame Israel for restrictions on Gaza rebuilding that don’t exist by Elder of Ziyon, April 14, 2015
NGOs and the Destructive Water Campaign Against Israel, NGO Monitor, March 22, 2015
Controversial ‘New Israel Fund’ Received More Than $1 Million From US State Department by Edwin Black, The Algemeiner, March 9, 2015
World Vision: Strategies for Fund-Raising and Support for Hamas by Dexter Van Zile, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, March 1, 2015
Presumed Guilty Until Proven Innocent by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, January 28, 2015 (B’Tselem)
Cooptation, Divest This, December 23, 2014: On Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and others using unrelated horrors and tragedies to harangue Israel
Israel-Bashing from Amnesty International by Arnold Ahlert, FrontPageMag.com, November 10, 2014
On Many Campuses, Hate is Spelled SJP by Daniel Mael, The Tower #19, October 2014
They advocate for Israel’s destruction, admire terrorists, and are making Jewish students feel unsafe on campuses across the country. They’re Students for Justice in Palestine—and they’re a huge problem
Does Human Rights Watch Understand the Nature of Prejudice? by Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, September 21, 2014
A powerful advocate appears to believe that anti-Semitism is sparked in part by Jewish behavior.
Think Tanks for Sale or Rent by Daniel Pipes, National Review Online, September 15, 2014
Israel’s Predetermined Guilt and the Irrelevant Left by Seth Mandel, Commentary, September 11, 2014
Foreign Powers Buy Influence at Think Tanks by Eric Lipton, Brooke Williams and Nicholas Confessore, New York Times, September 6, 2014
The useful idiots of the BDS campaign by Ben-Dror Yemini, Ynetnews.com, June 11, 2014
Breaking the Silence activists have become part of ‘Durban strategy,’ which aims to destroy the State of Israel.
Three Israeli NGOs that Don’t Want Israel to Reach its 67th Birthday, NGO Monitor, May 1, 2014
An Alternative Model for Pro-Israel Liberals by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, March 28, 2014
Oxfam Report by Shurat HaDin, Israel Law Center, March 2014
A Shurat HaDin investigation indicates that even as Oxfam was attacking Scarlett Johansson and Israel for violating international law, the organization was itself violating both international law and the laws of many sovereign nations. Specifically, Oxfam’s involvement with two Palestinian NGOs — the Union of Health Workers Committees (UHWC) and the Union of Agricultural Workers Committees (UAWC) — violates numerous laws against giving material and financial aid to terrorist organizations.
Comparison of Amnesty coverage of Syria and Israel, Elder of Ziyon, March 10, 2014
The European war on Israel’s courts by Anne Herzberg, Jerusalem Post, March 1, 2014 (full report: Exploiting Justice: How the UK, EU, & Norway Fund NGO Lawfare vs. Israel, NGO Monitor, February 20, 2014)
Amnesty’s incitement against Israel by Elder of Ziyon, December 4, 2013
A Different Yom Kippur Appeal: What You Can Do for Peace by Avi Meyerstein, Times of Israel, September 13, 2013 [about the Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP)]
Israel’s Checkpoint Princesses by Inna Lazareva, Al-Monitor/Israel Pulse, September 5, 2013 [about Machsom Watch (Checkpoint Watch)]
International NGOs: “Global Conscience” or Powerful Political Actors? by Dr. Rephael Ben-Ari, Institute for Contemporary Affairs-Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, July 15, 2013
Human Rights Watch Protects the Arab Tyrants by Gerald M. Steinberg, Middle East Quarterly, Summer 2013
International Nongovernmental Organizations: “Global Conscience” or Powerful Political Actors? by Dr. Rephael Ben-Ari, Jerusalem Issue Briefs Vol. 13, No. 20, July 15, 2013
Israel’s vibrant democracy by Gerald M. Steinberg, Times of Israel, February 19, 2012
NGOs in Israel 101: Background to the Debate and FAQs, NGO Monitor, November 15, 2011 [see also chart of NGOs funded by foreign governments]
Why do human rights groups ignore Palestinians’ war of words? by Robert L. Bernstein, Washington Post, September 27, 2011
NGOs vs. Israel by Ben-Dror Yemini, Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2011 [pdf]
The B’Tselem Witch Trials by Noah Pollak, Commentary, May 2011
NGOs vs. Goldstone: NGO Monitor Analysis, NGO Monitor, April 11, 2011
Goldstone’s recantation exposes the hypocrisy of anti-Israel ‘human rights’ organizations by Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post, April 6, 2011
The UN Hatefest is Coming to New York by Jason Edelstein, New York Post, March 29, 2011
Breaking What Silence? A Critical Reading of Allegations from “Breaking the Silence,” NGO Monitor, February 1, 2011
Statistics fun: Freedom House vs. HRW by Elder of Zion, January 16, 2011
HRW [Human Rights Watch] in 2010: More Bias, Even Less Credibility, NGO Monitor, January 11, 2010
Agents of Influence by Caroline B. Glick, Jerusalem Post, January 7, 2011
Mapping the Organizational Sources of the Global Delegitimization Campaign against Israel in the UK by Ehud Rosen, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, December 2010 [pdf]
The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is a network founded by extreme American leftists and part of the campaign to delegitimize Israel, The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, December 7, 2010 [also video]
Israel Advocacy and the IRS by Matthew M. Hausman, Jewish Policy Center, November 17, 2010
Human Rights in the Middle East by Robert L. Bernstein, The Shirley and Leonard Goldstein Lecture on Human Rights, University of Nebraska at Omaha, November 10, 2010
Some Rights Causes Are More Equal Than Others by Johanna Markind, Pajamas Media, November 9, 2010
Breaking What Silence? Wall Street Journal editorial, October 20, 2010
A hypocritical prize nomination by Michael Dickson, Jerusalem Post, October 18, 2010 (on the group “Breaking the Silence” being nominated for the Sakharov Prize, honoring the memory of the late Soviet dissident and Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights activist)
The war on de-legitimization by Gerald M. Steinberg, Ynetnews.com, August 12, 2010
No Media Hook Too Crooked for B’tselem, HonestReporting, July 5, 2010
Ethical Guidelines for the New Israel Fund, NGO Monitor, June 22, 2010
The New Israel Fund claims to love Israel, but gives millions of dollars to groups that delegitimize it by NGO Monitor, May 14, 2010 [Jerusalem Post ad]
Human Rights Watch Goes to War Over Israel: The Brutal Inside Story by Benjamin Birnbaum, The New Republic, April 27, 2010
Ben-Dror Yemini: The Dark Side of Amnesty International, Solomonia, April 6, 2010
Perilous Games, Palestinian Lives, Nicola Macnaughton’s blog, February 17, 2010
Amnesia International: Forgetting the Real Culprits in Gaza by Dimitri Teresh, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, January 19, 2010
Rights Watchdog, Lost in the Mideast by Robert L. Bernstein, New York Times, October 19, 2009 (on Human Rights Watch, by its founder)