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NGO Monitor states that its mission is to "end the practice used by certain self-declared ‘humanitarian NGOs’ of exploiting the label ‘universal human rights values’ to promote politically and ideologically motivated agendas".<ref name="about" /> According to Joel Peters NGO Monitor's activities include "high profile campaigns with the aim of delegitimizing the activities of Israeli civil society and human rights organisations, especially those advocating the rights of Arab citizens of Israel and or address the question of violations of human rights in the Occupied Territories."<ref>{{cite book|last=Peters|first=Joel|title=The European Union and the Arab Spring: Promoting Democracy and Human Rights in the Middle East|year=2012|publisher=Lexington Books|isbn=0739174452|page=85|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3IgxQPm0kpMC&lpg=PA85&dq=%22right%20wing%22%20ngo%20monitor&pg=PA85#v=onepage&q&f=false}}</ref>
NGO Monitor states that its mission is to "end the practice used by certain self-declared ‘humanitarian NGOs’ of exploiting the label ‘universal human rights values’ to promote politically and ideologically motivated agendas".<ref name="about" /> According to Joel Peters NGO Monitor's activities include "high profile campaigns with the aim of delegitimizing the activities of Israeli civil society and human rights organisations, especially those advocating the rights of Arab citizens of Israel and or address the question of violations of human rights in the Occupied Territories,"<ref>{{cite book|last=Peters|first=Joel|title=The European Union and the Arab Spring: Promoting Democracy and Human Rights in the Middle East|year=2012|publisher=Lexington Books|isbn=0739174452|page=85|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3IgxQPm0kpMC&lpg=PA85&dq=%22right%20wing%22%20ngo%20monitor&pg=PA85#v=onepage&q&f=false}}</ref> to which NGO Monitor responded by saying, "Our aims and objectives (holding political advocacy NGOs accountable, providing checks and balances, researching and publishing on these issues) are clearly spelled out, and any attribution beyond this is subjective and based on the author's imagination."<ref>[http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/letter_to_prof_joel_peters_author_the_european_union_and_the_arab_spring Letter to Prof. Joel Peters, author: The European Union and the Arab Spring]</ref>


NGO Monitor maintains an online directory of NGOs worldwide,<ref>[http://www.ngo-monitor.org/ngo_index.php?letter=A Directory of Non Governmental Agencies Alphabetical by Country]</ref> which generally includes a description of each organization, a quote from the organization itself, its funding sources, and relevant quotes about the organization from publications and officials. NGO Monitor also has considerable material related to the first [[Durban Conference]]<ref>[http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/durban_conference_0 NGO Monitor Reports on Durban at website]</ref> and the [[Durban strategy]]
NGO Monitor maintains an online directory of NGOs worldwide,<ref>[http://www.ngo-monitor.org/ngo_index.php?letter=A Directory of Non Governmental Agencies Alphabetical by Country]</ref> which generally includes a description of each organization, a quote from the organization itself, its funding sources, and relevant quotes about the organization from publications and officials. NGO Monitor also has considerable material related to the first [[Durban Conference]]<ref>[http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/durban_conference_0 NGO Monitor Reports on Durban at website]</ref> and the [[Durban strategy]]

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NGO Monitor
Founded2001[1]
FounderGerald M. Steinberg
TypeNon-profit
NGO
FocusEnd promotion of "politically and ideologically motivated anti-Israel agendas" by certain NGOs.[1]
Location
  • Jerusalem
Area served
Israel
MethodAcademic research institute
OwnerNGO Monitor
Key people
Gerald M. Steinberg (President); Naftali Balanson, Managing Editor; Anne Herzberg, Legal Advisor[1]
Revenue
US$ 385,000 (2008)[2]
Employees
13 (November 2010)[3]
Websitengo-monitor.org

NGO Monitor (Non-governmental Organization Monitor) is a non-governmental organization based in the western part of Jerusalem, whose stated aim is to generate and distribute critical analysis and reports on the output of the international NGO community for the benefit of government policy makers, journalists, philanthropic organizations, and the general public.[1] NGO Monitor says in its mission statement that it was founded to "to promote accountability, and advance a vigorous discussion on the reports and activities of humanitarian NGOs in the framework of the Arab-Israeli conflict." The organization was founded in 2001 by Gerald M. Steinberg under the auspices of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (with funding from the Wechsler Family Foundation) as part of "an array of cutting-edge programs to present Israel's case to the world".[4][5] NGO Monitor became a legally and financially independent organization in 2007 when it registered with the Registrar of Non-Profit Organizations in Israel.[6][7][8] NGO Monitor has been characterized as being pro-Israel.[9][10]

