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Additional Documents to the Amicus Brief Submitted to the Jerusalem District Court
בבית המשפט המחוזי בירושלים עת"מ 36759-05-18 בשבתו כבית משפט לעניינים מנהליים בעניין שבין: 1( ארגון Human Rights Watch 2( עומר שאקר העותרים באמצעות עו"ד מיכאל ספרד ו/או אמילי שפר עומר-מן ו/או סופיה ברודסקי מרח' דוד חכמי 12, תל אביב 6777812 טל: 03-6206947/8/9, פקס 03-6206950 - נ ג ד - שר הפנים המשיב באמצעות ב"כ, מפרקליטות מחוז ירושלים, רחוב מח"ל 7, מעלות דפנה, ירושלים ת.ד. 49333 ירושלים 9149301 טל: 02-5419555, פקס: 026468053 המכון לחקר ארגונים לא ממשלתיים )עמותה רשומה 58-0465508( ידיד בית המשפט באמצעות ב"כ עו"ד מוריס הירש מרח' יד חרוצים 10, ירושלים טל: 02-566-1020 פקס: 077-511-7030 השלמת מסמכים מטעם ידיד בית המשפט בהמשך לדיון שהתקיים ביום 11 במרץ 2019, ובהתאם להחלטת כב' בית המשפט, מתכבד ידיד בית המשפט להגיש את ריכוז הציוציו של העותר מס' 2 החל מיום 25 ליוני 2018 ועד ליום 10 למרץ 2019. כפי שניתן להבחין בנקל מהתמצית המצ"ב כנספח 1, בתקופה האמורה, אל אף טענתו שהינו "פעיל זכויות אדם", בפועל ציוציו )וציוציו מחדש Retweets( התמקדו בנושאים שבהם הביע תמיכה בתנועת החרם או ביקורת כלפי מדינת ישראל ומדיניותה, אך נמנע, כמעט לחלוטין, מלגנות פגיעות בזכיות אדם של אזרחי מדינת ישראל, ובכלל זה, גינוי כלשהו ביחס למעשי רצח של אזרחים ישראלים בידי רוצחים פלסטינים. באשר לטענתו של העותר מס' 2 שחשבון הטוויטר שלו הינו, בפועל, חשבון של העותר מס' 1, הרי שגם כאן ניתן להבין בנקל שטענה זו חסרת בסיס כלשהי. ראשית, החשבון מפנה לתפקידו הקודם בארגון CCR, אליו התייחסנו בחוות הדעת המקורית מטעם ידיד בית המשפט בסעיף 51. -
ABUSING the LEGACY of the HOLOCAUST: the ROLE of Ngos in EXPLOITING HUMAN RIGHTS to DEMONIZE ISRAEL Gerald M
ABUSING THE LEGACY OF THE HOLOCAUST: THE ROLE OF NGOs IN EXPLOITING HUMAN RIGHTS TO DEMONIZE ISRAEL Gerald M. Steinberg In the wake of the Holocaust, as human rights norms have come to the fore, NGOs have become major actors in international politics in general and in the Arab-Israeli conflict in particular. These organizations and their leaders form an extremely powerful “NGO community” that has propelled the anti-Israeli agenda in international frameworks such as the UN Human Rights Commission and the 2001 UN Conference against Racism in Durban. Through their reports, press releases, and influence among academics and diplomats, these NGOs propagated false charges of “massacre” during the Israeli army’s antiterror operation in Jenin (Defensive Shield) and misrepresent Israel’s separation barrier as an “apartheid wall.” This community has exploited the “halo effect” of human rights rhetoric to promote highly particularistic goals. In most cases small groups of individuals, with substantial funds obtained from non- profit foundations and governments (particularly European), use the NGO frameworks to gain influence and pursue private political agendas, without being accountable to any system of checks and balances. Jewish Political Studies Review 16:3-4 (Fall 2004) 59 60 Gerald M. Steinberg This process has been most salient in the framework of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The ideology of anticolonialism (the precursor to today’s antiglobalization) and political correctness is dominant in the NGO community. This ideology accepted the post-1967 pro-Palestinian narrative and images of victimization, while labeling Israel as a neocolo- nialist aggressor. Thus, behind the human rights rhetoric, these NGOs are at the forefront of demonizing Israel and of the new anti-Semitism that seeks to deny the Jewish people sovereign equality. -
1 Submission of the Institute for NGO Research for the List of Themes in Advance of the 99Th Session Review of the “State of P
10 Yad Harutzim St. Jerusalem, Israel 9342148 Phone: +972-2-566-1020 Fax: +972-77-511-7030 [email protected] www.ngo-monitor.org Submission of the Institute for NGO Research for the List of Themes in advance of the 99th Session Review of the “State of Palestine” Introduction The Institute for NGO Research1 brings this submission for the List of Themes in advance of the 99th session meeting for the review of “State of Palestine” and its compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. We hope that this submission will aid the Committee in its preparation of the List of Themes to the Palestinian Authority. This submission focuses on the rampant campaign of antisemitic and anti-Israel incitement within the Palestinian Authority (PA). This campaign of incitement is endemic throughout Palestinian society and is especially aimed at inculcating hatred within many generations of Palestinian children. Palestinian incitement undergirds the ongoing armed conflict with Israel and is responsible for countless deaths of both Palestinians and Israelis. It also underlies the extensive recruitment and use of Palestinian children as combatants. Any review of the PA’s compliance with the CERD must address this issue in depth. Failure to do so will represent a significant lapse in evaluating the PA’s adherence to and compliance with the CERD. We are also highly disturbed that the PA’s report to the Committee and several NGO submissions appear to excuse or diminish the PA’s obligations under the CERD due to the ongoing armed conflict with Israel and control of Gaza by Hamas. -
