• Website: www.arij.org
  • Founded in 1990, ARIJ is a "non-profit organization dedicated to promoting sustainable development in the occupied Palestinian territories and the self-reliance of the Palestinian people through greater control over their natural resources."
  • "The Institute works specifically to augment the local stock of scientific and technical knowledge and to introduce and devise more efficient methods of resource utilization and conservation, improved practices, and appropriate technology."
  • Individual project funders include the EU, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Canadian government's International Development Research Centre and USAID.
  • Member of the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Coalition (PGAAWC).
  • ARIJ takes a highly political and biased approach to its research. A December 2008 publication calls Jerusalem's mayor a "racist" who supports "ethnic cleansing." 
  • Labels its EC-funded project as, "Monitoring Israeli Colonizing Activities in the Palestinian West Bank & Gaza."  Project documents use highly charged language such as "colonies", "transfer", and "land grab". A "historical" summary on the project website claims that in 1948, Israel took four-fifths "more land than the United Nations' 1947 Partition Plan had proposed," omitting any reference to Arab aggression and rejectionism.   
  • Its political agenda is demonstrated in its involvement in the Divestment campaign.