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

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.

• "The US Jewish Establishment's onslaught on former President Jimmy Carter is based on him daring to tell the truth which is known to all: through its army, the government of Israel practices a brutal form of Apartheid in the territory it occupies. Its army has turned every Palestinian village and town into a fenced-in, or blocked-in, detention camp. All this is done in order to keep an eye on the population's movements and to make its life difficult. Israel even imposes a total curfew whenever the settlers, who have illegally usurped the Palestinians' land, celebrate their holidays or conduct their parades."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Yes, There Is Apartheid in Israel," article by Shulamit Aloni in April-May 2007 issue of The Link ("AMEU's primary education and information tool"); Americans For Middle East Understanding,

• "As a result of the Zionist aggression against Palestine, the plight of the Palestinian people is accumulative and ongoing. Now, in the 59th year of our forced displacement, we are threatened with new forced displacement due to the construction of the Apartheid Wall and policies of siege and starvation intended to break the Palestinian people..."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Statement on the Occasion of the 59th Anniversary of the Nakba: There is no Substitute for the Return to our Homes" The National Committee for the Commemoration of the Nakba, May 15, 2007; BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights,

• "The Palestinian people are at a critical juncture; Israel continues its ethnic cleansing policies, which were started in 1948 when it has expelled 726,000 Palestinians and destroyed and depopulated 531 villages then. And now it is seriously threatening the whole Palestinian national existence in the OPT."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "An Open Letter to G8 Summit in Germany" part of PARC's Campaign on 40 years of Occupation, June, 2007; Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "On 29 November 1947 the United Nations recommended the partition of Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state despite the fact that the UN itself had found that such a step "may well run counter" to the principle of self-determination.[1] The UN Partition Plan (UNGAR 181) was never fully implemented. However, it set the stage for the 1948 war in which Israel was unilaterally established as a Jewish state by ethnically cleansing over three-quarters of the Palestinian people, confiscating their lands and barring them from return; this war is remembered by Palestinians as the Nakba (catastrophe)."
  
  (Excerpt from "ICNP Call to Action, Launch of Nakba-60 Campaign" in Badil Resource Center, November 29, 2007. Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC)

Condoning or Justifying Violence

The UN accredits and associates with NGOs that condone or justify violence against Jews either inside or outside of Israel. The violent programmatic takes various forms: the reference to killers as martyrs, support for armed or violent struggle or resistance, and the effort to redirect attention away from the violence and justify it by focusing on alleged "causes" of terrorism. Here is a sampling of the commentary made by UN accredited NGOs.

• "Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition demands that pressure is brought to bear on the Zionist authorities to release Hussam Khader, former Palestinian Legislative Council member, founder of the Committee to Defend Refugee Rights and senior Fateh leader. [...]
  
  Throughout his trial, Khader maintained that the case against him was an attempt to silence him because of his staunch adherence to the Right of Return for Palestinian refugees. He also accused members of the Palestinian National Authority of aiding his arrest in the hope of silencing his unrelenting criticism of PA corruption and lack of transparency.
  
  Hussam Khader is one of approximately 11,000 Palestinians currently imprisoned by Israel. Violation of international human rights laws and being subjected to torture are not only evident in Khader's case, but are common practices against all Palestinian prisoners.
  
  Context on Khader's arrest from the "The New York Times" on September 5, 2005, the time of his arrest:
  
  A prominent member of the Palestinian Parliament, Husam Khader, pleaded guilty Sunday in an Israeli military court to charges of assisting an armed Palestinian faction that has carried out many attacks against Israel, the military said.[...]
  
  Khader pleaded guilty to transferring money to Al Aksa so it could buy weapons, a statement by the military said. The cell that received the money attempted a suicide bombing in the West Bank in January 2003, but the security forces thwarted the attack, the military added.[...]
  
  Before his arrest, Khader said he supported attacks against Israeli soldiers and settlers in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Many Palestinians support such attacks, while Israel considers them terrorism."
  
  (from the "Freedom For Hussam Khader! Freedom For All Palestinian Prisoners!", an Action Alert from March 17, 2007 calling on members to support the release of Hussam Khader, a Palestinian lawmaker convicted on terrorism charges in Israel; Al-Awda, The Palestine right to return coalition, 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.

Distributed at UN Human Rights Council, September 2007; BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, in Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC.



Editor's Note: The BADIL Message is Wipe Israel Off the Map. All of Israel is Illegitimate, Occupied and Belongs to Palestinian Arabs.







• "We reiterate Palestinian and global civil society's 2005 calls to pressure Israel's apartheid regime through a campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) until these rights are achieved"
  
  

  (Excerpt from "ICNP Call to Action, Launch of Nakba-60 Campaign" in Badil Resource Center, November 29, 2007, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC)