The UN-NGO Connection:
A Global Platform to Spread Hate and Promote Terror

Inciting Hate or Encouraging Anti-Semitism

The UN accredits and associates with NGOs that espouse anti-semitism. The anti-semitism takes various forms: demeaning remarks about Jews, abhorrence of the presence of Jews or so-called "Judaization", minimizing the Holocaust, claiming anti-semitism is feigned or grossly exaggerated, attempting to appropriate the language of Jew-hatred and apply anti-semitism to Arabs, denying that anti-zionism or the denial of the right of Jewish self-determination is a form of anti-semitism, equating Zionism with racism (see also Section II). One favorite of UN-accredited or associated NGOs is to highlight self-hating Jews or Jewish anti-semites, or to represent that this tiny minority are the only liberal and decent Jews. Here is a sampling of the commentary made by UN accredited NGOs.

San Diego, August 12, 2006 "Protest" sponsored by UN-accredited NGO Al-Awda

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The Demonization of Israel

The UN accredits and associates with NGOs that demonize or incite hatred of Israel. The demonization takes various forms: analogizing Israelis to Nazis, maintaining Zionism or the right of self-determination of the Jewish people is a form of racism, alleging Israel is guilty of the worst human rights violations known to humankind - racism/apartheid, genocide, and ethnic cleansing, claiming that Jews are conspiring to destroy Muslim holy sites. Here is a sampling of the commentary made by UN accredited NGOs.

• "I submit to you that a campaign of genocide has been waged against the Palestinian people, a genocide of killing, a genocide of elimination, a genocide of exile and banishment, a genocide of decapitating people by assassinating their leaders, a genocide of starvation, a genocide of slow death by cutting sources of food, water and medicine, a genocide of civilized life by destroying schools, universities and hospitals, a genocide of oblivion by destroying the national identity and denying the right for citizenship and nationality. Israel has done that and more. It is the raison d'etre of Israel."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Back to Roots," by Salman Abu Sitta, at Al-Awda's 4th International Convention, San Francisco, 14th - 16th July 2006; Al Awda, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, calls upon all people who support the Palestinian struggle for self determination and return to demand of their representatives, the media and their governments to ensure that the genocidal Zionist State of Israel ends its siege and fully compensates for the destruction of life and infrastructure that it has visited upon the Palestinian people."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Break the Siege on the Palestinian People," Al Awda Action Alert, June 30, 2006; Al Awda, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Inevitably, Israel's concern to keep out those it fears has led to an awkward and racist status quo... The demographics of security have led Israel to enact numerous race-measures that would be profoundly offensive and anti-Semitic, were they imposed on most Jews...Israeli bombs dropped in Gaza and Palestinian missiles aimed at Israel are terrorism. It is terrorism when one country occupies another, controlling the most intimate aspects of people's lives."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Illusions of Security in the US and Israel," by Allan Solomonow, Director of the Middle East Peace Program in the Pacific Mountain Region of the American Friends Service Committee, from AFSC's publication "Peacework," June, 2006; American Friends Service Committee - Pennsylvania; Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "The force being used by the Israeli troops can no longer be described as "excessive", as you had always described it. Instead, it is inhuman and savage, aiming at exterminating as many people as possible. This brings to our minds the force used by Serbia in Bosnia as well as the crimes against humanity committed in the Second World War."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "An Open Letter to Condoleezza Rice By The Palestinian NGOs Network," July 24, 2006; Palestinian NGO Network, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Apartheid and racism, once the shame of South Africa, are alive and well in Israel. Despite its claims to be a democracy, Israel does not behave like a democracy..."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "A Primer on Palestine," Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights informational brochure, August, 2006; Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "The state of Israel behaves as terrorist entity...Lebanon is totally destructed with actions of ethnic cleansing, war crimes and acts of "mini" genocide..."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Personal letter from Ameer Makhoul: keep looking to Beirut and Gaza not to Haifa," by Ameer Makhoul, Director of Ittijah - Union of Arab Community Based Associations (Ittijah is also accredited by ECOSOC, Special consultative status), July 19, 2006; Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Accredited by ECOSOC, Special Consultative Status)

