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"Development groups have rejected charges laid out by a Jerusalem-based NGO watchdog accusing Sweden’s aid community of sponsoring groups that contribute to the "demonization" of Israel. The Swedish groups’ reactions come in response to a report published earlier this week by Israeli group NGO Monitor focusing on the aid activities of Swedish development organization Diakonia. Formed in 1966 by an alliance of five Christian churches, Diakonia receives the majority of its funding from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), a state body that was also singled out for criticism in a June report from NGO Monitor. "A lot of the groups sponsored by Diakonia and Sida are radical in their nature and rhetoric and do little or nothing to promote peace in the region. If anything, they serve to increase hostility," NGO Monitor spokesman Dan Kosky told The Local."