Palestinian ICC Move Follows Intense NGO Lobbying
Attempting to litigate the highly charged Arab-Israeli conflict in the ICC could spell the end of the court, and the NGOs and their European funders will be responsible.
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: | Yesh Din- Volunteers for Human Rights |
Start date: | 1 Jan 1988 |
End date: | 24 Jul 2016 |
Attempting to litigate the highly charged Arab-Israeli conflict in the ICC could spell the end of the court, and the NGOs and their European funders will be responsible.
As with the Goldstone process, a network of highly politicized NGOs have been repeating unsupported allegations of Israeli war crimes and campaigning for a UN investigation into the current conflict.
The New Israel Fund distributes grants to a wide variety of Israeli NGOs active in demonization campaigns against Israel.
Gerald Steinberg maintains that while Israel is acting according to international legal norms in its operation to locate the three kidnapped teenagers and root out terrorist infrastructure, a number of NGOs consistently accuse Israel of acting illegally.
German funding to political NGOs active in the Arab-Israeli conflict often supports radical organizations that oppose peace, promote demonization, political warfare, and in some cases, blatant antisemitism.
Gerald Steinberg asserts that in a moral world the kidnapping of three Israeli teens would have produced immediate and widespread outrage, but in the real world those who claim to promote "human rights" are largely silent.
The British government provides millions of pounds annually, through direct and indirect funding processes, to highly politicized NGOs that operate in the UK, Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza.
European governments have been attempting to change Israeli policy on contentious issues relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict by manipulating Israeli democratic processes through secretive, non-transparent means.
Analysis of the EUs large-scale funding of political advocacy NGOs demonstrates that its activities and agendas do not advance the stated objectives of promoting democracy and human rights.