Trading Away Peace: How Biased Political NGOs Fuel Conflict
Contrary to the claims of the 22 NGOs, a two-state solution can only be achieved around the negotiating table, and not through politicized attacks against Israel.
Contrary to the claims of the 22 NGOs, a two-state solution can only be achieved around the negotiating table, and not through politicized attacks against Israel.
Under the faade of human rights and cooperation, AIC uses highly offensive rhetoric, and promotes BDS (boycotts, divestment, and sanctions), Gaza Freedom Flotillas, and other campaigns that do not contribute to peace.
Apparently, the Irish government is either oblivious to Trcaires extensive anti-peace activities, or the current government is knowingly carrying on a long tradition of Irish anti-Israel bias.
Irish Aid, Irelands assistance program for developing countries, funds Israeli, Palestinian, Irish, and international NGOs involved in the Arab-Israeli conflict, including many that participate in anti-Israel activities. The same is true for Trcaire, a church-based humanitarian aid framework that also receives government funds.
The RToP is a complete mockery of due process, repeating the slander that Israel "subjects the Palestinian people to an institutionalised regime of domination amounting to apartheid as defined under international law." As Judge Richard Goldstone wrote in the New York Times, "In Israel, there is no apartheid."
The Russell Tribunal on Palestine uses a legal faade to create an image of neutrality and credibility. Yet, the Tribunals starting point is that Israels breach of international law was assumed on the basis of UN resolutions and a number of reports including the discredited Goldstone Report.