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.

• "Sabeel's founder, the Rev. Naim Ateek, has been accused of anti-Semitism. What is your response to this?
  Some Zionist groups and individuals have attacked the Rev. Ateek for comparing Palestinian suffering to the crucifixion of Christ, saying that he calls Israelis "Christ killers" and draws on provocative imagery used during European pogroms against Jews....The charges against the Rev. Naim Ateek are false and an effort to silence his criticism of Israel."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "FAQ", undated (accessed on February 6, 2014), Friends of Sabeel - North America, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• [Editor's Note: for refutations of fake Zionist quotes see, for instance: CAMERA.]
  
  "Zionism and the Holocaust
  ...The Holocaust is often used as the final argument in favor of Zionism, but is this connection justified? There are several aspects to consider in answering that question honestly. First, we will examine the historical record of what the Zionist movement actually did to help save European Jewry from the Nazis...
  
  Shamir proposes an alliance with the Nazis
  "As late as 1941, the Zionist group LEHI, one of whose leaders, Yitzhak Shamir, was later to become a prime minister of Israel, approached the Nazis, using the name of its parent organization, the Irgun(NMO)..[The proposal stated:] 'The establishment of the historical Jewish state on a national and totalitarian Pd bound by a treaty with the German Reich would be in the interests of strengthening the future German nation of power in the Near East...The NMO in Palestine offers to take an active part in the war on Germany's side'...The Nazis rejected this proposal for an alliance because, it is reported, they considered LEHI's military power 'negligible.' " Allan Brownfield in "The Washington Report on Middle Eastern Affairs", July/August 1998.
  
  Wasn't the main goal of Zionism to save Jews from the Holocaust?
  "In 1938 a thirty-one nation conference was held in Evian, France, on resettlement of the victims of Nazism. The World Zionist Organization refused to participate, fearing that resettlement of Jews in other states would reduce the number available for Palestine." John Quigley, "Palestine and Israel: A Challenge to Justice."
  ... "[Ben-Gurion stated] 'If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, but only half of them by transporting them to Palestine, I would choose the second - because we face not only the reckoning of those children, but the historical reckoning of the Jewish people.' In the wake of the Kristallnacht pogroms, Ben-Gurion commented that 'the human conscience' might bring various countries to open their doors to Jewish refugees from Germany. He saw this as a threat and warned: 'Zionism is in danger.'" Israeli historian, Tom Segev, "The Seventh Million."
  "...Ben-Gurion did nothing practical for rescue...He delegated rescue work to Yitzak Gruenbaum, who [stated]...'I will not demand that the Jewish Agency allocate a sum of 300,000 or 100,000 pounds sterling to help European Jewry. And I think that whoever demands such things is performing an anti-Zionist act.'
  "Zionists in America...took the same position. At a May 1943 meeting of the American Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs, Nahum Goldmann argued, 'If a drive is opened against the White Paper (the British policy of restricting Jewish immigrants to Palestine) the mass meetings of protest against the murder of European Jewry will have to be dropped. We do not have sufficient manpower for both campaigns.'" Peter Novick, "The Holocaust in American Life."
  ..."The Zionist movement...interfered with and hindered other organizations, Jewish and non-Jewish, whenever it imagined that their activity, political or humanitarian, was at variance with Zionist aims or in competition with them, even when these might be helpful to Jews, even when it was a question of life and death...Beit Zvi documents the Zionist leadership's indifference to saving Jews from the Nazi menace except in cases in which the Jews could be brought to Palestine...
  
  The use of the Holocaust for political gain
  "[In 1947] the U.N. appointed a special body, the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP), to make the decision over Palestine and UNSCOP members were asked to visit the camps of Holocaust survivors. Many of these survivors wanted to emigrate to the United States, a wish that undermined the Zionist claims that the fate of European Jewry was connected to that of the Jewish community in Palestine. When UNSCOP representatives arrived at the camps, they were unaware that backstage manipulations were limiting their contacts solely to survivors who wished to emigrate to Palestine," Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe in "The Link," January March 1998...
  
  Victimology
  "Jewish proponents of the 'victim' card are aware not only of its social effectiveness but of its usefulness as a means of insuring Jewish solidarity and, hence, survival. If we were forever hated by all and are doomed to be forever hated by all, then we'd best stick together and make the best of it...Personally, I have never found this view of the eternally-hating gentile to have any resemblance with reality. It seems a myth, pure and simple, and an ugly one at that.
  "Is it a good means of social control? Perhaps, but at what cost? It strips the faith and history of Jew and gentile alike of all but their months of antagonism. It wallows in evil imagery and postulates a forever morally superior Jew, victimized by the forever morally inferior 'goy'..I have spent most of my adult life among Hasidic Jews, almost all of whom were Holocaust survivors, and I've heard almost nothing of the of the relentless harping on victimology and our need to forever memorialize it...(Victimology) allows Jews to bypass their own faith and offers the national allegiance of Holocaust/Israel in its place." Rabbi Mayer Schiller, quoted in "Issues of the American Council for Judaism," Summer 1998..."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict", undated (accessed on February 6, 2014), If Americans Knew, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Zionism
  In the late 1800s a group in Europe decided to colonize this land. Known as Zionists, they represented an extremist minority of the Jewish population. Their goal was to create a Jewish homeland, and they considered locations in Africa and the Americas, before settling on Palestine.
  
  At first, this immigration created no problems. However, as more and more Zionists immigrated to Palestine – many with the express wish of taking over the land for a Jewish state – the indigenous population became increasingly alarmed. Eventually, fighting broke out, with escalating waves of violence. Hitler's rise to power, combined with Zionist activities to sabotage efforts to place Jewish refugees in western countries, led to increased Jewish immigration to Palestine, and conflict grew.
  
  1947-1949 War
  While it is widely reported that the resulting war eventually included five Arab armies, less well known is the fact that throughout this war Zionist forces outnumbered all Arab and Palestinian combatants combined – often by a factor of two to three. Moreover, Arab armies did not invade Israel – virtually all battles were fought on land that was to have been the Palestinian state.
  
