Israeli Apartheid Week 2010: NGO Involvement

Israeli Apartheid Week (March 1-14, 2010), held in universities and major cities in the US, Canada, and Europe, will feature speakers from NGOs: Adalah (funded by NIF and EU), AIC (Sweden and Christian Aid), PCHR (EU, Oxfam NOVIB, OSI, Christian Aid), Addameer, Badil. A video by Breaking the Silence will be screened in Connecticut. Israeli Apartheid Week is endorsed by Canadian Arab Federation, Independent Jewish Voices, CODEPINK, Adalah-NY, and others.

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• Apartheid Rhetoric
• Code Pink

NGOs and the BDS Movement: Background and Funding

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• BDS
• Durban

Promoting Israel's Isolation: Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands funding for NDC and NGOs

The NGO Development Center (NDC - Ramallah) has distributed $6 million to 25 NGOs on behalf of Switzerland, Sweden, Netherlands, and Denmark. The NGO grantees include some of the most radical groups operating in Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Many of the recipients employ apartheid rhetoric and promote war crimes cases against Israeli officials, and some are active members in the Palestinian BDS movement. NDC facilitated and funded the Palestinian NGO Code of Conduct which demands that Palestinian groups reject any normalization activities with the occupier.

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• Apartheid Rhetoric
• BDS
• Demonization

European Tax Dollars at Work: NGO Speeches to the UN Human Rights Council in Support of the Goldstone Report

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• Demonization
• Goldstone Report
• UN Human Rights Council (HRC)
• United Nations
• War crimes

Denmark Update - October 2009

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• BDS

Badil's "lawfare" journal

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• Durban
• Lawfare
• Right of Return

HRW Plays Prominent Role at UN Mini-Durban Conference

On July 22-24, 2009, the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People held an NGO conference to discuss questions related to Israeli violations of international humanitarian law. Participants included Palestinian NGOs such as Badil, PCHR, and Al Haq, as well as Human Rights Watch and Israeli NGOs PHR-I, Keshev, and Adalah. HRW promoted the campaign to prevent Israel from purchasing weapons and demanded on-going international pressure on Israel. One speaker accused Jews of buying everything and controlling a global machine, money. Most NGO representatives expressed support for lawfare cases.

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• Demonization
• Durban
• Lawfare
• Racism
• United Nations

HRW to Participate in anti-Israel UN Question of Palestine Event

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• Lawfare
• United Nations

A Clouded EU Presidency: Swedish Funding for NGO Rejectionism

On July 1, 2009, Sweden will assume the presidency of the European Union. Swedens role in funding numerous NGOs that pursue radical political agendas, including rejecting any form of normalization with Israel, fuels the conflict. Diakonia international law project that uses distorted and misleading interpretations of international law. Funding for the AIC, PCHR, and Al-Haq. Sabeels Nakba Memory program. Other NGO grantees use apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and massacres rhetoric. Many NGOs receive Swedish funding from multiple sources, raising questions about administrative procedures and oversight.

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• Apartheid Rhetoric
• BDS
• Demonization
• Lawfare

York University vs. Israel: "Academic Freedom" or Academic Farce? [Updated]

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• Ali Abunimah
• Apartheid Rhetoric
• BDS
• Demonization
• Holocaust Rhetoric

• Jeff Halper
• Lawfare
• Omar Barghouti
• One state solution
• York University