The NGO BDS Network targets Booking.com
The BDS Campaign Targeting Microsoft and AnyVision
Proponents of anti-Israel BDS campaigns are exploiting debates about mass surveillance and facial recognition software to target Microsoft and an Israeli company, AnyVision.
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Human Rights Watch Hypocrisy on Settlements
According to Law professor Eugene Kontorovich, Whitson is an active supporter of groups that support Armenian settlements in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, while pursuing rabid campaigns against Jewish communities in the West Bank. This promotion of Armenian settlement products and groups directly contradicts HRW’s assertions regarding Israel.
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NGO Monitor 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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ECFR Indifferent to Differentiation When it Comes to Corporate Donors
On December 10, 2019, based on research by Professor Eugene Kontorovich and the Kohelet Policy Forum, the Jerusalem Post published an expose on donations to the European Council for Foreign Relations (ECFR) from companies operating in settlements. ECFR has been one of the leading BDS advocates in Europe under the guise of a so-called “differentiation” policy.
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BDS Activist to be Awarded Prize at Belgian Holocaust Memorial
On December 12, 2019, the Belgian Catholic NGO Pax Christi Vlaanderen (Flanders) will award its “ambassador for peace” prize to Brigitte Herremans, a leading anti-Israel activist and former employee of the BDS-supporting organization Broederlijk Delen. The event is scheduled to be held at Kazerne Dossin “a transit camp from which Belgian Jews and Romani were sent to concentration camps during the Holocaust.” The selection of this venue draws a false equivalence between Nazi war crimes and Israeli policy, a violation of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism.
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NGO Funded by France Lobbies the Government against Motion on Antisemitism
Since the beginning of 2019, French organizations that promote an anti-Israel agenda have been lobbying French elected officials to oppose a “motion for a resolution to combat anti-Semitism.” Some of these groups receive French government funding.
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Resource Page on Omar Shakir (HRW) Court Case
Omar Shakir has been a consistent supporter of a one-state framework and advocate for BDS (boycotts, divestment, sanctions) campaigns, fitting the longstanding HRW practice of hiring anti-Israel activists to serve in key positions relating to Israel.
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NGO Monitor Analysis: 42nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council
The 42nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council continued the bias and hypocrisy that has come to define the UN in general and the UNHRC in particular. NGO Monitor was present, speaking before the Council and documenting the numerous false accusations made by self-proclaimed human rights NGOs.
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Letter to the Editor of The New York Times (Unpublished)
Professor Gerald Steinberg writes to The New York Times regarding the absence of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism in its article on BDS.
