European Parliament Event - Propaganda-Based Advocacy for Israel’s Isolation

The European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Palestine held a conference, “Fifty Years of Occupation and Counting: Is it time for a new EU Policy on the Middle East Peace Process?” The conference featured politicians, academics, and NGO officials advocating Israel’s isolation and calling on the European Union and other countries to increase international pressure and to impose sanctions on Israel. None of the speakers advocated for dialogue and/or negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis.

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• 1993 Oslo Accords
• Apartheid Rhetoric
• BDS
• Bibi Netanyahu
• UN Security Council
• UN Special Rapporteur

French Funding to anti-French and anti-Israel Propaganda by UJFP

In October 2017, Union Juive Française pour la Paix (UJFP) released a series of ten video clips “Paroles juives contre le racisme” (“Jewish words against racism”). The videos feature highly incendiary remarks against the State of Israel, Zionism, and France. UJFP is active in discriminatory and illegal (according to the Court of Cassation) anti-Israel BDS (boycotts, divestment, and sanctions) campaigns in France and is a member of the Platform of the French NGOs for Palestine.

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• Antisemitism
• BDS
• Demonization
• European Funding
• Foreign Government Funding

Human Rights Watch Op-ed Repeats False and Distorted Claims on Palestinian Minors to Support Proposed BDS Legislation

On November 14, 2017, US Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN) proposed legislation “to prevent United States tax dollars from supporting the Israeli military’s ongoing detention and mistreatment of Palestinian children” – Bill van Esveld of Human Rights Watch (HRW) published an article on HuffPost in support of the bill. The opinion piece was only one example of HRW staffers promoting McCollum’s legislation.

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• 1993 Oslo Accords
• BDS
• DCIP
• False Allegations
• FIFA

• PLO
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• UN BDS Blacklist
• UN Human Rights Council (HRC)
• US Congress

EU Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy: False Claims, Contradictions, and Reliance on Advocacy NGOs

On October 16, 2017, the Council of the European Union adopted the EU Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy in the World in 2016. The report makes several misleading, inconsistent, and grossly inaccurate claims, as well as disregards a number of EU norms and official stances. The publication fails to provide references or any verifiable sources, violating basic rules of evidence. The degree to which these sections copy from and rely on problematic reports by advocacy NGOs highlights the broader issue of EU outsourcing of responsibility for analysis and policy-making without oversight.

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• BDS
• Human Rights
• Human Rights NGOs
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• UN Watch
• UNHRC

Breaking the Silence's International Activities: September 2012- June 2017

While Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence claims to primarily address Israeli audiences, its lobbying and advocacy efforts are geared toward international audiences and contribute to the delegitimization of Israel.

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• BDS
• Demonization
• Yehuda Shaul

The NGOs that Wrote McCollum’s Legislation on Children’s Rights

NGO Monitor research reveals that the NGO involvement in Congresswoman McCollum's legislation runs more deeply than endorsement from BDS NGOs. The entirety of the proposed bill is premised on factually inaccurate claims from anti-Israel advocacy NGOs, including direct quotes from DCIP’s “No Way to Treat a Child” 2016 report and website.

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• BDS
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)

Congressional Propaganda Campaign Exploits Palestinian Children

Legislation ostensibly addressing Israel and children’s rights, introduced in Congress yesterday by Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN), is the latest BDS strategy to demonize and impose sanctions on Israel, notes Jerusalem-based research institute NGO Monitor.

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• BDS
• Children
• Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC)
• DCIP
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• UNICEF

Amnesty-USA’s Newest Anti-Israel Hires

Amnesty International and its various country branches systematically hire researchers and campaigners with histories of anti-Israel activism. These employees write analyses on Israel that are both inaccurate and blatantly prejudiced, and advocate for BDS (boycotts, divestments, sanctions) campaigns.

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• BDS

Women Wage Peace and the Debate on Partisan NGO Funding

NGOs active in the Arab-Israeli conflict are at the center of intense partisan controversies in Israel, with the issue of funding featuring prominently in the debate. In the case of WWP, an openly political group that is trying to be non-partisan, this has had a direct effect over the NGO’s decision-making and overall strategy, particularly in relation to funding.

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• 2014 Gaza War
• BDS
• Funding
• Israeli NGOs
• NGO Funding

The UN’s Top Priority for Palestine: $18 million for More NGO-linked anti-Israel Lawfare

The United Nations Development Assistance Framework and the Palestinian Authority have signed a “strategic programming framework” for 2018-2022, providing over $1 billion to “support[] Palestine’s path to independence” and other “pillars of the government’s National Policy Agenda.”

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• 2001 Durban Conference
• BDS
• Humanitarian Aid
• Palestinian Authority

• UNICEF
• United Nations
• United Nations Development Assistance Framework