Structure and staff

NGO Monitor is the central project of the Organization for NGO Responsibility, an independent non-profit organization registered in Israel. Its President is Gerald M. Steinberg, a Professor of Political Science at Bar-Ilan University.[11]

Its staff includes:[1]

  • Gerald M. Steinberg, President.
  • Naftali Balanson, Managing Editor.
  • Anne Herzberg, Legal Advisor.
  • Dov Yarden, Chief Executive Officer.

Funding

NGO Monitor has stated that originally, when it was part of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA), it was funded by the Wechsler Family Foundation.[5] Since its separation from JCPA, and formation as an independent organization in 2007, NGO Monitor has drawn on a wider range of funding sources. NGO Monitor has said it receives no governmental support and is currently funded by private donors and foundations, although they did receive some funds, in 2010 and 2011, via The Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI), a quasi-governmental agency.[12][13] Other significant donors include ‘Research + Evaluation = Promoting Organizational Responsibility and Transparency’ (REPORT), formerly known as ‘ American Friends of NGO Monitor’ (AFNGOM), who provided a $500,000 grant in 2010. More recent donors have been Peter Simpson of Jerusalem; Jewish Federations of North America and United Jewish Appeal; Orion Foundation; Matan; The Center for Jewish Community Studies (part of JCPA); and the Wechsler Family Foundation. NGO Monitor’s financial reports for 2009, 2010, and 2011, which includes all legally mandatory information about any donations above NIS 20,000 (approximately US$5,200.00 as of 2012), are available on their website.[12]

According to a February 2012 article written by Uri Blau in Haaretz, his examination of NGO Monitor's finances revealed that "the organization sought to block the publication of one contributor and to get hundreds of thousands of Shekels from anonymous sources".[14] The donations in question were from the Jewish Agency for Israel and Matan, and originated with unnamed donors from outside Israel. In the same article, Jason Edelstein, NGO Monitor's communications director, is quoted as saying that "all of our financial information is fully disclosed with the Registrar for Non-Profits as required by law".[14]

Activities

NGO Monitor states that its mission is to "end the practice used by certain self-declared ‘humanitarian NGOs’ of exploiting the label ‘universal human rights values’ to promote politically and ideologically motivated agendas".[1] According to Joel Peters NGO Monitor's activities include "high profile campaigns with the aim of delegitimizing the activities of Israeli civil society and human rights organisations, especially those advocating the rights of Arab citizens of Israel and or address the question of violations of human rights in the Occupied Territories,"[15] to which NGO Monitor responded by saying, "Our aims and objectives (holding political advocacy NGOs accountable, providing checks and balances, researching and publishing on these issues) are clearly spelled out, and any attribution beyond this is subjective and based on the author's imagination."[16]

NGO Monitor maintains an online directory of NGOs worldwide,[17] which generally includes a description of each organization, a quote from the organization itself, its funding sources, and relevant quotes about the organization from publications and officials. NGO Monitor also has considerable material related to the first Durban Conference[18] and the Durban strategy of divestment and boycott,[19] as well as considerable discussion regarding the 2009 Durban Review Conference.[20]

NGO Monitor staff have co-authored two books relating to NGOs: Best Practices for Human Rights and Humanitarian NGO Fact-Finding (with founder and president, Prof. Gerald Steinberg, NGO Monitor's Legal Advisor Anne Herzberg, and NGO Monitor's Best Practices Legal Fellow, Jordan Berman)[21] and The Goldstone Report 'Reconsidered': A Critical Analysis (with Prof. Steinberg and Anne Herzberg).[22]

With the stated aim of encouraging critical debate on the role of NGOs in the Middle East conflict, NGO Monitor held a 2006 conference in Jerusalem with 21 humanitarian aid groups in attendance. A panel discussed the pros and cons of NGOs dealing with Hamas.[23][24] NGOs such as Amnesty International, B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights were invited to speak but declined.[23] Amnesty International said the conference did "not give a balanced ground for open and fair dialogue" while another human rights group accused NGO Monitor of "partiality".[24]

