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"Diker, along with D.J. Schneeweiss, a Foreign Affairs Ministry strategist, and NGO Monitor’s Gerald Steinberg was speaking at a session of the International Consultation of Jewish Parliamentarians, during an interparliamentary session titled, “The assault on Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people.”" "Using a Power Point presentation, NGO Monitor’s Gerald Steinberg spoke about the “political attempt to wipe Israel off the map” and warned in particular about large amounts of funding going to organizations actively engaged in delegitimization campaigns. Many of these organizations, he said, claim to promote human rights while isolating Israel with largely false information and propaganda techniques. Even in European democratic governments, the funding for these organizations is passed without parliamentary supervision, he said. Steinberg said the fact that these organizations have paid only lip service to kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Schalit’s cause “is fundamentally immoral.” “These organizations have largely dropped the ball because this is not on their agenda,” he said, adding other people facing oppression or crimes of humanity are being neglected due to this focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."