Activity

• Ireland, via its program for overseas development Irish Aid, provides millions of euros through direct and indirect funding processes to politicized non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating in Ireland, Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza.
• Organizations receiving Irish funding lead campaigns and political activities that are inconsistent with Ireland’s policies to promote peace and a two-state framework in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Some of these groups also promote antisemitic rhetoric and have alleged ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) – a designated terrorist organization by the US, EU, Canada, and Israel.
• In 2024, Ireland’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) to the West Bank and Gaza was €30.5 million.

Direct Funding from the Irish Government

Irish Aid Funding to Palestinian NGOs

• In 2024, Addameer received €100,000 from Irish Aid.
  • Addameer is an official PFLP “affiliate” and several of Addameer’s current and former employees, as well as lawyers that work for Addameer, are linked to the terror group.
  • On October 22, 2021, the Israeli Ministry of Defense declared Addameer a “terror organization” because it is part of “a network of organizations” that operates “on behalf of the ‘Popular Front’.”
  • In June 2025, the US Department of Treasury sanctioned Addameer for “being owned, controlled, or directed by, or for having acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, the PFLP.”
• In 2024, Al-Haq received €100,000 from Irish Aid.
  • Al-Haq is a leader in anti-Israel “lawfare” campaigns and BDS activities.
  • On October 22, 2021, the Israeli Ministry of Defense declared Al-Haq a “terror organization” because it is part of “a network of organizations” that operates “on behalf of the ‘Popular Front’.”
  • In September 2025, the US State Department imposed sanctions on Al-Haq for “directly engag[ing] in efforts by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute Israeli nationals, without Israel’s consent.”
  • Al-Haq officials have celebrated and defended the murder of Israeli civilians – including the October 7th massacre.
    • On October 10, 2023, Al-Haq Head of the Training and Capacity Building Unit Ziad Hmaidan wrote on Facebook, “It is written in the Hadith: ‘You must wage jihad. The best jihad is preparing for war, and it is best to prepare for war in Ashkelon’.”
    • On October 10, 2023, Al-Haq Legal Researcher and Advocacy Officer Ahmed Abofoul tweeted, “It is outrageous to call on Palestinian resistance (permitted by international law) to CEASE its attacks while asking the occupying power ONLY to respect IHL.”
• In 2024, Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) received €100,000 from Irish Aid.
  • According to a 1995 article in the Washington Report, Raji Sourani served “a three-year sentence [1979-1982] imposed by an Israeli court which convicted him of membership in the illegal Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine…” He was also denied a US entry visa in 2012.
  • In February 2014, the PFLP organized a ceremony in Gaza honoring PCHR director Raji Sourani for winning the “Alternative Noble (sic) Prize.”
    • On October 7, 2023, PCHR Fundraising and Program Officer Feda’a Murjan posted on Facebook, “We will truly step in our land. Allah, you are our protector and supporter.”
    • On May 13, 2023, in the context of the May 2023 conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), PCHR published a statement in which it  “affirms the right of the Palestinian people to resist the occupation by all available means, including armed struggle, all the way to achieve their legitimate rights, end the occupation and establish their independent state” (emphasis added).
      • Following pressure from European donors, PCHR altered the text to read: “to resist the occupation by all legitimate means in accordance with international law.”
• In 2024, Jerusalem Legal Aid & Human Rights Centre (JLAC) received €100,000 from Irish Aid.
  • JLAC is highly active in promoting BDS campaigns, lobbying international bodies, and utilizing highly inflammatory rhetoric.
  • In October 2023, in the aftermath of the brutal Hamas attack on October 7, JLAC was a signatory on a statement calling to “emphasize that the root causes of these events is the illegal occupation of Palestine by Israel.”
  • In October 2023, JLAC was a signatory on a letter to ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan to “Issue Arrest Warrants, Investigate Israeli Crimes and Intervene to Deter Incitement to Commit Genocide in Gaza.”
• In 2024, Miftah received €100,000 from Irish Aid.
  • Miftah regularly promotes “resistance” (a euphemism for terror attacks) and glorifies terrorists.
  • On February 10, 2025, MIFTAH falsely accused Israel of committing a “reproductive genocide against Palestinians,” alleging that it is “a practice that has been used since the Nakba” (meaning, since Israel gained independence in 1948).
  • In October 2024, MIFTAH falsely accused Israel of deploying “sexual violence as a weapon of genocide.”
  • On October 27, 2023, in an interview for Democracy Now!, founder and chair of MIFTAH’s Board of Directors Hanan Ashrawi denied Hamas’ atrocities on October 7, calling accusations of massacres, rape, and beheading of children “nonsense.”
  • In March 2013, Miftah published an article written by Nawaf al-Zaru that repeated the antisemitic blood libel that Jews use Christian blood to bake Passover matzah.