NGO Monitor has criticized several major international human rights organizations, such as Christian Aid, for ignoring "Palestinian responsibility in the conflict" and minimizing "Israel’s right to self-defense."[25] Other NGOs under the microscope have been Amnesty International,[26] Oxfam,[26] the Center for Constitutional Rights, Médecins Sans Frontières,[27] and Human Rights Watch.[28]

In 2009, NGO Monitor published a monograph called “Experts or Ideologues: Systematic Analysis of Human Rights Watch”[29] which includes analysis of key HRW staff members, five case studies of HRW campaigns, and quantitative analysis comparing HRW publications in the Middle East, covering the period from 2002 to 2009. In April 2010, Benjamin Birnbaum published in The New Republic a lengthy and highly critical piece about HRW, on the same line of the research done by NGO Monitor, stating that HRW gives "disproportionate attention to Israeli misdeeds."[30]

NGO Monitor released a document comparing Amnesty International's response to the twenty years of ethnic, religious and racial violence during the Second Sudanese Civil War to their treatment of Israel. NGO Monitor said that Amnesty International issued 7 reports on Sudan, as opposed to 39 reports on Israel.[31] They further said: “While ignoring the large-scale and systematic bombing and destruction of Sudanese villages, AI issued numerous condemnations of the razing of Palestinian houses, most of which were used as sniper nests or belonged to terrorists. Although failing to decry the slaughter of thousands of civilians by Sudanese government and allied troops, AI managed to criticize Israel’s ‘assassinations’ of active terrorist leaders.”[31] NGO Monitor also wrote there were 52 reports on Sudan and 192 reports on Israel. NGO Monitor opined “this lack of balance and objectivity and apparent political bias is entirely inconsistent with AI's official stated mission.”[31]

The organization formerly criticized the Ford Foundation for funding the 2001 World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance which took place in Durban, South Africa, which it accuses of condoning violence against Israel.[32] The Ford Foundation has modified its policies regarding funding of NGOs.[33] It also has taken exception to such accusations and says its involvement in the Palestinian territories reflects its belief that a just solution to the conflict is vitally important to the region and the peoples directly affected and that it also funds groups such as the New Israel Fund.[34]

NGO Monitor also states that B'Tselem, an NGO that calls itself "The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories", has employed "abusive and demonizing rhetoric designed to elicit political support for Palestinians".[35]

NGO Monitor has criticized the New Israel Fund, which states that its primary objective is "to strengthen Israel's democracy",[36] for funding organizations that NGO Monitor says are engaged in a "campaign to delegitimize Israel." These arguments were denied by the ex-president of the New Israel Fund and law professor at Georgetown University Law Center, Peter Edelman, who described NGO Monitor's criticism as "un-democratic and un-Jewish" and "inherently and fundamentally flawed."[37] Larry Garber, then Executive Director of the New Israel Fund, and Eliezer Yaari, then NIF's Israel Director and a retired Israeli air force major,[38] wrote in an op-ed for The Jerusalem Post that if Israel were to accept the premises of Gerald Steinberg, the director of NGO Monitor, then "Israel's credibility - and, more important, the nation's morality - will suffer."[39] Ongoing public debate in 2009 and 2010 about the NIF's funding practices continues, with NGO Monitor calling for the NIF to draw a firm line regarding funding those organizations which "support activities designed to promote the NGO Durban strategy to isolate Israel."[40] NGO Monitor decried NIF’s use of “uncivil rhetroric” including being accused of "McCarthyism",[41] being called “extremist”,[42] and more.[43]

On October 12, 2006, NGO Monitor made a submission to the government of the United Kingdom on the funding of Israeli NGOs.[44]

On August 31, 2009, NGO Monitor made a submission to Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism, regarding "Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and the “Durban Strategy”: The Emergence of an Antisemitic Global Movement" explaining in detail the Canadian government funding for NGOs promoting the Durban Strategy.[45]

