NGO Monitor Staff

Professor Gerald Steinberg, President

Prof. Gerald Steinberg is president of NGO Monitor and professor of Political Studies at Bar Ilan University, where he founded the Program on Conflict Management and Negotiation. His research interests include international relations, Middle East diplomacy and security, the politics of human rights and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), Israeli politics and arms control.

NGO Monitor was founded following the 2001 UN World Conference Against Racism in Durban South Africa, where powerful NGOs, claiming to promote human rights, hijacked the principles of morality and international law.  NGO Monitor provides information and analysis, promotes accountability, and supports discussion on the reports and activities of NGOs claiming to advance human rights and humanitarian agendas.

In 2013, Professor Steinberg accepted the prestigious Menachem Begin Prize on behalf of NGO Monitor, recognizing its “Efforts exposing the political agenda and ideological basis of humanitarian organizations that use the Discourse of human rights to discredit Israel and to undermine its position among the nations of the world.”

Steinberg is a member of Israel Council of Foreign Affairs; the Israel Higher-Education Council, Committee on Public Policy; advisory board of the Israel Law Review International, the research working group of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), and participates in the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism (ICCA). He also speaks at a variety of high-level government sessions and academic conferences worldwide.

Publications include “NGOs, Human Rights, and Political Warfare in the Arab-Israel Conflict" (Israel Studies); "The UN, the ICJ and the Separation Barrier: War by Other Means" (Israel Law Review); and Best Practices for Human Rights and Humanitarian NGO Fact-Finding (co-author), Nijhoff, Leiden, 2012.

His op-ed columns have been published in Wall St. Journal (Europe), Financial Times, Ha’aretz, International Herald Tribune, Jerusalem Post, and other publications. He has appeared as a commentator on the BBC, CBC, CNN, and NPR.

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Click here for an index of Professor Steinberg’s publications.

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Dov Yarden, Chief Executive Officer

Oversees the management of the organization, its staff, and its finances. Along with Professor Steinberg, he devises NGO Monitor’s strategy and directs the organization’s resource development activities.

Anne Herzberg, Legal Advisor

Is the author of NGO Monitor’s “NGO Lawfare: Ex¬ploitation of Courts in the Arab-Israeli Conflict” and the “International Law, Human Rights and NGOs series”, as well as co-author of Best Practices for Human Rights and Humanitarian NGO Fact-Finding and other academic articles. She is one of the leading experts on NGO “lawfare” cases against Israeli officials and companies doing business with Israel. She is invited regularly to speak at international conferences, and her op-eds have appeared in Ha’aretz, the Wall Street Journal, and the Jerusalem Post.

Publications by Anne Herzberg:

• NGO "Lawfare": Exploitation of Courts in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, NGO Monitor Monograph Series, September 2008.
• “Lawfare Against Israel,” Wall Street Journal - Europe, November 5, 2008.
• "Rule 61:  The Voice of the Victims Screams Out for Justice," 36 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 723 (1998)
• “The UN’s Integral Role in Palestinian Rejectionsm,” with Gerald Steinberg, InFocus Quarterly, Vol. 3 (Fall 2011)
• “Protecting Jews from Campus Antisemitism,” Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Book Review, March 21, 2011
• “An Activist’s Disappointing Evasions,” 22 Jewish Political Studies Review 141 (Fall 2010)
• “The Truth About Gaza,” with Jason Edelstein, Ynet News, October 28, 2011
• “The Legal War on Israel,” Ynet News, June 15, 2011
• “Human Rights Watch and the Selling of Gaddafi,” with Gerald Steinberg, Jerusalem Post, March 10, 2011
• “Civilian Casualties, Gaza and the Political War,” Jerusalem Post, February 1, 2011
• “Israel vs. the International Criminal Court,” Jewish Ideas Daily, November 29, 2010
• Presentation before Irish Parliament's Joint Committee on European Affairs, June 23, 2010
• Appearance on "Today with Pat Kenney," Irish National Radio, June 23, 2010
• Appearance on IBA TV program, Close Up, Februrary 10, 2010
• Appearance on Al Jazeera TV program, Inside Story, February 9, 2010
• “Hey, NIF! Criticism is a Democratic Right,” Jerusalem Post, February 4, 2010
• Interview: “Amid heated rhetoric, Israel’s reply to Goldstone suggests more civil approach,” Ron Kampeas, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, February 3, 2010
• “Israel and The Illusion of International Justice,” Anne Herzberg and Gerald Steinberg, Ha'aretz, January 15, 2010
• What ails Human Rights Watch?, Anne Herzberg, Jerusalem Post, October 21, 2009
• NGOs dominate Gaza fact-finding commissions, Anne Herzberg, Jerusalem Post, June 8, 2009
• Interview: Diplomacy is best hope in Spain investigation, legal experts say, Rebecca Anna Stoil, Jerusalem Post, March 02, 2009
• Interview in Panorama (Italy) Magazine, February 13, 2009
• Israel's move into Gaza provokes strong responses, Wall street Journal, January 13, 2009
• NGOs aid Hamas PR campaign, Jerusalem Post, January 11, 2009
• It's time to end the impunity of Human Rights Watch, Jerusalem Post, December 15, 2008
• Ties that blind, Jerusalem Post, December 8, 2008
• Interview in Jerusalem Post Edition Francaise, March 12, 2007

Yitzhak Santis, Chief Programs Officer

Oversees quality control of NGO Monitor’s key products in its areas of research and communications. He has expertise in BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions) campaigns and the strategy of co-opting churches to BDS. He also oversees key functions in the area of resource development, including donor relations, donor development, and campaign planning.

Naftali Balanson, Managing Editor

Directs NGO Monitor’s research, developing research strategy and ensuring that all NGO Monitor publications are produced in an effective and timely manner. His correspondence with NGO, foundation, and government officials has elicited crucial information. Naftali has an MA in English Literature from Columbia University.