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.

• "Why does the U.S. government have such a passionate attachment to the dictates of successive Israeli governments?
  It started with President Harry Truman, who spoke of powerful, organized domestic political forces that were 'anxious for the success of Zionism'...
  Israel has also been caught stealing U.S. technology and selling it to rivals, and AIPAC agents have been found spying on the U.S. government. Israel's violations of international law using U.S. weapons and support harm America's image in the world as well as its security. According to the 9/11 Commission Report, Israeli oppression of Palestinians was one of the chief grievances of the 9/11 attackers...
  The Israel lobby, dominated by AIPAC, is consistently ranked as one of the most powerful and effective lobbies in Washington...
  The lobby is still very powerful, but it is weakening. Truth is a one-way valve; thousands of people at any given moment are learning about Palestine while very few are un-learning. Activists who campaigned for decades against Apartheid in South Africa are astonished at how quickly the BDS movement is growing...
  It feels sometimes like the occupation will never end, like the American public will never wake up, like the Israeli government, army, and lobby are all-powerful. This feeling is especially oppressive in the West Bank and Gaza, in the shadows of massive walls, mammoth settlements, and all-seeing drones and sniper towers. And in Washington, where defying the Israel lobby can still cost you a promotion or even your job."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Farewell, Figleaf", by Pamela Olson, Americans For Middle East Understanding, November 3, 2013, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "In 1973, the United Nations rightly condemned "the unholy alliance between Portuguese colonialism, South African racism, Zionism and Israeli imperialism." Only two years later, it determined "that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination." At the behest of the U.S. administration, this resolution was revoked in 1991 in order to pave the way for the Madrid Peace Conference that same year; however, equating of Zionism with racism is still valid... In the case of Israel, Zionist ideology is the driving force behind the ongoing Palestinian reality of apartheid... the Palestinians, wherever they reside, are collectively exposed to one coherent structure of Zionist apartheid...
  The creation of a Jewish nation state in a land with a small Jewish minority could only be achieved by forcibly displacing the indigenous population and implanting Jewish colonizers from abroad. Accordingly, Zionist apartheid's main manifestation is forced population transfer...
  Israel's crimes such as apartheid and persecution, as well as its permanent occupation and annexation-colonization, are intended to create an unbearable situation in order to expel the indigenous Palestinian population. This continuous and calculated targeting of the Palestinian people must be challenged by the international community as it was regarding South Africa where that state's actions and policies were codified into elements of an international crime against humanity."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Zionist apartheid: a crime against humanity", by Amjad Alqasis published in BADIL's Al-Majdal, Summer 2013, undated (accessed on December 10, 2013), Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC)

