Akevot – The Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research
Profile
| Country/Territory | Israel |
|---|---|
| Website | http://www.akevot.org.il/ |
| Founded | 2013; located in Tel Aviv. |
| Registration | Originally registered under the name “the Occupation Archives”; the name was changed in February 2015. |
| In their own words | Describes itself as “a center for documentation, research and promotion of human rights within the context of the [Arab-Israeli] conflict.” |
Funding
- 2014 contributions of NIS 459,074 (accessed May 29, 2016).
- Donors include Switzerland (NIS 621,566 in 2014-2016) and Norway (NIS 264,755 in 2014).
- In 2017, Akevot received $15,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund for “general support.”
Activities
- Claims to “investigate the mechanisms, actions and the policies that lead to the violations of human rights in the conflict and also address incidents whose narratives and collective memories play a role in the perpetuation of the conflict.”
- Akevot appears to be an offshoot of two political advocacy Israeli NGOs: Yesh Din and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I), which are highly active in political warfare campaigns against Israel in the international arena.
- The majority of Akevot’s founders, board members, as well as its current executive director, are either current or former officials of Yesh Din, PHR-I, Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), as well as the Human Rights Defenders’ Fund. Members include: Michael Sfard, Yesh Din’s legal adviser; Lior Yavne, former director of Yesh Din; Ran Goldstein, Hadas Ziv and Anat Litvin of PHR-I; and Tamar Feldman and Roni Pelli of ACRI.
- The NGO’s website features a report alleging that there are various impediments to archival access in Israel and claiming that “government archives in Israel often take actions to withhold records on state-perpetrated human rights violations.”
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