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.

• "16. What is Zionism? Answer: Zionism claims to be a political expression of Jewish nationalism. Before World War I most Jews were against Zionism. To this day, there are many Jews who condemn Zionism, thus not all Jews are Zionists. Zionism has become a form of racism and the UN in 1975 ruled "Zionism is a form of racism and radical discrimination," which seeks to establish an exclusive Jewish state across the Palestinian territories...
  17. Is Anti Zionism a form of Anti Semitism? Answer: Zionist propaganda likes to equate Anti-Zionism with Anti-Semitism. Many believe that this is to frighten pro-Palestinian campaigners. However, clearly opposition to Zionism is not opposition to a people [Jews] but to a political philosophy which claims it is impossible for Jews to be integrated into non-Jewish society."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "FAQ: Palestine" in Friends of Al-Aqsa, undated; last accessed December 24, 2011, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Presently, Israel is reactivating its cleaning program in on-going attempts to preserve its absolute Jewish majority. According to the recent polls, close to 70 percent of Israeli Jews expressed their wish to see the Palestinians of Israel transferred. Those living near the 'apartheid wall' are the first to go."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" in The International Organization for the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (EAFORD), undated; last accessed December 24, 2011, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC and associated with DPI)

• "Israel has pursued a policy of Judaizing the city, aiming to achieve "Jewish demographic superiority."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Jerusalem: the East Side Story" in Palestine Agricultural Relief Committee (PARC), undated; last accessed December 24, 2011, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Coalition President Dimitri Diliani said that...if what Israel practices against Christians was practiced anywhere in the world against Jews, that place would be boycotted by the international community at once."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Separation wall of Jerusalem breached" in the General Board of Church and Society of The United Methodist Church, undated; last accessed December 24, 2011, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC, associated with DPI and Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Zionism is a political movement, not a religion; it is a colonialist, racist, ideology of conquest, oppression, subjugation and control."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Anti-Zionism is Not Anti-Semitism" in The International Organization for the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (EAFORD), undated; last accessed December 24, 2011, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC and associated with DPI)

• "Zionist politicians like Israel's first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973) mastered the plans for ethnic cleansing, brutal combatant units like Menachem Begin's (1913-92) IrgunZvaiLeumi slayed whole villagers, regular army detachments of General Yitzhak Rabin (1922-95) unsparingly overran Arab territories, and the biblical experts, in conjunction with some archaelogists, helped Hebraize Palestine's geography."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" in The International Organization for the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (EAFORD), undated; last accessed December 24, 2011, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC and associated with DPI)

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.

• "Hundreds of British nationals, including Muslims, civil and anti-war activists, and anti-Zionist Jews have taken part in the annual Al-Quds Day demonstration in London...The demonstrators gathered at Portland Place, outside BBC Radio theatre, to protest against the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Afterwards, demonstrators marched through central London to Trafalgar Square where they listened to speeches addressing the Palestinian issue...Demonstrators carried Palestinian and Hezbollah flags and various anti-Zionist placards reading "Zionism is racism", "freedom for Palestine", "end occupation", "end the killing", "end the Israeli Apartheid", "stop funding genocide", "right vs. might", "63 years of occupation must end", "silence is complicity" and "boycott Israel"...Moreover, the Pro-Palestinian demonstrators chanted: "we are all Hezbollah", "end the occupation now", "Zionism terrorism", "we are all Palestinians".
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Al-Quds Day demonstration in London" in Islamic Human Rights Commission, August 22, 2011, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC)

• EDITOR'S NOTE: Israeli soldier with a hooked nose and a sack of keys - allegedly stolen from Palestinian homes in Israel - running away from a child who has only a slingshot. The 63 is the number of years since the "Palestinian Nakba" - the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.
  
  
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Photo Gallery - Nakba Caricatures 2011" in Badil Resource Center, undated, last accessed February 20, 2012. Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC)

• "After 63 years of the Palestinian Nakba...the Palestinian people continue to be denied their most fundamental and inalienable rights to self-determination, national independence, sovereignty and return to the homes and properties from which they have been forcibly displaced. Living under the Israeli apartheid regime and in forced exile away from the towns and villages, hills and olive groves that they call home, the Palestinian people remain steadfast in their struggle to end the systematic human rights violations committed against them and return to their homes of origin."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Joint-Statement: Nakba at 63 - Confronting the Ongoing Nakba" in Badil Resource Center, undated, last accessed February 20, 2012. Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC)

