On July 31, 2018, the UK House of Common’s International Development Committee published its investigative report on sexual exploitation and abuse in the aid sector. The report was commissioned in February in response to highly disturbing allegations against employees of Oxfam International and “misconduct by staff involved in its humanitarian response in Haiti.”
On August 22-26, 2018, “The solidary and rebellious summer university of citizens and social movements” will take place in Grenoble, France. The summer institute is organized by 70 organizations, including many that support politicized anti-Israeli campaigns against Israel.
Many of the passengers aboard the Freedom Flotilla have connections to highly biased and politicized NGOs active in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Following intensive NGO lobbying and trips to Israel and the West Bank where Irish lawmakers met with radical political NGOs, a bill to criminalize trade in Israeli settlement goods is being revived, and the Irish Seanad will vote on it this week (July 11, 2018).
NGO Monitor speaks at the 38th Session of the UN Human Rights Council.
On June 28, 2018, The Daily Telegraph (Australia) ran an exclusive article on how the Australian government will audit “taxpayer funds [that] are being funnelled to a Palestinian aid organisation that has employed and supported a leader of a terrorist group in Gaza.”
On May 15, 2018, Adalah and seven other non-governmental organizations (NGOs) sent a letter to US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo to “Investigate Israel’s Use of Lethal Force in Gaza and Halt Foreign Assistance to Israeli Military Units.” The letter adopts a BDS (boycott, divestments, and sanctions) agenda against Israel, in stark contrast to the signatories’ donors’ policies.
Becca Wertman writes a Letter to the Editor of Foreign Policy regarding invented legal standards by Sari Bashi, Human Rights Watch’s (HRW) “Israel/Palestine Advocacy Director,
NGO Monitor Columbia University alumni write to Dean of Columbia Law School regarding statement on Prof. Katherine Franke's involvement in BDS campaigns.
On April 30, the Israeli Supreme Court held a hearing on two petitions from NGOs claiming that Israel’s responses to violence along the Gaza border are illegal and demanding that the Court prohibit the use of live ammunition by the IDF.