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New Profile

- Website: New Profile
- New Profile claims to advocate the “basic human right to conscientious objection” and the demilitarization of Israeli society, and provides legal and other support for “refusers” (those who refuse to serve in the military) and their families.
- According to its charter, New Profile’s ideology is rooted in pacifism, “determined peace politics,” “feminism,” and opposition to “the use of military means to enforce Israeli sovereignty beyond the Green Line.”
- New Profile is funded directly by Quakers UK, SIVMO, Cordaid (Dutch church group, funded by Dutch gov't and EU), Coalition for Women for Peace (CWP), Gush Shalom, Zochrot, and other organizations and individuals.
- In addition, the organization is an active member of the NIF-funded Coalition of Women for Peace (CWP), an umbrella group that includes New Profile, Machsom Watch, Women in Black, and others. CWP “is committed to the struggle to end the occupation; to the full involvement of women in peace negotiations; to an end to the excessive militarization of Israeli society.”
- New Profile highlights the “close connections” with Bimkom, Gush Shalom, Yesh Gvul, and other NGOs, many of which are also funded by NIF. International partners include: Jewish Voice for Peace, Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, OxfamGB, Novib (Netherlands), Quakers (UK), Quakers UN (Geneva), Ecumenical Accompaniment Program in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) and the World Council of Churches (WCC), Sabeel and others (Annual Report, 22).
- On September 15, 2008, the Israeli Attorney General ordered an investigation into the NGO known as New Profile for incitement to avoid military service. According to media reports, the “main reason for the probe’s launch is apparently the fact that New Profile’s web site tells people what to say to IDF mental health officers to create the impression that they are psychologically unfit for service.”
- Zochrot – a radical Israeli NGO that campaigns for the Palestinian “right of return” and to “raise awareness” about “the Naqba” – ran a workshop at New Profile's Alternative Summer Camp. New Profile partnered again with Zochrot on Israel’s Independence Day in 2007, “active[ly] participat[ing]” in public commemorations of the “59th anniversary of the Naqba” (Annual Report, 19-20).
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