In January 2010, Gerald Steinberg brought a case before the European Court of Justice arguing that it was wrong of the European Commission to withhold some of the contents of over 200 financial documents which NGO Monitor had requested, regarding the funding of Israeli and Palestinian NGOs.[46][47] In November 2012, the court said that NGO Monitor could not receive the financial documents regarding 16 projects of human rights organizations in Israel, calling it "in part, manifestly inadmissible and, in part, manifestly lacking any foundation in law".[46] The EU commented "that the Middle East is an unstable region, and therefore such information may pose a danger to human rights groups." Steinberg said that "for over 10 years the EU has been keeping the information regarding funding of NGOs in complete secrecy. My conclusion is that they have something to hide. In addition to a violation of basic principles of government transparency, the secret funding is trying to manipulate the democratic process in Israel." Michael Sfard, a lawyer specializing in international human rights law said Steinberg "invents demons and then chases them...All the data about the donations of foreign countries to Israeli human rights organizations are published on the Web sites of the organizations, as required by law."[48]

In 2013, NGO Monitor issued a report on the findings of a the 2011 Israeli law, which requires Israeli non-governmental organizations to disclose financial contributions from foreign donors and governments. The report assessed that foreign funding of Israeli NGOs totaled NIS 34,355,579 in 2012.[49] Gerald Steinberg, president of NGO Monitor, called the new law an “international model for transparency.” Steinberg also stated his opinion that "the amount of foreign funding going to NGOs involved in polarizing activity in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict as 'alarming.'"[49] The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) spokesman Marc Grey stated that donors to ACRI were already listed on its website making the law "redundant", the donations allowed organizations to protect human rights and freedoms, adding that "the basis for Israel's relations with democratic countries is shared values – democracy and human rights above all – the State of Israel itself is a recipient of funds from these very same countries, in the framework of trade agreements, investments, loans, and donations."[49] A spokesman for B'tselem said the information had been published on their website for years and said that NGO Monitor is a group of "Israeli government apologists masquerading as an objective watchdog. They do not even practice what they preach in terms of their own transparency and their sloppy, third-rate research."[49] Naftali Balanson, writing on behalf of NGO Monitor, in the Jerusalem Post, responded by saying that while 2011 data had been listed, the B'Tselem website was updated to include the information for 2012 on 5 February 2013. Balanson states that this was after the NGO Monitor report was published, "verified based on the date of the webpage and the dates of the PDFs posted on it."[50]

Reception

Dr. Yoaz Hendel, Israeli columnist at Yediot Aharonot, says that NGO Monitor is a "serious voice in the field."[51]

The Forward, in an article written by Nathan Jeffay in January 2011, says that NGO Monitor is "Israel’s most prominent watchdog of human rights groups".[52]

Jennifer Rubin, writing in the Washington Post in December 2010 says that NGO Monitor is "an organization that investigates and sharply criticizes many self-described human rights groups as thinly disguised anti-Israel outfits."[53]

Yossi Alpher, writing in the Forward, says that since their inception, NGO Monitor has "exposed the manipulation of some human rights campaigns to malign Israel unjustly and even to undermine its viability as a Jewish state." Alpher also states that the information revealed by NGO Monitor regarding Human Rights Watch was "validated" by HRW founder Robert Bernstein. But Alpher also complains that NGO Monitor "seems dead set on eliminating human rights monitoring of Israel entirely and smearing anyone who supports this vital activity."[54]

In 2007, The Economist and Jewish Telegraphic Agency identified NGO Monitor as a pro-Israel non-governmental organization.[9][10]

Criticism

Yehudit Karp, a member of the International Council of the New Israel Fund and a former Deputy Attorney General of Israel, said that NGO Monitor has released information "it knew to be wrong, along with some manipulative interpretation."[55]

According to Naomi Chazan, former New Israel Fund president, NGO Monitor is "tied to the national-religious right".[56]

The New Israel Fund said in May 2011 that NGO Monitor "knowingly published false information in its newsletter," regarding the NIF funding of Coalition of Women for Peace (CWP). NIF stated that NGO Monitor's director was provided the correct information verbally in advance.[57] NGO Monitor responded that their report was based on NIF grant information, which is public.[58] NIF's rejoinder stated that their public records lag the end of the reporting year by several months, but reiterated that updated information was provided to NGO Monitor verbally. They also stated that they asked CWP to remove mention of NIF's name from the CWP website.[59]

In July 2009, HRW issued a statement saying that "NGO Monitor...conducts no field investigations and condemns anyone who criticizes Israel".[60]

