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 * https://web.archive.org/web/20160205061624/http://peacenow.org.il/eng/sites/default/files/Right%20Wing%20Funding.pdf
 *http://policyworkinggroup.org.il/report_en.pdf
 ==Notes==

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 :NGO Monitor, founded by the [[Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs]], has for some time now been deliberately spreading false and misleading information about organisations in an attempt to discredit them. Their targets include some of the most established and respected human rights organisations. While their efforts to stifle a critical dialogue have proved unsuccessful, their efforts are relentless and it is important that they be exposed as part of an extremist, right wing institution. They should not be taken seriously by anyone interested in peace and human rights.
-:NGO Monitor, a web-based project of the [[Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs]], was founded jointly with [[B'nai B'rith]], a long-time, vocal supporter of Israel in the US and the [[Wechsler Family Foundation]].<ref name=ger>Gerald M. Steinberg, [http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp499.htm "MONITORING THE POLITICAL ROLE OF NGOs"], Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 1 June 2003, accessed on 13 December 2010</ref>
+:NGO Monitor, a web-based project of the [[Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs]], was founded jointly with [[B'nai B'rith]], a long-time, vocal supporter of Israel in the US and the [[Wechsler Family Foundation]].<ref name=ger/>
 :To an outsider, NGO Monitor appears to be a serious and neutral initiative. NGO Monitor states that it is "promoting critical debate and accountability of human rights NGOs in the Arab-Israeli conflict" [sic]. <ref>[http://www.ngo-monitor.org/editions/v2n09/v2n09-7.htm NGO Monitor website], accessed 2 April, 2009.</ref> However, on closer examination, it is very obvious that the "debate" NGO Monitor is referring to is one that offers a blanket rejection of any criticism of Israel and its violations of human rights. It begs the question of whether NGO Monitor has any idea of what a "debate" actually is.

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 :In fact, NGO Monitor shows that the [[Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs]], in line with most other vocal supporters of Israel, is keen on vilifying any and all critics of Israel and conveniently ignoring the human rights violations and war crimes of Israel and its security agencies. <ref>Yacoub Kahlen and Robert E. Foxsohn, 'NGO Monitor should not be taken seriously', [http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4255.shtml ''The Electronic Intifada''], 18 October 2005</ref>
-NGO Monitor is a programme of the [[Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs]], and is a joint project founded by[[B'nai B'rith]] International and the [[Wechsler Family Foundation]].<ref>'Follow up on ISM and the death of Rachel Corrie', [http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=16540 IMRA website/Excerpt from NGO Monitor, 10 April , 2003], 14 April, 2003.</ref><ref name=ger>Gerald M. Steinberg, [http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp499.htm "MONITORING THE POLITICAL ROLE OF NGOs"], Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 1 June 2003, accessed on 13 December 2010</ref>
+NGO Monitor is a programme of the [[Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs]], and is a joint project founded by[[B'nai B'rith]] International and the [[Wechsler Family Foundation]].<ref>'Follow up on ISM and the death of Rachel Corrie', [http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=16540 IMRA website/Excerpt from NGO Monitor, 10 April , 2003], 14 April, 2003.</ref><ref name=ger/>
 ==Activities==
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 ==Affiliations==
-*[[B'nai B'rith]] - B'nai B'rith has been referred to by Steinberg as a joint founder of NGO Monitor<ref name=ger>Gerald M. Steinberg, [http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp499.htm "MONITORING THE POLITICAL ROLE OF NGOs"], Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 1 June 2003, accessed on 13 December 2010</ref><ref name=more>JCPA, [http://www.jcpa.org/about-jun04.htm "About"], Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, accessed on 13 December 2010</ref>
+*[[B'nai B'rith]] - B'nai B'rith has been referred to by Steinberg as a joint founder of NGO Monitor<ref name=ger/><ref name=more>JCPA, [http://www.jcpa.org/about-jun04.htm "About"], Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, accessed on 13 December 2010</ref>
-*[[Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs]]<ref name=ger>Gerald M. Steinberg, [http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp499.htm "MONITORING THE POLITICAL ROLE OF NGOs"], Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 1 June 2003, accessed on 13 December 2010</ref><ref name=more>JCPA, [http://www.jcpa.org/about-jun04.htm "About"], Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, accessed on 13 December 2010</ref>
+*[[Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs]]<ref name=ger/>
 ==Contact, References and Resources==

