Akevot – The Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research

June 05, 2016

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.”

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.”

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.”