European-Funded Political Lobbying on Jerusalem

(NGO Monitor) Ir Amim, which promotes the Palestinian narrative on Jerusalem, produced the Jerusalem Moments film series. As noted by David Horovitz, editor of the Jerusalem Post, the series "contained just about every imaginable one-sided, context-deficient, unbalanced misrepresentation of Israel rolled into one nasty package...a relentless Palestinian Israel-bashing." Direct funding from foreign governments provides approximately 67% of Ir Amim's budget. The balance is provided indirectly by European governments (via Oxfam NOVIB), the Ford Foundation, and other sources.


2010-05-14 08:36:10

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