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 * 'Biography: Ambassador Dore Gold', [http://www.jcpa.org/dgold.htm JCPA website], accessed 2 April, 2009.
 * Mohammed Salah Al-Attar, 'The Israeli NGO's Monitor: Aims, purposes and mixture of claims, deformation of facts and illusions', [http://web.archive.org/web/20051103144659/http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion+editorials/2004+opinions/Jan/9o/The+Israeli+NGO%27s+Monitor+Aims,+purposes+and+mixture+of+claims,+deformation+of+facts+and+illusions+By+Mohammed+Salah+Al-Attar.htm web.archive.org/''Al-Jazeerah''], 9 January, 2004.
 ==Notes==

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 ===Other===
-*[[Marc Cogen]] - academic with links to the [[counterjihad movement]] who helped establish [[European Friends of Israel]] listed as legal advisory board member in 2013<ref>David Cronin, Sarah Marusek and David Miller, ''The Israel Lobby and the European Union'', Public Iiterest Investigations, May 2016, p.19.</ref>
+*[[Marc Cogen]] - academic with links to the [[counterjihad movement]] who helped establish [[European Friends of Israel]] listed as legal advisory board member in 2013<ref>David Cronin, Sarah Marusek and David Miller, ''The Israel Lobby and the European Union'', Public Interest Investigations, May 2016, p.19.</ref>
 ==Other NGOs Reviewed==

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 ===International advisory board===
 [[Elie Wiesel]] | Professor [[Alan Dershowitz]] | [[R. James Woolsey]] | [[Fiamma Nirenstein]] | Amb. [[Yehuda Avner]] | [[Tom Gross]] | [[Michael Gove]] MP | [[Douglas Murray]] | Judea Pearl | [[Ruth Wisse]] | [[Elliott Abrams]]<ref>NGO Monitor [http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article.php?id=2028 International Advisory Board Profiles], accessed 8 August 2010</ref>
 ==Other NGOs Reviewed==

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 <tr><td>[[Oliver Moore]] &ndash;  Research Fellow </td>
-<td>[[Paul Gross]] &ndash;  Communications and Public Relations </td></tr>
+<td>[[Paul Gross]] &ndash;  Communications and Public Relations </td>
-<td>[[Yitzhak Santis]] - Chief Programmes Officer</td>
+<td>[[Yitzhak Santis]] - Chief Programmes Officer</td></tr>
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 <th colspan="3" bgcolor="goldenrod" align="left" style="font-size:10pt">Source<ref>'NGO Monitor Staff circa 2008', [http://www.ngo-monitor.org/articles/staff NGO Monitor website], accessed: 27 October, 2008.</ref></th>

