Following a pattern of behavior demonstrated at the 2001 Durban conference, "human rights" NGOs adopted the Palestinian agenda, and joined the campaign against US President Bushs support for Israels proposal to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
The EU continues to fund numerous NGOs active in the Arab-Israeli conflict, many of which demonstrate a clear anti-Israeli political agenda, advocating Palestinian positions, ignoring the context of terrorism and conflict, and contributing to the demonization and delegitimation of Israel...
In its activities, funded by the European Union, the New Israel Fund, the Finnish Embassy, Church organizations and private donations Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHR-I) continues to exploit the rhetoric of human rights to pursue a highly politicized and biased agenda.
By employing long-time radical anti-Israeli extremist Joe Stork as its Middle East Director, HRW has highlighted its core political agenda, which is also the focus of a series of recent oped analyses.
The Canadian NGO Alternatives, continues to host and showcase explicitly anti-Israeli political views that are antithetical to its proclaimed human rights objectives. Using the facade of human rights, Alternatives betrays its anti-Israeli bias.
The reports of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), which is affiliated with the International Commission of Jurists, are highly anecdotal and sensationalist. Its March 31 press release falsely alleged that Israeli forces destroyed a Palestinian university campus in Gaza.
In a study of activities between October 2000 and April 2004, HRWs reports and activities on Israel were found to be systematically and exceedingly biased. Most of the 103 reports, press releases, letters, photo essays and film festivals focus on condemning Israeli responses to terror, in comparison to only 13 that deal with Palestinian terror attacks...
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