The Adalah Scam: An anti-Israel list that is racist, as well as an exercise in cultural and political appropriation - by David Collier

...Why are European charities and government agencies funding an NGO that is clearly out to make everything worse for everybody? And why is anyone listening to them? Those are the questions that really needs to be answered.

David Collier..
Across the Great Divide..
04 July '18..

Adalah is a name you may not recognise. They are an Israeli NGO and are responsible for one of the most important ‘scams’ of the delegitimisation campaign against Israel.

Adalah created a database of laws that they claim ‘discriminate’ against the Arab citizens of Israel. There are currently sixty-six laws listed.

Whenever you hear the claim that Israel is a ‘racist state’ or that it is an ‘Apartheid state’, it is the Adalah database that underpins the claim.

So I went through each of the sixty-six ‘discriminatory laws’ and have just published a report on my findings. This is what I discovered:

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New Israel Fund, Adalah and the Support to Save Gaza Tunnel Terrorists - by Stephen M. Flatow

...Adalah is not fighting “for minorities, for the voiceless, and for the powerless,” as the New Israel Fund claims. Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists are not a persecuted minority. They are not “voiceless” or “powerless.” They have a voice through their many supporters around the world, and they have the power of their missiles, guns, and knives.

Stephen M. Flatow..
jewishpress.com..
09 November '17..
Link: http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/american-jews-trying-to-save-gaza-tunnel-terrorists/2017/11/09/

An Arab extremist group has submitted an urgent petition to Israel’s Supreme Court, demanding that Palestinians be permitted to rescue Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists who may be trapped in a terror tunnel bombed by Israel.

And guess who’s funding the petitioners? American Jews.

The organization trying to save the terrorists is called Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel. What the rescue of Hamas and Islamic Jihad murderers in Gaza has to do with “Arab minority rights in Israel” is anybody’s guess.

But that doesn’t seem to bother Adalah’s many donors. In 2016 and 2017, the Swiss Foreign Ministry gave Adalah $165,000. Prominent charitable organizations in Belgium, Germany, Holland, Spain, and England also have contributed generously in recent years.

One of the largest donors to Adalah is the liberal American Jewish organization New Israel Fund. According to NGO Monitor, New Israel Fund contributed more than $2 million to Adalah from 2008 to 2016.

It’s not as if Adalah ordinarily is a reasonable, moderate organization and this petition to save terrorists is some kind of aberration. On the contrary. Adalah’s record of extremist activity is long enough to fill several filing cabinets at New Israel Fund headquarters.

In other words, the folks at NIF have always known exactly what they were getting with Adalah. Yet they keep on signing the checks.

Absurdities and Israel - Vaccines, Racists, and the Discriminatory Standard

...But even a cursory examination of the charge would show that Adalah's list includes, along with other completely innocuous statutes, Israel's law that withholds certain benefits from families (of any ethnicity or religion) that don't immunize their children....Discriminatory? Of course not. And it's safe to say that no other country is slurred in this way for policy meant to ensure immunizations. Israel is singled out with rhetorical abuse for rather mundane public health policy. Editors at major newspapers are playing along.

Gilead Ini..
CAMERA Snapshots..
04 February '15..




Some politicians are saying some things about vaccine and the role the government plays in public health.

And here's what The Wall Street Journal stated yesterday on that subject:

Government doesn’t “force” parents to vaccinate children. The states impose penalties (such as barring attendance in public schools) on those who pose a risk to public health by refusing vaccinations against infectious diseases.

Yes, in the United States, government often penalizes those who don't vaccinate their children. It's been that way for a long time. Why, then, hasn't US immunization policy been described as racist in the pages of major newspapers? You see, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal have both relayed the absurd charge that Israel's policy penalizing families that don't immunize children amounts to anti-Arab discrimination.

