Germany’s Development Cooperation System: The Need for Greater Transparency and Accountability

Germany is one of the largest donors of international development aid in the world, allocating $24.7 billion to bilateral assistance in 2017 alone. However, due to an extreme lack of transparency, overlapping responsibilities for multi-ple government agencies, and the involvement of dozens of different actors, it is difficult to assess the effectiveness of this aid, raising concerns about po-tential abuse of public funds and inefficient management.

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• Double dipping
• Germany
• GIZ
• IHRA
• Transparency

Experts Discuss Antisemitism at NGO Monitor Conference

In the shadow of a surge of physical violence against Jews around the world, NGO Monitor hosted its annual conference in Tel Aviv. The event, “The Future of Human Rights in an Era of Increased Antisemitism,” featured experts and influencers who shared ideas about the challenges posed by global antisemitism.

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• Annual Conference
• Antisemitism
• IHRA

[Opinion] Missing in action: Antisemitism and human rights

Professor Gerald M Steinberg discusses antisemitsm and human rights.

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• Antisemitism
• Goldstone Report
• IHRA
• Omar Shakir

• UNHRC
• United Nations
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
• Zionism is racism

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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• 1948 Armistice Line
• BDS
• Differentiation
• European Commission
• Hugh Lovatt
• IHL

• IHRA
• OECD
• Settlements
• West Bank
• Western Sahara

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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• BDS
• Belgium
• Brigitte Herremans
• IHRA

• Made in Illegality
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• Sanctions
• Settlements

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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• Antisemitism
• BDS
• European Funding
• France
• Hamas

• IHRA
• Nakba
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• Settlements

[Opinion] Canada’s UN Security Council seat is not worth the cost

Becca Wertman analyzes Canada's abandonment a a longstanding, bi-partisan tradition of voting against UN resolutions that single out Israel.

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• BDS
• Canada
• Global Affairs - Canada
• IHRA
• United Nations
• UNRWA

Submission to the 100th Session of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

NGO Monitor's submission focuses on Israel’s adherence to the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD). NGO Monitor beleives it is important to provide the Committee with certain contextual information that is necessary in order to conduct a credible and productive review.

Topics

• Balfour Declaration
• BDS
• CERD
• Gaza
• IHRA
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)

• Racism
• Right to Self Determination
• Terrorism
• United Nations
• West Bank
• Zionism is racism

[Opinion] The Halle Attack and the Old/New Antisemitism

Professor Gerald M Steinberg analyzes antisemitism in Europe in the wake of a terrorist attack in Germany.

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• Antisemitism
• BDS
• Blood Libels
• Europe

• Germany
• IHRA
• Terrorism

NGO Monitor Statement to the 99th Session of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

Professor Gerald M. Steinberg speaks before CERD regarding antisemitism promoted by the Palestinian Authority.

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• Antisemitism
• Apartheid Rhetoric
• CERD
• Delegitimization

• IHRA
• Racism
• United Nations