"Sabeels Teachings of Contempt"
Sabeel believes that any divestment must be done from moral obligation the same moral obligation that obliges us to struggle against and separate ourselves from anti-Semitism....
Sabeel believes that any divestment must be done from moral obligation the same moral obligation that obliges us to struggle against and separate ourselves from anti-Semitism....
Summary: Ignoring the controversy regarding its agenda and involvement in political campaigning, Human Rights Watchs compilation of allegations regarding the Israeli military lacks credibility, erases context, and exploits the language of international law.
US law prohibits the funding of any governmental structure, institution, organization or company that sponsors or promotes terrorism. Governmental and non-governmental organizations in the Palestinian Authority (PA) continue to receive hundreds of millions of dollars from the US Agency for International Development (USAID), some of which is going directly to frameworks that sponsor branches of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist organizations, and to others that glorify terrorists and terrorism, delegitimize Israels existence and promote hatred of the American people, government and values. ...
Following up on its previous analysis, NGO Monitor found limited evidence of greater balance in the focus of activities, resources and analysis of Human Rights Watch (HRW) in its coverage of the Middle East. However, a June 22 report and press conference in Jerusalem concentrating on allegations regarding Israel suggests that this core bias in HRWs agenda remains.
A number of "human rights" and "humanitarian" NGOs organize internships and visits for activists, who then return to their communities in Europe and North America and join the anti-Israel political campaign. Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) is a notable example, and is actively supported and funded by the World Council of Churches, a major supporter of the anti-Israel divestment campaign.
The criticism of Amnestys ideological and political agenda continues. In an interview published in Time Magazine, (June 6 2005), Natan Sharansky noted: "I have very serious criticisms of Amnesty. There is no moral clarity. It doesnt differentiate between what I call fear societies and free societies...Amnesty International...ends up with reports that show a moral equivalence between...Israel and the terrorist regimes that attack it...Human-rights organizations create an atmosphere in which dictatorial regimes dictate the human-rights agenda of the entire world."
Amnesty Internationals Annual Report for 2004, released on May 25, 2005, resulted in unprecedented criticism, particularly regarding the politicized analyses in the chapters on the U.S., Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Although containing modest...