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Promoting Israel´s Isolation: Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands funding for NDC and NGOs

NGO Monitor
November 16, 2009

• The NGO Development Center (NDC) has distributed $6 million to 25 NGOs on behalf of the governments of Switzerland, Sweden, Netherlands, and Denmark. In some cases, NDC support is in addition to other funding from these governments to the same organizations.
• The grantees include some of the most radical groups operating in Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
• Many of the recipients employ “apartheid” rhetoric: Al Mezan, Al Haq, Arab Thought Forum, Badil, ICAHD, Jerusalem Center for Women, JLAC, WATC, and Women for Life.
• NDC provides funds to PCHR, Al Haq, Al Mezan, Al-Dameer, Musawa, and WAC, which promote “war crimes” cases and lawfare against Israeli officials.
• Eleven recipients of these taxpayer funds provided via the NDC are signatories to the Palestinian boycotts, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign: Addameer, Al Dameer, Arab Thought Forum, Al Mezan, DCI-PS, JCW, Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center, PWWSD, Ramallah Center for Human Rights Studies, WCLAC, WATC.
• Although the NDC guidelines stated that “[p]riority will also be extended to local organizations working to promote gender equality and rights of women,” only 6 of the 25 grantees focus on these issues. Most link their work on women’s rights with anti-Israel activism.
• NDC “facilitated” and funded the “Palestinian NGO Code of Conduct” which demands that Palestinian groups reject “any normalization activities with the occupier, neither at the political-security nor the cultural or developmental levels.”
• NGO Monitor contacted the four donor governments asking for information and comments before writing this report. All refused to comment.