Swiss Funding Report 2016
An analysis of Swiss direct and indirect funding of politicized NGOs active in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Publications: | Reports, Books, Academic Publications, Submissions, Resource Pages |
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Other Content Types: | Press Releases, In The Media, Presentations, Posts, , Key Issues |
NGOs: | Zochrot |
Start date: | 1 Jan 1988 |
End date: | 28 Jul 2017 |
An analysis of Swiss direct and indirect funding of politicized NGOs active in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Church aid organizations in Germany, which receive most of their budgets from the government, are major funders of politicized NGOs in Israel and the PA.
Gerald Steinberg explains that the major issues regarding foreign government funding for powerful and politicized Israeli NGOs are not going to go away simply because Israeli legislation is passed.
German federal funding is allocated to, amongst others, political advocacy NGOs that promote BDS and lawfare campaigns, through direct and indirect funding mechanisms.
Robin Joshowitz argues that Dalit Baum and other activists in BDS campaigns inadvertently highlight the hypocrisy of BDS in their discriminatory targeting of Israel and companies that do business with or in Israel.
Jewish Voice for Peace, a US-based organization that refers to itself as the “Jewish wing” of the Palestinian solidarity movement, is completely non-transparent about its funding sources. NGO Monitor research has indentified a sizable portion of its funding, from private foundations and trusts.
Israeli NGO Zochrot will host a conference on the "Right of Return" of Palestinian refugees, funded by and including speakers from anti-Israel NGOs, many of which are funded by European governments, church-based foundations, and the New Israel Fund.
Yona Schiffmiller demonstrates how Rockefeller Brothers Fund, contrary to its stated goal of promoting peace, funds highly politicized, anti-Israel groups, such as Jewish Voice for Peace and Zochrot.