NGO Monitor seeks to demonize groups opposed to apartheid and genocide and cut off government funding for any groups or individuals who dare challenge its pro-Israel narrative. Ironically, this extremely anti-Palestinian organization receives government subsidies through the tax system to help pay for its anti-free speech bullying. This should end.
Recently a formal complaint was submitted to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) regarding donations to NGO Monitor. While it doesn’t have charitable status in Canada, NGO Monitor grants tax receipts to donors through the Foundation for Public Policy Development and Canada Charity Partners. It has received over $900 000 in Canadian tax receipted donations since 2020.
Founded in Jerusalem in 2002, NGO Monitor attacks organizations opposing genocide and apartheid. After its inception founder Gerald Steinberg wrote that the organization was responding to NGOs that “Make War on Israel” and groups that exploit human rights as a “weapon against Israel”.
NGO Monitor publish articles and reports on non-governmental organizations and other groups defending Palestinians. They also feed sympathetic politicians and media information to undercut groups challenging Israeli crimes. In Israel, NGO Monitor maligns the small peace movement and demonizes Palestinian civil society. One of their most common tactics is to claim Palestinian and other NGOs are tied to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which Israel, Canada and European Union countries list as a terrorist organization. NGO Monitor claimed Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network was tied to the PFLP. Their efforts contributed to the Vancouver-based grassroots group’s listing as a terrorist organization for alleged ties to the PFLP. (more...)
Donors to fanatic pro-Israel lobby group get ‘charity’ tax receipts
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