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Stop Funding Demonizing NGOs
[Jerusalem Post ] Gerald M. Steinberg - For many years, Israel has been attacked by non-government organizations (NGOs) that invent (or distort) the terms of international law, falsify facts, and violate the universality of human rights. Some of the NGOs promoting the demonization campaigns get more than half their annual budgets from European governments. Additional funds come from the Ford Foundation. Israeli officials should make the case for a halt in this funding of demonization in every discussion with European ambassadors, heads of state and foreign ministers. The writer is executive director of NGO Monitor and chairs the Political Science Department at Bar-Ilan University.