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Is the New Israel Fund Indirectly Responsible for the Goldstone Blood Libel?

February 3, 2010

The Israeli press is in uproar. Over the last week, serious accusations have been levelled at sixteen Israeli NGOs and the New Israel Fund, which is a or the major funder of these organisations. In a nutshell:

“Without the New Israel Fund, there would be no Goldstone Report, and Israel would not be facing international accusations of war crimes,” read the advertisement, making reference to a an Israeli philanthropic organization that funds a number of Israeli rights and progressive social change organizations.

Die israelische Presse ist in Aufruhr. Während der letzten Woche wurden schwere Vorwürfe gegen sechszehn israelische NGOs und dem New Israel Fund – einer der wichtigsten Geldgebern oder sogar der wichtigste Geldgeber diesen Organisationen – erhoben. In wenigen Worten:

“Ohne dem New Israel Fund würde es keinen Goldstone-Rapport geben und würden gegen Israel international keine Vorwürfe von Kriegverbrechen erhoben” liesst man in der Anzeige, die auf eine israelische philanthropische Organisation verweist, die eine Reihe von Menschenrechten- und sozial-progressive geselschaftliche Organisationen finanziert.

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UK Commander Challenges Goldstone Report

October 19, 2009

Israel and its Defence Forces are once again being dragged through the mud, pelted with biased and untrue accusations, which has now resulted in a resolution of the UN Human Rights Council passing a draft resolution accepting some of the findings of the Goldstone Report (AP article). [Conveniently, only the part accusing Israel was mentioned by the UNHRC resolution, while the part accusing Hamas was mysteriously forgotten (Jerusalem Post article)]

This diplomatic bomb has the potential to cause loss of life among our brethren in Israel, as, in the words of John Bolton (WSJ editorial), this may bring about the diplomatic equivalent of “putting a loaded pistol to Israel’s head.”

A response against the Report’s vile accusations is in order, so I am interrupting regular programming to bring you the testimony to the UNHRC, of UK commander, Col. Richard Kemp, courtesy of UNWatch: