[Opinion] Norwegian NGO Loses Its Way on Gaza Border
Professor Gerald Steinberg discusses how the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) IS QUICK TO become international advocates for Hamas, while portraying Israelis as immoral.
Publications: | Reports, Books, Academic Publications, Submissions, Resource Pages |
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Other Content Types: | Press Releases, In The Media, Presentations, Posts, , Key Issues |
Funders: | Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) |
Start date: | 1 Jan 1988 |
End date: | 26 Mar 2023 |
Professor Gerald Steinberg discusses how the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) IS QUICK TO become international advocates for Hamas, while portraying Israelis as immoral.
A Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) contractor who was killed on April 6 during the violence along the Gaza-Israel border, has reportedly been exposed as an officer in the Hamas terrorist group. If true, then this is another worrying example of Hamas infiltration of an international aid organization.
In March 2018, the NGO umbrella group known as Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict (Watchlist) published a Policy Note urging the UN Secretary General to add Israel, Myanmar, and others to a list of “grave violators” of children’s rights. Terror groups, including Hamas and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), are not mentioned in Watchlist’s publication.
NGO Monitor estimates that European governments – directly through governmental mechanisms, and indirectly via church and other humanitarian groups – and UN agencies contribute over €100 million to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) active in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
NGO Monitor's submission highlights the impact of NGOs that lobby and attempt to exert influence based on ideological agendas that are detrimental or even explicitly opposed to longstanding, fundamental elements of British foreign policy.
UN-OCHA oversees and facilitates government funding to some of highly biased and politicized NGOs, including a number that are very active in promoting BDS and “lawfare” campaigns that single out Israel.
Anne Herzberg describes the hypocrisy of the UK's protecting its soldiers from claims against them in British courts, while funding the very same campaign against Israel.
An analysis of Norwegian funding to international, Israeli, and Palestinian NGOs active in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
The second in this series, this report deals with the EU's engagement with civil society, highlighting phenomena such as centralization among grantees, EU-funded networks, and involvement of NGOs in policy-making.