[Opinion] Irish ties to Israel hurt by NGO funding
Apparently, the Irish government is either oblivious to Trcaires extensive anti-peace activities, or the current government is knowingly carrying on a long tradition of Irish anti-Israel bias.
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Start date: | 1 Jan 1988 |
End date: | Jun 2020 |
Apparently, the Irish government is either oblivious to Trcaires extensive anti-peace activities, or the current government is knowingly carrying on a long tradition of Irish anti-Israel bias.
Irish Aid, Irelands assistance program for developing countries, funds Israeli, Palestinian, Irish, and international NGOs involved in the Arab-Israeli conflict, including many that participate in anti-Israel activities. The same is true for Trcaire, a church-based humanitarian aid framework that also receives government funds.
As part of a wider lawfare strategy of pressing war crimes cases against Israeli officials in foreign courts and in the International Criminal Court (ICC), foreign funded Yesh Din attempts to portray Israel and its security forces as unaccountable to the rule of law.
Partial list of Israeli NGOs that receive foreign government funding. Due to a lack of transparency in and discrepancies between reports by governments and NGOs, this table is incomplete and the numbers are approximate.
The Russell Tribunal Cape Town session was a total failure; none of its stated objectives was achieved. Behind the legal faade of neutrality and credibility were biased witnesses and jurors who had prejudged Israels guilt.
Breaking the Silence uses European government funding to make sweeping accusations based on anecdotal, anonymous, and unverifiable accounts of low-level soldiers.