Dutch government providing significant funding to more anti-Israel NGO's
NGO Monitor reports that the Dutch government is indirectly funding at least three anti-Israel NGO's: Human Rights Watch, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights and Adalah.Oxfam Novib in the Netherlands receives nearly €130 million annually from the Dutch government – approximately 70% of this NGO’s budget – primarily via co-financing subsidies (2007, 2008). And from here, the funds are distributed to a number of highly politicized NGOs active in the Arab-Israeli conflict. For example, Oxfam Novib partnered with the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) on a “lawfare” project (funded by the EU), designed to “[c]ontribute to the abolition of the death penalty...via extrajudicial executions” by the Israeli military. PCHR has led the “prosecution of Israelis suspected of committing war crimes” such as the “universal jurisdiction case in Spain.” Oxfam Novib also lobbied “EU ministers of Foreign Affairs to shelve the plans for intensifying relations between Europe and Israel.”Read the whole thing.
In 2007-8, Oxfam Novib donated $987,818 to Human Rights Watch (HRW) – which makes the Dutch government one of HRW’s major donors, and is inconsistent with this NGO’s claim that it “accepts no government funds, directly or indirectly.”
When we last heard from the Dutch government, they were reconsidering funding provided by their embassy in Tel Aviv for Breaking the Silence, an organization that has given widespread exposure to hearsay accounts of alleged Israeli atrocities during Operation Cast Lead.
It seems that was the tip of the iceberg.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 6:00 PM
1 Comments:
Europe can hardly be taken seriously in Jerusalem when its financing groups opposed to Israel's existence. Its made its own bed and now has to lie down in it.
What could go wrong indeed
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