  Finally, it is significant to note that Arab armies entered the conflict only after Zionist forces had committed 16 massacres, including the grisly massacre of over 100 men, women, and children at Deir Yassin. Future Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, head of one of the Jewish terrorist groups, described this as "splendid," and stated: "As in Deir Yassin, so everywhere, we will attack and smite the enemy. God, God, Thou has chosen us for conquest." Zionist forces committed 33 massacres altogether."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict", undated (accessed on February 6, 2014), Council for the National Interest Foundation, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "..[I]n 1948 the state of Israel itself became a model for the form of restitution to which survivors were entitled. The term 'survivors' is itself an innovation of post-Holocaust language: it applies to yesterday's victims, whose interests must always be put first in whatever new political order follows a period of mass violence."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "The Logic of Nuremberg (La logique de Nuremberg)", undated (accessed on February 6, 2014), Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Jewish Fundamentalism In Israel
  The fundamentalist wing of the Jewish religion, while certainly not representative of Judaism as a whole, is influential in Israel, and is the ideological basis of the settler movement in the West Bank and Gaza (except for "Greater Jerusalem" where many secular Jews have moved because of cheap, subsidized housing) The following quotes show the racism inherent in this world-view and why its influence should be opposed by all rational people.
  
  Ideological basis of racism in Israel
  "The Talmud states that...two contrary types of souls exist, a non-Jewish soul comes from the Satanic spheres, while the Jewish soul stems from holiness...Rabbi Kook, the Elder, the revered father of the messianic tendency of Jewish fundamentalism said, "The difference between a Jewish soul and the souls of non-Jews...is greater and deeper than the difference between a human soul and the souls of cattle.'" Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky's "Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel"
  
  Racism - continued
  "Gush Emunim rabbis have continually reiterated that Jews who killed Arabs should not be punished, [e.g.]...Relying on the Code of Maimonides and the Halacha, Rabbi Ariel stated, 'A Jew who killed a non-Jew is exempt from human judgement and has not violated the [religious] prohibition of murder'..The significance here is most striking when the broad support, both direct and indirect, for Gush Emunim is considered. About one-half of Israel's Jewish population supports Gush Emunim." Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky's "Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel"
  
  Jewish fundamentalist rationale for seizing Arab land
  "They argue that what appears to be confiscation of Arab owned land for subsequent settlement by Jews is in reality not an act of stealing but one of sanctification. From their perspective the land is being redeemed by being transferred from the satanic to the divine sphere...To further this process, the use of force is permitted whenever necessary...Halacha permits Jews to rob non-Jews in those locales wherein Jews are stronger than non-Jews."Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky's "Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel"..."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict", If Americans Knew, undated (accessed on February 5, 2014), Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is adding a fifth demand to his negotiations with US Secretary of State John Kerry and Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas: That the Palestinians recognize Israel as a "Jewish state."...More ominously, the demand has to be seen in the context of his partnership with extreme nationalist Avigdor Lieberman. Lieberman wants to strip Palestinian-Israelis of their citizenship and make them stateless. Making people stateless was a policy of the vicious states of Europe in the 1930s, a policy from which Jews suffered mightily along with some other populations, and it is shameful for Jews to make or keep human beings stateless. You have a sinking feeling that the real reason Netanyahu wants Palestinians to assent to the Jewishness of the Israeli state (whatever that might mean) is that he has malicious plans for the 20% of the population that is not Jewish."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Recognizing Israel as a Jewish State is like saying the US is a White State", January 9, 2014, Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "This year's Genocide Memorial Day promises to be the biggest ever with simultaneous events taking place in London, Amsterdam, and Paris. The expansion into Europe represents a big vote of confidence in GMD as an increasingly popular and more inclusive alternative to Holocaust Remembrance Day in that it commemorates all genocides past and present, irrespective of race, ethnicity or religion... Among the events planned in London is a conference featuring Michel Warschawski, founder of the anti-Zionist Alternative Information Centre and a founder and leader of the pioneering anti-Zionist socialist organization Matzpen. Warschawski will outline the dehumanisation of the Palestinians that has been a necessary precursor to their oppression. "
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Press Release: Genocide Memorial Day goes European", January 14, 2014, Islamic Human Rights Commission, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "The Israel Lobby
  
  The Israel Lobby is one of the most powerful and pervasive special interest groups in the United States It consists of a multitude of institutions that work to influence Congress, the Presidency, academia, the media, religious institutions, and the American public on behalf of Israel.
  
  Some of its tactics are of questionable legality.
  
  It is one of the most powerful and pervasive special interest groups in the United States. It began its activities many decades ago and played a major role in the creation of Israel. The Israel Lobby drives almost all our foreign policies in the Middle East and many world wide. Components of it were a major factor in causing the Iraq war, are behind the targeting of Iran, and are playing a central role in creating fear and hatred of Muslims.
  
  It consists of numerous institutions with diverse agendas. Many differ in orientation or political views, but all promote a strong and often dangerous and dishonest pro-Israel slant in the American media and government.
  
  Furthermore, lobbying the government on behalf of Israel proves to be very lucrative for directors of many of these organizations, who earn very large salaries."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Israel Lobby", undated (accessed on January 5, 2014), Council for the National Interest Foundation, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "...Unlike liberal Zionists, Rosen unequivocally condemns the Nakba, the forced expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland. "By any other name," he writes, "this would be called 'ethnic cleansing,' and I have no trouble saying so."
  In response to a reader, he says, "If Zionism means ethnic cleansing, inequity, and transfer of indigenous peoples without some form of justice or repatriation, then no, I do not consider it to be legitimate." He asks how is it possible for Jews to have a "right of return" while denying the right to the indigenous Palestinian people...
  
