NGO Monitor analyzes the results of the internal review by the European Commission of all ongoing funding to Palestinians, which had been frozen in response to the 7 October Hamas massacre in Israel.
On October 25, 2023, the Swiss Foreign Ministry announced suspension of funding for 11 NGOs. In response, the NGOs and their allies launched a media campaign to reverse this decision.
In October 2023, the newly-launched Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (ICSZ) will host a two-day conference, “Battling the ‘IHRA definition’: Theory & Activism,”
On July 28, the major German news magazine Der Spiegel reported that the German Ministry of Interior supports Israel’s 2021 decision designating 6 Palestinian NGOs as terrorist entities. Germany and other European governments are the major funders for these groups, providing millions annually.
Members of PCHR’s board have encouraged and justified violence against Israelis, as well as celebrated terrorists, both before and during the May 2023 conflict.
On May 21, NGO Monitor sent a letter to the European Parliament's Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) regarding an event featuring Al Mezan and Save the Children.
On May 8, 2023, Israel announced that it had arrested a six-member cell from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) responsible for manufacturing and planting a bomb on a bus in the town of Beitar Illit, on March 9, 2023. Based on open-source information, NGO Monitor has determined that at least two members of the cell have ties to European-funded NGOs.
Each year around May 15, the network of anti-Israel NGOs) marks the "Nakba" to describe the establishment of the State of Israel. This year, many of the NGO events reference the 75th anniversary of 1948 in promoting divisive campaigns
Who Profits maintains an interactive map launched in December 2021 to illustrate “how Israel’s long-standing policies to Judaize and industrialize serve to dispossess the Naqab’s Palestinian Bedouin inhabitants.”
On May 2, 2023, senior PIJ member Khader Adnan died following a 86-day-long hunger strike and refusal to receive medical treatment from the Israeli Prisons Service. Palestinian, Israeli, and international NGOs conspicuously erased his PIJ leadership, except for some that celebrated his links to the violent terror group.
