Old Correspondence
Letter to Tony Blair, re: NGOs publication of The Middle East Quartet A Progress Report
[Excerpt:] For many years, these NGOs have waged a one-sided campaign against Israel, and this has continued in the publication entitled The Middle East Quartet A Progress Report, issued September 25, 2008 by Oxfam, Christian Aid, CARE, World Vision, and other highly politicized groups. As in previous NGO statements, this publication consists exclusively of allegations against Israel, while ignoring Palestinian terror and the difficult decisions Israel must take to provide legitimate self-defense to its population. The report contains numerous false, misleading, and unsubstantiated claims, and manipulates international and humanitarian law to attack Israel.
Correspondence with NIF on NGO Monitors Adalah funding report
In the wake of NGO Monitors report Adalah: Abusing Civil Rights to Delegitimize Israel, NIF responded to NGO Monitor confirming its support for Adalah. In response, Prof. Gerald Steinberg articulates why NIFs defense of its Adalah funding remains unconvincing and challenges NIF to undertake an independent review of Adalah and reconsider its contribution to the NGO.
NGO Monitor and Christian Aid Correspondence with European Voice: Support for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
On June 12, 2008, the European Voice published an op-ed by NGO Monitors Daniel Fink (EUs lack of transparency worsens the Arab-Israeli conflict), in which Christian Aid is listed amongst the supporters of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns. In response to the op-ed, Christian Aids Director Daleep Mukarji claims that Christian Aid does not support BDS. In reply, Mr. Fink demonstrates that Christian Aid provides "financial, logistical, institutional, and other forms of support to various NGOs and conferences that are centrally involved" in BDS campaigns and does not repudiate this strategy.
NGO Monitor Correspondence with Director of Christian Aid on Durban II Funding
A correspondence between NGO Monitor and Christian Aid Director Daleep Mukarji. In response to queries about Christian Aids participation in the first Durban conference and potential involvement in the Durban 2009 Review Conference, Christian Aid states that it did not fund the 2001 World Conference against Racism in Durban and does not intend to send a representative of our Middle East programme to the 2009 conference.
Response to Nicolas Kristofs op-ed "The Two Israels"
In his oped, Nicolas Kristof (June 22, The Two Israels) illustrates the danger of the halo effect that surrounds many powerful non-governmental organizations, which use distorted human rights claims to promote ideological agendas. While otherwise very professional journalists question and independently verify the claims of governments, corporations, and others, the statements of groups that assert moral objectives tend to be taken at face value. Expropriating human rights rhetoric for partisan claims, erasing the context and complexity of conflict situations, and applying human rights exclusively to one side of a conflict is morally unacceptable. Such biased approaches from NGOs have severely undermined the ethical foundations and credibility of human rights, which are by definition universal and must be applied equally.