• "The "judaization" of Jerusalem and the West Bank continues apace, despite the so-called "peace process."...Demolitions of Palestinian homes lay at the very heart of Israel's attempt to "judaize" Jerusalem and the West Bank, just as it does inside Israel as well... Such are the political machinations behind the seemingly justified policy of demolishing "illegal" homes, a key element of a broader policy of ethnic cleansing proceeding steadily throughout the country from 1947 until this day. As the common Israeli slogan has it: We never finished 1948. Not yet, at least."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Stop the demolitions in Jerusalem!", by Jeff Halper, November 17, 2013, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC and by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Uri Avnery: ...There is an approach according to which what keeps us here is the Holocaust. There is a Holocaust fetish, an indoctrination of the Holocaust, that it will scare the Israeli Jews, unite them and keep them here...Now comes the Minister of Education and wants to introduce the Holocaust in first grade and in pre-school. The Holocaust left two crippled nations: the Germans and us. And we both suffer from different forms of severe post trauma, which is borderline pathological. I use the term 'borderline' with doubt, perhaps it can be deleted. To now take children aged five, six, seven and forcibly give them that mental illness, that is insane!"
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Will Israel exist in 90 years from now?, Uri Avnery's 90th Birthday Event", Uri Avnery, October 28, 2013, Gush Shalom, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "YEARS AGO I disclosed one of the biggest secrets about Iran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was an agent of the Mossad.
  Suddenly, all the curious details of his behavior made sense. His public fantasies about the disappearance of Israel. His denial of the Holocaust, which until then had been typical only of a lunatic fringe. His boasting about Iran's nuclear capabilities.
  Cui bono? Who had an interest in all this nonsense?
  There is only one sensible answer: Israel.
  His posturing depicted Iran as a state which was both ridiculous and sinister. It justified Israel's refusal to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty or to ratify the Chemical Weapons Convention. It diverted attention from Israel's refusal to discuss the occupation of the Palestinian territories or hold meaningful peace negotiations."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "The Real Bomb", Uri Avnery, September 28, 2013, Gush Shalom, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "The movement for freedom, justice and equality for Palestinians opposes Israel's occupation, colonization of Arab lands and its apartheid system.... This briefing has been written by and for BDS [Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions] activists to explain how the charge of antisemitism applies to Zionism itself. Indeed, they are racist political twins... Zionism historically argued that antisemitism was inherent in non-Jews and thus would always persist.. Early Zionists accepted stereotypes commonplace at the time: that Jews, especially Eastern European Jews, were backward. They were seen as having become degenerate because they lacked a homeland, so settling Palestine would uplift and cleanse them. For example Pinhas Rosenbluth, later Israel's Justice Minister, wrote that Palestine was 'an institute for the fumigation of Jewish vermin'... Zionism has always depended on support from antisemitic elites...During the early stages of the Third Reich, moreover, the Nazis and Zionist organizations shared an outlook on Jewish separation... When Nazi Germany introduced antisemitic laws and promoted physical attacks on Jews, the Jewish diaspora in other countries organized an effective campaign for an international boycott...The Nazi regime's accomplice to beat the boycott was the World Zionist Organisation (WZO).... The Holocaust strengthened Zionist efforts to gain international support for a Jewish state in Palestine. Most Jewish refugees sought escape to Western Europe or the USA but were blocked by immigration controls – supported by Zionist organisations – and so migrated instead to Palestine. Zionist colonisation depended on racist institutions which still operate today... Zionist militias attacked Palestinian civilians during the 1940s until the 1948 declaration of independence for Israel. In 1947-48 this terror campaign led to the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians from their homes. Several massacres panicked Palestinians to flee their homeland... Zionism sought to replace the indigenous population with colonial-settlers as the 'New Jew'... As in the 1930s, Zionism and racist Right-wing politics have continued to converge... Throughout Europe most major racist parties are antisemitic, Islamophobic and pro-Zionist... By claiming to be 'the State of the Jews', Israel implicates all Jews in Israel's wars, occupation, land thefts, expulsions and other crimes."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Zionism and Antisemitism: Racist Political Twins – A J-BIG Briefing", Islamic Human Rights Commission, February 6, 2013, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC and by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Daniel Kaplan, an American Jew...organizes college students in a national campaign to pressure divestment from corporations that profit from the Israeli occupation of Palestine... When he entered college in the Pacific Northwest, "I was unabashedly pro-Israel," he says...This year, through a fellowship with the American Friends Service Committee's Middle East program, Daniel is building a more diverse and inclusive community of activists in Chicago and nationally. A major focus of that work is the We Divest campaign, which asks TIAA-CREF to divest from corporations that fund and profit from the Israeli military occupation."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Young American Jew works for Palestinian justice", American Friends Service Committee, undated (accessed on January 30, 2013), Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Discrimination against Arabs in Israel is grounded deep in the legal system... in Israel, Zionist-proclaimed, extra-territorial "Jewish People" nationality is the only nationality status recognized... discrimination against Arabs in Israel would, correctly, be called "racist"... Is Zionism responsible for this discrimination? Yes, because Israel's laws and internal policies derive from the ideology of Zionism which insists that Israel be a "Jewish" state...To maintain a Jewish majority in the face of the Arabs' greater natural population increase, some of Israel's population already agrees with the proposition that Arabs should be expelled from their native land..."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Are Arabs discriminated against in Israel? Is discrimination racist? Who is responsible for the discrimination?", Written statement submitted to the HRC 22nd session, EAFORD, January 1, 2013, 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.

• "Israeli practices and policies combine apartheid, military occupation and colonization. Together, the strategy aims at forcibly displacing the indigenous Palestinian people from the territory of Palestine...
  Colonization went hand in hand with erasure of Palestinian existence and history as proclaimed by Moshe Dayan, former Israeli Minister of Defense:
  'We came here to a country that was populated by [Palestinian] Arabs and we are building here a Hebrew, a Jewish state; instead of the [Palestinian] Arab villages, Jewish villages were established. You even do not know the names of those villages, and I do not blame you because these villages no longer exist. There is not a single Jewish settlement that was not established in the place of a former [Palestinian] Arab Village.'"
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Advancing a Language of Unity and Return within a Fragmented Palestinian Geography", Commentary by Amjad Alqasis, published in BADIL's Majdal, Spring 2013, undated (accessed on December 10, 2013), BADIL, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC)

