[Opinion] The Exploitation of Human Rights
Shira Michael maintains that while the declared goals of Oxfam are admirable, its politicization is troubling and revolting.
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Start date: | 1 Jan 1988 |
End date: | 14 Nov 2019 |
Shira Michael maintains that while the declared goals of Oxfam are admirable, its politicization is troubling and revolting.
As acknowledged by BDS ideologues and stated in the declaration of the 2001 Durban NGO Forum, the objective of BDS is the destruction of Israel as a Jewish state using the strategy of exploiting the rhetoric of human rights and false apartheid analogies to demonize and isolate Israel.
Jody Sieradzki maintains that Dutch leaders must examine the impact of policies that provide government funds to NGOs that promote activities such as BDS campaigns, which interfere with peace, economic cooperation, and development.
On September 29, 2014, an official of Israeli NGO Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions (ICAHD) hosted an event in London aimed at exploring the current political situation in Israel and what activists can do to change it.
For a number of years, the campaign to demonize Israel has organized around the so-called Apartheid Week, an initiative that fuels the conflict but has largely been a failure. NGOs and NGO activists play leading roles in these events.
After a year of denials and equivocating on the funding relationship between NIF and CWP, NIF issued a statement that We have asked CWP to remove our name and funding direction from their website.
Following exposure of NIFs central role in funding BDS activities of the Coalition of Women for Peace (CWP), the New Israel Fund (NIF) on May 12 issued a statement falsely claiming that NGO Monitor knowingly published false information.