Denmark

The Danish government funds numerous Israeli and Palestinian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) directly through the Danish International Development Agency (Danida), the Danish Embassy in Tel Aviv, and the Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Secretariat, and indirectly by outsourcing to church groups and aid organizations such as DanChurchAid and Oxfam GB. The Danish government also provides support to DanWatch, a vocal supporter of BDS (boycotts, divestment, and sanctions) against Israel.

Topics

• BDS
• Lawfare
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)

Dutch Court Blindly Adopts NGO Claims on Gaza

On February 12, 2024, the Dutch Court of Appeal ruled that the Netherlands must cease transfer of US-owned F-35 fighter jet components to Israel. The appeal was initiated by four pro-BDS NGOs – Oxfam Novib, PAX, Rights Forum, and Amnesty International – which had sued the Dutch government to stop the transfers and had lost in District Court.

Topics

• 7 October Hamas Pogrom and War
• Lawfare

Germany

The German federal government provides millions of euros to political advocacy NGOs in Israel and the Palestinian Authority, through a variety of frameworks, including German federal funding programs of the Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the German Federal Foreign Office, government-funded church aid, and independent development NGOs.

Topics

• BDS
• Double dipping
• EAPPI
• Hamas
• Lack of Transparency

• Lawfare
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• Shawan Jabarin
• Terrorism

Norway

The Norwegian government, via the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) provides tens of millions of kroner (NOK) through direct and indirect funding processes to politicized NGOs operating in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza.

Topics

• Apartheid Rhetoric
• BDS
• Demonization
• Lawfare

Ford Foundation

The Ford Foundation was among the main funders for extremist NGOs involved in the 2001 UN sponsored Durban conference, which crystallized the strategy of delegitimizing Israel as “an apartheid regime” through international isolation.

Topics

• 2001 Durban Conference
• Airbnb
• Arms Embargo
• BDS
• Betty McCollum

• Labeling
• Lawfare
• New Israel Fund
• No Way to Treat a Child
• Omar Shakir

• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• Shawan Jabarin
• Trading Away Peace

Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)

Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) leads massive and unprecedented political campaigns exploiting the Israeli legal system. In sharp contrast to NRC’s ostensibly humanitarian agenda, this massive program focuses on some of the most complex and sensitive political issues in the Arab-Israeli context.

Topics

• European Commission
• Hamas
• Lawfare
• Norway

• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• United Kingdom
• UNOCHA

Amnesty International (AI)

Amnesty International disproportionately singles out Israel for condemnation, focusing solely on the conflict with the Palestinians, misrepresenting the complexity of the conflict, and ignoring more severe human rights violations in the region. Amnesty distorts international law, misusing terms like “collective punishment,” “occupying power,” and “disproportionate” in its condemnations of Israel’s Gaza policy.

Topics

• Bassem Tamimi
• BDS
• Lawfare
• NGO Support for Terror

• No Way to Treat a Child
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• War crimes

WESPAC (Westchester Peace Action Committee Foundation)

The WESPAC Foundation refers to US-funded “atrocities” in “our homeland” and demands the US “end all aid to Israel, diplomatic, economic, military… to this apartheid, racist state.”

Topics

• BDS
• Demonization
• International Criminal Court (ICC)
• Lawfare
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• Right of Return

[Opinion] NGO Gaza lawsuits exploit Western courts and help Hamas

Anne Herzberg discusses various lawsuits filed by NGOs seeking rulings or injunctions that will block allied military support for Israel.

Topics

• 7 October Hamas Pogrom and War
• Lawfare
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)

Al Mezan Center for Human Rights

Al-Mezan actively pursues a highly political anti-Israel agenda, while largely ignoring Palestinian terrorism. Its publications frequently promote false claims of Israeli war crimes and contribute to the erosion of the concept of universal human rights.

Topics

• 2018 Gaza Border Violence
• Apartheid Rhetoric
• BDS
• Exploiting Health
• Goldstone Report
• International Criminal Court (ICC)

• Lawfare
• Nakba Rhetoric
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• UN BDS Blacklist
• War crimes