Olga Deutsch on ILTV on European Funding
Olga Deutsch, NGO Monitor Europe Desk Director, discusses European funding for pro-BDS organizations.
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Funders: | Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Secretariat: Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, and the Netherlands |
Start date: | 1 Jan 1988 |
End date: | 26 May 2017 |
Olga Deutsch, NGO Monitor Europe Desk Director, discusses European funding for pro-BDS organizations.
Denmark is one of four governments that funds politicized NGOs in the Arab-Israeli conflict through the IHL Secretariat. A number of these groups incite violence, have ties to terrorist organizations, and are leaders of BDS campaigns against Israel.
The Danish government will announce an additional $8.3 million to the IHL Secretariat, a joint funding mechanism that distributes a large portion of its budget as core funding to radical Palestinian NGOs that incite violence and terrorism, are active in BDS campaigns, and engage in legal warfare against Israel.
A summary of the recent activities of NGOs that receive core funding from the Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Secretariat.
As shown by NGO Monitor research, a report published today by a coalition of French and Palestinian pro-BDS organizations that calls on the French government to “pressure” French financial institutions to divest from Israeli banks, communication, insurance, and utility companies, is funded by the Swedish government.
An analysis of Swiss direct and indirect funding of politicized NGOs active in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
NGO Monitor welcomes today's vote in the Swiss Parliament calling on the government to cease funding groups that support BDS and antisemitism.
Gerald Steinberg describes the important milestone reached in the passing of a Swiss motion that would cease governmental funding of NGOs that support BDS and antisemitism.
After NGO Monitor published a report on Swiss funding to the IHL Secretariat, Switerland seems to have updated its funding page to reflect the previous amount and date, seemingly rescinding the latest increase.
The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) has denied requests from a Swiss resident and from NGO Monitor to provide public information about Swiss government funding to the Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Secretariat (the IHL Secretariat), a Ramallah-based framework that distributes 56% of its budget to NGOs that advocate for BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions) campaigns against Israel.