2 Israeli Attacks on Human Rights Organizations and Activists Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 2019 3
2 Israeli Attacks on Human Rights Organizations and Activists Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 2019 3 Contents Introduction 8 Part I 11 Isolation of the Victim :Shrinking Space for NGOs in the oPt by the Israeli occupation 1. The belligerent occupation attempts to criminalize the victim: Smear 13 campaigns against human rights defenders 2 .Sanctions and the Restrictions on Freedom of Movement 29 3 .Attempts to Defund Human Rights Organizations 33 4 .Threatening human rights defenders 35 Part II 38 International Standards for Human Rights Defenders 1. International Conventions 39 2 .States ’Obligations towards Human Rights Defenders 44 Conclusion and Recommendations 46 4 Israeli Attacks on Human Rights Organizations and Activists Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 2019 5 Preface From the moment we took it upon ourselves to defend human rights and civilians in times of war, we were conscious to both the dignity in our mission and the dangers it bears on our lives and security as human rights defenders. Nonetheless, human dignity and advocating for the rights of victims were at the heart of our mission, our life goal and purpose. We were armed with the international law’s rules and mechanisms, which is the fruit of many peoples’ experiences and struggles to identify justice from injustice, in our mission to protect humans and their rights to live a dignified life. Decades passed and we fought via every legal route we had available tirelessly, without a single moment of hesitation in the face of the Israeli occupation’s restrictions and threats. As the occu- pation continued without rest to put hurdles in our path, and enjoyed the illusion of depriving us from the means and mechanisms to defend the defeated and oppressed, our will never waned and we were never persuaded to drift from the path we chose to tread, because it is our deep belief that we have no choice but to stand tall and defend, as Palestinian people, our existence, dignity and right to self-determination. -
Aftermath: Accounting for the Holocaust in the Czech Republic
Aftermath: Accounting for the Holocaust in the Czech Republic Krista Hegburg Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences COLUMBIA UNIVERISTY 2013 © 2013 Krista Hegburg All rights reserved Abstract Aftermath: Accounting for the Holocaust in the Czech Republic Krista Hegburg Reparations are often theorized in the vein of juridical accountability: victims of historical injustices call states to account for their suffering; states, in a gesture that marks a restoration of the rule of law, acknowledge and repair these wrongs via financial compensation. But as reparations projects intersect with a consolidation of liberalism that, in the postsocialist Czech Republic, increasingly hinges on a politics of recognition, reparations concomitantly interpellate minority subjects as such, instantiating their precarious inclusion into the body po litic in a way that vexes the both the historical justice and contemporary recognition reparatory projects seek. This dissertation analyzes claims made by Czech Romani Holocaust survivors in reparations programs, the social work apparatus through which they pursued their claims, and the often contradictory demands of the complex legal structures that have governed eligibility for reparations since the immediate aftermath of the war, and argues for an ethnographic examination of the forms of discrepant reciprocity and commensuration that underpin, and often foreclose, attempts to account for the Holocaust in contemporary Europe. Table of Contents Acknowledgments ii Introduction 1 Chapter 1 18 Recognitions Chapter 2 74 The Veracious Voice: Gypsiology, Historiography, and the Unknown Holocaust Chapter 3 121 Reparations Politics, Czech Style: Law, the Camp, Sovereignty Chapter 4 176 “The Law is Such as It Is” Conclusion 198 The Obligation to Receive Bibliography 202 Appendix I 221 i Acknowledgments I have acquired many debts over the course of researching and writing this dissertation. -