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 ==Activities==
-NGO Monitor has campaigned against several international human rights organisations, including [[Christian Aid]] for its alleged "extensive involvement in anti-Israel propaganda campaigns" <ref>'Summary Report on Christian Aid: June 2004', [http://www.ngo-monitor.org/editions/v2n10/v2n10-1.htm NGO Monitor website], 15 June, 2004.</ref> and [[Human Rights Watch]] whose reports it claims to be "systematically and exceedingly biased", <ref>'Summary Report on Human Rights Watch', [http://web.archive.org/web/20040529143436/http://www.ngo-monitor.org/issues/hrw.htm web.archive.org/NGO Monitor website], 14 April, 2004.</ref> [[Amnesty International]], <ref>Gerald Steinberg, 'Human Rights Groups Are Working Against Peace', [http://www.ngo-monitor.org/editions/v3n05/HumanRightsGroupsWorkingAgainstPeace.htm NGO Monitor website/''Canadian Jewish News''], 13 January, 2005.</ref> [[Oxfam]] <ref>Gerald Steinberg, 'Human Rights Groups Are Working Against Peace', [http://www.ngo-monitor.org/editions/v3n05/HumanRightsGroupsWorkingAgainstPeace.htm NGO Monitor website/''Canadian Jewish News''], 13 January, 2005.</ref> and [[Medecins Sans Frontieres]] <ref>''Political Humanitarianism' and Medical NGOs', [http://www.ngo-monitor.org/editions/v2n04/v2n04-1.htm NGO Monitor website], 5 December, 2003.</ref>
+NGO Monitor has campaigned against several international human rights organisations, including [[Christian Aid]] for its alleged "extensive involvement in anti-Israel propaganda campaigns" <ref>'Summary Report on Christian Aid: June 2004', [http://www.ngo-monitor.org/editions/v2n10/v2n10-1.htm NGO Monitor website], 15 June, 2004.</ref> and [[Human Rights Watch]] whose reports it claims to be "systematically and exceedingly biased", <ref>'Summary Report on Human Rights Watch', [http://web.archive.org/web/20040529143436/http://www.ngo-monitor.org/issues/hrw.htm web.archive.org/NGO Monitor website], 14 April, 2004.</ref> [[Amnesty International]], <ref>Gerald Steinberg, 'Human Rights Groups Are Working Against Peace', [http://www.ngo-monitor.org/editions/v3n05/HumanRightsGroupsWorkingAgainstPeace.htm NGO Monitor website/''Canadian Jewish News''], 13 January, 2005.</ref> [[Oxfam]] <ref>Gerald Steinberg, 'Human Rights Groups Are Working Against Peace', [http://www.ngo-monitor.org/editions/v3n05/HumanRightsGroupsWorkingAgainstPeace.htm NGO Monitor website/''Canadian Jewish News''], 13 January, 2005.</ref> and [[Medecins Sans Frontieres]]. <ref>''Political Humanitarianism' and Medical NGOs', [http://www.ngo-monitor.org/editions/v2n04/v2n04-1.htm NGO Monitor website], 5 December, 2003.</ref>
 It has also criticised the [[Ford Foundation]] for funding NGOs, such as the Palestinian human rights organisation [[Al Mezan Center for Human Rights|Al Mezan Center]], allegedly involved in "blatantly political anti-Israel activities". <ref>'Ford Foundation Update - Ford Money Still Being Used for Anti-Israel Activities', [http://web.archive.org/web/20040807215339/http://www.ngo-monitor.org/issues/ford.htm NGO Monitor website], 15 May, 2004.</ref>  Subsequent to this criticism, the [[Ford Foundation]] modified its policies regarding funding of NGOs. <ref>Andrew L. Jaffee, '"Stunning Reversal:" Ford Foundation Agrees to Stop Funding Anti-Israeli and Anti-Semitic Groups', [http://www.netwmd.com/articles/article293.html WMD website], 21 November, 2003.</ref>

