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NGO Monitor (Non-governmental Organization Monitor) is an Israeli non-governmental organization with the stated aim of "promoting critical debate and accountability of Human Rights NGOs in the Arab Israeli conflict." The Economist and Jewish Telegraphic Agency identify NGO Monitor as a pro-Israel group and The Jerusalem Post states the organization writes reports detailing the operations of alleged anti-Israel political NGOs.

Structure, staff and funding

NGO Monitor is the central project of the Organization for NGO Responsibility, a self-described independent non-profit organization registered in Israel operating out of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Institute for Contemporary Affairs whose publisher is Dore Gold, a former ambassador to the United Nations for Israel and advisor to Ariel Sharon. Its editor is Gerald M. Steinberg, a professor at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. It was formerly a joint project of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and B'nai Brith International founded jointly with the Wechsler Family Foundation. Its staff includes:

Sarah Mandel, Associate Editor.

Anne Herzberg, Director of Research and Legal Advisor.

Dan Kosky, Communications Director.

Andre Oboler, Legacy Heritage Fellow. NGO Monitor states that it was founded with funding from the Wechsler Family Foundation originally directed to the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Nina Rosenwald, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), is another NGO Monitor donor.

Activities

NGO Monitor describes its objective as "promoting critical debate and accountability of Human Rights NGOs in the Arab Israeli conflict." The organization further describes its aims as "to end to 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." ), Human Rights Watch (for being "systematically and exceedingly biased"), Amnesty International, Oxfam It has also criticized the Ford Foundation for funding the Palestinian Al Mezan Center, which it claimed was involved in "blatantly political anti-Israel activities". Subsequent to this criticism, the Ford Foundation modified its policies regarding funding of NGOs.
NGO Monitor has also accused B'Tselem, that describes itself as "The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories", of having a political agenda and falsifying and distorting data. NGO Monitor further writes that B'Tselem also employs "abusive and demonizing rhetoric designed to elicit political support for Palestinians".

Criticism

A 2005 article in Jewish Daily Forward takes issue with NGO Monitor saying that Human Rights Watch (HRW) places “extreme emphasis on critical assessments of Israel” and is more critical of HRW than on any other of the 75 NGOs it concerns itself with. Leonard Fein claims that HRW devote more attention to five other nations in the region — Iraq, Sudan, Egypt, Turkey and Iran — than they did to Israel but that, despite extensive correspondence, editor Steinberg has failed to correct the misleading claim about HRW on the NGO Watch website. The article claims other Israeli related distortions by NGO Monitor, outside its remit.
In an article for Political Research Associates, which describes itself as a progressive think tank devoted to supporting movements that are building a more just and inclusive democratic society, Jean Hardisty and Elizabeth Furdon describe NGO Monitor as a "conservative NGO watchdog group, NGO Monitor, which focuses on perceived threats to Israeli interests", adding that "the ideological slant of NGO Monitor's work is unabashedly pro-Israeli. It doesn't claim to be a politically neutral examination of NGO activities and practices." Ittijah, the Union of Arab Community Based Organisations in Israel, labels NGO Monitor as "an organ of the American pro-Israel lobby." Editorialist Leonard Fein claimed that NGO Monitor had refused to correct a mistaken claim about another NGO.Further Information

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