NGO MONITOR: SHRINKING SPACE Defaming Human Rights Organizations That Criticize the Israeli Occupation
NGO MONITOR: SHRINKING SPACE Defaming human rights organizations that criticize the Israeli occupation A report by the Policy Working Group September 2018 PWG Policy Working Group Table of content 3 Foreword 6 Executive Summary 11 Chapter 1: Ideological bias and political ties Background Partisan people One-sided focus, intrinsic bias Connections with the Israeli government and state authorities 19 Chapter 2: Lack of financial transparency 23 Chapter 3: Faulty research and questionable ethics Baseless claims and factual inaccuracies Dismissing and distorting thorough research 28 Chapter 4: Foul tactics Framing the occupation as an internal Israeli affair Branding NGOs as an existential threat in order to deflect criticism of the occupation Using BDS to defame Palestinian and Israeli NGOs Accusing Palestinian NGOs of “terrorist affiliations” 40 Notes 2 Foreword NGO Monitor is an organization that was founded in 2002 under the auspices of the conservative think tank JCPA (the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) and has been an independent entity since 2007. Its declared goal is to promote “transparency and accountability of NGOs claiming human rights agendas, primarily in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict”.1 This is a disingenuous description. In fact, years of experience show that NGO Monitor’s overarching objective is to defend and sustain government policies that help uphold Israel’s occupation of, and control over, the Palestinian territories. Israeli civil society and human rights organizations consistently refrained from engaging with NGO Monitor. Experience taught that responding to its claims would be interpreted in bad faith, provide ammunition for further attacks and force the targeted organizations to divert scarce resources away from their core mission – promoting human rights and democracy. -
Watching the Watchers: the Politics and Credibility of Non-Governmental Organizations in the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1 Ben-Maimon Blvd
Introduction “Watching the Watchers” 1. The NGO Forum of the 2. NGO Implementation of 3. Human Rights NGOs 4. Eyewitnesses, Evidence and Durban Conference and the Durban Strategy and the “Halo Effect” Credibility: The Methodology of the “Durban Strategy” anti-Israel NGO Campaigns Watching the Watchers: The Politics and Credibility of Non-Governmental Organizations in the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1 Ben-Maimon Blvd. Jerusalem, Israel 92262 Phone: +972-2-566-1020 Fax: +972-77-511-7030 [email protected] www.ngo-monitor.org NGO Monitor was founded jointly with the Wechsler Family Foundation © 2008 NGO Monitor. All rights reserved. 2nd printing (revised edition) Contents Introduction “Watching the Watchers” 1. The NGO Forum of the Durban Conference and the “Durban Strategy” 2. NGO Implementation of the Durban Strategy 3. Human Rights NGOs and the “Halo Effect” 4. Eyewitnesses, Evidence and Credibility: The Methodology of anti-Israel NGO Campaigns Conclusion Footnotes Introduction “Watching the Watchers” Officials of powerful NGOs exploit the rhetoric of their influence is most keenly felt is in the Middle East, within the context of universal human rights and international law to the highly-charged Arab-Israeli conflict. Global NGOs, based in Europe and North America with multi-million dollar budgets and access to media and promote ideological and political campaigns. Instead policy makers, increasingly focused their activities on this dispute. These of careful verified research, “reports” alleging human include the so-called NGO “superpowers” - Human Rights Watch, Amnesty rights violations, particularly in areas of conflict, International, Christian Aid, Oxfam, the International Federation of Human have been exposed as based on evidence from Rights Leagues (FIDH), and many more. -
The Nahums - a Family’S Journey to Messiah