Uriel Heilman, a Managing Editor for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) and a senior reporter for the Jerusalem Post, wrote in an online opinion column that there were a "couple of disingenuous (read: inaccurate) elements" in the May 2009 digest of NGO Monitor. Heilman rhetorically asked whether the situation itself was "enough for Steinberg and NGO Monitor's followers without Steinberg having to stretch the truth?" Gerald Steinberg, head of NGO Monitor, later conceded the phrasing was confusing and revised the statement.[61]

Kathleen Peratis, a member of the board of Human Rights Watch called into question the research methodology underlying an op-ed by NGO Monitor's Steinberg for not saying specifically where or when HRW statements have been unverifiable.[62] She also has criticized, in 2006, NGO Monitor for accusations against Human Right Watch and its "executive director, whose father fled Nazi Germany". Peratis took issue with an op-ed by NGO Monitor's Gerald Steinberg titled "Ken Roth's Blood Libel",[63] and argues those like NGO Monitor "who want selective exemption of Israel from the rules of war" may not "have faced the implications of getting what they wish for."[64]

In 2009 David Newman criticized NGO Monitor for concentrating, "almost entirely with a critique of peace-related NGOs and especially those which focus on human rights, as though there were no other NGOs to examine." He said that NGO Monitor, which he describes as a right-wing organization, had consistently refused requests to investigate the activities and funding of right-wing NGOs, many of which, Newman said, were facilitating illegal activity in the West Bank.[65] In response, NGO Monitor wrote that they are "an independent research organization, providing detailed, systematic, and source-based analysis and publications regarding the activities of NGOs in the Arab-Israeli conflict. The ideological label employed by Newman, “right wing,” is neither accurate nor relevant."[66] Newman also criticized NGO Monitor again in 2009, as well as in 2010 and 2012.[67][68]

Political Orientation

NGO Monitor published a press release in 2010 regarding Electronic Intifada[69] focusing on a grant EI receives from the Dutch foundation ICCO. In response, Electronic Intifada wrote that "NGO Monitor is an extreme right-wing group with close ties to the Israeli government, military, West Bank settlers, a man convicted of misleading the US Congress, and to notoriously Islamophobic individuals and organizations in the United States."[70]

According to Naomi Chazan NGO Monitor is closely linked to a "tightly knit, coordinated set of associations" whose goal is to undermine liberal voices in Israel and entrench a negative image of them by means of having "continuously hammered away at their key message - in this instance, the abject disloyalty of certain civil society organizations and their funders and their collusion with Israel's most nefarious external detractors." Chazan states the aim is that "by reinforcing this mantra by every available means, innuendo could be transformed into fact".[56]

According to a United States diplomatic cable, uncovered in the Wikileaks documents, Prof. Gerald Steinberg said that "he did not want the NGO legislation to feed into the delegitimizing rhetoric, but that such an unintended consequence might be an acceptable cost to reduce the power of the NGOs' current monopolization of human rights rhetoric for politicized purposes."[71]

In a 2009 opinion column he writes for The Jerusalem Post, Larry Derfner asserted that "NGO Monitor doesn't have a word of criticism for Israel, nor a word of acknowledgment, even grudging, for any detail in any human rights report that shows Israel to be less than utterly blameless. In fact, on the subject of Israel's human rights record, NGO Monitor doesn't have a word of disagreement with the Prime Minister's Office," he wrote.[72]

John H. Richardson, writing in Esquire Magazine's online magazine in 2009 described NGO Monitor as a "rabidly partisan organization that attacks just about anyone who dares to criticize Israel on any grounds." It notes that Steinberg is dedicated to fighting "the narrative war," and has made a "special project" of attacking Human Rights Watch.[73]

Didi Remez, a former spokesperson for the Peace Now group and former consultant to BenOr Consulting,[74] (which was co-founded by Jeremy Ben-Ami of J Street),[75] said NGO Monitor "is not an objective watchdog: It is a partisan operation that suppresses its perceived ideological adversaries through the sophisticated use of McCarthyite techniques – blacklisting, guilt by association and selective filtering of facts."[76]

