Något som alla med en grundläggande kunskap om situationen i Mellanöstern varit medveten om är att många så kallade humanitära organisationer (NGO) publicerat rapport efter rapport som framställt Israel i en väldigt dålig dager baserat på minst sagt bristfälliga och manipulerade uppgifter.
Nu har en undersökning publicerats som behandlar ämnet : “IT IS CLEAR WHAT IS HAPPENING,
AND ACTION NEEDS TO FOLLOW”
Insiders Speak: NGO Antisemitism, Failed Accountability, and Their Impact on Social Cohesion
Times of Israel skriver om rapporten:
Report alleges NGOs exploited Gaza suffering to raise funds, dismissed antisemitism claims
En undersökning utförd av en grupp nuvarande och tidigare anställda vid humanitära organisationer kommer med anklagelser om partiskhet och försök att forma en anti-israelisk, pro-palestinsk berättelse kring Gazakriget.
Rapporten säger att dess viktigaste resultat visar att anmälningar om antisemitism inte fått några konsekvenser, inkonsekventa standarder, bristande transparens, uteslutning av judisk personal, vedergällning mot personal som uttryckte oro för undersökningsmetoderna och en nonchalans för israeliska och judiska offer.
EiGHT based the report on interviews with around 70 staffers or recent employees of international NGOs, as well as internal documents from the organizations. The employees and documents came from groups including Human Rights Watch, Doctors Without Borders, Amnesty International and Amnesty International Australia. The groups did not respond to requests for comment.
...The report contrasted the response to previous movements, like #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, when discrimination complaints led to significant action. Jews who reported antisemitism were instead met with “skepticism and dismissal,” the report said.
A non-Jewish employee of Amnesty International Australia said that after the Bondi Beach massacre last year, there was a tendency in the group “to frame efforts to address antisemitism as attempts to restrict criticism of Israel.”
...Leaders of some NGOs privately agreed with complaints from Jewish staffers, but did not take public action, apparently “for fear of appearing ‘pro-Israel,’” the report said.
..."Anti-Jewish bias and prejudice have become embedded in parts of the organization’s culture and decision-making,” a non-Jewish employee of Amnesty International Australia said. “I am deeply concerned that these patterns have contributed to a culture that tolerates and even justifies violence and intimidation toward Jews.”
...On the internal messaging platform for Doctors Without Borders, employees said, “The fight for freedom… is about liberating the world from the grip of Zionism,” called Israel a “76-year-old crime scene,” dismissed rape allegations made against “Palestinian resistance fighters” as “propaganda,” and said, “Stop playing the Jewish card.” Israel was called a “racist, Nazi and genocidal state.”
“Jewish employees raised concerns openly at first. Then less often, then not at all. In time, they were all gone,” said an employee of an international rights group.
...NGO employees said that the groups’ reports omitted information that would have justified Israeli military actions, such as information that Hamas was operating in areas of Gaza where Israeli hostages were rescued.
Amnesty International held a workshop at its General Meeting in 2024, called “Apartheid in Israel,” that portrayed Israel’s establishment as illegitimate, without mentioning Jews’ historical presence in the land, failed peace efforts and violence against Jews before 1948. An “Israel-Palestine” meeting held by Human Rights Watch on October 23, 2023, did not mention Israeli casualties or hostages in the October 7 attack, the report said.
The day of the October 2023 attack, a Human Rights Watch program director, in an email to staff, attributed the Hamas invasion to “escalation” by Israel and “significant violence by Israeli soldiers and settlers.”
An Amnesty International staffer said employees had been encouraged to join anti-Zionist protests, but not rallies for Israeli hostages “because we’re against the Israeli government.”
...“They are not moral simply because they claim to carry out moral missions,” she said. “They are an industry, subject to all the usual pressures of industries — ideological, financial, operational — and therefore they should be held accountable.”
