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.

• "Avnery added that the declared aim of the settlers is to Judaize East Jerusalem, in order to make peace impossible forever."
  
  

  (Except from "Thieves go home -- Sheikh Jarakh is Palestine!" In Gush Shalom, January 23, 2010, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "My point is that giving the vote to 20 per cent of the electorate that is Palestinian is no proof of democracy if Israeli Jews have rigged their "democracy" beforehand through ethnic cleansing (the 1948 war)...Jewish privilege is being maintained in a unilaterally imposed one-state solution by Israel. Without that cover, the apartheid nature of the regime and the creeping programme of ethnic cleansing would be blindingly obvious to everyone."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "The Decline of Israel" in The International Organization for the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (EAFORD), March 12, 2010, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC and associated with DPI)

• "CIHRS [Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies] believes that this military order is a continuation of broader Israeli policies of ethnic cleansing and apartheid. It represents an additional crime in the continuing war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinian people in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention. The military order further consolidates racist Israeli occupation policies such as the settlement enterprise, the construction of the separation wall, and the ongoing Judaization of occupied territory..."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "International community must act against policies of ethnic cleansing or the Palestinians will become a minority in their occupied homeland" in Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, April 14, 2010, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC and associated with DPI)

• "...the conflation of religion, race, nationality and citizenship, and its incorporation into Israeli law and statutes of Zionist agencies constitutes the pillar of the colonial apartheid regime that harms not only Palestinians but also Jews worldwide."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Badil Releases Issue #43 of al-Majdal (Winter-Spring 2010): The Jewish National Fund" in Badil Resource Center, April 29, 2010. Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC)

• "At times entire villages are razed to the ground. All demolition orders written are using the excuse of the law, a law that is written and implemented to give privileges to the Jewish majority – almost all of whom, including myself, are survivors of victims of such laws in other far-away countries."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Dr. Yeela Ranaan on Trial" in International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, April 2010, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC and associated with DPI)

• "Every week now, new [Israeli] laws are being enacted that remind us of Nuremberg."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "From Jerusalem to Safed- Racism is on the March!" in Gush Shalom, June 11, 2010, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "The recurring words of the Palestinian teenagers in that study were "divider", "apartheid," "snake," "dangerous disease;" all of which were revolved around the symbolic as well as physical reality of the Wall; a nightmare creeping into the dreams of Palestinians...[T]he effect of Israeli spatial policy...is a way of "controlling our spaces; ghettoising us in small enclaves..."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "The YWCA of Palestine Launches New Study on East Jerusalem" in World Young Women's Christian Association, November 17, 2010, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC, associated with DPI, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "This Right is the only way to reverse the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and to repeal forever the racist policies of Zionism...The world is now more aware of Israel's racism, war crimes and crimes against humanity."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Dr. Salman Abu Sitta: A Word of Greeting to the Eighth Annual International Al-Awda Convention" in Al-Awda, April-May 2010, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "...revenue from the Israeli diamond industry funds war crimes and crimes against humanity..."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Two global diamond retailers resort to censorship over Israeli Blood Diamonds issue" in Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, November 8, 2010, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

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.

• "...Israel continues its suffocating blockade of the entire Gaza Strip in what has been described by human rights experts and analysts as an act of 'slow genocide.' This is but a continuation of Israel's brutal oppression of the Palestinian people, including their expulsion from their homes during the Nakba in 1948, military rule, occupation and colonization of their land, apartheid, and persistent denial of the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and lands."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Global BDS Day of Action" in Badil Resource Center, March 30, 2010. Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC)

• "This year's convention will mark the 62nd year of the Nakba and the Palestinian struggle to return home. It comes just one year after the murderous attack on our people and the continuing siege on the Gaza Strip. It will also take place in the midst of the intensification of the dispossession and expulsion of our people from Jerusalem, and Zionist efforts to take over our holy sites throughout Palestine."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Eight Annual International Al-Awda Convention" in Al-Awda, May 2010, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "The...message [sent to security forces] is that the lives and dignity of Palestinians are meaningless and that security forces can continue, pursuant to the function they serve, to abuse, humiliate, and beat Palestinians with whom they come into contact."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Beating and Abuse" in B'Tselem, undated; last accessed May 6, 2010, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "This bifurcated system of norms legitimizing the perpetration of inhuman acts against Palestinians in a systematic and institutionalized nature is reflective of a practice of apartheid by Israel in the OPT in violation of international law."
  
