NGOs such as B’Tselem, Adalah, and Breaking the Silence receive massive amounts of funding from foreign governments, claiming to promote a human rights agenda in Israel. In reality, these groups focus on delegitimizing and demonizing Israel before international audiences, seeking to generate external pressure outside of Israel’s democratic framework.
NGO Monitor deconstructs the claims of the president of the New Israel Fund, who defends Israeli human rights organizations and their recent statements condemning IDF responses to terror attacks from Gaza.
Following Hagai El-Ads appointment to head the NGO, BTselems unsupported factual and legal claims and blatant political agenda have multiplied, further reducing credibility.
BTselems Hitching a ride campaign is an immoral and cynical exploitation of the circumstances of the kidnapping of the three Israeli teenagers and reflects the NGOs partisan, political agenda.
The New Israel Fund distributes grants to a wide variety of Israeli NGOs active in demonization campaigns against Israel.
Zochrot, an Israeli NGO established with the aim of "rais[ing] public awareness of the Palestinian Nakba and "recognizing and materializing the right of return," actively supports the "one state solution," or a "de-Zionized Palestine."
On September 29, 2014, an official of Israeli NGO Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions (ICAHD) hosted an event in London aimed at exploring the current political situation in Israel and what activists can do to change it.
Transparency regarding government funding for NGOs transcends partisan ideology, and is essential for ensuring the values of democracy and accountability. (Full 2012 Update)
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