  "Time-honored tactic"
  In opposition to most liberal Zionists, Rosen endorses the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel, describing it as "a time-honored nonviolent tactic used by disempowered peoples to leverage public support for social change." In one of the more cogent responses to the charge that BDS is anti-Semitic because it singles out Israel among all the nations in the world that violate human rights, he argues that ignoring the call for BDS would be to ignore the Palestinian people themselves and their struggle for liberation.
  
  Several blog entries tackle the so-called peace process, which Rosen views as unbalanced due to Israel's overwhelming power and its "special relationship" with the US government. He writes that there will never be a genuine peace process until Israel approaches negotiations from the standpoint of "restorative justice" - that is, accepting responsibility for the Nakba and the ongoing dispossession and oppression of the Palestinians...
  
  Voices like Rosen's are heard with increasing frequency in the US Palestine solidarity movement, even though the American Jewish establishment goes to great lengths to suppress these voices. It has even been suggested that given the size of the Palestinian-American community, a major challenge to the political influence of the Israel lobby could emerge from progressive Jewish forces that reject the warmongering and racist politics of organizations like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
  
  That would be a welcome development indeed for several reasons. For one, it would help defeat the ideological effort to equate Judaism with Zionism. For another, it would expose how - despite the considerable influence of the Israel lobby - the real reason for the US government's support of Israel is its usefulness as a regional hegemon willing to align itself with US imperial interests in the Middle East."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Book Review: A Rabbi's Journey from liberal Zionism to anti-Zionism", June 22, 2013 (accessed February 19, 2014), Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "May 15, 2013 marks the 65th anniversary since al-Nakba (the catastrophe). As part of our commemoration of the over 6 decades of dispossession of the Palestinian people, we are featuring a number of education resources.
  Electronic version of Al-Nakba commemoration photo exhibit - "Our Story 1948-2013"
  Palestinian Forced Labour Camps"
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Al-Nakba Commemoration- 65 Years of Dispossession", May 2013 (accessed February 24, 2014), Near East Cultural and Educational Foundation of Canada, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "...occupation is practicing the organized terrorism and the ugliest crimes on daily basis against Palestinian people, the land owner, by the assassinations and killings, capture and arrests, siege and attacks on holy sites and attempts to Judaize Jerusalem and change its demographic composition and its religious, political and cultural character and isolate it from the Palestinian body. The confiscation of land for the expansion and construction of settlements and the building of the racial segregation wall that separates cities and villages, homes and farms from each other and turning it into scattered pieces..."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Challenges and opportunities in the new reality of the State under the occupation", February 27-28, 2013 (accessed February 22, 2014), World Federation of Trade Unions, Accredited with General Consultative Status with ECOSOC, associated with DPI and accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "The Perdana Global Peace Foundation (PGPF) supports and stands in complete solidarity with the Global March to Jerusalem scheduled for March 30th 2012. This date, March 30th is significant in that it is 'Land Day', a day that has historically been commemorated against blatant theft and confiscation of Palestinian land throughout the occupied territories and Israel.
  
  Jerusalem, the heart of the Palestinian cause, stands out as the prime example of outright occupation... The Zionist campaign of ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem and elsewhere in occupied Palestine has been increasing in momentum...The Judaisation of Jerusalem is almost complete save for Aqsa Sharif sanctuary and some prominent Christian holy sites. We also condemn the continuation of the Zionist occupation forces in building the apartheid wall that aims to expropriate more Palestinian lands and convert the occupied areas into shrinking cantons isolated from each other."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Press Release: Global March to Jerusalem", March 30, 2012 (accessed February 22, 2014), Perdana Global Peace Foundation, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "This important subject is rarely mentioned, labor camps were indeed set up in Palestine. Typical expulsion pattern of a Palestinian village followed these lines:
  The village is attacked and besieged from 3 sides leaving the fourth open to facilitate expulsion. Men and women were separated in two groups. The women with children were expelled to Lebanon, Jenin, Ramallah or Gaza (depending on location) after being stripped of their valuables. Young men, about 20 - 100 in number, were selected, shot and killed in groups of 4 - 6, after an earlier group had been ordered to dig mass graves for them. Other able-bodied men were taken to labor camps. Their immediate task was to bury the dead in other villages, to demolish Arab houses, to remove the debris from already demolished houses and carry salvaged items to Jewish homes. Generally they did arduous and dangerous jobs. They were fed a slice of bread daily. They were kept in crammed concentration camps. Their conditions improved after Red Cross (ICRC) visits.
  
  The International Red Cross visited the labor camps. Their report on 06 February 1949 (No. G59/I/GC), now released 50 years later, gives the following list:
  1. Camp No. 791 in Ijlil, near Herzlia, 1991 prisoners, Israeli Commander Mosedale.
  2. Camp 792 in Atlit, near Haifa, 1640 prisoners, Israeli Commander Weissbach.
  3. Camp 793 in Sarafand, near Ramle, 1360 prisoners, Israeli Commander Rappaport.
  4. Camp 794 in Tel Litvinsky, near Tel Aviv, 1310 prisoners, Israeli Commander Kossovsky...
  
  The prisoners remained in Israeli camps for 2 - 5 years. Most were released by 1955.
  
  This treatment of prisoners, mostly civilians, is contrary to Geneva Convention, and contrary to Rome Statute of 1998 which led to the establishment of the International Criminal Court due to open 1 July 2002. War crimes have no statute of limitation.
  
  Perpetrators are liable to punishment individually and victims are entitled to compensation in the same way as Jewish victims are now paid compensation of billions of dollars for their suffering in Nazi slave labour camps. The Japanese also compensated the Allied soldiers for the same. The guilt about civilians is much greater."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Palestinian Forced Labour Camps", 2002 (accessed February 24, 2014), Near East Cultural and Educational Foundation of Canada, Accredited by 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.

