Gerald M. Steinberg
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Gerald M. Steinberg is an Israeli academic and political scientist.
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Biography
Gerald M. Steinberg obtained his doctorate in government from Cornell University, in 1981. M.A. Government Department, Cornell University, 1978. M.Sc. Physics Department, University of California, San Diego, 1975. B.A. University of California, Berkeley, Department of Physica and Near Eastern Studies, 1973.[1]
Academic and columnist career
Steinberg is a Professor of Political Science at Bar Ilan University and the founder of the Program on Conflict Management and Negotiation. [2]
He is a co-author of Best Practices for Human Rights and Humanitarian NGO Fact-Finding, ISBN 978-9004218116.[3]
Legal activism
Unsatisfied with the materials the European Union provided to him about their support for Israeli NGOs, Steinberg initiated legal action. His case was dismissed by the court as being "manifestly unfounded." [4]
Civil society activities
Steinberg is founder and president of NGO Monitor.[5]
Steinberg has been a longtime critic of the organization Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Christian Aid, Oxfam and various other groups who he accuses of having "contributed to the hatred, rather than supporting peace."[6] Writing in a 2004 Jerusalem Post article [7] he said, "HRW's press statement exposes it as a biased political organization hiding behind the rhetoric of human rights." Later he goes on to accuse HRW of "exploiting the rhetoric of human rights to delegitimize Israel." [8]
Criticism
Human Rights Watch accused Steinberg of "sleight of hand" in his reporting of its activities, and of conveniently ignoring its condemnations of Palestinian militant actions and of not mentioning inconvenient facts.[9]
Yehudit Karp, a former Israeli Deputy Attorney General, charged that Steinberg published material he knew to be wrong "along with some manipulative interpretation." [10]
References
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_M._Steinberg#cite_note-cv-1
- ^ http://politics.biu.ac.il/en/node/692
- ^ Best Practices for Human Rights and Humanitarian NGO Fact-Finding Co-authored with Anne Herzberg and Jordan Berman, Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden, 2012
- ^ http://972mag.com/eu-throws-out-ngo-monitor-case-tells-gerald-steinberg-to-pick-up-the-tab/62491/
- ^ Gerald M. Steinberg
- ^ Human Rights Groups are Working Against Peace, Canadian Jewish News January 13, 2005 "With their multi-million-dollar budgets, global superpowers such as Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International, Christian Aid, Oxfam and dozens of smaller allied groups have contributed to the hatred, rather than supporting peace."
- ^ March 8, 2004 Jerusalem Post "Israelis Have No "Human Rights"
- ^ Human Rights Watch can't take the heat
- ^ The Truth Hurts Op-ed in the Jerusalem Post, April 1, 2004.
- ^ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-undisguised-agenda/
External links
Official Links
Academic publications and op-ed articles
- The apartheid pseudo-poll, Israel HaYom, November 1, 2012
- The Evolution of Israeli Military Strategy: Asymmetry, Vulnerability, Pre-emption and Deterrence October 2011
- The Return of the Class of 1967, Jerusalem Post, July 21, 2000
- Selling Out to Soros, New York Post, September 13, 2010
- Will 5771 be the year of pragmatic peace?, Canadian Jewish News, September 8, 2010
- The war against Israel, The Wall Street Journal, June 7, 2010
- The Debate on Jew-Washing—Beyond Ideology, Daily Beast, August 13, 2012
- Israel’s right to self-defense, The Wall Street Journal, February 23, 2010
- From Durban to the Goldstone Report: the centrality of human rights NGOs in the political dimension of the Arab–Israeli conflict Israel Affairs, Volume 18, Issue 3, 2012; Special Issue: War by other means: Israel and its detractors