• "The bestiality and barbarity of such air campaigns can only be sustained if there is an underlying racist conviction that the victims are somehow or other less deserving of human compassion than those who are inflicting it on them...Whatever the ostensible defence for Israel's conduct, the real unstated justification was that the laws of war do not apply to lesser beings such as Arabs and Palestinians."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "A US/Israeli debacle in the Middle East," By T Rajamoorthy, from Third World Network's Publication "Third World Resurgence," July, 2006; Third World Network, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "...you'll have to start treating the Palestinians, the Lebanese, and other Arabs with a lot more respect, far less racism, and with bushels of moral decency and justice... But it seems that Israel wants to add to its glittering list of adjectives - being arrogant, racist, aggressive, domineering, unjust - the word 'patronising'."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Lies, double standards and culpable fallacies," By Raja Halwani, from Third World Network's Publication "Third World Resurgence," July, 2006; Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "...for decades, we have been an occupying force controlling millions of people. We, the "Master Race". And I really do mean apartheid."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Voices for Peace," a Trocaire co-authored booklet, interview with Jonathan Shapira, May, 2005; Trocaire, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "We still have to face up to the fact that what we did to the Palestinians at the time was wrong and that it was ethnic cleansing."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Voices for Peace," a Trocaire co-authored booklet, interview with Eitan Bronstein, May, 2005; Trocaire, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Remember that we are living through a period where the anti-Arab racism is strongly rooted in Israeli society."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Voices for Peace," a Trocaire co-authored booklet, interview with Dror Etkes, May, 2005; Trocaire, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "...in South Lebanon where dozens of villages are under systematic bombardments,lacking of food, mainly bread, milk for children, medicine, while the hospitals - some of which have been hit- do not have enough medical equipments to meet the numerous needs of the injured civilians, because they are the main victims in this new form of genocide."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Dispatches from the Middle East: Letters from WILPF Lebanese Sisters," by Roula Zoubiane, Lebanese Section of the WILPF, July, 2006; Women's International League for Peace and Freedom-US, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "We cannot mistake the quintessentially racist character of such a state. Israel is an apartheid state, founded on pillage and predicated on exclusivity... These human rights violations were unacceptable in apartheid South Africa and are an affront to us in apartheid Israel...
  
  We South Africans faced apartheid and exploitation, bullets and prison, not with bouquets of flowers, but with resistance. We are proud of this, our history. This is the history of all oppressed people. Why should it be different for Palestinians?...
  
  We note how the Israeli state rests on overt repression, a system of structural violence and institutionalised discrimination that dehumanises one group to the advantage of another. Apartheid Israel has developed an elaborate system of racial discrimination, embedded in its legal system-even surpassing Apartheid South Africa's laws...
  
  Israel is, simply, an Apartheid state. Apartheid laws, such as the pass system and influx control, bantustans, job reservation, bantu education and laws resulting in unequal resource allocation live on...
  
  We reject the calumny that to condemn Israeli apartheid or Zionism's 'ethnic cleansing' implies animus against Jews...
  
  We pledge ourselves to be part of a new International Anti-Apartheid movement against Israel."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Palestine Solidarity Committee Declaration on Apartheid Israel"; Palestine Solidarity Committee/South Africa, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

Delegitimization of the State of Israel

The incitement to hate, the demonization of Israel, and the support for violence has a goal: the destruction of the state of Israel. Sometimes this goal is camouflaged, but some UN accredited or associated NGOs are quite clear about their intentions. The UN, therefore, accredits and associates with NGOs that espouse the destruction of a UN member state. This call takes various forms: objections to the legitimacy of the creation of Israel, references not to Israel but to an entity called "Israel/Palestine," putting references to Israel in quotation marks, calling for a one-state solution, and boycott, divestment or sanction campaigns intending to destroy the economic viability of Israel and the international relationships necessary for Israel's survival as a Jewish state. Here is a sampling of the commentary made by UN accredited NGOs.

• "The participants in the meeting stressed the need for Palestinian political forces and civil society organizations to formulate a common program that would include the following principles: ...Mobilising solidarity campaigns at the international level and demanding a full boycott, divestment and the imposition of sanctions against Israel, until it fully complies with its obligations under international law by ending its occupation, oppression and racial discrimination...Coordinating the efforts of Palestinian organizations that focus on Israeli violations of international law, with the objective of advocating a boycott against Israel... Demanding that the PLC drafts a special law on boycotting Israel and approaches international parliaments to push towards imposing sanctions on Israel, due to its flagrant and persistent violations of international law and international humanitarian law."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "A statement issued by Palestinian civil society organizations condemning Israel's War Crimes in Gaza and Lebanon," Statement issued at Palestinian NGO Network conference, July 17, 2006; Palestinian NGO Network, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "The Palestine Solidarity Committee supports the international campaign to isolate the apartheid Israeli state - as apartheid South Africa was isolated by the international community. Consequently, the PSC supports the academic, consumer and cultural boycott of Israeli institutions, organisations and products."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "PSCSA Boycotts"; Palestine Solidarity Committee/South Africa, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)