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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=202868
Europe Needs a Parliamentary Inquiry on NGO Funding
(Jerusalem Post) Gerald M. Steinberg - Before NGO Monitor was founded, no one was examining the biases, political campaigns and funding of groups that claim to promote human rights, questioning their claims and agendas or revealing their donors. NGO Monitor has found massive and often secret funding for highly political NGOs from European governments, and the European Union in particular. Much of this European money is used to promote lawfare, as well as boycotts, divestment and sanctions to achieve the complete international isolation of Israel. It was recently revealed that the Dutch government was supporting the intensely anti-Israel (and often anti-Semitic) actions of Electronic Intifada via a church-based humanitarian framework (ICCO). The Dutch foreign minister was surprised by the revelation that his own government was fuelling the Arab-Israel conflict. A parliamentary inquiry into abuses of NGO funding would be most useful in the European context. The writer heads NGO Monitor.