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Source: https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Time-to-talk-to-the-EU-about-NGO-funding-563549
Time to Talk to the EU about NGO Funding
(Jerusalem Post) Gerald M. Steinberg - Based on the EU's own documents, extensive EU funds go to groups deeply involved in delegitimization and incitement against Israel, including BDS. The EU provided 1.5 million euros in 2016 to PARC - an agricultural NGO and leading BDS campaigner. The EU gave 1.76 million euros in 2016 to Norwegian People's Aid, which led the campaign calling on pension funds to withdraw investments from firms such as Motorola due to sales over the 1949 armistice lines. Millions of euros for Israeli and Palestinian political NGOs are channeled through at least five EU frameworks, making tracking difficult. The EU has no NGO funding program of comparable scale elsewhere in the world, and the funding process is protected by the type of official secrecy usually associated with nuclear weapons and other strategic projects. The writer is president of NGO Monitor and professor of political studies at Bar-Ilan University.