Dutch will look into NGO funding of anti-Semitic website

[shira]

BERLIN – The Dutch government has been funding the Interchurch Organization for Development Cooperation, a Dutch aid organization that finances the Electronic Intifada website that, NGO Monitor told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday, is anti-Semitic and frequently compares Israeli policies with those of the Nazi regime.

NGO Monitor’s exposure of Dutch government funding for the Interchurch Organization for Development Cooperation (ICCO) prompted Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal to say on Thursday to the Post, "I will look into the matter personally. If it appears that the government subsidized NGO ICCO does fund Electronic Intifada, it will have a serious problem with me.”

That government funding amounted to €124 million in 2008. The European Commission also funds ICCO. Prof. Gerald Steinberg, president of NGO Monitor, said, “This type of poisonous activity is precisely why European government funding of NGOs requires close oversight and full transparency."

“Based on our experience, we assume that the top Dutch government officials are completely unaware of the link between money given to ICCO for aid, and Electronic Intifada, a group whose rhetoric and activities undermine hopes for mutual understanding.”

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[ConsAreLiars]

1. Maybe they'll also look at the funding behind the highly biased sites

like NGO Monitor and CAMERA when they take a look at the accusations by those hate-sites. It's pretty easy to see the politics behind that operation by just looking at the political donations of the principal founder: http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.php?name=Rosenwald%2C+Nina&state=&zip=&employ=&cand=&c2010=Y&all=Y&sort=N&capcode=z3btg&submit=Submit

Hint: top two are Mitch McConnell.

Edit to add, further down the list in $$, but more recent: Bachmann, Vitter, Kirk. Same side as them. Here for those who run I/P, those guys and the neocons are "our side." Religious insanity makes for strange alliances.

[oberliner]

2. Where did you get the idea that this person is the principal founder?

They aren't listed on the home page as such.

[shira]

3. I wonder why it's so difficult for Israel's harshest detractors to criticize sanctimonious bigots...

....who infest the anti-zionist movement?