Amnesty International's Goldstone Campaign, with a review of statements from other NGOs

Amnesty International has issued 15 statements in support of the Goldstone Mission. Members of the commission and its staff have conflicts of interest involving Amnesty. Diakonia, Trocaire, Amnesty-Europe, FIDH, Adalah, PCHR, and Al Haq have used the Goldstone report to bolster their calls for war crimes cases. Palestinian NGOs press release calling on states to re-evaluate their relationship with Israel. BTselem condemned the Israeli government for not cooperating with the Goldstone mission and provided assistance to the investigative staff.

Topics

• Goldstone Report
• UN Human Rights Council (HRC)

House of Cards: NGOs and the Goldstone Report

Goldstone relies on statements, publications, and submissions from highly politicized and biased NGOs. This is inconsistent with the claim to have conducted a fact finding mission. By adopting the flawed methodologies, false claims, and distortions of international law from the NGOs, Goldstone renders his entire report and its conclusions invalid. The report includes more than 500 direct citations from NGOs that lack credibility. Goldstone and other members of the commission have conflicts of interest involving close links to HRW, Amnesty International, PCHR.

Topics

• Distortions
• Goldstone Report
• UN Human Rights Council (HRC)

HRW's Credibility Gap: 14 Versions of the Abed Rabbo "White Flags" Incident

Topics

• Demonization
• IDF

NGO Monitor: Detailed Israel FM Gaza Report Disproves NGO Allegations

Topics

• 2009 Gaza War
• Hamas
• Human Shields
• International Humanitarian Law
• Laws of Armed Conflict
• NGO Statements

HRW Plays Prominent Role at UN Mini-Durban Conference

On July 22-24, 2009, the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People held an NGO conference to discuss questions related to Israeli violations of international humanitarian law. Participants included Palestinian NGOs such as Badil, PCHR, and Al Haq, as well as Human Rights Watch and Israeli NGOs PHR-I, Keshev, and Adalah. HRW promoted the campaign to prevent Israel from purchasing weapons and demanded on-going international pressure on Israel. One speaker accused Jews of buying everything and controlling a global machine, money. Most NGO representatives expressed support for lawfare cases.

Topics

• Demonization
• Durban
• Lawfare
• Racism
• United Nations

HRW to Participate in anti-Israel UN Question of Palestine Event

Topics

• Lawfare
• United Nations

Focus: HRW and Amnesty: Pseudo-research promotes witch-hunt

Topics

• 2009 Gaza War
• BDS
• Demonization
• Goldstone Report
• IDF

• Lack of Evidence
• Lawfare
• United Nations
• War crimes
• white phosphorus

NGO Monitor Warns Goldstone Inquiry on Dangers of Biased NGO Claims

Topics

• 2009 Gaza War
• Apartheid Rhetoric
• Drones
• False Allegations
• Gilad Shalit

• Goldstone Report
• Human Shields
• International Humanitarian Law
• Lawfare
• Moral equivalency

• Political NGO Submissions
• pseudo-investigation
• UN fact finding committee
• United Nations
• white phosphorus

NGOs discover Iran's human rights violations

Amnesty, HRW, and FIDH have issued a number of statements on the Iranian governments suppression of demonstrations and related issues following the presidential election. NGOs call for restraint, investigations, and new elections. Before the elections, Iranian violations were not a high priority for HRW or FIDH. Despite its large and active Middle East division, HRW devotes few resources to Iran. The majority of Amnestys attention was through narrowly-focused and low-impact Urgent Actions, not in-depth reports.

Topics

• Disproportionate Focus
• Iran

NGO Monitor: Amnesty Plays Hamas Apologist in Gaza Report

Topics

• 2009 Gaza War
• Arms Embargo
• BDS
• Durban Strategy
• Gilad Shalit

• Human Shields
• International Humanitarian Law
• Lawfare
• Moral equivalency
• NGO Lack of Military Expertise

• pseudo-investigation
• War crimes
• Witness Testimony