January February 2011 Digest (Vol. 9, No. 5-6)
Amnestys UN campaign against Israel; Lawfare harassment of Israeli officials; Personnel damage HRWs credibility; NGOs exploit UN Committee on Women; Unsubstantiated NGO claims on tear gas death
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: | Breaking the Silence (Shovrim Shtika) |
Start date: | 1 Jan 1988 |
End date: | 29 Sep 2022 |
Amnestys UN campaign against Israel; Lawfare harassment of Israeli officials; Personnel damage HRWs credibility; NGOs exploit UN Committee on Women; Unsubstantiated NGO claims on tear gas death
Breaking the Silence uses European government funding to make sweeping accusations based on anecdotal, anonymous, and unverifiable accounts of low-level soldiers.
Labeling Israel an apartheid state is closely linked to BDS campaigns and lawfare cases. Many NGOs falsely portray the Arab-Israeli conflict as a dispute motivated by alleged race-hatred of Arabs.
In 2009, the European Commission allocated 2,007,051 through the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) for Israeli and Palestinian NGOs. Highly politicized Israeli NGOs include ICAHD, Machsom Watch, Adalah, ACRI, and Yesh Din. Some grantees use rhetoric that demonizes Israel, including apartheid and war crimes. 2008 EIDHR recipients included BTselem, Breaking the Silence, Gisha, HaMoked, and PHR-I. The EC claims to have evaluations of NGO funding, but these are not made available.
UPDATE: As reported by Palestinian Media Watch, the Spanish government was identified as a sponsor of an ad on PA TV, promoting the boycott of Israeli goods.