• "...More than 65 years of Palestinian suffering resulting from the Nakba (the uprooting of the Palestinian people from their land in 1948) and the subsequent serious and systematic violations of human rights ... have amounted to the level of war crimes and crimes against humanity... All of this comes with approving the construction of annexation wall, which has seized about 58% of the Palestinian lands and property and has turned Palestinians' life on the rest of their lands into ghettos and Bantustans. Meanwhile, the ethnic cleansing in East Jerusalem and forced displacement of its Arab residents continue... The precise description of the current situation in East Jerusalem is a unique apartheid... Israeli forces continue to commit crimes in the Gaza Strip through full-scale military attacks and through imposing an illegal total closure on the civilian population as these crimes constitute collective punishment and crimes against humanity."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "International Human Rights Day: Palestinian People's Suffering Continues", Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council, published on BADIL's web-site, December 9, 2013, BADIL, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC)

• "IS ISRAEL an apartheid state? This question is not going away. It raises its head every few months...
  THE SITUATION in the West Bank is in many ways similar to the apartheid regime. Since Oslo, the West Bank is divided into areas A, B and C, in which Israeli rule is exercised in different ways. In SA, there were many different Bantustans ("homelands") with different regimes. Some were officially fully autonomous, others were partly so. All were enclaves surrounded by white territories. In certain respects, the situation in SA was at least officially better than in the West Bank. Under SA law, the Blacks were at least officially "separate but equal". The general law applied to all. This is not the case in our occupied territories..."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Taking Apartheid Apart", Uri Avnery, October 26, 2013, Gush Shalom, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Since its imposition in 1948 in Palestine, the Israeli state has not only neglected the rights of the child, but has killed, injured, imprisoned and tortured, and used Palestinian children as human shields. It has targeted playgrounds and schools."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Urgent Action: Demand Freedom for the Children of Palestine", Al-Awda, June 24, 2013, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "The presence of the Israeli settlers makes the life of my people a disaster...Humiliation, body search of women and children is part of the daily life...[O]ccupation forces and settlers together are trying to ethnically cleanse the area from Palestinians."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Hebron: Occupation on a Small Scale", oral statement before the HRC 23rd session, Agenda item 7, General Debate, delivered by Issa Amro, EAFORD, June 10, 2013, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC and associated with DPI)

• "[T]he Israeli government is lying about...security excuses...[W]e organize demonstrations and sit-ins, demand to end the apartheid...Israeli occupation forces systematically target human rights defenders in Palestine with arbitrary arrest, torture, and death threats...We support all calls to boycott Israel."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Oral statement before the HRC 23rd session, Agenda item 7, ID with the SR on occupied Palestinian territories", delivered by Issa Amro, EAFORD, June 10, 2013, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC and associated with DPI)

• "The conference affirmed the need to intensify efforts to face the systematic expulsion of Palestinians in the West Bank and occupied Palestine in 1948 territories. The policy of apartheid, segregation, annexation of land trough the illegal wall and settlements should come to an end ...The conference stresses historical responsibility of Europe for the Palestinian Nakba and displacement of 1948. Generations of Palestinian people are still paying the price of Europe's mistake and still Europe continues to assist in the expansion of the state of Israel and its illegal policies. We announce our full support for the International Campaign demanding an apology from Britain for the Balfour declaration which marks the beginning of Palestinian suffering."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "The Final Statement of the 11th Palestinians in Europe Conference – Brussels", Islamic Human Rights Commission, June 7, 2013, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People and with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC)

• "Instead of an event relegated to history, the Nakba continues into its 65th year... On large and small scales, the displacement of the ongoing Nakba repeats the original crime and tragedy."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "65th Commemoration: Ongoing Nakba and Secondary Forcible Displacement", May 15, 2013), BADIL, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC)

• "The Israeli government is ...continuing to implement its apartheid regime..."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Monthly BDS March – United against Apartheid and Occupation – Justice for the Palestinian People", Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, January 26, 2013, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "The year 2012 was an amazing year full of many successes in the campaign for the cultural boycott of Israel... The fall of South African apartheid was preceded by the movement by artists of conscience to boycott "Sun City." A similar anti-apartheid movement is rapidly growing; and musicians increasingly do not want to perform in Israel. The Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, Habima, Batsheva, and the Cameri Theater continued to be sent to perform abroad as "cultural ambassadors" for Israel. This year people who oppose apartheid gathered in many cities to raise awareness of the complicity of these artists. Almost all Batsheva performances were protested. Demonstrations took place in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Italy, throughout the UK and in Edinburgh, Scotland.
  Looking ahead to 2013:... All artists are invited to respect the boycott..."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "2012 Summary of the Cultural Boycott of Israel", Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, January 3, 2013, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

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.

