EIDHR: Additional European Funding for Mideast Conflict Groups

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.

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• Apartheid Rhetoric
• BDS
• Biases
• EIDHR (European Instrument of Democracy and Human Rights)
• One state solution
• War crimes

Spain: Government funding for NGOs promoting the Palestinian narrative

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.

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• Russell Tribunal on Palestine

NGO Letter to MEPs Distorts Israeli Legislation and Context

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• Legislation

NIF-Funded NGOs: Goldstone's Building Blocks

NIF-funded groups and their publications were featured centrally in the Goldstone report. Many of these citations referred to speculative issues unrelated to the conflict in Gaza, seeking to brand Israeli democracy as repressive. BTselem, Adalah, ACRI, Gisha, PHR-I, and Yesh Din have continued supporting Goldstone and lobbying governments to legitimize the reports extreme biases and endorse its recommendations. Some NIF grantees campaign against the legitimacy of Israel as a Jewish democratic state. Others are active in worldwide boycotts, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaigns targeting Israel.

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• 2009 Gaza War
• Goldstone Report
• UN Human Rights Council (HRC)
• War crimes

NGOs' "apartheid road" rhetoric rejected

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• Apartheid Rhetoric

NGO Monitor research to be featured at Knesset conference on foreign funding for NGOs

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• Foreign Government Funding
• Institute for Zionist Strategies
• Knesset Conference
• Lawfare
• NGO Legislation

Made in Europe: How government funded NGOs shaped the Goldstone report

The Goldstone report is primarily based on statements, publications, and submissions from highly politicized and biased NGOs, many of which are funded by European governments. Beyond adopting the flawed methodologies and false claims, the funding provided for these NGOs links European governments to the Goldstone report, and its contribution to anti-Israel demonization. European-funded groups PCHR, Al Mezan, Al Haq, and Adalah are also at the forefront of the lawfare campaigns that abuse the universal jurisdiction provisions in the legal codes of a number of Western countries using allegations of war crimes.

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• Goldstone Report
• UN Human Rights Council (HRC)

Durban 2001 chief praised by Obama; anti-Israel legacy ignored by NIF grantees

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• Antisemitism
• Durban

Radical Israeli NGOs dismiss IDF investigation on Gaza their minds are made up

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• 2009 Gaza War
• Fact-finding Standards
• Goldstone Report
• IDF
• United Nations

Gaza: Amnesty, Israeli NGOs highlight false allegations

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• 2009 Gaza War
• Human Rights
• IDF