Update on New Israel Fund (NIF) April 2012
NIFs rhetoric, activities, and publications regarding Israel are often divisive and destructive, including stereotyping of minorities and critics, in contrast to NIFs claimed progressive objectives
NIFs rhetoric, activities, and publications regarding Israel are often divisive and destructive, including stereotyping of minorities and critics, in contrast to NIFs claimed progressive objectives
For a number of years, the campaign to demonize Israel has organized around the so-called Apartheid Week, an initiative that fuels the conflict but has largely been a failure. NGOs and NGO activists play leading roles in these events.
In advance of Israeli Apartheid Week, Prof. Steinberg explores how NGOs have cynically exploited apartheid rhetoric to libel Israel. This is the "antithesis of the mutual acceptance required for peace."
NGO Monitor disclosed to the New Israel Fund that its grantee Adalah was scheduled to participate in an Israeli Apartheid Week event.
During the 2011 Christmas season, NGOs once again are exploiting the holiday to advance immoral anti-Israel campaigns and, in some cases, crude antisemitism. Through the cynical use of holiday and religious symbols, NGOs do not offer messages of peace and cheer, but rather exacerbate the violent conflict.