• "We believe that it is important to look at the firing of rockets by Palestinian armed groups in context. For example, of the grad rockets, homemade rockets, and mortars fired by Palestinians between January 1 and November 1, 2012, approximately 70% were fired during three distinct periods of escalation in March, June, and late October. Each of these escalations correlates with an assassination/killing, incursion, or other Israeli military action. Only a small percentage of the other rockets and mortars that were fired during 2012 were fired in isolation from Israeli military actions in Gaza...It should be clear that the firing of rockets is intertwined with these ongoing Israeli military actions in Gaza. Rocket fire and violence from Gaza will not be ended through the use of increased military force, rather ending violence by armed Palestinian groups requires engagement with them and ending the blockade and the occupation of the Palestinian territory...
  
  What can you do? Demand an immediate end to the siege on Gaza: U.S. government policy officially supports Israel's continued siege on Gaza and the Isolation of Hamas. This is a situation that must end. Contact your government representatives and demand that they call for an immediate change in U.S. government policy and support both the complete end to Israel's siege on Gaza and engagement with Hamas..."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Gaza Under Siege", undated, accessed on December 10, 2013, American Friends Service Committee, Quakers are represented through the "Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC)," accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC and by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "This image of a frightened, vulnerable Israel bears little relation to reality. Most of its conflicts have been wars of aggression and opportunity. Suicide bombings stopped long before this speech was made. Gaza's rockets kill in the single digits per year while Israeli violence has killed many hundreds of Palestinians since the second Intifada ended. And no nation has ever threatened to wipe Israel off the map..."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Farewell, Figleaf", by Pamela Olson, Americans For Middle East Understanding, November 3, 2013, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Please write to the Foreign Secretary of your country and urge him to actively campaign for the release of the Holy Land 5 detainees who were unjustly sentenced from 15 to 65 years in prison...The case of the Holy Land 5 is a case of extreme injustice, reflecting, on a larger scale, the misdemeanour of the US government in targeting Islamic charities on the pretext of the 'war on terror'... in December 2001, HLF was implicated in supporting terrorism and had its assets frozen when President Bush designated it as a terrorist organisation for allegedly raising money for Hamas which was claimed to be used by Hamas to 'support schools and indoctrinate children to grow up to be suicide bombers' and to 'recruit suicide bombers and to support their families'."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Action Alert: Holy Land 5 – Sentenced for Funding the Oppressed", October 10, 2013, Islamic Human Rights Commission, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC and by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "At some point down the road, Israeli rule will be normalized and the Palestinians quietized, any attempt on their part to resist put down as 'terrorism.'"
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Is the Two-State Solution Dead?", by Jeff Halper, April 11, 2013, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC and by 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.