• "This web of nationality and residency laws, with IDs and passes discriminating between Jews and Arabs in the occupied territories is a form of apartheid..."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "MAP 6: 2007-? OCCUPATION & APARTHEID", undated, accessed on February 7, 2014, Women for Palestine - Australians for Palestine, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Having annexed East Jerusalem already in 1967, Israel has been systematically attempting to de-Arabize it. Israel has established 12 "neighbourhoods" which are in fact illegal settlements surrounding East Jerusalem accommodating 250,000 settlers to entrench the Judaization of the area it regards as its eternal an undivided capital."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "MAP 5: 2002-2007 WALL = LAND THEFT", undated, accessed on February 7, 2014, Women for Palestine - Australians for Palestine, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Ethnic Cleansing
  Historians have cataloged the brutal ethnic cleansing of Palestinian villages and towns during the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. What is now becoming more publicly understood is that ethnic cleansing which began with the establishment of the state of Israel continues today...
  
  East Jerusalem
  There is an active campaign to Judiase East Jerusalem...
  
  Take Action Now
  Ask the Middle East Minister what action he plans to take if Israel goes ahead with its plan to ethnically cleanse the Naqab (Negev) of 40,000 Palestinian Bedouin."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Ethnic Cleansing", undated, accessed on February 5, 2014, The Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Aims and Objectives
  The organization has been established to campaign:...
  • for the right of return of the Palestinian people...
  • in opposition to racism, including anti-Jewish prejudice and the apartheid and Zionist nature of the Israeli state..."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Aims and Objectives", undated, accessed on February 5, 2014, Palestine Solidarity Campaign Thailand, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "About
  Help us to build a new mass anti Apartheid movement for Palestine..."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "About", undated, accessed on February 5, 2014, The Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "On behalf of workers organised in the Trade Union International of Energy (TUI) which is part of a bigger class oriented workers movement organized in 120 Countries under the banner of the World Federation of Trade Union (WFTU), we wish to pledge solidarity with the people of Palestine and the working class of the country who are in a relentless struggle against national oppression, imperialism and economic exploitation of the apartheid regime of Israel.
  The Israel government with its Zionist ideology has intensified its brutality and repression to organised formations of the working class in the country and civil society organisations in general...
  To this end, we continue to call on all in the international community, progressive movements and activists of free and just world to denounce unlawful imprisonment and call for the immediate release of the activists languishing in apartheid prisons in Israel."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "TUI Energy Solidarity Statement", May 13, 2013 (accessed February 24, 2014), World Federation of Trade Unions, Accredited with General Consultative Status with ECOSOC, associated with DPI and accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Dear Mr. Binczak:
  The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) calls on you to reverse your decision to cancel the conference titled "Israel, a State of Apartheid?" scheduled for today, February 27. ...Your capitulation to political pressure groups has meant a failure to provide a rich educational atmosphere for all your students. For these reasons, we call on you to immediately reinstate the conference, or compensate its organizers.
  Sincerely, Heidi Boghosian Executive Director National Lawyers Guild"
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Letter to President of Université Paris 8 Calling for Israel Conference to Proceed", February 27, 2012 (accessed February 24, 2014), National Lawyers Guild, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "The Perdana Global Peace Foundation condemns outright the statement made by Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim in an interview with the Wall Street Journal Asia Edition recently that he "supports all efforts to protect the security of the state of Israel. It is totally unacceptable that a Malaysian of his standing should openly support the cause of the Zionists.
  
  Surely "protecting the security of Israel" is not something that can be accepted at face value as Tel Aviv had exploited the principle to commit atrocities and genocide on Palestinians. It is in the principle of protecting its security that Israel had conducted military operations and attacks on Palestinians especially in Gaza and these attacks had continued incessantly. It is also the principle of protecting the security of Israel that the United States had repeatedly vetoed resolutions to censure and punish Tel Aviv for its belligerence on the Palestinians.
  
  We don't need reminding that Malaysians from all walks of life have shown that they are united in opposing the atrocities committed by Israel on Palestinians."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Press Release", January 31, 2012 (accessed February 24, 2014), Perdana Global Peace Foundation, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "According to the Old Testament, when the ancient Israelites attacked Canaan, God held back the sun to enable them to finish the job. It would appear that the US, which often plays the role of God in modern times, has been performing the same service for Israel in the Jewish state's latest war in the Middle East.
  
  While Israel was continuing its merciless aerial onslaught against Lebanon, the US held back all efforts by the international community at the UN to realise a ceasefire.
  
  The pretence that the US was interested in a 'durable ceasefire' was merely a fig-leaf to cover its naked attempt to give Israel more time 'to finish the job'.
  
  The 'job' in this instance was to lay the groundwork for the US vision of a 'new Middle East'. The slaughter of innocents and their anguished cries were, it was to be inferred from the words of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, merely the 'birth pangs of a new Middle East'.
  
  Although Israel initially sought to justify its invasion of Lebanon as an attempt to secure the release of two Israeli soldiers captured by Hezbollah after a raid across the border, it has now become clear that this was a mere pretext. The war it launched was a premeditated one. It had been planned for months and the Bush administration had been 'closely involved' in its planning.
  
  ...a successful Israeli offensive against Hezbollah was expected to bring more immediate benefits to the US in its quest to consolidate its domination of the region. If for Israel the war against Hezbollah was in the first instance a continuation of its colonial war to subjugate the Palestinians, the political restructuring of the region in its wake was expected not only to meet Israel's strategic needs as the regional policeman, but also to remove another impediment to the consolidation of the US informal empire in the Middle East."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "A US/Israeli debacle in the Middle East", July 2006 (accessed February 24, 2014), Third World Network, Accredited by 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.

• "Q: What is an intifada?
  A: Intifada is an Arabic word derived from a verb meaning "to shake off," and is the term used to describe the two major uprisings against Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip..."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Israel/Palestine 101", Jewish Voice for Peace, undated (accessed February 25, 2014), Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "...The American media call our search for freedom "terrorism," thus casting the Palestinian in the role of the international prototype for the terrorist. This has shaped Western public consciousness and resulted in an international bias that tends to describe instances of violence against Palestinian civilians in neutral language, reducing Palestinian losses to mere faceless statistics, while using emotional language and visuals to describe Israeli losses.
  
  This distortion of the Palestinian resistance has clouded all reasonable dialogue. Many of our efforts to defy the arbitrary rules of the occupier are reflexively dismissed as "terrorism," and we are always expected to apologize for and condemn Palestinian resistance-despite the lack of agreement on a definition of terrorism, and the fact that the right to self-determination by armed struggle is permissible under the United Nations Charter's Article 51, concerning self-defense.
  
  Why is the word "terrorism" so readily applied to individuals or groups who use homemade bombs, but not to states using nuclear and other internationally prohibited weapons to ensure submission to the oppressor? Israel, the United States and Britain should top the list of ting states for their use of armed attacks against non-combatants in Palestine, Iraq, Sudan and other parts of the world. But "terrorism" is a political term used by the colonizer to discredit those who resist-as the Afrikaaners and Nazis named the Black and French freedom fighters, respectively..."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "The Palestinian Resistance; Its Legitimate Right and the Moral Duty", By Samah Jabr, If Americans Knew, undated (accessed February 24, 2014), Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "What does FOSNA say about Palestinian violence?
  ...Following the teachings of Sabeel, FOSNA maintains that the primary way to discourage violence is to end conditions of injustice...FOSNA also notes that in the vast majority of cases, Palestinians are the victims, rather than the agents, of violence."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "FAQ", Friends of Sabeel - North America, undated (accessed February 24, 2014), Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "This December marks the 26th anniversary of the start of the First Intifada in 1987. Decades later, peace remains elusive and the struggle continues. Author, political activist and professor Mazin Qumsiyeh spoke with us about the phenomenon of uprisings and the meaning of Popular Resistance today ...
  
  The term 'Popular Resistance' is very broad. What types of actions are involved in popular resistance?
  First we must realize that resistance is as natural as breathing or eating because it is a survival skill. And there are hundreds of forms. Any colonized people try to use the means they have access to - their minds, culture, religion or whatever their background compels them to use. ...And of course we should not forget armed resistance, but this is usually a minor component of struggle, simply because the majority of people chose nonviolent strategies. We instinctively resist, it's a biological, natural process. But how we resist and react to stress and these abnormal conditions is very individualistic and depends on our backgrounds and circumstances. Some use violence, some not. It's hard to make generalizations.
  
  Isn't it controversial to suggest that circumstances can be used to justify any form of violence?
  I do not want to argue what is right and what is wrong. Most people are in the middle. And what means non-violence? When I throw a stone at a military tank, is that violence or not? Some people consider how big the stone is, some consider whether my intention was to harm somebody or not. Non-violent and violent resistance are not antitheses; the distinctions are fuzzy, and under international law, oppressed people have a right and even an obligation to resist. ...
  
  This month it is the 26th anniversary of the beginning of the First Intifada. What was the atmosphere within Palestinian society in the pre-uprising period like?
  In my studies I found that ...the occupiers usually become very arrogant, they oppress more and more until it reaches a point where people cannot take anymore. If you put a dog in a corner and beat him with a stick one or two times, maybe he won't have a reaction, but after a while the dog will at least bark at you or bite you.
  
  Do you think there are predictable periodic intervals between uprisings?
  It's natural to have uprisings every ten years, more or less. The reason for this interval is a generational thing. Young people are inclined to be more idealistic and are often too young to remember the former uprisings. When they feel the need to change their conditions, they may rebel. Nearly all of the uprisings were led by students, youth between 16 and 25 years.
  
  In the past few months two Israeli soldiers have been killed in the West Bank. Some people now warn of increasing violence and predict a third Intifada is imminent. What do you think about these assertions? Is it likely that another uprising will happen soon?
  The conditions for the next uprising are there. Israel is not stupid, they have studied these cycles and think they can manage them. But they won't because the Palestinians learn how to resist better. I am very optimistic that Zionism will be defeated, maybe not after the next uprising, but possibly the uprising after. In my view, colonialism and Zionism can't succeed in the 21st century, because if you look at the history of the outcomes of anti-colonial struggles in other countries, you see they are defeated. I think what happened in South Africa with the end of Apartheid will eventually happen in Palestine: we will have one secular democratic state. And we can achieve that only through resistance."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Conditions for next uprising are there", by Carolin Smith, December 2, 2013 (accessed February 25, 2014), Alternatives, Action and Communication Network for International Development, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "The ongoing occupation of Palestine, since 1948, shows another face of imperialist ambitions and destructive mechanism. While the Palestinian are facing the aggressions of the Israeli occupation by their resistance, steadfastness, and their believe in their struggle...
  
  The brutality of the occupation, have always been faced by the Palestinian resistance in every possible mean. Resisting and struggling for their independence, return, and freedom. The first and second uprising, the armed resistance, the steadfastness of the Palestinians inside and outside Palestine, the daily resistance of the people, the hunger strikes of the detainees, all come in the continues struggle of the Palestinians against the Zionist occupation. As well as resisting against the imperialist ambitions and plans of control performed on them..."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Thousands of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisoners", World Federation of Democratic Youth, February 4, 2013 (accessed February 24, 2014), Accredited with General Consultative Status with ECOSOC and accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "The World Federation of Democratic Youth welcomes this recognition, and considers it an advanced step in the Palestinian struggle, and a progress of the peoples' years of resistance and steadfastness. This is an achievement for the Palestinian people towards their liberation and freedom.
  
