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Mennonite Central Committee, Ronald J.R. Mathies, Executive Director, in response to NGO Monitors Analysis of 15 October, 2004, October/ November 2004

Your report claims that MCC is diverting the resources provided for humanitarian activities and abusing them for political incitement and demonization of Israel. There are two mistakes in this claim. First, the implication that MCC is diverting resources unbeknownst to our donors is mistaken. As your report notes, MCC is a relief, service, and peace agency of various Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches in the United States and Canada. MCC is transparent about ...

"Barak: Israel Should Rethink Demolitions"

Supreme Court President Aharon Barak on Tuesday blasted the state for failing to respond to charges by the UN and international human rights...

"Body Shop Sorry for Palestinian Award"

The Body Shop, a British-based retailer of personal care products, is apologizing for a 2002 human rights award it gave to a Palestinian group...

"Abusing the Holocaust: The Role of NGOs in Exploiting Human Rights to Demonize Israel"

In the wake of the Holocaust, as human rights norms have come to the fore, NGOs have become major actors in international politics in general and in the Arab-Israeli conflict in particular. These organizations and their leaders form an extremely powerful NGO community that has propelled the anti-Israeli agenda in international frameworks such as the UN Human Rights Commission and the 2001 UN Conference against Racism in Durban...

"NGOs Make War on Israel"

The horrors of the Holocaust and the outrage over the failure of Allied powers to intervene provided the impetus for the creation of todays international human rights system, anchored in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights...