(National Review) Anne Bayefsky - The multibillion-dollar UN system was once largely closed to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) as the private playing field of member states. But NGOs have now found their way into the most intimate recesses of the UN. A much darker side to the UN-NGO nexus is the large number of NGOs that have been empowered by UN accreditation to spread anti-Semitism, hate, and encourage terrorism from a UN platform. In January 2006, the NGO called BADIL, Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, won accreditation despite the fact that BADIL advocates Zionism is racism and the end of a Jewish state.
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