  The Palestinians have been struggling for years against the Zionist occupation, and the fascist acts of the Israeli government, from the daily attacks, to the wars, recently the bombardment on Gaza, to the apartheid wall, and thousands of prisoners in the Israeli jails. Once again, they succeeded to defeat the imperialist ambitions played against them."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Statement on the UN decision for Palestine", World Federation of Democratic Youth, December 4, 2012 (accessed February 24, 2014), Accredited with General Consultative Status with ECOSOC and accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "The problem of terrorism can only be solved if the root causes of the suicidal attacks are addressed: namely the ongoing illegal occupation of Palestinian land (including the continued construction and enlargement of settlements) and the permanent subjugation of the entire people of Palestine to Israeli rule..."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Declaration of the International Progress Organization", International Progress Organization, April 2, 2002 (accessed February 24, 2014), Accredited with Roster Status with ECOSOC, associated with DPI and accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "The Al-Quds Intifadah is the legitimate expression of the Palestinian people's will to resist continued subjugation and humiliation by the occupying power... What we witness today is not simply the repetition of the Palestinian Intifadah of the eighties. The Al-Quds Intifadah marks a decisive new step in the liberation struggle of the Arab people of Palestine..."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Statement by Dr. Hans Köchler, President of the International Progress Organization", International Progress Organization, November 29, 2000 (accessed February 25, 2014), Accredited with Roster Status with ECOSOC, associated with DPI and accredited 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.

• "Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions
  
  

  

  ...We call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions because:
  Israel destroys Palestinian lives, livelihoods and homes daily, refuses to stop building its illegal settlements and apartheid wall on stolen land, continues to control Gaza while slicing the West Bank into Bantustans, denies Palestinian refugees their right to return, grows produce and sets up industrial zones on stolen Palestinian land, and operates an apartheid, racist system on both sides of the 'green line'.
  
  ... Here in Thailand we are trying to raise awareness among all people living in Thailand of the injustices in Palestine and the possibilities of BDS. We are also working on encouraging divestment among companies that use Israeli products."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions", Palestine Solidarity Campaign Thailand, undated (accessed February 24, 2014), Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Overpass Action
  Thousands of rush hour commuters saw this powerful message "Boycott Israeli Apartheid"
  
  

  

  
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions", Coalition to Stop $30 Billion to Israel, undated (accessed February 24, 2014), Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Jerusalem (Al Quds) is located 35 miles away from the Mediterranean coast and 15 miles away from the Dead Sea...
  
  Until Palestine was occupied Jerusalem had been the capital of Palestine with a happy, prosperous, proud, highly advanced and cultured citizenry of various denominations and creeds...Jerusalem was and will always be our taken from us country's capital. As it is placed in the middle of Palestine and connects the entire Palestinian region, it will always be placed in the middle of our hearts, and connect all the Palestinians together, in hope of returning to their homeland."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Jerusalem Capital of Palestine", The National Institution of Social Care and Vocational Training, undated (accessed February 26, 2014), Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "More than sixty years after Palestinians experienced the "Nakba" – the catastrophe that led to the loss of Palestinian land and sovereignty – and Israelis celebrated the founding of the modern state of Israel, the reality on the ground is worsening...
  
  Bridges not Walls Campaigns.
  The "Separation Barrier" constructed by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territories is a grave breach of international law and must be removed from occupied territory. Pax Christi International has called all its Member Organisations to focus its activities on the new symbol of occupation – the "Wall of Shame." This wall creates a prison."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Israeli & Palestine Conflict", Pax Christi International, undated (accessed February 24, 2014), Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "The German Section of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), the Middle East Committee of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (German branch) and the Middle East Commission of Pax Christi Germany welcome the new EU guidelines from 19 July which, as of next year, will ban Israeli organisations, groups and companies from receiving EU funding if they are based on Palestinian territory occupied by Israel. The three peace organisations nevertheless deplore the continued approval of imports of settlement products into the EU which they see as contributing to supporting and maintaining the settlements, contrary to the objective of the EU guidelines."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "German peace organisations in favour of EU guidelines for agreements with Israel", Pax Christi International, undated (accessed February 24, 2014), Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Palestinians never left Palestine until 1948, when massive numbers were forcibly exiled as a result of the creation of the state of Israel. Jews also have a continuous, millennia-long history in Palestine. But after Jews were exiled by Palestine's Roman rulers in the 1st century A.D., the Jews remaining in Palestine lived peacefully as a religious minority alongside the majority populations, until Zionism began to make inroads in Palestine in the 20th century.
  
  Political Zionism was founded in Europe in the late 19th century for the purpose of establishing a state in Palestine with a permanent Jewish majority. In 1917, Britain strengthened Zionist aims by issuing the Balfour Declaration promising to support the establishment in Palestine of a "national home for the Jewish people." At the time, the population of Palestine was 89% Palestinian Arab and 11% Jewish...In November 1947...Jews made up slightly less than one-third of the population and owned only 7% of the land, the partition plan allotted 56% of Palestine to the Jewish state...Israel ethnically cleansed the Palestinian population. While Zionist officials brought millions of Jews from around the world to populate Israel, exiled Palestinians became refugees in camps in neighboring Arab countries and in the West Bank and Gaza. Today, this refugee population has grown to over 4 million. This expulsion and the failure to resolve it constitute the root of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "History of Palestine and Palestinians", Coalition to Stop $30 Billion to Israel, undated (accessed February 24, 2014), Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Conclusion I
  For Jewish Readers
  As we have seen, the root cause of the Palestine-Israel conflict is clear. During the 1948 war, 750,000 Palestinians fled in terror or were actively expelled from their ancestral homeland and turned into refugees. The state of Israel then refused to allow them to return and either destroyed their villages entirely or expropriated their land, orchards, houses, businesses and personal possessions for the use of the Jewish population. This was the birth of the state of Israel...
  
