Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation was among the main funders for extremist NGOs involved in the 2001 UN sponsored Durban conference, which crystallized the strategy of delegitimizing Israel as “an apartheid regime” through international isolation.
2001 Durban Conference
Amnesty’s “Apartheid” Report: Recycled Tropes in the Guise of Research
Although Amnesty officials repeatedly referred to the document as “original research” extending over 4 years (or 3 in other cases), an examination of the contents reveals this to be a collection and repetition of the verbal contortions and discredited claims largely copied from other NGOs with the same agenda.
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Statement: Marking 20 Years of the NGO “Durban Strategy”
On September 22, the UN General Assembly will mark twenty years since the World Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa, in 2001, hosting the fourth such event (“Durban IV”). The original conference, and particularly its virulently antisemitic NGO Forum, was a major catalyst for delegitimization campaigns against Israel, such as BDS, lawfare, and other forms of political warfare.
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[Opinion] 20 Years after the UN’s Durban event, the antisemitism continues to grow
Professor Gerald M Steinberg discusses the 2001 Durban Conference that declared "Zionism is Racism."
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HRW’s “Apartheid” Publication: Demonization, BDS, and Lawfare
On April 27, 2021, HRW will publish a report as part of a renewed NGO push over the past 18-months, attaching the term “apartheid” to discourse on Israel. The report adds to decades of HRW’s obsessively singling out of Jews and Israel, and rejection of the legitimacy of a Jewish nation state, per se and regardless of policies or borders
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NGOs Intensify Apartheid Demonization Campaign
In the past 18-months, at least 15 political NGOs involved in anti-Israel advocacy, as well as their UN allies, have issued publications accusing Israel of “apartheid.” This offensive term is used to advance a narrative of unparalleled Israeli immorality, and to promote demonization through BDS and lawfare, including in the International Criminal Court (ICC).
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[Opinion] Human Rights and Anti-Semitism: Beyond the Partisan Divide
Professor Gerald M Steinberg discusses US Secretary of State Mike Pomepo's declaration that BDS is antisemitic.
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NGO Amicus Briefs on ICC Jurisdiction: The Latest Lawfare Battlefield
NGO submissions to the International Criminal Court (ICC) involve highly flawed or invented legal arguments; deviation from the requirement limiting discussion to that of jurisdiction; revision and erasure of the historical record, including Palestinian terrorism; promotion of biased source material
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NGO Monitor Submission on Nazism to Special Rapporteur on Racism
NGO Monitor’s submission provides “descriptions, examples, scholarship, and other accounts describing contemporary manifestations of antisemitism” taking place with the human rights and humanitarian NGO community.
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[Opinion] 'Israel Denial' lays bare academic attempts to delegitimize Israel
Professor Gerald Steinberg discusses how postmodernism and post-colonialism, combined with antisemitism, have created fertile ground for extreme anti-Israel demonization on campus.