• "Despite the obstacles which the fight for Palestinian freedom faces, a South African-style sanctions campaign is not only necessary, but also possible. A boycott, divestment or sanctions campaign is necessary because one of the many parallels between the Palestinian and South African conflicts is that the dominators are militarily strong, but politically vulnerable. Palestinians will not be freed by weapons – apartheid could have survived a military assault indefinitely and so can the Israeli state - but they can be freed by effective politics. BDS may be even more important in Palestine than the sanctions campaign was in South Africa."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Lessons from the Campaign for Sanctions on Apartheid South Africa", by Steven Friedman, published in BADIL's Al-Majdal, Autumn 2013, undated (accessed on December 10, 2013), BADIL, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "To date, the elements of boycott and divestment have produced successes after only a few years of the official BDS Campaign's existence... After eight years of successful struggle, the most urgent issue that needs to be raised today is the "S" in the BDS acronym, or the campaigning for Sanctions against Israel... all states are under an obligation not to recognize the illegal situation resulting from the establishment of the colonial Zionist apartheid regime in Palestine... The General Assembly and the Security Council – acting for instance under Chapter VI and VII of the Charter - should strongly consider what further action is required to bring to an end the illegal situation resulting from Israel's colonial Zionist apartheid regime."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "What happened to the 'S' in BDS?", by Amjad Alqasis, published in BADIL's Al-Majdal, Autumn 2013, undated (accessed on December 10, 2013), BADIL, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "The growing boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement is a refreshing development for those outraged by the injustices committed in Palestine...The boycott movement speaks the language of human rights and international law."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Three Comments on the Boycott Movement", by Nimer Sultany, published in BADIL's Al-Majdal, Autumn 2013, undated (accessed on December 10, 2013), BADIL, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "EU approved a grant to Ahava – an Israeli firm making cosmetics in a settlement in the occupied West Bank and contributing to the crime of pillaging [of the Dead Sea]... Civil society, including BDS campaigners, will have to continue playing an important role in monitoring the Guidelines' implementation and pressuring for all ineligible Israeli entities to be excluded from receiving EU money. We should also work to compel the EU to recognize that Israeli apartheid is the system that applies on both sides of the 1967 Green Line."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Campaigning for Palestinian Rights in Europe", by Aneta Jerska, published in BADIL's Al-Majdal, Autumn 2013, undated (accessed on December 10, 2013), BADIL, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Youm al-Ard is particularly significant because it was the first time since the 1948 occupation that Palestinian Arabs in "Israel" organized a response to Zionist occupation policies as a Palestinian national collective."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Youm Al-Ard, Land Day in Southern California", undated (accessed on December 10, 2013), Al Awda, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "On Saturday 30th November at 1pm, starting at Daunt Square the Cork branch of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) will hold a demonstration to protest Israel's biggest act of ethnic cleansing since 1967, as part of an international day of action called for by Palestinians."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Cork Palestine Week: A week of events to remember the 1947 partition of Palestine", undated (accessed on December 10, 2013), Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "The Israeli Embassy in Ireland will be hosting a state-sponsored 'Made in Israel' film and television festival. In line with the Palestinian call for a cultural boycott of Israel, the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign will hold a silent vigil for Gaza outside the 'gala opening' at Cineworld on Parnell Street, Dublin 1 from 6pm – 7.30pm on Wednesday 4th December."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Vigil for Gaza at the Gala Opening of the 'Made in Israel' film festival", December 4, 2013, Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Stop the JNF – No land robbery in Silwan, in East-Jerusalem, in Al Arakib, in the Jordan Valley, in the Naqab This was the motto for the protest against the strategic partnership of the organizers of the 3rd Israel-Congress with the Jewish National Fund in Berlin on November 10, 2013....We held up signs (stop the JFN, no land robbery in the Naqab etc.)"
  
  

  (Excerpt from "ICAHD Newsletter October/November 2013", December 3, 2013, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC and by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "I have therefore also been very involved in the boycott, divestment and sanctions efforts of many sectors of civil society. I am happy to share some of those experiences today.... I have worked on divestment and tried to move my own personal funds and I have encouraged others also to divest.... Last year the United Methodist Church joined the international efforts in boycotting settlement product and in boycotting companies that are involved in sustaining the occupation...Let us together stop arms deals that sustain Israel's blockade of Gaza and enable ongoing colonization of the West Bank. Let us stop corporations from profiting."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Statement by David Wildman, Executive Secretary for Human Rights and Racial Justice at the UN International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People", November 25, 2013, United Methodist Church's General Board of Global Ministries, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC and by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, Associated with DPI)

• "1) Every time you go shopping, 'Check the Label' on the produce you buy. Ensure they are not from Israel, West Bank or Jordan Valley. If you do see produce from these places, take a photo and send it to info@checkthelabel.org.uk detailing the store and location.
  
  2) If you find produce from Israel, West Bank or Jordan Valley ask to speak to the store Manager and explain that the produce are from illegal Israeli Settlements as they are grown on land that has been stolen from Palestinians. Ask for them to be removed from the shelves and for them not to be stocked again. Please also ask for the suppliers name if it is not clear as this is useful information. Email your experience to info@checkthelabel.org.uk
  
  3) If you do not want to approach the Manager whilst you are shopping, contact the stores Head office on their customer service number/email explaining your concern."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Check The Label - Boycott Israeli Produce", November 7, 2013, Friends of Al-Aqsa, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "A call to boycott Israeli Academic institutions is being made world-wide... The cultural boycott exposes Israel's violations on an international platform, preventing Israel's efforts to falsely present itself as a normal state. Many musicians and artists have joined the cultural boycott by cancelling tours and refusing to play in Israel.
  