  Conclusion II
  We hope that this look at the historical record concerning the root cause of the Middle East conflict will give second thoughts to all who have previously supported Israel's actions. ...Like all other colonial enterprises, however, Zionism was based on the total disregard of the rights of indigenous inhabitants. As such, it is morally indefensible. And, as previously stated, all subsequent crimes - and there have been many on both sides - inevitably follow from this original injustice to the Palestinians."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict", If Americans Knew, undated (accessed February 26, 2014), Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Does FOSNA support the existence of Israel as a Jewish state?
  This question is rooted in a presupposition, which needs to be carefully examined: that the State of Israel can only exist as a Jewish state, that is, as a state in which Jews are the overwhelming demographic majority and only Jews have full citizenship...
  To declare Israel a "Jewish state" would mean that this discriminatory treatment is enshrined as a core value of the state itself. It would also mean renouncing the internationally recognized right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes, which they were forced to leave during the creation of the state. Lastly, to ask Palestinians to accept Israel as a Jewish state is like asking Jews, Muslims and other non-Christians to recognize the U.S. as a "Christian state.
  
  What is the Nakba?
  The Nakba is the Palestinian term for the events of 1948 that established the state of Israel. It means "the catastrophe" in Arabic, underscoring the fact that some 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes to make way for the new state and over 500 Palestinian villages were destroyed.
  The official history of Israel has often falsified the actual story or told it in a manner to legitimize the occupation of Palestinian land and the displacement of Palestinians. Since the last decades of the twentieth century, however, Israeli revisionist historians have brought the facts to light ...
  This history confirms the Palestinians' narrative of ethnic cleansing. The purpose of these histories is not to demonize Israel or to "delegitimize" it but rather to recognize the injustice done to Palestinians in the creation and maintenance of the state of Israel...
  Many say that the Nakba has never ended, that it was repeated in dramatic fashion in 1967 but continues inside Israel and within the occupied territories today, with land confiscation and ethnic cleansing of entire villages."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "FAQ", Friends of Sabeel - North America, undated (accessed February 26, 2014), Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "...[T]he Zionist movement, from the beginning, looked forward to a practically complete dispossession of the indigenous Arab population so that Israel could be a wholly Jewish state...The Arab community, as it became increasingly aware of the Zionists' intentions, strenuously opposed further Jewish immigration and land buying because it posed a real and imminent danger to the very existence of Arab society in Palestine. Because of this opposition, the entire Zionist project never could have been realized without the military backing of the British. The vast majority of the population of Palestine, by the way, had been Arabic since the seventh century A.D. (Over 1200 years). In short, Zionism was based on a faulty, colonialist world view that the rights of the indigenous inhabitants didn't matter. The Arabs' opposition to Zionism wasn't based on anti-Semitism...The Zionists (who were a distinct minority of the Jewish people until after WWII)...
  
  "...The indigenous Jews of Palestine also reacted negatively to Zionism. They did not see the need for a Jewish state in Palestine and did not want to exacerbate relations with the Arabs." John Quigley, "Palestine and Israel: A Challenge to Justice."
  
  "...Tensions began after the first Zionist settlers arrived in the 1880's...when [they] purchased land from absentee Arab owners, leading to dispossession of the peasants who had cultivated it." Don Peretz, "The Arab-Israeli Dispute."
  
  "By 1948, the Jew was not only able to 'defend himself' but to commit massive atrocities as well...'every skirmish ended in a massacre of Arabs.'" Norman Finkelstein, "Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict."..."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict", If Americans Knew, undated (accessed February 26, 2014), Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Join Online Briefing on Israel State Bonds and Divestment Efforts
  In 1950, Israeli leaders and a group of Americans met in Jerusalem to discuss ways of financing the new country of Israel. The group came up with the idea to sell bonds. They called their company the Development Corporation for Israel and began a campaign to sell Israel Bonds in the United States...
  
  Israel Bonds help finance the Israeli government's budget, thereby aiding Israel's ongoing colonization of Palestinian land and entrenching its apartheid policies and military occupation. ...Want to learn more about Israel Bonds and how to organize a divestment campaign? Join a national online briefing on Thursday, January 16 at 8:30pm EST/5:30pm PST with member group Minnesota Break the Bonds!"
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Break Israel Bonds!", U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, January 10, 2014, Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "...[W]hat the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation means to us in the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) National Committee (BNC). As the largest coalition of U.S. organizations working for the comprehensive, UN-stipulated rights of the Palestinian people and towards ending U.S. complicity in Israel's regime of occupation, colonization and apartheid which denies those rights, the US Campaign is simply the BNC's most important strategic ally and partner in the U.S."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Will you stand with me behind the US Campaign?", U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, December 26, 2013 (accessed February 24, 2014), Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "By: the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
  USACBI congratulates the American Studies Association (ASA) for its unprecedented vote endorsing the Palestinian call for an academic boycott of Israeli universities. ... This act of solidarity with Palestinians constitutes a historic breakthrough among US-based academics. It signals an increased tendency to challenge the normalization of Israeli exceptionalism and the old norms of censorship and self-censorship, which have inhibited open criticism of Israel's oppression of Palestinians."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "A Statement on the ASA vote to endorse the academic boycott of Israeli Universities", Free Palestine Movement, December 20, 2013 (accessed February 24, 2014), Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Does FOSNA support boycott, divestment, and sanctions?
  
  FOSNA is committed to nonviolent means to end the oppression of Palestinians in Israel and in the occupied territories. Boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) are nonviolent methods of working for justice, and FOSNA supports the use of these in the campaign against Israeli settler colonialism and discrimination. These are the same methods also used to target apartheid in South Africa, racial discrimination in the United States and colonial rule in India."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "FAQ", Friends of Sabeel - North America, undated (accessed February 26, 2014), Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Recommendations
  ...the European Union and its member states should proactively advise businesses to:
  Cease all trade with Israeli export companies that operate inside illegal Israeli settlements, since trade with such companies provides capital to businesses involved in the maintenance and expansion of Israeli settlements
  Avoid involvement or investment in the provision of infrastructure products and services to illegal Israeli settlements such as transport, waste and environmental services, given that such projects violate international law
  End all investment in companies, projects and businesses operating inside illegal Israeli settlements, including by divesting existing investments
  Be aware of the risk of legal action against the business for breaches of international law
  
  In addition, the European Union should:
  Conduct a Human Rights Impact Assessment of its trade agreements with Israel, given that companies operating in illegal Israeli settlements are able to export produce to Europe using procedures put in place by these agreements.
  Encourage its member states to withdraw state support from and not procure services from companies that refuse to address their contribution to human rights violations.
"
  
  

  (Excerpt from "The contribution of European businesses to the existence and expansion of illegal Israeli settlements", European Coordinating Committee of Committees and Associations for Palestine, November 23, 2013 (accessed February 24, 2014), Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "More than a hundred Israeli and Palestinian activists participated in a study day last Saturday on the prospects and challenges of the "one democratic state" program. The study day took place in Ramallah and was organized by the "The Popular Movement for One Democratic State on the Land of Historical Palestine" and "The Jaffa Group for One Democratic State."
  
