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"Notorious UN Committee Hosting Anti-Israel Event at European Parliament "
Anne Bayefsky, EyeontheUN.org
August 28, 2007
The UN Committee scheduled to hold a virulently anti-Israel meeting on European Parliament premises in Brussels August 30-31, 2007 is no stranger to controversy. For the last thirty years, the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) has hosted events around the world, all of which have a common theme. Israel is the problem. Palestinian "resistance" and return is the solution – UN-eze for promoting terrorism and the end of a Jewish state. This is the same UN Committee notorious for prominently displaying a Mideast map at UN headquarters missing the state of Israel. The practice was discontinued in 2006 after being photographed and disseminated by EYEontheUN.
"Europe to host NGO attack on Israel"
Gerald Steinberg, The Jerusalem Post
August 23, 2007
For years, the United Nations and the European Union have provided major funding and assistance for radical Palestinian NGOs and their supporters, allowing them to exploit the rhetoric of human rights, "civil society," international law and peace to promote the opposite. An illustration of the damage that results from this combination is provided by the meeting, scheduled for the European Parliament in Brussels on August 30-31, to be run by the UN´s Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. This committee is "the main UN forum where all NGOs interested in the Palestine issue can meet."
Jerusalem Post Editorial: Stop Durban II
The Jerusalem Post
August 23, 2007
"Let's say you wanted to hold a conference to promote peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Wouldn't it be a good idea to fairly represent the Israeli point of view? Might it be counterproductive if the conference were to degenerate into an anti-Israel hate fest? What if this did not happen by accident, but by design? You might conclude that the purpose of a conference like that would not be to promote peace at all, but to build the case and groundwork for Israel's destruction. And you might therefore be surprised were you to discover that such a conference were being sponsored not by a virulently anti-Israel organization, but by such august bodies as the United Nations and the European Parliament.
"Human Rights vs. Politics: B´tselem Goes to Washington"
Gerald M. Steinberg, Jewish Exponent - Philadelphia
August 09, 2007
B´tselem is one of the most powerful and controversial lobbies in Israel, and plans to open an office in Washington will increase the debate on this NGO´s activities. While using human-rights rhetoric and couching its statements in moral tones, B´tselem has a focus that is primarily political. It was founded "to change Israeli policy in the occupied territories," and is similar to Peace Now, which, not coincidentally, also has a large U.S. branch dedicated to increasing pressure on Israel.
"Burning bridges"
Seth Freedman, The Guardian
July 26, 2007
Excerpts: ...Jeff Halper, the man behind ICAHD, is a far more sinister figure in terms of the damage he does to the chances of rapprochement between the moderates in Israel and those on the Palestinian side of the divide. A supporter of the one-state solution - in other words, the total elimination of Israel in its current form - Halper travels the world promoting his message of "Israeli apartheid" and calling for heavy sanctions to be implemented against the Jewish State. Despite his highly critical take on Israeli government policies, he and his group are allowed to flourish and promote their biased views, unrestricted by intervention on the part of the authorities. Clearly, he's as entitled to his views as the next man but, as a recent report by NGO-Monitor shows, the fact that the EU bankrolls his organisation is a somewhat more unjustifiable situation. According to NGO-Monitor's Dan Kosky, "EU money is being spent in total opposition to actual EU policy, which is based on support for the Middle East peace process, clearly defined by the road map and a two-state solution." When European taxpayers' money is so casually doled out to anti-Israeli groups such as ICAHD, it is little wonder that many Israeli citizens continue to question the impartiality of the EU and its officials.
NY Sun editorial condemns HRW for using anniversary of Hizbullah kidnappings as oppourtunity to slam Israel, engage in typical 'moral equivalence'
The New York Sun
July 12, 2007
In a July 12 editorial, the New York Sun slams Human Rights Watch for exploiting the 1-year anniversary of Hezbollah's kidnapping of Israeli soldiers as an opportunity to criticize Israel: "… Human Rights Watch, went so far as to mark the anniversary of the capture of Goldwasser and Regev with a press release criticizing Israel for responding to the hostage taking with what Human Rights Watch charged were 'arbitrary arrests.' Human Rights Watch admonished Israel by asserting that 'illegality by one side does not justify illegality by the other,' an all too typical example of moral equivalence..."
"Human Rights Watch shows more balance, but has it changed its agenda?"
Gerald M. Steinberg, Ynet News
July 10, 2007
Responding to the growing criticism of its biases, Human Rights Watch, an NGO superpower based in New York, has published two statements which are unusually "balanced." The first is a report -"Indiscriminate Fire: Palestinian Rocket Attacks on Israel and Israeli Artillery Shelling in the Gaza Strip" - and is a sharp contrast to last year´s absurdly skewed report on the war with Hizbullah ("Fatal Strikes: Israel´s Indiscriminate Attacks Against Civilians in Lebanon".) The criticism of the Palestinian attacks, including terms such as "war crimes" and "violations of international law" is an important step in correcting the years of denial. The second item is a statement "Gaza/Israel/Lebanon: Release the Hostages," which is a call by HRW for the release of Gilad Shalit, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev and condemnation of their treatment by Hamas and Hizbullah, after a year of embarrassing silence.
"One Step Forward?"
Gerald Steinberg, The New York Sun
July 09, 2007
Responding to the growing criticism of its biases, particularly in The New York Sun, Human Rights Watch released a 147-page report on July 1 which they say is "balanced." The headline of the report, "Indiscriminate Fire: Palestinian Rocket Attacks on Israel and Israeli Artillery Shelling in the Gaza Strip," is a sharp contrast to HRW´s skewed report last year on the war with Hezbollah, "Fatal Strikes: Israel´s Indiscriminate Attacks Against Civilians in Lebanon." The inclusion of criticism of the Palestinian attacks, including terms such as "war crimes" and "violations of international law" are important steps for HRW to take since...
Jerusalem Post Editorial Criticizes Amnesty International, other NGO over handling of African Refugees in Israel
The Jerusalem Post
July 09, 2007
An editorial in the Jerusalem Post today defends the Israeli government's decision to return African refugees who crossed into Israeli over the Egyptian border back to Egypt. The editorial criticizes Amnesty International and other unnamed NGOs for their condemnation of Israeli’s policy, calling attention to the need for the Egyptian government to take responsibility for the fate of these refugees.
Op-ed: Biased Amnesty again goes after the “usual suspects,” Israel and the US
Dr. Laina Farhat-Holzman, Santa Cruz Sentinel
July 08, 2007
An Op-ed in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, which criticizes recent UK Boycott activities against Israel, singles out Amnesty International for its bias against Israel and America: "Why does Amnesty International, for example, go after the usual suspects — Israel and the United States — while tiptoeing around those countries that either keep them out or threaten them if they report [such as Burma, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Iran]? Countries that kill investigators or whistle blowers largely get a pass — or rare mention — from Amnesty. This renders Amnesty's reporting quite skewed as a result. One does not get a balanced view of human rights abuses around the world from their reports."
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