NGO "Lawfare": Exploitation of Courts in the Israeli-Arab Conflict October 08, 2008 
NGOs have exploited European and US courts by initiating criminal and civil cases against Israeli officials for supposed "war crimes." This constitutes a form of political "lawfare" – the use of legal methods to achieve military goals. NGO Monitor's forty-page report provides the first in-depth study of this important issue, and reveals the role of NGOs in promoting the expansion of "universal jurisdiction" statutes; the creation of the "lawfare" strategy against Israel at the 2001 Durban Conference; and the leading role NGOs have played in these cases. more »
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September 2008 Digest (Vol. 7, No. 1) October 07, 2008 
NGO Report to Quartet: Propaganda vs. humanitarian aid; PCHR invents “settler” murder libel; B’Tselem´s DC lobby office; Amnesty continues anti-Israel campaign; Jewish NGO silenced at UNHRC; MSF´s unbiased reporting on Gaza more »
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Amnesty International 
Amnesty International has resumed its one-sided campaign condemning Israeli responses to terror from Gaza. In the past month, AI has issued three “updates,” none of which contains any research. One statement copies problematic claims by a highly politicized NGO known as PHR-I, and another is a misleading press release on a report related to the death of a Reuters cameraman in Gaza. Amnesty officials justify this campaign by claiming that, “Gaza has fallen off the international news agenda” – a false and irrelevant explanation. more »
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The EU will not renew its funding of ICAHD, an extreme NGO whose political campaigns and demonizing rhetoric are entirely outside the framework of universal human rights. In an “urgent message” to members of ICAHD-USA, the organization´s director, Jeff Halper, announced “We have just heard that our request for re-funding has been rejected…So we now face a real crisis.” Although EU support was earmarked toward specific projects, ICAHD’s financial problems indicate that, in fact, EU grants constituted the majority of ICAHD’s income. more »
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