  Most of the study time was devoted to listening to the views of participants and to an open discussion about the objectives and ways of working of the new movement.
  
  The organizers clarified that the "one democratic state" program aims at restoring all the usurped rights of the Palestinian people, first and foremost the right of return for all refugees. Confirming this goal, they wrote in a press release, "refutes any intersection between our program, which is based on democracy and liberty, and the empty political balloons waved recently by some spokesmen of the Israeli right. The starting point and ultimate goal of the program of the Zionist Right and Left alike is to prevent the application of the right of return, solidify the results of the crime of ethnic cleansing and maintain the Jewish apartheid state."
  
  Participants also stressed that "one democratic state" is the only program that provides the conditions the right of return and to fully get rid of the occupation and the racist apartheid regime. For this reason, they contended, it is the only program that can be considered as a solution. In contrast, the continuation of the occupation and the re-division of the country could only lead to increased suffering and the continuation of the bloody conflict.
  
  The organizers pointed to the symbolic significance of holding the study day on November 2, the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. Through this document Britain awarded legitimacy to Zionist colonization at the expense of the rights of the Palestinian people, in order to establish a foothold for Western imperialism in the Arab region and the Middle East in general."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "One democratic state study day in Ramallah", Alternatives Action and Communication Network for International Development, November 7, 2013 (accessed February 24, 2014), Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Open letter to John Baird, Canadian Foreign Minister
  
  Mr. Baird:
  Your latest call for the removal of Richard Falk, the U.N. Special Rapporteur for the Palestinian Territories, smacks of hypocrisy and racism; it also exposes your (and your government's) blind support for Israeli war crimes and Apartheid.
  ...Your comments not only "undermine the fundamental values of the United Nations", they also deny the terrible suffering and the slow genocide of the Palestinian people since the Zionist ethnic cleansing started in 1947/48. Recently, your spokesperson Rick Roth dismissed the new mini-genocide, the "Prawer Plan" which the Israeli government is planning for the Bedouin Israelis, as an "internal Israeli matter".
  You called for Prof. Falk to be fired "for his numerous outrageous and anti-Semitic statements". However, it is your statement that is outrageous and libelous considering that he is a Jewish international law scholar that fought all his life for the truth, justice, equality and peace (contrary to what your government stands for). Once again it is you Mr. Baird that is promoting anti-Semitism by claiming that everything Israel does falls on the shoulders of all Jews. We asked you previously, clearly to no avail: "Mr. Baird: Don't Equate Zionism with Judaism"‏.
  Stop taking your marching orders from Tel Aviv...
  Hanna Kawas, Chairperson, Canada Palestine Association"
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Mr. Baird: Stop Slandering Richard Falk", Canada Palestine Association, December 21, 2013 (accessed February 24, 2014), Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Sodastream Boycott Campaigns are growing around the world, an attempt to pressure Israel to obey international law and respect Palestinian human rights. Here in Vancouver we are asking London Drugs to remove these products from their shelves. Our next protest will be:
  SATURDAY DECEMBER 21, 2-3 P.M.
  In front of LONDON DRUGS, 525 W Broadway, Vancouver
  
  ...Israeli companies operating in the West Bank enjoy cheap land and water confiscated from the indigenous Palestinian owners; a captive Palestinian labour force...This demonstration is part of the Canada-wide SodaStream boycott campaign of the Canadian Boycott Coalition for Justice in Palestine and Israel. The primary strategy of the coalition is to support the member groups in their efforts to call for boycotts of goods produced in Israeli settlements (colonies) in the occupied West Bank. For more info, see: Canadian Boycott Coalition for Justice in Palestine/Israel. To join the coalition, contact Tyler@ijvcanada.org The Vancouver event is endorsed by the Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign, the Canada Palestine Association, the Canada-Palestinian Support Network, Independent Jewish Voices (Vancouver), and the United Network for a Just Peace in Palestine and Israel.
  
  Videos from previous picket in front of LONDON DRUGS Nov 3, 2013: Boycott SodaStream – Vancouver Protest Nov 3 and Solidarity Notes Serenade SodaStream Display – Boycott Now!"
  
  

  (Excerpt from "DON'T BUY SODASTREAM! Protest in front of London Drugs", Canada Palestine Association, December 15, 2013 (accessed February 24, 2014), Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "Anyone who really fears for the future of the country needs to be in favor at this point of boycotting it economically...
  
  Economic boycott was proven effective in South Africa. When the apartheid regime's business community approached the country's leadership saying that the prevailing circumstances could not continue, the die was cast. The uprising, the stature of leaders like Nelson Mandela and Frederik de Klerk, the boycott of South African sports and the country's diplomatic isolation also contributed of course to the fall of the odious regime. But the tone was set by the business community.
  
  And it can happen here too. Israel's economy will not withstand a boycott."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Israeli columnist calls for Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions", Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights, July 17, 2013 (accessed February 26, 2014), Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)

• "On behalf of the National Lawyers Guild, we write in support of the lawsuit filed on November 29, 2011, against the Minnesota State Board of Investment (SBI) which seeks a judgment directing the SBI to divest from Israel Bonds."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "NLG Urges Minnesota to Divest from Israel Bonds", National Lawyers Guild, December 16, 2011 (accessed February 24, 2014), Accredited by UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People)