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"The advocacy group NGO Monitor has assembled a list of more than 25 such organisations that receive a significant part of their funding from the EU and member governments. One recent example is the “Breaking the Silence” organisation, which last week published a report containing soldiers’ testimony from Operation Cast Lead in Gaza six months ago. They have received funding from the EU, and the governments of Holland and Britain. British funding has also gone to human rights organisations like Yesh Din and Machsom Watch, which operate in the West Bank, and Peace Now. “On what basis are these governments supporting groups with an anti-Israel agenda?” asked Prof Gerald Steinberg, executive director of NGO Monitor. “We are not saying that these groups shouldn’t exist but I don’t know of any similar case in which democratic governments fund organisations that are campaigning against the policies of other democratic governments.”"