The New Israel Fund, In The News Again, Israeli Apartheid Week 2010

I'm taking this from NGO Monitor, which is a professional group.  It seems silly and wasteful for me to try to paraphrase their report.  So, here it is:


Israeli Apartheid Week: NGO Connections and their EU/NIF Funders
Pro-Palestinian activists have organized events for “Israeli Apartheid Week” (IAW -- March 1-14) on college campuses and in major cities in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Since 2005, IAW has been a powerful forum for exploiting “apartheid” allegations to demonize and delegitimize Israel, and to advance the boycotts, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign. BDS is the core of the “Durban strategy,” formulated at the NGO Forum of the UN’s 2001 Durban Conference.


NGO Monitor’s research reveals that many of the speakers listed for the 2010 events are officials of NGOs funded by European governments, including the European Commission and the New Israel Fund.



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NGO Monitor
February 25, 2010


Overview (more details below):
NGO speakers include officials from:
Adalah (Funded by New Israel Fund and the European Union)
Alternative Information Center (Funded by the Sweden via Diakonia, and Christian Aid)
Palestinian Center for Human Rights (Funded by the European Union, Oxfam NOVIB, the Open Society Institute, Christian Aid, Dan Church Aid, Trocaire, Norway, Ireland, Denmark)
Addameer
Badil
Screening of NGO videos:
Breaking the Silence’s “Israeli Soldiers talk about Hebron”
“Occupation 101” video, with interviews with Human Rights Watch, Rabbis for Human Rights, ICAHD, B’Tselem, Gaza Community Mental Health Programme
NGO endorsers and funders include:
Canadian Arab Federation
Independent Jewish Voices
CODEPINK
Adalah-NY
National Lawyers Guild – NY Chapter
WESPAC, a Westchester, NY-based pro-Palestinian group