Israel Matzav

Slide show: Tips and strategies for fighting BDS

This was sent to me by Honest Reporting.

I hope you find this interesting and useful.

Labels: BDS, BDS sewer system, Honest Reporting

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:25 PM 3 comments

Exposed: New Israel Fund supporting religious Zionist organizations

The Ra'ananim organization has exposed a New Israel Fund video in which the New Israel Fund, which supports the likes of Breaking the Silence, Adalah and B'Tselem and the BDS movement, and which supports organizations that provided 95% of the 'information' in the Goldstone Report, reveals that it is now supporting religious Zionist organizations. You can guess why.

Let's go to the videotape.



As you saw in the video, Ra'ananim has called on religious Zionist organizations not to accept money from the New Israel Fund.

The director-general of the New Israel Fund says it will "use religious Zionist organizations", according to a video clip uncovered by the Ra'ananim religious Zionist youth group. The fund currently funnels millions of dollars into such anti-Zionist groups as B'Tselem, Adallah, Yesh Din and Shoverim Shetikah, which, Ra'ananim says "harm Israeli soldiers and the state of Israel daily."

Ra'ananim called on Kolech, Ne'emanei Torah Ve'avodah, Ya'akov Herzog Center and other groups supported by the fund to stop accepting its contributions. The movement said, in a statement, "Religious Zionism is not the playing field of the New [Israel] Fund."

Indeed.

Labels: B'Tselem, BDS sewer system, Breaking the Silence, New Israel Fund

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:32 PM 1 comments

Video: BDS sewer system

NGO Monitor has done this very educational video exposing the sewer system of BDS (anti-Israel boycott divest sanction) funding.

You'll learn a lot from it in a minute and 40 seconds.

Let's go to the videotape.



Hmmm.

Labels: BDS sewer system, NGO Monitor

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 6:37 PM 0 comments

NIF fights dirty, smears NGO Monitor

You will recall that last Monday I reported that Deutche Bahn, the German national railway, was withdrawing from consulting role in the high speed railway that is under construction between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The withdrawal came about as a result of pressure from something called the Coalition of Women for Peace.

On Tuesday, I reported that - surprise! - the Coalition of Women for Peace is funded by the New Israel Fund with help from hostile European governments and liberal American Jews, many of whom may be clueless about what they are funding.

On Thursday, NGO Monitor issued a report on the funding and activities of the Coalition of Women for Peace. Among other things, it showed:

• Israeli NGO, the Coalition of Women for Peace (CWP), describes itself as a "feminist organization against the occupation of Palestine and for a just peace." It has ten constituent member organizations.
• Funded directly and indirectly by the governments of Switzerland, the Netherlands, Norway, and Germany; the New Israel Fund; aid organizations such as Oxfam Novib, SIVMO, and Kvinna Till Kvinna; and private individuals.
• This funding is used by CWP to promote global campaigns to de-legitimize Israel under the Durban strategy, including "Israel Apartheid Week," anti-Israeli rallies, the "Free Gaza Movement"; targeting Israel in the UN; lobbying the British Government on prosecution of "Israeli War Criminals" (lawfare); and hosting related events and lectures.
• CWP is a leader in the boycotts, divestments, and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. With radical allies such as "Code Pink," it advocates boycotting products from all of Israel, not restricted to the "occupied territories." Campaigns include the UC Berkeley divestment effort (2010), the Norwegian Government's Pension Fund which led to divestment from Elbit, and targeting of banks, security companies, civil infrastructure facilities, and private firms.
• CWP's flagship BDS project "Who Profits?" is an online database initiated "in response to the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) on Israel," and "a key asset to the global movement of economic activism and BDS."

For its troubles, NGO Monitor was accused by the New Israel Fund of 'knowingly publish[ing] false information."

The most recently available public NIF grant information shows CWP received nearly $300,000 from 2006-2009. In addition to this grant, CWP's website continues to state that NIF accepts tax-exempt donations in the U.S., UK, and Switzerland on their behalf and on behalf of the "Who profits?" project. NIF still has not published its 2010-2011 grant information.

If you go here, you can also see that donations to CWP are directed through the New Israel Fund.

If you look around CWP's web page, you will find that much of its activity relates to boycotting Israel (and seeking to break the 'siege' on Gaza, which prevents at least some weapons from being brought in to there). A bunch of useful idiots.

Labels: BDS sewer system, Coalition of Women for Peace, New Israel Fund, NGO Monitor, useful idiots

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:15 AM 0 comments

The BDS sewer system

This week (actually it's two weeks - from March 7-20) is 'Israel Apartheid Week' on college campuses around the world. 'Israel Apartheid Week' is designed to depict Israel as an apartheid state and to promote the BDS (boycott, divest, sanction) movement against Israel.

To help college students respond to 'Israel Apartheid Week,' NGO Monitor has mapped out the BDS sewer system (pictured above). Here are more details about it.

The “Sewer System” responds to the needs of Israel advocates, especially on college campuses, representatives from NGO Monitor said. “Students and faculty need accurate and relevant information to combat Israeli Apartheid Week and other delegitimization campaigns they face on campus,” says Prof. Gerald Steinberg, president of Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor, a research institution that tracks NGOs. “IAW essentially is a series of ‘mini-Durban’ events – based on the strategy adopted at the 2001 Durban Conference that exploits human rights language to isolate and demonize Israel. This “Sewer System” map details and explains the complex network of non-governmental organization (NGOs) and their funders that lead this campaign. Most importantly, it is a tool for students to demonstrate the illiberal and ‘anti-human rights’ nature of the movements they face on campus.”

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The Sewer System analysis presents a visual, connecting network of pipes between funders, NGOs, and tactics that sustain the BDS movement, NGO Monitor explained. Explanations are provided for each aspect of the movement, including the Durban Strategy, the history of BDS, and how this information can effectively be used.

The graphic of the Sewer System depicts the European Union, various governments, foundations and religious charities as providing the incentives and funds for NGOs, who then spread their ideas through mainstream, fringe, unionized and church group outlets.

“In some instances, the funders share the anti-Israel political agendas of their grantees,” the literature reads. “In others, the governmental and private sources assign funds ostensibly to promote human rights, humanitarian aid, democracy and civil society. However, NGOs divert this support to bolster BDS activity and pursue their own political agendas. Due to an absence of strict guidelines, oversight, accountability and evaluations of decision making, the funding continues year after year.”

Read the whole thing.

Labels: BDS sewer system, Israeli apartheid week, NGO Monitor

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:44 PM 0 comments