The UN and WHO are in desperate need of fiscal transparency
Becca Wertman discusses how the UN, WHO, and its various arms should not be immune from scrutiny when they call on governments to donate vital resources.
UNOCHA
Oxfam Exploits COVID Pandemic to Call for BDS
In May 2020, Oxfam released a “briefing note” on “Violence and impunity in the West Bank during the COVID-19 pandemic.” In reality, Oxfam took pre-existing, misleading, distorted, outdated, and sloppy research, and artificially relabeled it “COVID-19 and annexation” in order to push a BDS (boycotts, divestment, and sanctions) agenda.
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United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Palestinian territories (OCHA-oPt) is a primary coordinator of NGO funding and activity in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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[Opinion] UN Humanitarian Agency’s Propaganda War on Israel Continues
Professor Gerald M. Steinberg writes about UN-OCHA's propaganda war against Israel.
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DanWatch
DanWatch promotes BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanction) under the guise of “business ethics.”
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Political Advocacy NGO Involvement in UN Humanitarian Aid Clusters
As part of UNOCHA's “Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP),” aid appeals are divided into clusters with NGOs serving as implementing partners with UN agencies, and in some cases, responsible for leading the cluster. The cluster system is a key international lobbying and action mechanism through which the PA advances its nationalist and political agenda, sustaining conflict,
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Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
One of NRC’s principle projects in Israel, “Information, counseling, and legal assistance (ICLA),” exploits judicial frameworks to manipulate Israeli policy, bypassing democratic frameworks. NRC’s legal projects and funded mainly by Norway, the European Union (EU), and the United Kingdom (UK).
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DanChurchAid
According to its website, “DanChurchAid is rooted in the Danish National Evangelical Lutheran Church.” Aims to conduct “humanitarian aid and development assistance in close cooperation with churches and other cooperative partners.”
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[Opinion] The Return of the Gaza Numbers Game
Naftali Balanson examines the casualty statistics emerging from Gaza during the riots.
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Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP)
MAP is a UK-based charity that promotes distorted and false narratives under the guise of medical expertise and scientific fact.