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UK Coordination and NGO Funding Continued Despite Hamas Terror Designation
Newly obtained internal Hamas documents demonstrate that close cooperation between the UK government and Hamas took place before the group was designated and continued afterwards, in apparent contravention of British policies.
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Hamas Influences UK Funded Gaza Cash Programme
UK government documents reveal that Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) officials were aware of Hamas involvement and the significant diversion risks in Gaza cash-assistance programs. Yet, the FCDO pressed ahead providing millions of pounds in funding to such a mechanism.
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Backgrounder on Al Haq and GLAN Action Against UK Government to Block F-35 Part Exports
On May 13-16, 2025, the UK High Court held a hearing on a challenge to the government’s refusal to suspend export licenses for F-35 components produced in the UK as part of a global program that includes Israel. The case against the British government was brought by two NGOs and supported by others.
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Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) leads massive and unprecedented political campaigns exploiting the Israeli legal system. In sharp contrast to NRC’s ostensibly humanitarian agenda, this massive program focuses on some of the most complex and sensitive political issues in the Arab-Israeli context.
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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.
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Palestine Expo 2019's Promotion of BDS and Hatred
On July 6-7 2019, the Palestine Expo conference and exhibition was held at the London Olympia convention center in the United Kingdom. The event served as a platform for organizers and participants to espouse anti-Israel rhetoric, antisemitism, and promote BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions) as well as demonization and delegitimization campaigns
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UN and Government Officials Attend Antisemitic “Artwork” Display in Khan al-Ahmar
On August 2, 2018, a number of UN and European government officials attended an event hosted by the PA’s “Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission" that included a virulently antisemitic artwork display in the Area C encampment of Khan al-Ahmar. The failure of the government and UN officials to vigorously and publically condemn this incident stands in sharp contrast to claimed human rights agendas.
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UK House of Commons Investigates Civil Society’s Most Heinous Offenses
On July 31, 2018, the UK House of Common’s International Development Committee published its investigative report on sexual exploitation and abuse in the aid sector. The report was commissioned in February in response to highly disturbing allegations against employees of Oxfam International and “misconduct by staff involved in its humanitarian response in Haiti.”