  Action:
  If you know of any artists or academics who are planning on visiting Israel or are being hosted in the UK for an event please inform FOA at info@aqsa.organd we can arrange an appropriate action alert."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Academic and Cultural Boycott", November 3, 2013, Friends of Al-Aqsa, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Shlomo Sand:...The stringent emigration laws were the basis for the beginning of Israel's formation. Exactly 90 years ago...From that time to the present an Israeli society came into being here ... Does that culture, that society, have a future? I seriously doubt it. I am very pessimistic about Israel existing. I am almost certain that it will not exist...I am very Israeli... I wrote a book entitled When and How I Stopped Being Jewish...The fact that Israel will not exist 90 years from now is not a tragedy."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Will Israel exist in 90 years from now?, Uri Avnery's 90th Birthday Event", Uri Avnery, October 28, 2013, Gush Shalom, Accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "You can join the growing BDS movement by supporting a BDS campaign. Here are two options that AFSC works with:
  - The We Divest Campaign asks investment giant TIAA-CREF to divest from companies that support Israel's occupation or violations of international law.
  - The Interfaith SodaStream Boycott calls for a boycott of SodaStream due to the location of its production facilities in an illegal Israeli settlement."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Join a BDS campaign", June 20, 2013, American Friends Service Committee, Quakers are represented through the "Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC)," accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC and by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "We refer Member States of the UN to the following remedial actions that could and should be undertaken to comply with their obligations under international law by: 1. Adopting a ban on the import of Israeli produce coming from settlements into their markets; 2. Excluding settlement produce and companies involved in their trade from public procurement tenders; 3. Freezing the assets of legal and natural persons responsible for violation in international law; 4. Downgrading diplomatic relations with States committing and abetting these offenses; 5. Ending cooperation with Israel's parastatal institutions involved in funding or maintaining Israel's illegal settlement enterprises (including the World Zionist Organisation, the Jewish Agency, the Jewish National Fund, the United Israel Appeal, Mekorot and its affiliates) and revoking their privileged charitable status; 6. Imposing international and domestic sanctions on institutions supporting, or benefitting from settler colonies and/or natural-resource extraction in Palestine; 7. Withholding weapons, building materials, equipment and services that maintain the settler colony regime; 8. Prohibiting products and services originating from sources that support, benefit from, or are located in settler colonies; 9. Reviewing any assistance to, or cooperation with, the State Israeli, which may directly or indirectly aid the settler colony regime."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Joint written statement submitted to the 23rd HRC session under Item 7, Al-Haq, Badil, Al Mezan and Habitat International Coalition", Al-Haq, May 31, 2013, Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC)

• "Q: Is a two-state solution still possible?
  I don't believe so. Demolishing homes, systematically moving Palestinians out of Area C (the primary area set aside in the peace process for a Palestinian state) into Areas A and B, revoking property and citizenship rights, Judaizing Area C – that's all been part of the plan. No way you can imagine a viable, contiguous state. Israel has moved people out, putting them behind walls and warehousing them."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Rabbi Rosen Responds to the Questions of Iowans", April 29, 2013, American Friends Service Committee, Quakers are represented through the "Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC)," accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC and by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "But while Israel endeavors (with the US, Europe and, for its own reasons, the Palestinian Authority) to keep the two-state charade going on indefinitely, it has already moved on to the next stage: putting in place an apartheid regime or, preferably, simply warehousing the Palestinians forever... a remarkable development has emerged: apartheid is the liberal "solution" based on a concept of "two-states" pushed by Barak, Sharon and Olmert in which the Palestinians would get a truncated Bantustan in the nooks and crannies of the settlements. .. Apartheid is neither a slogan nor a system unique to South Africa. The term describes precisely a regime defined by two elements: one population separating itself from the others, then creating a permanent and institutional regime of domination. Exactly the conception of Barak, Sharon and Olmert... The regime in South Africa promoted an "eleven state solution:" the creation of ten black Bantustans (actually called "homelands") on 13% of South African land, the rest becoming a "white democracy." Israel's version of the two-state solution would do the same: create a Palestinian Bantustan on 15% of historic Palestine, grant it putative sovereignty yet keep it entirely under Israeli control and domination, the rest of the country becoming a "Jewish democracy." Warehousing makes no such pretense. Just as in a prison, Palestinian would become inmates – or more accurately, wards of the international community – to be fed, protected but that's all..."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Is the Two-State Solution Dead?", by Jeff Halper, April 11, 2013, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), Accredited with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC and by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)