• "Early in the 20th century, Zionist leaders began planning for Jewish settlement in Palestine, and the removal of the indigenous population."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Palestine Overview" in Minority Rights Group International, undated; last accessed December 24, 2011, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC and associated with DPI)

• "I met a boy, aged 19, who was shot in the head the previous year for stone-throwing. His injuries had meant that he had a stroke that affected the right side of his body. I also visited Rafeedah Hospital and met a young brother called Ahmad...[H]e told me that eight soldiers forced themselves into his house in the middle of the night. Three or four soldiers hit his face whilst the others hit his body. He told me how the soldiers used him as a punch bag and that his ribs were bruised for several months. He also heard them saying we "will kill you like dogs"."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Diary from Palestine" in Friends of Al-Aqsa, undated; last accessed December 24, 2011, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "In December 2008, Israel decided to mark the 60th anniversary of its existence the same way it had established itself - perpetrating massacres against the Palestinian people. In 23 days, Israel killed more than 1,300 and injured over 5,000 Palestinians in Gaza. The irony of history is that Israel targeted those Palestinians - and their descendants - whom it had expelled from their homes and pushed into refugee-hood in Gaza in 1948, whose land it has stolen..."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Call for endorsement of boycott, divestment, sanctions" in Habitat International Coalition, undated; last accessed December 24, 2011, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC)

• "The violence of the powerful Israeli occupation army which uses live ammunition, tanks and helicopter gun ships is at best equated with the violence of Palestinian civilians protesting their victimization and continued loss of rights, lands and lives. Moreover, if we are not grateful for this form of occupation, colonization and the isolated Bantustans under Israel's apartheid system, then we will be pounded into submission."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Being Faithful Witnesses" in Friends World Committee for Consultation, undated; last accessed December 24, 2011, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC and associated with DPI)

• "...[I]n Israel's case...it includes the serious violation of human rights of persons living in occupied territory, willful killing, torture, unlawful deportation, and extensive destruction of property as well as intentional attacks against civilian objects..."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Accountability" in B'Tselem, undated; last accessed December 24, 2011, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "I also met the director of the youth exchange program at An-NajahUniversity in Nablus. He told me of the process of ethnic cleansing that the Israelis were bent on."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Diary from Palestine" in Friends of Al-Aqsa, undated; last accessed December 24, 2011, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Often my South African colleagues cried out that apartheid in South Africa was a picnic compared to the West Bank and Gaza..."After 15 months of research, Human Sciences Research Council, Cape Town, declares that what is happening in Palestine is not only occupation but also colonialism and apartheid."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Apartheid on Two Continents" in The International Organization for the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (EAFORD), undated; last accessed December 24, 2011, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC and associated with DPI)

• "Islam in itself, like Judaism in itself and Christianity in itself, is not a threat to me or to anyone. American imperialism is, European indifference and co-operation is and Israeli racism and its cruel regime of occupation is."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Israeli Mother Addresses the European Parliament" in The International Organization for the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (EAFORD), undated; last accessed December 24, 2011, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC and associated with DPI)

• "The economic, military, and diplomatic support of the United States is essential to the maintenance of Israeli apartheid."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Mark Lance talks at the UN" in International Peace Bureau, undated; last accessed December 24, 2011, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC and associated with DPI)

• "The farce of Israeli \"investigations\" into their own actions. Shooting someone 13 times while he is sleeping in his bed (initially called mistaken identity and now called, \"he made what appeared to be a threatening move\". This happens daily here and Israeli soldiers feel impunity for murder."
  
  

  (Excerpt from " [Human Rights] Content this week: A police state in Palestine? And More" in Palestinians for Peace and Democracy, undated; last accessed December 24, 2011, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Destruction of the Bedouin village of Al-Araqib (it was destroyed 9 times) by the apartheid state that intends on ethnic cleansing (maximum geography with minimum demography)"
  
  

  (Excerpt from " [HumanRights] Content this week: A police state in Palestine? and more" in Palestinians for Peace and Democracy, undated; last accessed December 24, 2011, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Israel, popularly known as the "Derailed Son of USA", now has called for a unilateral ceasefire in the Gaza strip after a three-week long genocide..."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Superpower UN" in The Publication and Coordination Center of Islamic Ideology and Sufi-ism, undated; last accessed December 24, 2011, Accredited with DPI associated status)

