Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS)NGO Monitor April 07, 2010
NGOs involved in BDS and their funders (partial list):
*The NDC mechanism is funded by Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands; 2008-9
NGO
|
Primary Funders |
Funding Amount |
Central Involvement |
Addameer
|
Sweden |
€207,000 (2009)
|
Signatory to 2005 BDS call (http://www.bdsmovement.net/) |
| NDC* |
$250,000 |
| Al Haq |
Netherlands |
$461,201 (2008) |
BDS is part of mission statement |
| Diakonia |
$204,134 (2008) |
| NDC* |
$150,000 |
| Norway, Ireland |
n/a |
| Al Mezan |
Sweden |
€105,000 (2007-9) |
Signatory to 2005 BDS call (http://www.bdsmovement.net/) |
| NDC* |
$500,000 |
| Norway, EU |
n/a |
| Alternative Information Center |
Ireland, Sweden (via Diakonia), Catalan gov’t |
n/a |
“Yes to Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Against Israel” |
| Alternatives (Montreal) |
Canada |
$C2 million 2008-10 (halted?) |
Signatory to 2005 BDS call (http://www.bdsmovement.net/) |
| Applied Research Institute Jerusalem (PA) |
EU |
€374,174 (2009-11) |
Signatory to 2005 BDS call (http://www.bdsmovement.net/) |
| Spain |
€98,347 (2009) |
| Switzerland |
n/a |
| Badil (PA) |
NDC* |
$100,000 |
Leader of BDS movement |
| Christian Aid |
UK, Ireland, EU |
combined €22 million 2007-8 |
“Partner supporting” calling for BDS and “pursuing parastata Zionist orgs” |
| Coalition of Women for Peace |
EU |
€247,954 (2005-7) |
Runs “Who profits?” website, which is central in the Norwegian BDS campaign |
| NIF |
$285,509 (2006-8) |
| Defence of Children International -Palestine Section |
Sweden |
€316,000 (2009[1]) |
Signatory to 2005 BDS call (http://www.bdsmovement.net/) |
| NDC* |
$450,000 |
| Diakonia |
Sweden |
$42.7 million (2008) |
Advocates for divestment strategy against Israel, lobbies against EU-Israel upgrade |
| EU |
n/a |
Human Rights Watch
|
Soros’ Open Society Institute |
$2,353,895 (2007-8) |
Supported Caterpillar boycott, Call for cuts in U.S. foreign aid to Israel |
| Ford Foundation |
$445,000 (2009-11) |
| Netherlands via Oxfam-NOVIB |
$987,818 (2007-8) |
| Israel Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) |
Spain |
€105,000 (2009) |
Leader in BDS activism |
| NDC* |
$80,000 |
| KAIROS |
Canada.
Funding was recently halted. |
$1,575,966 (2008) |
Main supporter of church divestment campaign |
Machsom Watch
|
EU |
€251,650 (2007-2010) |
Norwegian Pension Fund divestment campaign |
| NIF |
$165,198 (2006-8) |
| Miftah |
EU |
$100,531 (2008) |
Signatory to 2005 BDS call (http://www.bdsmovement.net/) |
| Denmark |
$101,767 (2008) |
| Norway |
$129,870 (2008) |
| Mossawa |
NIF |
$517,642 (2006-8) |
Norwegian Pension Fund divestment campaign |
| EU |
€298,660 (2006-8) |
| UK |
n/a |
Norwegian Association of NGOs for Palestine (incl. Norwegian People's Aid)
|
Norway |
€57,000 (2008) |
Coordinates Norwegian Boycott Israel Campaign |
| USA |
€8,000 (2008) |
| Sweden, Netherlands |
n/a |
| Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO) |
NDC* |
$130,000 |
Leader of BDS movement
|
| Received France’s Human Rights Prize |
|
| Sabeel |
Sweden |
€76,000 (2006-8) |
Leader of global church divestment movement |
| Trocaire |
Ireland |
€23,499,837 (2008) |
Supports BDS movement, lobbies against EU-Israel upgrade, calls for review of arms export licenses |
| UK |
€640,682 (2008) |
| EU |
€1,698,692 (2008) |
| War on Want |
UK |
€256,000 (2008) |
Advocates for sanctions, including arms boycott |
| Ireland |
€77,000 (2008) |
| EU |
€266,000 (2008) |
[1]Grant shared with other NGOs; breakdown not provided.
