The Exploitation of Palestinian Women’s Rights NGOs

This report provides background on the situation of women and women’s groups within Palestinian society. The report analyses the highly restrictive and coercive civil space and provides an overview of Palestinian female role models, the vast majority of whom are celebrated for their participation in violent “resistance.” The report also looks at the role of the international community in perpetuating this state of affairs, whether through funding of radical Palestinian NGOs, or through granting international legitimacy to these groups in multilateral forums such as the UN.

Topics

• 1993 Oslo Accords
• Ahed Tamimi
• Dalal Mughrabi
• European Funding
• European Parliament
• Human Rights NGOs

• International NGOs
• Khalida Jarrar
• Leila Khaled
• Linda Jarbouni
• NGO Fuding
• NGO Support for Terror

• Palestinian NGOs
• PNIN
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• Rula Abu Duhou
• United Nations
• Wafa Idris

Parliamentary Questions Related to NGO Monitor Research

Topics

• 2014 Gaza War
• Adalah’s “Discriminatory Laws in Israel” database
• Commission of Inquiry
• EIDHR (European Instrument of Democracy and Human Rights)
• European Funding

• European Neighborhood Policy
• European Parliament
• Hamas
• NGO Monitor
• Parliamentary Question

• Partnership for Peace (PfP)
• UN Human Rights Council (HRC)
• United Nations
• William Schabas

French Funding to anti-French and anti-Israel Propaganda by UJFP

In October 2017, Union Juive Française pour la Paix (UJFP) released a series of ten video clips “Paroles juives contre le racisme” (“Jewish words against racism”). The videos feature highly incendiary remarks against the State of Israel, Zionism, and France. UJFP is active in discriminatory and illegal (according to the Court of Cassation) anti-Israel BDS (boycotts, divestment, and sanctions) campaigns in France and is a member of the Platform of the French NGOs for Palestine.

Topics

• Antisemitism
• BDS
• Demonization
• European Funding
• Foreign Government Funding

On UK Outsourcing of Foreign Policy to B’Tselem and Norwegian Refugee Council: Evidence from FOI Requests

In response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request initiated by NGO Monitor, the British Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO) released a series of emails with the Israeli NGO B’Tselem. Heavy redaction notwithstanding, the emails reveal warm, frequent contact between the Israeli NGO and the British government, as well as extensive lobbying efforts on the part of B’Tselem.

Topics

• European Funding
• UN Security Council
• United Nations

Yesh Din’s Fuzzy Math: A Comparative Analysis of Global Crime Statistics

Yesh Din is an Israeli non-governmental organization (NGO) that leads campaigns regarding legal issues in the Israeli justice system, including Israeli investigations into alleged crimes by both security forces and settlers in the West Bank. The following study analyzes and compares their claims regarding “ideologically motivated crimes” and Israeli “investigative failures” to official Israeli and international statistics about these issues.

Topics

• European Funding
• Ideological Bias
• Transparency

Initial Analysis of B’Tselem/HaMoked Report on Children’s Detention in Jerusalem

B’Tselem and HaMoked published a joint report, “Unprotected: The Detention of Palestinian Teenagers in East Jerusalem.” NGO Monitor’s initial analysis reveals that these NGOs are participating in a well-funded international campaign against Israel surrounding the issue of children’s rights. The publication also suffers from fundamental methodological flaws, highlighting the appropriation of human rights for political objectives.

Topics

• Biases
• East Jerusalem
• European Funding
• Human Rights
• Lack of Evidence

Statement on Knesset Inquiry into Foreign NGO Funding

In response to the announcement of a planned parliamentary inquiry into foreign funding for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and their campaigns against the IDF, NGO Monitor released the following statement

Topics

• European Funding
• Foreign Government Funding
• Funding
• NGO
• Transparency

Consolidated Palestinian NGO Funding Database

This analysis will present the details of funding to 36 Palestinian NGOs, including the identities of the donors (government or private), the grant’s time frame, and the source of the data.

Topics

• European Funding
• Lack of Transparency
• Palestinian NGOs

European Secretariat Freezes Funding to Radical Palestinian Organization

The Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Secretariat (Secretariat) – a joint funding mechanism of the governments of Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands – is suspending funding to the Women’s Affairs Technical Committee (WATC), after WATC participated in inaugurating a women’s center in the West Bank named after Dalal Mughrabi, a terrorist who murdered 38 Israeli civilians.

Topics

• BDS
• Dalal Mughrabi
• European Funding
• Terrorism

Analysis of EU Peacebuilding Grants - December 2016

In December 2016, the EU announced grants under the EU Peacebuilding Initiative (European Neighbourhood Policy) with a total budget of €4.9 million. Among the recipients and projects, a number (receiving one-third of the total budget) demonstrate records of activities that are entirely inconsistent with the stated goals of promoting peace in the region.

Topics

• European Funding