Factually Inaccurate and Legally Flawed: HRW’s 2017 Report

Human Rights Watch is a powerful NGO, with a massive budget, close links to Western governments, and significant influence in international institutions. Its publications reflect the absence of professional standards, research methodologies, and military and legal expertise, as well as a deep-seated ideological bias against Israel. HRW’s review of “Israel and Palestine: Events of 2017,” reflects these same methodological flaws, resulting in a highly skewed representation of Israeli domestic and international law.

Topics

• Fatah
• Glorification of terrorism
• Hamas
• Human Rights NGOs

• NGO Funding
• Palestinian Authority
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• Terrorism

Pressure Works: Heinrich Boell Foundation Withdraws from Conference Featuring Member of Hamas

On November 17, 2017, the Israeli newspaper Makor Rishon exposed that the Ramallah office of the Heinrich Boell Stiftung (HBS) was co-sponsoring a conference, “The 1987 Intifada: History and Memory,” in commemoration of “the thirtieth Anniversary of the First Palestinian Uprising against the Israeli Occupation.” The conference, scheduled to be held in Gaza on November 24-26 and in Beirut on November 28-30, will feature speakers that are former or current members of the Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organizations.

Topics

• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• Terrorism

Local Branches of French Government Funded Organization Promote Violence

On October 2, 2017, AFPS 34, the Southern France-based branch of Association France Palestine Solidarité, shared a post on its Facebook page praising the Palestinian wave of violence, which began in October 2015 and has included multiple knife and gun attacks against Israeli civilians and security forces.

Topics

• BDS
• Funding
• Terrorism

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

European Funded Ma’an Network Uploads Violent Music Video

Ma'an Network, which receives funding from a number of European governments, has uploaded and written about a video that promotes violence against Israelis.

Topics

• Terrorism

Submission to Human Rights Council on Palestinian Prisoners' Propaganda Campaign

The Amuta for NGO Responsibility submitted a written statement on European funding for campaigns that erase terrorism.

Topics

• BDS
• Hunger Strike
• Terrorism

Norwegian-Funded PNGO Glorifies Terrorism and Condemns Norway

PNGO, a network of Palestinian NGOs whose member organizations include several groups with alleged ties to the PFLP terrorist organizations, continues to receive European funding, despite its glorification of terrorism.

Topics

• Glorification of terrorism
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• Terrorism

Analysis: Trócaire’s False “Home Truths” on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Trócaire has launched a campaign – consisting of a video, petition, and public displays – marking “the 50th anniversary of the occupation of the West Bank, and the 10th anniversary of the blockade of Gaza.”The campaign consists of false accusations and propaganda, and erases the need for security due to terrorism.

Topics

• Propaganda
• Terrorism

Whitewashing “Resistance” – Human Rights Funding to Organizations Blurring the Lines between Violence and Nonviolence

A number of government-funded Palestinian and European NGOs repeatedly manipulate human rights through the use of “resistance” rhetoric, blurring the lines between violence and nonviolence, denigrating security concerns, and legitimizing attacks against civilians. Some of these groups also have ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) – a designated terrorist organization by the EU, U.S., Canada, and Israel.

Topics

• BDS
• Lawfare
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• Resistance Rhetoric
• Terrorism

Palestinian Prisoners Day: NGOs Promote Terrorist Propaganda

NGOs played a central role in disseminating the 2017 PLO Prisoner Day propaganda, including using social media to share Marwan Barghouti's New York Times op-ed. The Times fails to inform readers that Barghouti was the leader of the armed wing of Fatah and a founder of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, and was convicted in 2004 on five counts of murder and one count of attempted murder.

Topics

• Palestinian political prisoners
• Terrorism