  "...a study by a group of high-profiled international legal experts, published by the Human Sciences Research Council, found that Israel's exercise of control in the OPT with the purpose of maintaining a system of domination by settlers over Palestinians constitutes a breach of the prohibition of apartheid."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Unmasking the Freeze" in Al-Haq, September 26, 2010, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC)

• "Children are the most vulnerable members of any society. Israel's systematic attack on Palestine's children demands that all people of conscience stand up and take action in demand of their full rights!"
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Al-Awda launches New Palestinian Children's Rights Campaign" in Al-Awda, the Palestinian Right to Return Coalition, October 27, 2010, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Such institutionalized and systematic mistreatment by the Israeli state of detained Palestinian children is considered torture by the United Nations under international law."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Al-Awda launches New Palestinian Children's Rights Campaign" in Al-Awda, the Palestinian Right to Return Coalition, October 27, 2010, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Israel is not a democracy for all its citizens but an insecure nation demanding obedience to an ideology that deliberately excludes the legitimate rights of its Arab population."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Western politicians prefer to ignore Israel's inherent racism" in Friends of Al-Aqsa, October 28, 2010, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Now, however, people understand that Israel is a terror state and that the Palestinian struggle is just. Soon even the US state will wake up to the idea that it is more important to have relations with the world's two billion Muslims than it is to be a prop to this isolated little apartheid state of Israel."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Zionist-Apartheid Bullying fails at Intifada Event at Venezuelan Embassy, London" in Islamic Human Rights Commission, November 8, 2010, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC)

• "As the vanguard of western domination and racism in the world, the Zionist state understandably is perturbed by these developments...where empire and white supremacy are replaced with peace...Israel is actively trying to wipe Palestinians off the map..."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Zionist-Apartheid Bullying fails at Intifada Event at Venezuelan Embassy, London" in Islamic Human Rights Commission, November 8, 2010, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC)

• "International Community must act against Policies of ethnic cleansing or the Palestinians will become a minority in their occupied homeland."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "International community must act against policies of ethnic cleansing or the Palestinians will become a minority in their occupied homeland" in Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, April 14, 2010, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC and associated with DPI)

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.

• "Dr Tamimi pointed out that Intifada, for many, means that death is more honourable than life. It is a reaction to extreme injustice. If your enemy has massive strength, are you to be blamed for using every means at your disposal in your struggle against that enemy?...Shedrajeh said that those who stood up must be proud of themselves, and they should be considered by us as heroes. If it has taught us nothing else, Intifada has taught us that we all must stand up against our oppressors, no matter how strong they seem...Shedrajeh said that the lack of international support for Bosnia had made the Palestinians realise that they couldn't rely on the international community to make peace for them; they had to rely on themselves, using whatever means they had..."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Zionist-Apartheid Bullying fails at Intifada Event at Venezuelan Embassy, London" in Islamic Human Rights Commission, November 8, 2010, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC)

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.

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  (Excerpt BADIL, ECOSOC Special Consultative Status)

• "We join the Special Rapporteur Mr. Falk in calling upon the international community to insist on [a]...worldwide campaign of boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israel..."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Israel's Aggression Against Humanitarian Relief Vessels" in The International Organization for the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (EAFORD), June 2, 2010, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC and associated with DPI)

• "Mr Archbold concluded with a call for a boycott of Israel, "Just as Israel models itself on the old racist regime in South Africa, so too must we must model our response on the boycott policy that contributed so much to the ending of Apartheid."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Petition: Thousands demand that Dunnes stop stocking Israeli goods" in Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, July 29, 2010, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Most of the Israeli date crop – up to 80%, is exported, mainly to Europe where it has around 10% market share. In 2005, dates were Israel's leading fruit export. If you oppose the settlements target their dates...The Israelis prefer to employ children – even issuing them official work permits, as they can climb trees faster, work for less and it's easier to cheat and humiliate them."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Boycott Israeli Dates this Ramadan", Islamic Human Rights Commission, October 16, 2010, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "We wish here to recall...that the boycott call was one of the weapons that led to the fall of the apartheid regime in South Africa..."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "The Campaign for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions" in The International Organization for the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (EAFORD), September 27, 2010, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC and associated with DPI)