MFounded by Ari & Shiraa Sorko-RamozIsraeSince 1976l October 2006 Tishrei - Cheshvan 5766 REPORT The Nahums - A Family’s Journey To Messiah THE NAHUM FAMILY AT CONGREGATION TIFERET YESHUA: BATYA, SHIMON, SHLOMI, MIRYAM, YOSSI (A RELATIVE WHO IS A NEW BELIEVER), SHUA, AVRAHAM, MALKA, OLGA, RONEN By Aaron Allsbrook clothes on their backs. When they arrived at the “nation that was born in a day”o Israel, they faced a new language, a new n the late 1940’s, a young Sephardic Jewish couple economy and a new way of life. They struggled to survive Inamed Shua and Miryam Nahum packed up what financially, and as did most of the new immigrants, they belongings they had and made aliyah (immigration to suffered extreme poverty. But they believed the God of their Israel). Shua and Miryam were born in Tunisia, a small fathers had brought them back to their ancient homeland. North African country where Jews have lived for over 2,300 They settled in a very poor town called Lod o about 12 years. This was a difficult time for all who came in that great miles east of Tel Aviv. They started a family, and over the wave of Sephardic Jewish immigration. When Israel became course of time they had four children o three boys and a girl: a nation, the Muslim hatred turned on the Jews in their varioo Shimon, Shlomi, Avraham and Olga. The town of Lod was ous countries, and they had to escape, often with only the not the best place to raise a family. It was a mixed commuo nity of Jews and Arabs o a wicked place of crime, prostituo or truly happy. -
Ngo Monitor Ngo Monitor
NGO Annual Report MONITOR 2016 IMPACTING NGOFUNDING NGO MONITOR NGO MONITOR NGO Monitor provides information and analysis, promotes accountability, and supports discus- sion on the reports and activities of NGOs claim- ing to advance human rights and humanitarian agendas. 10 Yad Harutzim St. Jerusalem, 9342148 Israel Phone: +972-2-566-1020 email: [email protected] website: www.ngo-monitor.org NGO Monitor is a project of the Institute for NGO Research (R.A. 58-0465508) Organization in Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council since 2013. NGO Monitor was founded jointly with the Wechsler Family Foundation. ©2016 NGO Monitor. All rights reserved. Cover image: Merfin / Shutterstock.com CONTENTS 2 2016 Achievements 4 Letter from the President 6 Exposing NGO Ties to Terror Groups 10 Switzerland and the Netherlands Investigate their Funding to the IHL Secretariat 12 The Israeli Government Acts 14 Marking 15 Years since Durban 17 Europe 25 Israel 31 North America 35 Lawfare 41 Communications 45 Online Statistics 51 Major Reports and Publications 56 NGO Monitor Management 59 Organizational Expansion 61 Board Members 68 Partner with Us 2 NGO Monitor 2016 Achievements Dutch Parliament Exposed NGO passes resolution ties to terror proclaiming it will not groups fund BDS Hosted influential conferences at the UN and Knesset to mark the 15th anniversary of the infamous Durban Conference Briefed legislators in Congress and Parliaments across the globe Achievements 2016 Solidified our work in the U.S. and Canada with the expansion of our North America Research Desk NGOs and funding are now a top priority on the Israeli government’s agenda Documented World Vision’s inconsistent financial reporting following allegations that an employee channeled millions to Hamas European governments investigate their funding to NGOs that promote BDS and antisemitism Launched our new user friendly website Annual Report 2016 3 4 NGO Monitor LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT Prof. -
Filming the End of the Holocaust War, Culture and Society
Filming the End of the Holocaust War, Culture and Society Series Editor: Stephen McVeigh, Associate Professor, Swansea University, UK Editorial Board: Paul Preston LSE, UK Joanna Bourke Birkbeck, University of London, UK Debra Kelly University of Westminster, UK Patricia Rae Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada James J. Weingartner Southern Illimois University, USA (Emeritus) Kurt Piehler Florida State University, USA Ian Scott University of Manchester, UK War, Culture and Society is a multi- and interdisciplinary series which encourages the parallel and complementary military, historical and sociocultural investigation of 20th- and 21st-century war and conflict. Published: The British Imperial Army in the Middle East, James Kitchen (2014) The Testimonies of Indian Soldiers and the Two World Wars, Gajendra Singh (2014) South Africa’s “Border War,” Gary Baines (2014) Forthcoming: Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan, Adam Broinowski (2015) 9/11 and the American Western, Stephen McVeigh (2015) Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War, Gerben Zaagsma (2015) Military Law, the State, and Citizenship in the Modern Age, Gerard Oram (2015) The Japanese Comfort Women and Sexual Slavery During the China and Pacific Wars, Caroline Norma (2015) The Lost Cause of the Confederacy and American Civil War Memory, David J. Anderson (2015) Filming the End of the Holocaust Allied Documentaries, Nuremberg and the Liberation of the Concentration Camps John J. Michalczyk Bloomsbury Academic An Imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc LONDON • OXFORD • NEW YORK • NEW DELHI • SYDNEY Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square 1385 Broadway London New York WC1B 3DP NY 10018 UK USA www.bloomsbury.com BLOOMSBURY and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published 2014 Paperback edition fi rst published 2016 © John J. -
