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Professor Gerald Steinberg is seen at a conference organized by NGO Monitor at the Knesset, June 20, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

How I stopped ignoring NGO Monitor and started fighting back

For years I have remained silent as Gerald Steinberg and NGO Monitor have harassed anti-occupation groups in Israel-Palestine, spreading falsehoods about us in order to shut us down. Now is the time to speak out. By Michael Sfard (translated by Sol Salbe) Around a decade ago, a new Israeli organization appeared out of nowhere. It…

By +972 Magazine August 30, 2017

Mohammad Mousa Abu Ghanam passes in front of one of his animal shelters which was demolished earlier in the day by the Israeli army, in the village of Susiya, South Hebron Hills, August 28, 2012

Is an anti-occupation revolt brewing in the British Jewish establishment?

Leader in top communal organization announces he is leaving post to speak out freely against Israeli policies — and gets standing ovation from membership. For many years I have felt that the only way to end the occupation is through outside pressure because Israel is just scorched earth politically, and will never do it on…

By Larry Derfner February 22, 2015

Jeremy Ben Ami speaks at a J Street conference. (Jstreet CC BY NC SA 2.0)

First do no harm, J Street

With nothing left to offer except hollow pep talks about the peace process, the liberal lobby is fighting BDS – together with the pro-Netanyahu, pro-occupation American Zionist right. Next stop: the Presbyterian Church USA’s General Assembly. What is J Street doing? Why is it acting in concert with right-wing Zionist organizations like AIPAC and StandWithUs…

By Larry Derfner June 10, 2014

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference, July 3, 2013. (photo: Kobi Gideon / GPO)

What is NGO Monitor’s connection to the Israeli government?

The spearhead of the battle against Israeli human rights organizations, NGO Monitor, is run by a man who, at least for a period of time since its founding, was closely affiliated with the Prime Minister’s Office. On another front, the government is now targeting human rights NGOs’ tax status. By Yossi Gurvitz and Noam Rotem…

By Yossi Gurvitz April 29, 2014

An IDF soldier walks through the tunnel the IDF uncovered underneath the Gaza-Israel border earlier this week. (Photo: IDF Spokesperson)

NGO Monitor steps up the absurdity of its attacks

A lie travels around the world while the truth looks for a Wi-Fi connection. Sometimes, it finds it. This blog’s favorite fibber organization, NGO Monitor – you may remember them from such classic favorites as distributing Hasbara lies about the UN Human Rights Commission, using a Trojan horse inside Wikipedia, as well as just stupid negligence…

By Yossi Gurvitz October 16, 2013

EU throws out NGO Monitor case, tells Gerald Steinberg to pick up the tab

NGO Monitor and its director went all the way to Luxembourg to sue the EU for lack of transparency concerning the funds its gives NGOs in Israel and Palestine. Last month, the EU Court of Justice threw the case out saying the action was “manifestly lacking any foundation in law” About three years ago, those…

By Ami Kaufman December 23, 2012

End the Siege on Gaza sign (Mya Guarnieri)

The slandering of Gaza flotilla activist Greta Berlin

A lie of omission is as good a lie as any other. It’s amazing how blatantly, how shamelessly a Jewish Agency official named Avi Mayer, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the Jerusalem Post, Canada’s National Post and I don’t know how many other “pro-Israel” entities have slandered Greta Berlin, a prominent spokeswoman of the Free Gaza Movement,…

By Larry Derfner October 5, 2012

NGO Monitor coins anti-Semitic slur: ‘Jew-washing’

The right-wing watchdog group thinks that leftwing Jewish groups are not allowed to join coalitions with non-Jewish groups that criticize Israel’s existence as a Jewish state, or allowed to take certain actions against Israeli policies because they are Jewish. This is a direct targeting of leftwing Jews as Jews. By Jeremiah Haber It’s perfectly kosher for a rightwing…

By +972 Magazine August 2, 2012

Right-wing group, Jerusalem Post launch public attack on +972

NGO Monitor tries to silence us by going after our donors. Supporting +972 is the best response! By Noam Sheizaf Dear Readers, +972 Magazine is at the center of a negative piece published today in the Jerusalem Post. According to the piece, a right-wing watchdog group called NGO Monitor has launched a public attack…

By +972 Magazine January 26, 2012

Free speech, Caroline’s glitch, and other Jerusalem Post ditties

+972 is hosting today an op-ed written by B’Tselem chief Jessica Montell, in response to particularly insidious accusations levelled at the organisation by The Jerusalem Post star columnist, Caroline Glick. Montell’s op-ed doesn’t mince words – she calls Glick “a hack journalist who parrots any drivel” – but neither, to be fair, did Glick. Among…

By Dimi Reider January 21, 2011

Ibex in the Negev (photo: Hagai El-Ad)

Images from a weekend in the Negev

By Hagai El-Ad After the events of last week (and for an idea of how stressful it was, just read the news items posted last week on +972 Magazine…), I really needed a weekend off. I spent it hiking around and in the Timna Valley, in Israel’s south. There was no cellular reception, no MK…

By +972 Magazine January 9, 2011

Israeli activists marching toward Sheikh Jarrah from West Jerusalem, January 2010. (photo: Flickr/lisang)

Scrutinizing the Guardians of Zion, Part II (Louis Frankenthaler)

The following is the second part of a two-part essay. Click here to read part one. Scrutinizing the Monitor This essay is a response to the granddaddy of the GOZ’s Professor Gerald Steinberg (head of NGO Monitor and a professor of conflict resolution) who, in his recent Jerusalem Post article, “NGO transparency will protect democracy“,…

By +972 Magazine September 14, 2010

Palestinian boy demonstrating in Sheikh Jarrah (photo: Flickr/lisang)

Scrutinizing the Guardians of Zion, Part I (Louis Frankenthaler)

The following is part one of a two-part essay that attempts to address a rather lengthy problem. It is characterized by a cadre of culturally and politically orthodox self anointed monitors and guardians of Israel’s “Zionist virtue”. These Guardians Of Zion, (GOZs to be terse) have found it necessary to degrade democratic discourse, to debase…

By +972 Magazine September 13, 2010