Irish Aid Funding to Israeli NGOs

• In 2024, Bimkom received €100,000 from Irish Aid.
  • Bimkom regularly files petitions in an attempt to alter government policies related to spatial planning, planning procedures, and Bedouin communities.
  • In May 2025, Bimkom was a signatory on a statement claiming, “Israel’s commission of war crimes, which could also amount to crimes against humanity, must not be met with continued silence and inaction by the international community.”
• In 2024, Gisha received €100,000 from Irish Aid.
  • Gisha employs “apartheid” rhetoric and vocabulary based on international law and human rights to promote a partisan political and ideological agenda.
  • In May 2025, Gisha was a signatory on a statement claiming, “Israel is deliberately inflicting conditions that make life impossible in Gaza, with the declared goal of carrying out ethnic cleansing.”
• In 2024, Yesh Din received €100,000 from Irish Aid.
  • Yesh Din is central to the allegations that Israeli investigative and court systems are unable or unwilling to investigate allegations of wrongdoing and is part of a wider “lawfare” strategy of pressing “war crimes” cases against Israeli officials in foreign courts and in the International Criminal Court (ICC). These campaigns use faulty information and skewed statistics to promote their political claims.
  • In July 2025, Yesh Din was a signatory on a joint NGO letter to the European Commission High Representative/Vice President Kaja Kallas, pressing for a review of the “full spectrum of systematic & escalating violations of human rights and humanitarian law- both in Gaza and in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.” The signatories also demanded “accountability” for Israel.  
• In 2024, Comet-ME received €100,000 from Irish Aid.
  • Comet-ME’s work is highly political and may be in violation of Israeli law. In an article regarding building in Area C of the West Bank, co-founder Elad Orian stated, “We don’t get any permits [from the Israeli Civil Administration], so we simply build without.”
• In 2023, Ir Amim received €25,000 from Irish Aid.
  • Ir Amim’s activities consistently promote a one-sided Palestinian narrative, accusing Israel of the “Judaization” of Jerusalem, and alleging without evidence that the security barrier’s supposedly “demographic rationale therefore outweighs its security rationale.”
  • In June 2024, following the ICC Prosecutor’s announcement that he was seeking arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Galant, Ir Amim published a joint report claiming, “The requested warrants against Netanyahu and Galant enumerate the crimes of starvation, extermination and deliberate attacks against civilian population.”
• In 2023, Geneva Initiative received €34,000 from Irish Aid.

Irish Aid Funding to NGOs Active in the Arab-Israeli Conflict (amounts in €)

Norwegian Refugee Council

• In 2024, Norwegian Refugee Council received €400,000 from Irish Aid.
  • Norwegian Refugee Council engages in lawfare and international delegitimization campaigns against Israel.
  • One of NRC’s principle projects in Israel, “Information, counseling, and legal assistance (ICLA),” exploits judicial frameworks to manipulate Israeli policy, bypassing democratic frameworks.
    • ICLA’s interventions in Israeli courts and other venues “beneficiary targets” include: “3628 opened and continuing cases for legal assistance in the West Bank (West Bank 612 new and 3016 continuing), 40 advocacy briefings given on specific HLP and residency issues (verbal or written), 10 of instances information is submitted to other UN mechanisms, and 75 public interest cases challenging unjust HLP issues.”
  • A lawyer affiliated with the NRC program stated that the objective of these cases are an attempt to “try every possible legal measure to disrupt the Israeli judicial system…as many cases as possible are registered and that as many cases as possible are appealed to increase the workload of the courts and the Supreme Court to such an extent that there will be a blockage” (emphasis added).
  • NRC is a key implementer of cash assistance coordinated by the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Social Development (MoSD) and  acknowledges this cooperation with MoSD: “NRC fosters strong partnerships with national and local authorities, particularly with the MoSD in Gaza and the West Bank, ensuring targeted assistance through the Gaza Protection Consortium’s cash programming.” (Read NGO Monitor’s report on “Hamas Influences UK Funded Gaza Cash Programme.”)

Indirect Funding from Irish Aid to Israeli and Palestinian NGOs

Trocaire

• In 2024, Trócaire, the “overseas development agency of the Catholic Church in Ireland,” received €30.5 million from Irish Aid.
• Trócaire funds highly politicized and biased NGOs that support BDS and engage in anti-peace rhetoric against Israel including BADIL, Al-Haq, Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI), Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), Gisha, Who Profits, Caritas Jerusalem, Medical Aid for Palestinians, and Gaza Community Mental Health Programme. Trócaire does not disclose the extent of these partnerships, nor the amounts given to these NGOs.
• In September 2024, Trocaire was a signatory on a letter to the UK Secretary of State calling to “undertake a thorough review of the existing UK-Israel Trade and Partnership Agreement and its associated trade privileges, as well as its current negotiating strategy with Israel on a new free trade agreement, so as to ensure that the UK government is acting in full compliance with its international obligations in response to Israel’s internationally wrongful acts…it is necessary for the UK government to suspend its existing trade agreement with Israel and the current negotiations.”
• In May 2024, Trocaire published a statement calling for Ireland to “enact[] the Occupied Territories Bill and Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill in Dáil Éireann, and ensuring that Irish taxpayer money is not used for military procurement from Israeli defence contractors or investments by the Irish Strategic Investment Fund in companies complicit in the illegal Israeli settlements or the war on Gaza.”