Filling in the Blanks
Filling in the Blanks Documenting Missing Dimensions in UN and NGO Investigations of the Gaza Conflict A publication of NGO Monitor and UN Watch Edited by Gerald M. Steinberg and Anne Herzberg Filling in the Blanks Documenting Missing Dimensions in UN and NGO Investigations of the Gaza Conflict Filling in the Blanks Documenting Missing Dimensions in UN and NGO Investigations of the Gaza Conflict A publication of NGO Monitor and UN Watch Edited by Gerald M. Steinberg and Anne Herzberg Contributors Gerald Steinberg Hillel Neuer Jonathan Schanzer Abraham Bell Dr. Uzi Rubin Trevor Norwitz Anne Herzberg Col. Richard Kemp Table of Contents Preface i. Executive Summary 1 Chapter 1: Production and Import of Rockets and Missiles Launched from Gaza at Targets in Israel 6 Chapter 2: The Sources of Hamas Financing, and the Implications Related to Providing Assistance to a Recognized Terror Organization 27 Chapter 3: Evidence Regarding the Abuse of Humanitarian Aid to Gaza for Military and Terror Purposes, and Questions of Supervision and Accountability 41 Chapter 4: The Credibility of Reports and Allegations from Non- Governmental Organizations (NGOs) Regarding the 2014 Conflict 73 Appendix 1: Submission to the United Nations Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict by Colonel Richard Kemp CBE 131 Appendix 2: Letter to Mary McGowan Davis, Chair of United Nations Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict by Trevor S. Norwitz 144 Appendix 3: Why the Schabas Report Will Be Every Bit as Biased as the Goldstone Report by Hillel Neuer (originally published in The Tower, March 2015, reprinted with permission) 149 Appendix 4: Letter to Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations by Prof Gerald Steinberg 161 Contributors and Acknowledgements 163 Endnotes: 168 Filling in the Blanks i Preface his report provides an independent, fully-sourced, systematic, and detailed documentation on some of the key issues related to the renewal of intense conflict between Hamas and Israel during July and August 2014. -
The NGO Front in the Gaza War
The NGO Front in the Gaza War The Durban Strategy Continues February 2009 NGO Monitor Monograph Series Gerald M. Steinberg, Editor NGO Monitor Monograph Series: The NGO Front in the Gaza War: The Durban Strategy Continues (February 2009) NGO “Lawfare”: Exploitation of Courts in the Arab-Israeli Conflict (September 2008) Europe’s Hidden Hand: EU Funding for Political NGOs in the Arab-Israeli Conflict (April 2008) 1 Ben-Maimon Blvd. Jerusalem 92262 Israel Phone: +972-2-566-1020 Fax: +972-77-511-7030 [email protected] www.ngo-monitor.org NGO Monitor’s mission is to provide information and analysis, promote accountability, and support discussion on the reports and activities of NGOs claiming to advance human rights and humanitarian agendas in the framework of the Arab-Israeli conflict. NGO Monitor was founded jointly with the Wechsler Family Foundation The NGO Front in the Gaza War The Durban Strategy Continues © 2009 NGO Monitor. All rights reserved. Executive Summary hroughout Israel’s operation in Gaza, by labeling the policy “collective punishment,” and largely from December 27, 2008 to January 18, parrot a PLO “legal opinion” claiming that Israel remains 2009, and in its immediate aftermath, responsible for the welfare of the population in Gaza.iii over 50 NGOs claiming to promote T human rights and humanitarian A wide range of groups were responsible for implementing agendas issued more than 500 statements on the fighting. the Durban Strategy during the Gaza conflict: international These statements exhibit severe bias and double standards, “superpowers” – including Amnesty, Human Rights focus overwhelmingly on condemning Israel, and ignore Watch (HRW), and Oxfam; Israeli NGO, B’Tselem; Israeli- or give minimal attention to Israeli human rights and Arab organizations, Adalah, Ittijah, and Mossawa; and casualties.