Episode 14: Development Aid and Corrupt Regimes
Yona Schiffmiller interviews NGO Monitor researcher, Jamie Berk, regarding the ways in which development aid can support corrupt regimes.
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Episode 13: Hen Mazzig: What makes BDS activists tick?
How does BDS market itself in different settings around the world? NGO Monitor's Director of Research Yona Schiffmiller sits down with Israel activist Hen Mazzig to take a closer look at the ideologies, emotions, and misinformation driving anti-Israel activism at the grassroots level.
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Episode 12: Disrupting Terror Funding
This week, the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs published a report echoing NGO Monitor's concerns regarding the affiliations and close connections between prominent Palestinian NGOs and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). In recent years, based on NGO Monitor’s findings, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Switzerland developed clear guidelines preventing funding for these NGOs. These countries also dismantled a joint funding framework that was a key source of capital for the network of PFLP-linked groups.
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Episode 11: Amnesty International's Campaign Denying Jewish History
This week Amnesty International published a new report targeting tourism to holy and historic sites in Israel and the West Bank. Amnesty's BDS campaign attacks the Western Wall, City of David, and the Cave of the Patriarchs, alleging that visitors to the sites and companies that advertise them are complicit in committing war crimes. On our latest episode, NGO Monitor exposes the antisemitism behind this campaign.
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Episode 10: New Faces in Washington and Shifting Views on Israel
Is there reason to be concerned about new faces in Washington and their positions on Israel? How will the relationship between Israel and the US be affected? What is the role of NGOs in this shift?
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Letter to OHCHR High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet Regarding the BDS Blacklist
NGO Monitor Legal Advisor Anne Herzberg writes a letter to OHCHR High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet regarding the BDS Blacklist.
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Hebrew University Professor’s Troubling NGO Connections
On January 22, 2019, Hebrew University Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian will speak at an event in Amsterdam about
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Episode 9: The World Council of Churches' Training Camp for Anti-Israel Advocacy
NGO Monitor President Prof. Steinberg discusses NGO Monitor's new report that uncovers the funding for and activities of EAPPI, a program that markets itself as focusing on human rights, but in reality emphasizes anti-Israel political advocacy. Its activists promote BDS campaigns against Israel and often use antisemitic language and imagery.
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Dutch Government Funding for Political Activity Targeting Diaspora Jews
In 2018, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs provided $218,000 to Breaking the Silence for encouraging “diaspora Jewish communities to voice their opposition to the occupation.”
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Episode 8: Teaching Kids to Hate: Incitement in Palestinian Textbooks
What influences children to commit acts of terror? How does education play a role? What changes can UNRWA and UNICEF make to prevent radicalization? IMPACT-SE CEO Marcus Sheff explains.