"…In west Jerusalem, a man from the foreign press department of the Israeli Government pressed a folder into my hand. Watching the Watchers is sponsored by an organisation called NGO Monitor, and argues that ‘the NGO exploitation of the rhetoric of human rights in order to attack Israel, their use of double standards, and the consistent absence of credibility in their reports, have eroded and essentially destroyed the core universality of this moral framework’…

Later that day the man from the Israeli Government e-mailed me a link to a study which finds that: “The NGO use of classic antiSemitic [sic] themes such as the blood libel are found in Oxfam’s poster in 2002 of the ‘Israeli orange’, which promoted boycotting of Israeli products, and of Israel in general.”

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