Human Rights Council Continues Gaslighting on Gaza

On February 25, 2020, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the bureaucratic arm of the Human Rights Council, presented an update on the 2019 Commission of Inquiry into the violence along the Israel-Gaza border. As with previous UN pseudo-investigations on Israel, this COI ignored legal standards and readily and publicly available information to accuse Israel of “war crimes” and other violations. The 2020 update continued to promote this false narrative and the biased HRC agenda.

Topics

• 2018 Gaza Border Violence
• Agenda Item 7
• Commission of Inquiry
• Gaza
• Hamas

• OHCHR
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• UN Human Rights Council (HRC)
• United Nations
• War crimes

World Vision’s Operations in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza

World Vision continues to operate three entities responsible for Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza.

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• Aid diversion
• Hamas
• Terrorism
• World Vision

NGO Monitor Submission for the review of “State of Palestine” and its compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child

NGO Monitor's submission focuses on the rampant campaign of incitement targeting children within the Palestinian Authority.

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• 2018 Gaza Border Violence
• Hamas
• Incitement
• Islamic Jihad
• Palestinian Authority

• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• Terrorism
• UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
• United Nations

NGO Monitor Supplemental Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

NGO Monitor's submission highlights examples relating to the exploitation of Palestinian children by the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian armed groups.

Topics

• 2018 Gaza Border Violence
• Children
• Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC)
• Hamas
• Incitement
• Islamic Jihad

• Palestinian Authority
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• Terrorism
• UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
• United Nations

The BDS Campaign Targeting Microsoft and AnyVision

Proponents of anti-Israel BDS campaigns are exploiting debates about mass surveillance and facial recognition software to target Microsoft and an Israeli company, AnyVision.

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• Airbnb
• BDS
• Hamas
• Islamic Jihad

• Omar Shakir
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• Rasmea Odeh

Analysis: CERD Concluding Observations on Israel

On December 16, 2019, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) published its concluding observations from its review of the State of Israel. Unsurprisingly, the Concluding Observations parrot unverified and false claims by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) active in antisemitism, BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions), and other delegitimization campaigns against Israel.

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• Antisemitism
• BDS
• Blockade
• CERD
• Delegitimization

• Demonization
• Hamas
• Palestinian Authority
• Racism
• United Nations

HRW Whitewashes Hezbollah, Hamas, and PFLP

Human Rights Watch (HRW) is scheduled to release a publication, “Born Without Civil Rights,” on Tuesday morning, December 17 utilizing individuals who are members of internationally recognized terrorist organizations and/or groups closely linked to these organizations and who have been convicted of incitement, terror financing, and membership in terrorist organizations. These include Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

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• BDS
• Hamas
• Hezbollah
• Human Rights Watch
• Military Order 101

• Omar Shakir
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• Terrorism
• West Bank
• Whitewashing

NGO Funded by France Lobbies the Government against Motion on Antisemitism

Since the beginning of 2019, French organizations that promote an anti-Israel agenda have been lobbying French elected officials to oppose a “motion for a resolution to combat anti-Semitism.” Some of these groups receive French government funding.

Topics

• Antisemitism
• BDS
• European Funding
• France
• Hamas

• IHRA
• Nakba
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• Settlements

[Opinion] Non-state actors’ exploitation of children must end

Becca Wertman analyzes how Civil society actors and the U.N. should help to enforce the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, but regularly fail when it comes to non-state actors like the terrorist groups in Gaza.

Topics

• 2018 Gaza Border Violence
• Gaza
• Hamas
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)

• Terrorism
• UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
• United Nations

Analysis of the 2018 UK FCO Human Rights and Democracy Report

NGO Monitor examines the claims in the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) annual report on activity “to defend human rights and promote democracy worldwide” in 2018.

Topics

• 2018 Gaza Border Violence
• Antisemitism
• BDS
• Blockade
• EAPPI

• Hamas
• IHRA
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• UNICEF
• United Kingdom