Professor Gerald Steinberg, President

Recent academic publications include "Europe's Failed Middle East Policies"; "Soft Powers Play Hardball: NGOs Wage War against Israel ", and "The UN, the ICJ and the Separation Barrier: War by Other Means" (Israel Law Review). He is also completing research on human rights and politics during the 2006 Lebanon war, funded by the prestigious Israel Science Foundation.

NGO-related articles by Professor Steinberg:

• “An invitation to meet” Jerusalem Post, July 10, 2011
• “Netanyahu on the battlefield of the narrative wars” Washington Jewish Week, June 29, 2011
• “Amnesty International is losing its way” Jerusalem Post, June 14, 2011
• “Amnesty Internationals moral bankruptcy” Asia Times, June 13, 2011
• “Nakba myth stands in the way of peace” Canadian Jewish News, May 26, 2011
• “Which NIF is coming to Australia?”
  Australian Jewish News, May 13, 2011
• "The human rights sham” Ynet, May 5, 2011
• “Jewish, democratic and independent” Jerusalem Post, May 5, 2011
• “Judge Goldstone vs. the Goldstone Report?”, Washington Jewish Week, March 23, 2011
• “Transparency for NGOs is not anti-democratic”, Haaretz, February 23, 2011
• “Human Rights Watch embraces alleged terrorist”, Jewish Week (New York), February 18, 2011
• “NGO inquiry committee has wrong focus, framework”, JTA, January 12, 2011  
• “Europe needs a parliamentary inquiry on NGO funding”, Jerusalem Post, January 9, 2011  
• “Human Rights vs. Delegitimization: A Jewish Inquiry”, December 6, 2010  
• “Exposing the human rights facade”, Jerusalem Post, November 25, 2010
• “Turning the tables on BDS”, Jerusalem Post, November 7, 2010  
• “Margaret Atwood duped by NGO propaganda”, Canadian Jewish News, November 4, 2010  
• “Canadian journalists aid demonization campaign”, Canadian Jewish News, October 7, 2010  
• "EU Funding for political NGOs: Examining soft power impact on Arab-Israel peace efforts”, Europe’s World, September 23, 2010  
• "Selling Out to Soros", New York Post, September 13, 2010
• Will 5771 be the year of pragmatic peace?", Canadian Jewish News, September 08, 2010
• "Artificial peace messages", Ynetnews.com. September 01, 2010
• "NGO transparency will protect democracy", Jerusalem Post, August 19, 2010
• "The war on de-legitimization", Ynetnews.com, August 12, 2010
• "The confrontational politics of conversion", Canadian Jewish News, August 12, 2010
• "Times ‘Expose’ On West Bank Left Out Half The Story", The New York Jewish Week, August 10, 2010
• "The real danger to Israel's civic society" (with Asher Fredman), Haaretz, August 06, 2010
• "Isolation as political warfare", bitterlemons-international.org, August 05, 2010
• "Half the truth that fits to print," Jerusalem Post, July 11, 2010
• "The Gaza flotilla and the dirty NGO war," Canadian Jewish News, July 8, 2010
• "A code of conduct for the New Israel Fund," Jerusalem Post, June 27, 2010
• "The war against Israel," The Wall Street Journal, June 7, 2010
• "Not Quite Free," Jerusalem Post, April 13, 2010
• "Israel’s right to self-defense," The Wall Street Journal, February 23, 2010
• "Israel and the illusion of international justice," Haaretz, January 15, 2010
• "Resetting Europe-Israel relations," Jerusalem Post, January 11, 2010
• "Day to mourn, not celebrate, human rights," The Australian, December 14, 2009
• "Manipulating the marketplace of ideas," Haaretz, November 27, 2009
• "UN smears Israeli self-defense as 'war crimes'," The Wall Street Journal, September 16, 2009
• "From Gulag Liberators to Saudi Retainers," National Review Online, July 21, 2009
• "NGOs and the Durban Review Conference: History Repeating Itself," World Jewish Congress Research Institute, Policy Study 32, September 2008.
• "An NGO black hole in the Foreign Ministry," Jerusalem Post, July 08, 2008.
• "Analysis: Terror’s predictable spontaneity," Jerusalem Post, July 3, 2008.
• "Funding Israel´s Detractors," Wall Street Journal Europe, May 06, 2008.
• Europe’s Hidden Hand: EU Funding for Political NGOs in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, NGO Monitor Monograph Series, April 2008.
• "Durban 2009: Will the NGOs Join Canada?" Canadian Jewish News, March 20, 2008.
• "U.S. Image Problem; Watching Human Rights," International Herald Tribune, March 9 2008.
• "Soft Powers Play Hardball,"Israel Affairs, Vol.12, No.4, October 2006, pp.748–768.
• "The Centrality of NGOs in the Durban Strategy," Yale Israel Journal, Summer 2006.
• "Monitoring the Political Role of NGOs," Jerusalem Viewpoints, JCPA, June 1, 2003.

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