Christian Aid Ireland

• In 2024, Christian Aid Ireland received €5.5 million from Irish Aid.
• Christian Aid Ireland has provided funding to highly politicized and biased NGOs active in the Arab-Israeli conflict including Al-Haq, Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS), Agricultural Development Association (PARC), Culture and Free Thought Association, B’Tselem, and Zochrot.
• Christian Aid Ireland is active in lobbying elected officials and assists people in becoming a “local lobbyist” to aid in “fighting against injustice.”
• In May 2024, Christian Aid Ireland welcomed the announcement by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to seek arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Galant. According to Christian Aid Ireland, “After months of relentless slaughter in Gaza, efforts to have @IntlCrimCourt arrest those most responsible for war crimes are long overdue. The prosecution case for action is in stark contrast to the inexcusable failure by Western powers to bring about a permanent ceasefire.”

Front line – The International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders

• In 2024, Front line – The International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders received €700,000.
• Front Line promotes Omar Barghouti, co-founder of Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), who is active in promoting BDS and compares Israeli efforts to contain terrorism to the antisemitic polices of Nazi Germany as a “human rights defender.”
• Front Line has also promoted Manal Tamimi, a fieldworker for the Women’s Center for Legal Aid and Counseling (WCLAC), and Salah Khawaja, a “leader” with Stop the Wall.
  • Tamimi frequently utilizes antisemitic and violent rhetoric and imagery on social media. In August 2015, Tamimi tweeted, “I do hate Israel, i (sic) wish a thrid Intefada (sic) coming soon and people rais (sic) up and kills all these zionist settlers everywhere.”
  • Khawaja was “an active member of the blacklisted Popular Front Liberation Party.” Khawaja is also a “member of the secretariat of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement,” which purports to coordinate the “coalition of Palestinian organisations that leads and supports the BDS movement.”

International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)

• In 2024, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) received €250,000 from Irish Aid.
• The group, composed of 178 member organizations, supported campaigns including the BDS campaign against Orange (2015), promoted the EU product labeling guidelines, and participated in the NGO campaign at the UN Human Rights Council to establish a Commission of Inquiry targeting Israel following the 2014 Gaza War.
• FIDH engages in “lawfare,” supports BDS campaigns, and abuses its reputation as a human rights organization to condemn Israel in a variety of international forums.
• In November 2023, FIDH passed a resolution headlined, “Israel’s unfolding crime of genocide and other crimes in Gaza and against the Palestinian People.” (Read NGO Monitor’s analysis, “FIDH Declares Total Political War Against Israel”)
• In December 2024, FIDH, alongside Al-Haq, PCHR, Al Mezan, and the LDH (Ligue des droits de l’Homme), filed a civil complaint with the War Crimes Unit of the Paris Tribunal against a Franco-Israeli soldier “who served in Gaza in the course of Israel’s ongoing genocidal campaign against Palestinians. He is accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, torture, and complicity in these crimes committed against Palestinians in Israeli custody.”
  • As of July 2025, “no investigation has been opened on this filing.”
• In November 2024,FIDH, alongside Al-Haq, Al Mezan, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) and Ligue des droits de l’Homme (LDH) planned to file a complaint for complicity to commit torture with the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the French War Crimes Unit against Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich, who had intended to visit France. Smotrich cancelled his trip.

Irish Indirect Funding

2018-2024 amounts to Israeli NGOs based on quarterly reports submitted to the Israeli Registrar for Non-Profits

Funding via the United Nations

UN-OCHA oPt Humanitarian Fund

• In 2024, Ireland provided $957,331 to the UN-OCHA occupied Palestinian territory Humanitarian Fund.
• Several PFLP-linked NGOs, including UAWC, UHWC, and PCHR, are regular recipients of disbursements from the “occupied Palestinian territory Humanitarian Fund.”

UNICEF

• In 2023, Ireland provided UNICEF with $98,713.
• UNICEF spearheads a campaign to have Israel included on a UN blacklist of “grave” violators of children’s rights. The list appears as an annex to the UN Secretary-General’s annual report on Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC). This political agenda is a primary facet of UNICEF’s activities relating to Israel, completely inconsistent with its mandate of “child protection” and from its guidelines for neutrality and impartiality. (Read NGO Monitor’s report “UNICEF and its NGO Working Group: Failing Children.”)