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'''NGO Monitor''' ('''Non-governmental organization monitor''') is |
'''NGO Monitor''' ('''Non-governmental organization monitor''') is an [[Israel|Israeli]] [[non-governmental organization]] with the stated aim of monitoring other non-governmental organizations operating in [[Israel]], the [[West Bank]], and [[Gaza]]. NGO Monitor describes its goal as "end[ing] the practice used by certain self-declared 'humanitarian NGOs' of exploiting the label 'universal human rights values' to promote politically and ideologically motivated anti-Israel agendas." |
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[[Category:Non-governmental organizations involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict]] |
[[Category:Non-governmental organizations involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict]] |
Revision as of 20:43, 15 August 2006
NGO Monitor (Non-governmental organization monitor) is an Israeli non-governmental organization with the stated aim of monitoring other non-governmental organizations operating in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. NGO Monitor describes its goal as "end[ing] the practice used by certain self-declared 'humanitarian NGOs' of exploiting the label 'universal human rights values' to promote politically and ideologically motivated anti-Israel agendas."
Structure and staff
It is a program of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, and was formerly a joint project with B'nai Brith International.[1].
Apart from interns, its staff includes[2]:
- Dr. Dore Gold, Publisher (President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and advisor to former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon)
- Gerald M. Steinberg, Editor (Professor of Political Studies at the Religious Zionist Bar Ilan University and consultant to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and National Security Council)[3]
- Simon Plosker, Managing Editor (formerly PR officer for the Board of Deputies of British Jews and British Aliyah Movement co-ordinator)[4]
- Aharon Etengoff, Webmaster and Senior Researcher (formerly of the PR Department of the IDF Spokesperson’s Office)[5]
Activities
NGO Monitor has criticized several international human rights organisations, such as Christian Aid (for its alleged "extensive involvement in anti-Israel propaganda campaigns"[6]), Human Rights Watch (for being "systematically and exceedingly biased"[7]), Amnesty International [8], Oxfam [9] and Medecins Sans Frontieres [10].
It has also accused the Ford Foundation of funding organisations such as the Palestinian Al Mezan Center, which it claimed was involved in "blatantly political anti-Israel activities". [11] Subsequent to this criticism, the Ford Foundation modified its policies regarding funding of NGOs. [12]
NGO Monitor criticized the New Israel Fund for funding organizations that the NGO Monitor claims are engaged in a "campaign to delegitimze Israel." These claims where denied by the director of the New Israel Fund who described NGO Monitors criticism as "un-democratic and un-Jewish" and "inherently and fundamentally flawed." [13]
Praise and criticism of activities
Praise
Describing it as a "friend of Israel", the Jewish Watch Dog site states that NGO Monitor was created "to promote accountability, and advance a vigorous discussion on the reports and activities of humanitarian NGOs in the framework of the Arab-Israeli conflict." [14] David Bedein of David Horowitz' magazine FrontPageMag.com describes it as a "watchdog organization". [15]
NGO Monitor's reports appear regularly on the "Around the World" section of the "Hotbeds of Prejudice" subpage of the Israeli Hasbara Committees website [16].
Criticism
Critics dismiss NGO Monitor as politically motivated and biased. At Political Research Associates, Jean Hardisty and Elizabeth Furdon describe it as a "conservative NGO watchdog group, NGO Monitor, which focuses on perceived threats to Israeli interests", adding that "The ideological slant of NGO Monitor's work is unabashedly pro-Israeli. It does not claim to be a politically neutral examination of NGO activities and practices."[17] Ittijah, the Union of Arab Community Based Organisations in Israel, labels NGO Monitor as "an organ of the American pro-Israel lobby." [18]
Other NGOs Reviewed
- Adalah
- Al-Haq
- Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights
- Alternatives
- American Near East Rescue Aid
- Amnesty International
- Arab Association of Human Rights
- Ard el Atfal and Ard el Insan
- Association for the Defence of the Rights of the Internally Displaced (ADRID)
- B'Tselem
- CARE
- Caritas
- Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine
- Christian Aid (UK)
- Christian Peacemaker Teams
- Defence for Children International / Palestine Section
- Direct Relief International
- Doctors Without Borders
- Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network
- Ford Foundation
- Galilee Society
- Grassroots International
- Habitat International Coalition
- HaMoked – Center for the Defense of the Individual
- HDIP
- Hebron Restoration Committee
- Human Rights Association
- Human Rights Watch
- IBDAA
- International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development - Rights and Democracy (ICHRDD)
- I'lam
- International Commission of Jurists
- International Federation of Human Rights
- International Solidarity Movement
- Israel Committee against House Demolitions
- Ittijah
- Jerusalem Media and Communication Center
- Law
- Machsom Watch
- Medecins du Monde
- Medical Aid for Palestinians (UK)
- MENGOS
- Mennonite Central Committee
- Miftah
- New Israel Fund
- Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America (OSPAAAL)
- Oxfam Belgium
- Palestine Children's Relief Fund
- Palestine Children's Welfare Fund
- Palestinian Center for Human Rights
- Physicians for Human Rights-Israel
- Palestinian NGO Network
- PENGON
- PYALARA
- Rabbis for Human Rights
- Save the Children Fund
- Terre des Hommes
- War On Want (UK)
- World Organization Against Torture (OMCT)
- World Vision International
- Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
- UN Commission on Human Rights (Geneva)
- UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)
- USAID
- YMCA / YWCA
- Zeina