Prof. Gerald Steinberg on IBA News
Gerald Steinberg discusses the pending "Transparency Law," and how this legislation could be irrelevant if members of the Israeli Knesset and European parliaments worked to negotiate funding guidelines.
NGO Transparency Law
Israeli NGO Funding Annual Reporting Database 2012-2014
This database displays all the grants that were reported annually by 27 Israeli NGOs in the years 2012-2014, and sorts the information according to donor type (private, government and unclear), while also identifying funding originating from church groups.
Topics
Response to Proposed Restrictions on Foreign Government Funding for Israeli Political Advocacy NGOs
Legislative proposals that go beyond democratic transparency and accountability for these NGOs are ill advised, not enforceable, and damage Israels vital national interests.
Topics
NGO Monitor Response to Knesset Initiatives on Non-Governmental Organizations
Legislative proposals that go beyond transparency and suggest distinctions based on political motivations and ideology are polarizing, not enforceable, and damage Israels vital national interests.
Topics
[Opinion] Israeli political NGOs and the transparency law
Naftali Balanson discusses the impact of NGO Monitor's report on the Israeli NGO Transparency Law, and the angry and uncivil backlash of some political advocacy NGOs.
Topics
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Repeats False NGO Claims in Latest Attack on Israel
Commissioner Pillay is either confused or is regurgitating false information from self-interested political NGOs, or both. Pillay, who heads one of the least transparent and closed international institutions, should embrace transparency and public accountability.
Topics
NGO Funding at Center of Israeli Debate
The more that Europe seeks to prevent the Israeli debate on the impact of these NGO campaigns that it funds, the more resentment this creates among the public, resulting in more legislative initiatives.
Topics
Statement Regarding Proposed Legislation to End Government Funding to NGOs
As NGO Monitor's detailed research and analysis have repeatedly demonstrated, the multiple legislative proposals are problematic and are probably not effective solutions. This does not mean, however, that real problems do not exist.
Topics
Wikileaks: US Cable quotes NGO Monitor
NIF official: in 100 years Israel would be majority Arab and that the disappearance of a Jewish state would not be the tragedy that Israelis fear since it would become more democratic
