Political NGOs receive massive amounts of funding from governments, both directly and indirectly via aid foundations. This funding is shrouded in secrecy: donors and recipients alike often fail to report the details of such funding, decision-making processes are hidden from public scrutiny, and governments refuse to release essential documentation.
Dutch Minister of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Sjoerd Sjoerdsma responded to two sets of parliamentary questions, submitted by MP Rajkowski (VVD) and MPs Markuszower and Lammers (Markuszower Group), respectively. Both sets of questions related to the findings of NGO Monitor’s reports.
Documents retrieved from Hamas’ Ministry of Interior and National Security (MoINS) in Gaza demonstrate that international NGO World Vision’s former director of Gaza operations, Mohammed el Halabi – who was convicted by Israel for diverting aid to Hamas – was an operative for the terror group.
The analysis is based on annual financial reports for 2020–2023 (the most recent comprehensive data available) submitted to the Israeli Registrar of Non-Profits (Rasham Amutot) by 40 Israeli NGOs engaged in political advocacy and receiving major foreign government funding
Captured Hamas documents analyzed by NGO Monitor indicate that German-funded NGOs in Gaza operated within a system tightly controlled by Hamas, which infiltrated NGO structures, dictated beneficiaries, and diverted humanitarian aid. This raises serious concerns about German taxpayer money supporting these activities.
Newly obtained internal Hamas documents demonstrate that close cooperation between the UK government and Hamas took place before the group was designated and continued afterwards, in apparent contravention of British policies.
Several organizations receiving Canadian government funding act in ways that directly contradict Canada’s stated values of peace and stability, through documented affiliations with terrorist entities and the promotion of hostile, anti-Israel rhetoric and activities.
Although the Government of Canada and the UN portray HAYA as being devoted to community-based and domestic violence against women, PCHR is exploiting this framework for anti-Israel demonization.
UK government documents reveal that Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) officials were aware of Hamas involvement and the significant diversion risks in Gaza cash-assistance programs. Yet, the FCDO pressed ahead providing millions of pounds in funding to such a mechanism.
Al-Haq, a Palestinian NGO linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) – an internationally designated terrorist organization – has pursued a strategy seeking to eliminate Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people and to legitimize violent attacks against its citizens.
Terror-linked organizations – including groups with ties to US-designated terrorist groups Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) – receive donations in the US from tax-exempt 501c3 charities, as well as through donor-advised and financial service providers.
