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The real terror of Palestinian civil society
Israel’s brazen assault on Palestinian NGOs exposes the true goal of its ‘shrinking the conflict' doctrine: to eliminate opposition to apartheid.
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Amjad Iraqi
October 28, 2021
‘They targeted us for one reason: We’re succeeding in changing the paradigm’
After being outlawed as 'terrorist organizations' overnight, Palestinian human rights groups talk to +972 about why Israel's allegations are not just unfounded, but amount to an act of political persecution.
By
Yuval Abraham
October 25, 2021
Why is the EU helping to label Israel criticism as antisemitism?
By adopting the IHRA definition, the EU is playing into the agendas of Israel advocacy groups that undermine civil society work against the occupation.
By
Ilan Baruch
April 19, 2021
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NGO Monitor coins anti-Semitic slur: ‘Jew-washing’
The right-wing watchdog group thinks that leftwing Jewish groups are not allowed to join coalitions with non-Jewish groups that criticize Israel’s existence as a Jewish state, or allowed to take certain actions against Israeli policies because they are Jewish. This is a direct targeting of leftwing Jews as Jews. By Jeremiah Haber It’s perfectly kosher for a rightwing…
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August 2, 2012
Omissions, half-truths, lies: Ambassador Oren in Foreign Policy
In a piece recently published, Israel’s Ambassador to Washington Michael Oren rejected claims regarding anti-democratic trends in his country, and compared the legal status of Palestinians in the West Bank to that of American citizens in Washington DC and the U.S. territories. A response. When Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu appointed Professor Michael Oren – a historian…
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Noam Sheizaf
April 10, 2012
Foreign influence, transparency problems of NGO Monitor
Right-wing NGO that went after progressive and human right groups is financed from abroad, including through large grants from undisclosed donors Last week, Haaretz’s Uri Blau had a short expose – available only in the Hebrew edition – regarding the rightwing non-profit NGO Monitor. As some readers might remember, NGO Monitor recently attacked the German Heinrich Böll…
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Noam Sheizaf
February 20, 2012
How the Netanyahu gov’t undermines Israeli democracy
Several actions by the current government are intended to deny the opposition its essential freedom of action One of the basic principles of a democratic regime is that it allows all citizens to participate in it equally. The basic assumption is that the faction currently in power will be removed someday, and that the opponents…
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Yossi Gurvitz
February 11, 2012
Right-wing group, Jerusalem Post launch public attack on +972
NGO Monitor tries to silence us by going after our donors. Supporting +972 is the best response! By Noam Sheizaf Dear Readers, +972 Magazine is at the center of a negative piece published today in the Jerusalem Post. According to the piece, a right-wing watchdog group called NGO Monitor has launched a public attack…
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January 26, 2012
Breaking the Silence 1:0 NGO Monitor
NGO Monitor – a group specializing in haranguing Israeli human rights organizations – must be really scraping the barrel. Consider the following exchange between them and Breaking the Silence. 16 March 2011 To: Ms Dana Golan, Director Breaking The Silence RE: Your comment on a statement by Yonathan Shapira, made during a Breaking the Silence…
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Dimi Reider
March 17, 2011
Images from a weekend in the Negev
By Hagai El-Ad After the events of last week (and for an idea of how stressful it was, just read the news items posted last week on +972 Magazine…), I really needed a weekend off. I spent it hiking around and in the Timna Valley, in Israel’s south. There was no cellular reception, no MK…
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January 9, 2011
Scrutinizing the Guardians of Zion, Part II (Louis Frankenthaler)
The following is the second part of a two-part essay. Click here to read part one. Scrutinizing the Monitor This essay is a response to the granddaddy of the GOZ’s Professor Gerald Steinberg (head of NGO Monitor and a professor of conflict resolution) who, in his recent Jerusalem Post article, “NGO transparency will protect democracy“,…
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September 14, 2010
Scrutinizing the Guardians of Zion, Part I (Louis Frankenthaler)
The following is part one of a two-part essay that attempts to address a rather lengthy problem. It is characterized by a cadre of culturally and politically orthodox self anointed monitors and guardians of Israel’s “Zionist virtue”. These Guardians Of Zion, (GOZs to be terse) have found it necessary to degrade democratic discourse, to debase…
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September 13, 2010
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