• Website: www.mcc.org
  • Founded in 1920 and based in Akron, PA, with offices located throughout the USA and Canada, the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) describes itself as "a relief, service, and peace agency of the North American Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches."
  • The organization's overseas work includes development work such as education, health and agriculture, peace and justice issues, relief work and job creation.
  • In the fiscal year 2002, the MCC's income totaled over US$60 million mainly from individual donations. Other sources include relief sales, thrift shops, and donations of food grains. The grain donation is matched by the Canadian government through the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) by as much as four-to-one ($4 for every $1 of grain donated).
  • MCC's activities and publications reveal a highly politicized and anti-Israel agenda, including campaigning against the Israeli security barrier while ignoring Palestinian terror and providing links to highly politicized NGOs, including PENGON and the "Stop the Wall Campaign."
  • MCC's "Peace Office Newsletter" produced by the organization's Middle East leadership, contains highly vitriolic attacks on Israel, while claiming that the views of the authors do not necessarily reflect those of the MCC.
  • Newsletter contains contributions from radical anti-Israel NGOs, including the Palestinian Authority affiliated Applied Research Institute and Jeff Halper from the highly politicized Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, with other links to highly politicized NGOs Al-Haq, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, the Electronic Intifada, the Stop the Wall Campaign, LAW - a leading NGO at Durban conference, Al-Dameer, a Palestinian prisoners' rights organization, and al-Awda, an NGO promoting the Palestinian 'right of return' and destruction of Israel.
  • For NGO Monitor's report on MCC, click  here