International Leftist Interference in Israeli Affairs

You certainly know what they say about paranoids having enemies...

In the USA there's talk of possible Russian (shades of the USSR) interference in recent elections. Of course, it all depends on whether you're a follower of the NY Times or FOX News. But here in Israel, it's very much documented fact that numerous countries and international bodies from the United Nations and European Union on down have been supporting anti-Israel and extreme Leftist Israeli NGOs for a very long time.

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All the facts and numbers can be found on the NGO Monitor site, hat tip for the reminder, Ruthie Blum on Algemeiner.

NGO Monitor President Prof. Gerald Steinberg said, “The unique and disproportionate funding that a small group of Israeli NGOs get from European governments is used to influence Israeli politics and society. Over the past four years alone, 34 Israeli NGOs have received nearly a quarter of a billion shekels. Our new database brings this essential information directly to journalists, the public and decision-makers, increasing transparency in a clear, comprehensive and user-friendly way.”

In all honesty it is nice to be able to prove it, but I'd really like a way to stop it. No other self respecting country would put up with such sabotage. Yes, sabotage and espionage, too. These pro-Arab radical Leftists have succeeded in limiting the normal acceptable actions and procedures of the security forces, because their agents and cameras seem to be every place. 

And frequently their cameras are so close to and focused on an Arab terror attack against innocent Jews it doesn't take much imagination and logic to assume that maybe those NGOs had actually initiated and directed the attack... I still think that was the original background to the Elor Azaria case, and it should have been very thoroughly investigated. Why was that cameraman there? You don't have to be a university math professor to add 1 + 1 = 2.

How's your math?

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