In an op-ed published in 2005 by Forward, Leonard Fein, a former Professor of Politics and Klutznick Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies at Brandeis University, takes issue with NGO Monitor's statement that Human Rights Watch (HRW) places “extreme emphasis on critical assessments of Israel” and has issued more reports about HRW than on any other of the 75 NGOs it concerns itself with. In his op-ed, Leonard Fein writes that HRW has devoted more attention to five other nations in the region — Iraq, Sudan, Egypt, Turkey and Iran — than they have to Israel; but that, despite extensive correspondence, Mr Steinberg has failed to correct the "misleading" statement about HRW on the NGO Watch website. Fein argues that NGO Monitor may not be free of the "narrow political and ideological preferences” of which it accuses HRW.[77] The Forward writes NGO Monitor says it has increased Human Right Watch's reporting on Hamas, Hezbollah and the Palestinian authority while Human Rights Watch has rejected the statements and said it was dealing with counterterrorism in a post-9/11 world.[78]

In a 2004 article for the Political Research Associates, Jean Hardisty and Elizabeth Furdon describe NGO Monitor as a "conservative NGO watchdog group,...which focuses on perceived threats to Israeli interests", adding that "the ideological slant of NGO Monitor's work is unabashedly pro-Israeli. It does not claim to be a politically neutral examination of NGO activities and practices."[79]

Ittijah, Union of Arab Community Based Organisations in Israel, has said NGO Monitor represents the interests and the say of the Israeli state rather than civil society’s voice based on human rights values. Ittijah further states that NGO Monitor is guided by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[80]

