Current and Former NGO Employees Arrested as Part of PFLP-Terror Cell

On December 19, 2019, the Israel Security Agency (Shabak) announced it had uncovered a 50-person terror network, operated in the West Bank by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) – a designated terrorist organization in the EU, the US, Canada, and Israel. The statement named several leading PFLP figures, several of whom currently or previously worked for European funded, PFLP-linked non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

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• Khalida Jarrar
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• Samer Arbid
• Terrorism

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

[Opinion] Shakir is no human rights defender

Becca Wertman analyzes how Omar Shakir, HRW's Israel/Palestine Director, has abused his platform to promote discriminatory BDS campaigns aimed at delegitimizing the Jewish State.

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• Airbnb
• BDS
• Betty McCollum
• FIFA

• Human Rights Defenders
• Omar Shakir
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• Terrorism

[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.

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• 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

NGOs Blame Israel for Islamic Jihad Rocket

On November 12, Palestinian Islamic Jihad launched hundreds of rockets at Israeli population centers.  According to media reports, one of these projectiles misfired, hitting a Gaza building that houses the office of the Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR). However, several international and Palestinian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) immediately blamed Israel for the attack, providing no evidence for their claims. 

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• Fact finding missions
• Gaza
• ICHR
• Islamic Jihad

• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• Rocket attacks
• Terrorism

Submission to the 100th Session of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

NGO Monitor's submission focuses on Israel’s adherence to the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD). NGO Monitor beleives it is important to provide the Committee with certain contextual information that is necessary in order to conduct a credible and productive review.

Topics

• Balfour Declaration
• BDS
• CERD
• Gaza
• IHRA
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)

• Racism
• Right to Self Determination
• Terrorism
• United Nations
• West Bank
• Zionism is racism

The PA is Providing Fictitious Academic Degrees to Terrorists

The Palestinian Authority is bestowing Bachelor’s degrees to the families of terrorists to increase their pride in their sons.  The mastermind behind the 2002 bombing in the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem has a “Master’s” in the “foundations of diplomacy.”

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• Palestinian Authority
• Palestinian prisoners
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• Terrorism

NGO Monitor Analysis: 42nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council

The 42nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council continued the bias and hypocrisy that has come to define the UN in general and the UNHRC in particular. NGO Monitor was present, speaking before the Council and documenting the numerous false accusations made by self-proclaimed human rights NGOs.

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• Agenda Item 7
• BDS
• Gaza
• HRC
• International Criminal Court (ICC)
• Palestinian prisoners

• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• Terrorism
• UN BDS Blacklist
• UN Human Rights Council (HRC)
• UNHRC
• United Nations

[Opinion] The Halle Attack and the Old/New Antisemitism

Professor Gerald M Steinberg analyzes antisemitism in Europe in the wake of a terrorist attack in Germany.

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• Antisemitism
• BDS
• Blood Libels
• Europe

• Germany
• IHRA
• Terrorism

NGO Monitor Letter to Foreign Minister Stef Blok Regarding Dutch Funding to UAWC

On October 10, 2019, NGO Monitor sent a letter to the Dutch Foreign Minister regarding a Dutch Government grant to Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC), a Palestinian NGO closely linked to the EU-designated terror group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

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• Netherlands
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• Samer Arbid
• Terrorism