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NGO Monitor
Update & Impact
Follow the Money: Zochrot's Conference on the "Return of Palestinian Refugees"
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 On September 29-30, 2013, Zochrot, an Israeli Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that promotes the Palestinian narrative of "Nakba" and "return," scheduled a conference in a Tel Aviv Museum entitled "From Truth to Redress: Realizing the Return of Palestinian Refugees." |
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NGO Monitor found:
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Zochrot's agenda amounts to calling for the elimination of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people.
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The program notes that "The conference is made possible thanks to the generous support of: Misereor, Christian Aid, HEKS-EPER, CCFD, Finn Church Aid, Broederlijk Delen, AFSC, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Mennonite Central Committee, Trocaire, St. Het Solidariteitsfonds, Oxfam GB and private donors."
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The sponsoring foundations are primarily funded by European governments, including Germany, the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Switzerland, Finland and the EU. View chart
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NGO Monitor (NGOM) published a fact sheet on the organization, partners and sponsors. The expose was cited in the Israeli media and other platforms, and resulted in exchanges with a number of the government funders.
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Key Press articles
Funds from European governments support an 'erase Israel conference'
By Yitzhak Santis September 30, 2013
When "peacemakers" incite to conflict they make murder respectable. A conference promoting a "one-state" vision, funded mostly by Protestant and Catholic groups, is being held this week in Tel Aviv. These Christian groups are themselves largely funded by European governments that officially support the two-state solution. The conference, then, undermines these governments' own policies. Read More
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Europe wouldn't allow it, why should Israel?
By Ben Dror Yemini September 29, 2013
Why is there a European fortune, according to a report by NGO Monitor, behind a conference of an extreme left Israeli NGO preaching the "right of return?" There is, after all, no "right of return" for the tens of thousands of exiles inside Europe who were deported in the 1940s, and certainly there is no funding for NGOs dealing with this issue. Read More
 This article also appeared in Hebrew, in Ma'ariv
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