In January 2010, thirteen Israeli human rights organizations released a common statement which described NGO Monitor and Im Tirtzu as "extremist", and criticised an "unbridled and incendiary attack" by them against human rights groups.[81]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "About NGO Monitor". NGO Monitor.
  2. ^ "2008 Annual Report" (PDF). NGO Monitor. 2008. Retrieved 9 June 2010.
  3. ^ NGO Monitor: Staff
  4. ^ About the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
  5. ^ a b [1]
  6. ^ Registration number 580465508
  7. ^ Non-Profit Listing
  8. ^ Non-Profit Listing
  9. ^ a b Boycotting Israel: New pariah on the block, The Economist, September 13, 2007.
  10. ^ a b Ha'aretz columnist dropped by British Zionists, JTA, August 31, 2007.
  11. ^ Bar Ilan University Faculty Info
  12. ^ a b http://www.ngo-monitor.org/pdf/NGOM_signed_audit2010english.pdf
  13. ^ http://www.ngo-monitor.org/data/images/File/NGOM_signed_audit2011english.pdf
  14. ^ a b העמותה שעוקבת אחר ארגוני השמאל לא רוצה שתדעו מי תורם לה
  15. ^ Peters, Joel (2012). The European Union and the Arab Spring: Promoting Democracy and Human Rights in the Middle East. Lexington Books. p. 85. ISBN 0739174452.
  16. ^ Letter to Prof. Joel Peters, author: The European Union and the Arab Spring
  17. ^ Directory of Non Governmental Agencies Alphabetical by Country
  18. ^ NGO Monitor Reports on Durban at website
  19. ^ NGO Leadership in Boycott and Divestment Campaigns
  20. ^ Durban Review Conference 2009 at NGO Monitor site
  21. ^ [2]
  22. ^ [3]
  23. ^ a b European Jewish Press: EU to discuss Middle East NGOs funding
  24. ^ a b The Jerusalem Post: Major NGOs skip 'unfair' monitoring conference
  25. ^ "Christian Aid (UK)". NGO Monitor.
  26. ^ a b "Human Rights Groups are Working Against Peace". NGO Monitor.
  27. ^ "´Political Humanitarianism´ and Medical NGOs", NGO Monitor website. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
  28. ^ Report: "Activity Summary of Human Rights Watch March 2003 - March 2004"|work=NGO Monitor
  29. ^ "Experts or Ideologues: Systematic Analysis of Human Rights Watch"
  30. ^ Minority Report: Human Rights Watch fights a civil war over Israel, by Benjamin Birnbaum, April 27, 2010
  31. ^ a b c Fredman, Asher Ahuvia (August 26, 2004). "Asleep at the Wheel: Comparing the Performance of Human Rights NGO's on Sudan and Arab-Israeli Issues". NGO Monitor. Retrieved 2006-07-27.
  32. ^ NGO Monitor: Ford Foundation NGO Funding Update
  33. ^ netWMD: "Stunning Reversal"
  34. ^ Forward: Ford Foundation Backs Proponents of Peace
  35. ^ Betselem: Report Uses Outdated Sources and the Rhetoric of Demonization, NGO Monitor Analysis (Vol. 2 No. 12), August 15, 2004.
  36. ^ NGO Monitor Mission Statement
  37. ^ NGO Monitor: Exchange of letters on NIF transparency and accountability
  38. ^ Jewish Tribune: New Israel Fund director responds to criticism
  39. ^ The Jerusalem Post: Who's really damaging Israel's image?
  40. ^ NGO Monitor Calls on New Israel Fund to draw Red Lines
  41. ^ McCarthyism - Pure and Simple
  42. ^ NIF letter to President Peres
  43. ^ NIF Funds NGOs which assisted the UN Goldstone Commission
  44. ^ The humanitarian and development situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Oral and written evidence By Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. International Development Committee. (Session 2007-08). Published by The Stationery Office, 2008 ISBN 0-215-52319-9 p 79
  45. ^ Submission to Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism
  46. ^ a b Court of Justice of the European Union (27 November 2012). "Order Of The General Court (Fifth Chamber), Case T‑17/10". Retrieved 26 December 2012.
  47. ^ Dan Izenberg (21 January 2010). "NGO Monitor turns to EU court for transparency". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
  48. ^ Chaim Levinson (25 December 2012). "EU court rejects NGO Monitor petition to release details on Israeli rights groups". Haaretz. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
  49. ^ a b c d Groups spar with NGO Monitor over foreign funding Jpost 2013
  50. ^ Israeli political NGOs and the transparency law
  51. ^ Copy of Yediot Acharanot, September 2012
  52. ^ Does Arab Money Fund Left-wing Israeli NGOs?
  53. ^ Mourning on International Human Rights Day
  54. ^ Forward NGO Monitor needs a monitor
  55. ^ NGO Monitor and Adalah: The thinly veiled agenda
  56. ^ a b Chazman, Naomi (2012). Israel in the World: Legitimacy and Exceptionalism. Routledge. pp. 79–80. ISBN 0415624150.
  57. ^ [4]
  58. ^ Letter to Rachel Liel - NIF-Israel Executive Director
  59. ^ [5]
  60. ^ [6]
  61. ^ JTA: Playing fast and loose with the facts at NGO Monitor
  62. ^ The Washington Post: Diversionary Strike On a Rights Group
  63. ^ Jerusalem Post: Ken Roth's blood libel
  64. ^ dyn/content/article/2006/08/29/AR2006082901045.html The Washington Post: Diversionary Strike On a Rights Group
  65. ^ NEWMAN, DAVID (11/30/2009). "Borderline Views: Who's monitoring the monitor?". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 6/5/2012. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
  66. ^ Newman is wrong on NGO Monitor
  67. ^ Left and right at the lectern
  68. ^ Borderline Views: Time to promote the humanities
  69. ^ NGO Monitor Press Release: Dutch Government Funding for Antisemitic "Electronic Intifada"
  70. ^ [7]
  71. ^ Knesset Considers Controversial Ngo Legislation To Register As Foreign Agents
  72. ^ Derfner, Larry (2009-07-22). "Rattling the Cage: The smearing of human rights organizations". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 2009-08-18.
  73. ^ Richardson, John (2009-10). "Why Is This Good Man Getting Hung Out to Dry?". Esquire Magazine. Retrieved 2010-03-29. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  74. ^ BenOr Staff
  75. ^ Jewish group pays PR firm co-owned by its president
  76. ^ Didi Remez: Bring on the transparency (Haaretz, Nov. 26, 2009)
  77. ^ Leonard Fein (2005-05-20). "Monitoring The Monitor". Jewish Daily Forward.
  78. ^ Human Rights Watch To Increase Focus on Terrorism, Marc Perelman, July 29, 2005, The Forward, [8]
  79. ^ Policing Civil Society Spring 2004, Political Research Associates
  80. ^ Ittijah: Statement on Israel’s Pronouncement to Boycott
  81. ^ Re: Assault and delegitimization of human rights organizations in Israel – warning and request of meeting (ACRI, Jan. 31st, 2010)

Publications

  • Best Practices for Human Rights and Humanitarian NGO Fact-Finding; Gerald Steinberg, Anne Herzberg, Jordan Berman; ISBN 9004218114 [9]
  • The Goldstone Report 'Reconsidered': A Critical Analysis; Gerald Steinberg and Anne Herzberg; ISBN 9659179308 [10]
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