• "In 1948, Zionist preparations for the massacre at Deir Yassin had begun. The Terrorist Zionist/Jewish Stern Gang put forward a proposal to massacre the residents of the village in order to show the Arabs what happens when the Irgun and Stern Gangs unite in their operations. One of the aims of the attack was to "break Arab morale" and create panic throughout Palestine. Deir Yassin overlooks Jerusalem from its high mountain point. Taking Deir Yassin was militarily strategic to Zionist plans to empty Palestine of its indigenous inhabitants."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Commemorating Deir Yassin, Palestine 60 Years Later" in Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, undated; last accessed December 24, 2011, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "People of the world watch in horror as the racist state of Israel, with the support and encouragement of the US government, engages in a genocidal project to eliminate the indigenous Arab people of Palestine."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Break the silence on Gaza! Don't delay! Time is of the essence!" in Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, undated; last accessed December 24, 2011, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Nakba is the Arabic word used to describe the events of 1948, when over 700,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes, civilians were massacred & hundreds of their villages deliberately destroyed. 60 years later, they're still waiting to return."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Nakba Campaign: 1948 - 2008" in Palestine Ireland Solidarity Campaign, undated, last accessed December 24, 2011, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "This year uncovered, for the first time, the practice of extracting human organs from killed Palestinians whose bodies were in the hands of Israeli forces and the sale of these organs. "
  
  

  (Excerpt from "2011 -- Palestine: Hopes, Frustrations and Hypocrisy by Dr. Anis Al-Qasem" in The International Organization for the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (EAFORD), undated, accessed February 20, 2012, 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.

• "Glory and eternity to our faithful martyrs throughout the history of Arab-Zionist conflict."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Statement Issued by the Global Coalition for the Palestinian Right of Return" in Al-Awda The Palestinian Right to Return Coalition, May 16, 2011, 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.

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  (Excerpt BADIL, ECOSOC Special Consultative Status)

• "BDS [boycotts, divestments, sanctions] is a global campaign aimed at bringing an end to Israel's brutal occupation of Palestinian lands."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "WILPF Supports Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions for Israel" in Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, February 15, 2011, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC and associated with DPI)

• "The boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement is civil society's attempt to hold Israel to account where governments have failed. Since its launch in 2005 by a broad swath of Palestinian civil society, BDS's successes have been both symbolically and materially tremendous and have associated a high cost for those actors and institutions who are complicit in Israeli colonial and Apartheid practices.1 It is precisely the BDS movement's success and tangible impact in challenging Israeli impunity that has made it a target for Israeli repression."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "BADIL Condemns new Israeli Law prohibiting boycott and limiting the freedom of association and speech" in Badil Resource Center, July 15, 2011. Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC)

• "Now is the time to endorse the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) to end the disastrous era of Israeli apartheid, occupation, and human rights violations against the Palestinian people."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Call for endorsement of boycott, divestment, sanctions" in Habitat International Coalition, undated, last accessed December 24, 2011, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC)

• "At its annual conference here, The Methodist Church of Great Britain voted unanimously June 30 to boycott all products from Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories, and to encourage Methodists across Britain to do the same."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Boycott Illegal Israeli Settlement Goods" in the General Board of Church and Society of The United Methodist Church, undated; last accessed December 24, 2011, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC, associated with DPI and Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Until the dismantlement of the exclusionary and racist character of "Israel", and until all Palestinians are granted the right to return and achieve equality, Al-Awda is united in working for and demanding: "An end to all US political, military and economic aid to "Israel;" The divestment of all public and private entities from all "Israeli" corporations and American corporations with subsidiaries operating within "Israel;" An end to the investment of Labor Union members' pension funds in "Israel;" The boycott of all "Israeli" products;...the formation of an independent, democratic state for all its citizens in all of Palestine."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Points of Unity" in Al-Awda, The Palestinian Human Rights Coalition, undated, last accessed December 24, 2011, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition affirms that the Palestinian Arab people, regardless of their religious affiliation, are indigenous to Palestine. Therefore, they are entitled to live anywhere in Palestine which encompasses present-day "Israel", the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Al-Awda regards the "Israeli" definition of Jewish nationals, granting exclusive rights to citizenship and land to any Jew from anywhere in the world, as part of the racism and discrimination inherent in Zionist ideology which underlies the policies and laws of the settler state of "Israel"."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Points of Unity" in Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, undated; last accessed December 24, 2011, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Al-Awda will work to educate the public about "Israeli" injustices the US government subsidizes with billions of dollars annually. Until the dismantlement of the exclusionary and racist character of "Israel", and until all the Palestinians are granted the right to return and achieve equality..."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Points of Unity" in Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, undated; last accessed December 24, 2011, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)