[Opinion] The PFLP and anti-Israel NGOs
Liora Henig-Cohen discusses the connection between Palestinian NGOs and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
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Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees (UPWC)
The Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees (UPWC) is affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and is active in advocacy lobbying "decision makers and legislators to issue a modern civil laws set to ensure developing the Palestinian community.”
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Who Profits
‘Who Profits’ initiates international BDS campaigns, targeting Israeli and foreign banks, security companies, civil infrastructure facilities, and private companies. It supports BDS campaigns around the world in finding target companies.
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Sadaka – The Ireland Palestine Alliance
Sadaka is an “independent, non-governmental and non-party political organisation.” However it is active in lobbying the Irish government and the European Union “in support of the national, democratic and human rights of the Palestinian people.”
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Christian Aid Ireland
Christian Aid Ireland is the Irish affiliate of Christian Aid and is highly active in supporting BDS campaigns.
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Culture and Free Thought Association (CFTA)
The Culture and Free Thought Association regularly places sole blame on Israel for conflicts in Gaza, including referring to the 2014 war as “Israel’s War on Gaza.”
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Palestine Legal
Palestine Legal is highly active in BDS campaigns, particularly on college and university campuses throughout the United States.
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Grassroots International (Boston)
While Grassroots International states that it “stands with the nonviolent Palestinian struggle for self-determination and human rights, particularly the human rights to land, water and food sovereignty,” it provides funding to a number of NGOs active in the Arab-Israeli conflict with ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
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Open Society Foundations (OSF)
OSF is an organization funded by George Soros that provides funding to civil society groups around the world. Funding information is not transparent.
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Amnesty International (AI)
Amnesty International disproportionately singles out Israel for condemnation, focusing solely on the conflict with the Palestinians, misrepresenting the complexity of the conflict, and ignoring more severe human rights violations in the region. Amnesty distorts international law, misusing terms like “collective punishment,” “occupying power,” and “disproportionate” in its condemnations of Israel’s Gaza policy.