Additional links
- Christian Peacemaker Teams, PALESTINE: CPT-Palestine endorses Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, April 19, 2010
- Central Conference of American Rabbis, CCAR Resolution on the 2009 Kairos Document, April 15, 2010
- Reut Institute, The Delegitimization Challenge: Creating a Political Firewall, March 2010
- Ronnie Fraser, The Academic Boycott of Israel: A Review of the Five-Year UK Campaign to Defeat It, JCPA post-Holocaust and Anti-Semitism project, No. 66, 2 March 2008.
- Anthony Julius and Professor Simon Schama, "John Berger is wrong: The call for a cultural boycott of Israel is banal, gestural and morally compromised", The Guardian, December 22, 2006.
- Jon Haber, "The Vampire's Kiss," Jerusalem Post, August 31, 2006.
- NGO Monitor: "NGOs Continue to Push Divestment/Boycott Campaigns ('Durban' strategy)", (Vol.4 No.5) - 17 January 2006
- “Presbyterian Church USA & Families of 9/11 Victims Delegations Meet with Hizbullah”, MEMRI, November 23, 2005
- NGO Monitor: "Update: Is the NGO-Led Divestment Effort Losing Support?", November 15, 2005
- Alexander Joffe and Asaf Romirowsky, "Academics against Israel", Jerusalem Post, October 19, 2005
- NGO Monitor: "NGOs and Divestment: Update", October 16, 2005
- NGO Monitor: "European Coordinating Committee of NGOs (ECCP) Meeting to Promote Boycotts and Divestment", October 6, 2005
- Gerald Steinberg, "EU-funded NGOs behind Almog lawsuit", Jerusalem Post, September 13, 2005
- Gerald Steinberg, "Canada's contribution to the divestment campaign", Canadian Jewish News, August 31, 2005 .
- NGO Monitor: "The Political Agenda of Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT)", August 22, 2005.
- Paul C Merkley, "It is About Israel's Right-to-Life", JewishComment.com, Sunday August 21, 2005
- NGO Monitor: "Mennonite Central Committee - Promoting Conflict via Divestment (Update)," August 4, 2005.
- Gerald Steinberg, "Terror and the divestment campaign," The Jerusalem Post, July 17, 2005.
- NGO Monitor: "NGOs Behind Anti-Israel Divestment Campaign," July 14 2005.
- NGO Monitor: "Sabeel - An Ecumenical Facade To Promote Hatred", July 10 2005.
- "One year on: Palestinian civil society calls for boycott, divestment and sanctions Appeal", Electronic Intifada, July 9 2005.
- "Three Faiths heads slam ACC", Jewish Chronicle, July 8, 2005.
- "United Church of Christ's Israel Divestment Action 'Troubling', Contravenes Months of Interfaith Dialogue," Anti-Defamation League, July 6 2005.
- Sam Ser,"Another US church mulls divestment," The Jerusalem Post, July 1 2005.
- Bar Ilan University's Site on Academic Boycotts Against Israel and their Implications
- Scholars for Peace in the Middle East
- Divestment Watch
- Boycott Watch
- "Report: UK Jews Blast Church Report on Divestiture from Israel," Ha'aretz, - May 27, 2005.
- Ruth Gledhill, "Church Urged to Reconsider Investments with Israel," Times (London), May 27, 2005.
- Gerald Steinberg, "The NGO Network and anti-Israel Boycotts: 'War by other Means,'" The Jerusalem Post, May 22, 2005.
- NGO Monitor: "The Central Role of PNGO in the AUT Academic Boycott," May 10 2005.
- Gerald Steinberg, "Boycotting the Jews," Wall Street Journal (European Edition), April 29, 2005.
- NGO Monitor: "HRW and Amnesty Promote Caterpillar Boycott," April 13, 2005.
- "Review of Caterpillar Sales to Israel is Rejected," (Link has expired) Reuters, April 13, 2005.
- Teresa Watanabe, "Jews Target Caterpillar Shareholder Effort," LA Times, April 13, 2005.
- Eugene Korn, "Stopping Sale of Products to Israel Isn't Path to Peace," Sun Times, April 11, 2005.
- Sam Ser, "500 Million Christians Urged to Divest," Jerusalem Post, February 23, 2005.
- "ADL Dismayed By World Council of Churches Decision to Pursue Divestment As Means to Punish Israel," ADL New York, February 22, 2005.
- "Letter from Rabbis for Human Rights Condemning Presbyterian Divestment and Boycott Campaign," July 26 2004.
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