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−	'''NGO Monitor''' ('''Non-governmental organization monitor''') is a pro-Israel lobby group founded by [[Gerald M. Steinberg]].<ref>Gerald M. Steinberg, [http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/letter_to_the_editor_of_jerusalem_post_in_response_to_kenneth_roth_s_editorial_indiscriminate_bombardment_ "Letter to the editor of Jerusalem Post in response to Kenneth Roth´s editorial "Indiscriminate bombardment"], NGO Monitor Website, 21 August 2006, accessed 1 September 2010.</ref> Steinberg previously noted in several of his articles published on the [[Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs]]'s website that the "NGO Monitor Project" is "a joint venture of the Institute for Contemporary Affairs, founded jointly with the [[Wechsler Family Foundation]], and [[B'nai B'rith International]],"<ref name=ger>Gerald M. Steinberg, [http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp499.htm "~~MONITORING THE POLITICAL ROLE OF~~ NGOs"], Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 1 June 2003, accessed on 13 December 2010</ref><ref name=more>JCPA, [http://www.jcpa.org/about-jun04.htm "About"], Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, accessed on 13 December 2010</ref> though B'nai B'rith is not mentioned in the "About" section of NGO Monitor now, while the Wechsler Family Foundation is still listed as a "founding donor."<ref>NGO Monitor, [http://www.ngo-monitor.org/articles.php?cat_id=17 "Founding Donor"], NGO Monitor, accessed on 13 December 2010</ref>	+	'''NGO Monitor''' ('''Non-governmental organization monitor''') is a pro-Israel lobby group founded by [[Gerald M. Steinberg]].<ref>Gerald M. Steinberg, [http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/letter_to_the_editor_of_jerusalem_post_in_response_to_kenneth_roth_s_editorial_indiscriminate_bombardment_ "Letter to the editor of Jerusalem Post in response to Kenneth Roth´s editorial "Indiscriminate bombardment"], NGO Monitor Website, 21 August 2006, accessed 1 September 2010.</ref> Steinberg previously noted in several of his articles published on the [[Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs]]'s website that the "NGO Monitor Project" is "a joint venture of the Institute for Contemporary Affairs, founded jointly with the [[Wechsler Family Foundation]], and [[B'nai B'rith International]],"<ref name=ger>Gerald M. Steinberg, [http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp499.htm "Monitoring the Political Role of NGOs"], Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 1 June 2003, accessed on 13 December 2010</ref><ref name=more>JCPA, [http://www.jcpa.org/about-jun04.htm "About"], Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, accessed on 13 December 2010</ref> though B'nai B'rith is not mentioned in the "About" section of NGO Monitor now, while the Wechsler Family Foundation is still listed as a "founding donor."<ref>NGO Monitor, [http://www.ngo-monitor.org/articles.php?cat_id=17 "Founding Donor"], NGO Monitor, accessed on 13 December 2010</ref>

	NGO Monitor is a project with the stated aim of monitoring non-governmental organisations operating in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. NGO Monitor describes its goal as "to end to [sic] the practice used by certain self-declared 'humanitarian NGOs' of exploiting the label 'universal human rights values' to promote politically and ideologically motivated anti-Israel agendas." <ref>'Our Mission Statement', [http://www.ngo-monitor.org/articles.php?type=about NGO Monitor website], accessed 2 April, 2009.</ref> According to Israeli journalist Didi Remez, the organization works closely with the [[Institute for Zionist Strategies]], led by Israel Harel, a founder of the far right Gush Emunim settler movement, and [[Ron Dermer]], chief of policy planning in [[Benjamin Netanyahu]]'s Office.<ref>Didi Remez, [http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/bring-on-the-transparency-1.3326 Bring on the transparency], ''Ha'aretz'', 26 November 2009</ref>		NGO Monitor is a project with the stated aim of monitoring non-governmental organisations operating in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. NGO Monitor describes its goal as "to end to [sic] the practice used by certain self-declared 'humanitarian NGOs' of exploiting the label 'universal human rights values' to promote politically and ideologically motivated anti-Israel agendas." <ref>'Our Mission Statement', [http://www.ngo-monitor.org/articles.php?type=about NGO Monitor website], accessed 2 April, 2009.</ref> According to Israeli journalist Didi Remez, the organization works closely with the [[Institute for Zionist Strategies]], led by Israel Harel, a founder of the far right Gush Emunim settler movement, and [[Ron Dermer]], chief of policy planning in [[Benjamin Netanyahu]]'s Office.<ref>Didi Remez, [http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/bring-on-the-transparency-1.3326 Bring on the transparency], ''Ha'aretz'', 26 November 2009</ref>