Posted on 03/23/2022 5:02:03 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
The grant raised concerns for the potential of abuse by organizations to act against Israel via BDS and international law tribunals.
The US State Department has offered a grant of up to $987,654 for projects that include reporting human rights violations by Israel, raising concern about the potential for abuse by organizations seeking boycotts, sanctions and international law tribunals against Israel.
The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) announced "an open competition for projects that strengthen accountability and human rights in Israel and the West Bank and Gaza" last month, thought to be the first of its kind from Washington.
The proposals are meant to "collect, archive and maintain human rights documentation to support justice and accountability and civil society-led advocacy efforts, which may include documentation of legal or security sector violations and housing, land and property rights."
The projects can also "take meaningful action in pursuing truth, accountability and memorialization; and/or provide psychosocial support to survivors of atrocities."
Prof. Gerald Steinberg, Director of NGO Monitor, which tracks funding for NGOs dealing with Israel-related issues, said he has never seen a US funding announcement of this kind.
US funding “generally was not for these more political NGOs under the headings of human rights,” he said.
According to Steinberg, “the language [of the NOFO] is reflective of what European governments use to justify funding organizations like Al Haq and Breaking the Silence,” Palestinian and Israeli human rights organizations, respectively, that have advocated for boycotts of Israel and for Israeli officials to be tried for war crimes.
“It’s hard to see any other explanation for this type of grant,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...
Such human rights organizations targeting Israel are “an industry on the order of at least $50 million to Israel and Palestinian groups from European governments, plus there is UN support. It’s even more if you include Human Rights Watch and Amnesty” – which have accused Israel of being an apartheid state – “and this funding could, in theory, go to them,” Steinberg said.
Blinken recently met with Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth and Amnesty’s Secretary-General Agnes Callamard, releasing only a brief tweet in which he said: “We support the important work of human rights defenders.”
The godless world 🌍🌎 will love Satan’s anti-messiah.
He will lead them against the remnant of Israel after the abomination that causes desolation.
SPLC would sup
At that Bucket.
More incentives for PALLYWOOD to lie.
As if Soros dirty money wasn't enough
And terrorists don’t violate human rights?
Enemies domestic.
J6 “FREEDOM!”
My tax money?
How about the Palestinians unprovoked atrocities and murders?
"Palescumians", on the other hand, are the ones who sneak into Israel by night to knife innocent children in their sleep, who deliberately bomb schools and hospitals, and who foster Jew hatred in their children day and night. Who have given the world NOTHING but killing and maiming of innocents.
Yet ISRAEL is condemned by these "human rights" morons? They are truly, absolutely STUPID.
How on earth is it legal to use U.S. taxpayer money to harass another country which is considered an ally? With “friends” like the Biden Freak Collection, why would Israel need enemies?
Only a million? The Big Guy can do better than that.
Hunter must not have paid him his money
Offering top dollar for quality BS from the discriminating liar.
Hmmm, maybe I could make some s*** up. Magen David Adom always needs contributions.
Lahav Harkov Tweeted:
43 countries didn’t vote in favor of calling on Russia to end the war in Ukraine and protect civilians and we barely hear about most of them, but I hear lots of complaints about a country that voted in favor and sent lots of humanitarian aid to Ukraine. I wonder why that is.
https://t.co/yr9Al2Xx3W https://twitter.com/LahavHarkov/status/1507354555171942412
Mar 25, 2022
Lahav is a great JPost reporter
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