Again and again, The Times has treated as credible the comically absurd list of supposedly discriminatory laws promulgated by the anti-Israel advocacy group Adalah. Israel has "50 discriminatory Israeli laws," a recent Op-Ed claimed, citing Adalah. Same thing on the news pages. Wall Street Journal fact-checkers also gave a pass to the same charge.

Fresnozionism - New Israel Fund supports pro-BDS group

Fresnozionism.org..
08 February '12..




I’ve dumped on the New Israel Fund (NIF) before.

But there are still those who think it is a progressive organization that funds initiatives to make Israel more democratic, to improve the treatment of women and Arab citizens, to increase tolerance of non-Orthodox streams of Judaism in Israel, etc.

Some of its grantees are focused on these kinds of things, but it has another side which is not so progressive.

Let’s leave aside whether well-off American liberals really understand the differences between Israel and the US, whether the silly comparisons between Arabs and African-Americans make sense, and whether they have the slightest idea of what it is like to live under rocket bombardment or send their children to compulsory military service.

The New Israel Fund — the bad and the ugly

Fresnozionism.org
16 June '11

http://fresnozionism.org/2011/06/the-new-israel-fund-the-bad-and-the-ugly/

The following is from an article by Anne Hertzberg of the intrepid NGO Monitor:

…a group of NGOs, primarily funded by European governments, the EU, and the New Israel Fund (NIF) have initiated a campaign to denigrate the Israeli justice system in order to bolster efforts to have Israelis arrested for “war crimes” in Europe, and in order to support the PLO’s application to the International Criminal Court for an investigation of Israel.

They also play an integral role in the PLO strategy to use UN frameworks, not to resolve the conflict, but to “internationalize the conflict as a legal matter” and to “pave the way for (the Palestinians) to pursue claims against Israel at the United Nations, human rights treaty bodies and the International Court of Justice” as Mahmoud Abbas tellingly revealed in a May 17 New York Times op-ed…

Adalah, an Israeli NGO heavily funded by the NIF and the EU, is a leader of this strategy. At a 2008 conference in Brussels funded by the Swedish government, Adalah’s General Director Hassan Jabareen recommended that Palestinian activists “should try to portray Israel as an inherent undemocratic state” and “use that as part of campaigning internationally.”

Adalah has implemented this strategy in many submissions to UN committees, including the Human Rights Council. Additionally, in 2009, Adalah filed an “expert” opinion on behalf of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) in a lawsuit brought by the group in Spain seeking the arrest and imprisonment of seven Israeli officials for alleged “war crimes” arising out of the killing of a senior Hamas terrorist, Salah Shehade.

In 2007, Adalah presented its proposal for a “Democratic Constitution” for Israel. In its introduction, Adalah begins by demanding that

Behind the Boycott Calls - Conspiracy Theories and Support for Terrorism

IsraeliGirl
16 February '11

Music is the voice of peace, but to some anything to do with Israel is a reason for hate. A few weeks ago, singer Macy Gray was the target as she planned her visit in Israel. Now it's the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, which is on tour in the US this February. A protest is being planned outside Carnegie Hall while the Philharmonic plays inside. Giyus.org decided to investigate who's behind this protest and what's the real motive. Our investigation led us to bizarre organizations spreading dark conspiracy theories and supporting terror.



(For those not sharing Adalah's agenda, a 4 minute interlude of beauty. Itzhak Perlman performing Vivaldi's Four Seasons: L'Inverno / Winter. Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra accompanying. (1983) Yosef)

A press release by Palestinian News Agency names Adalah-NY as the main group organizing the protest against the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra. A look at their donations box shows that Adalah NY is operating under the umbrella of the Wespac Foundation.

Enter Wespac Foundation which calls itself "the leading force in Westchester County for peace and justice". On its web site, Wespac explicitly blames Israel of crimes against humanity, calling for "an end to all policies of apartheid and ethnic cleansing;". Furthermore, Wespac supports the right of return for Palestinian refugees and "the right of all people to resist occupation and oppression". In essence, Wespac supports the elimination of the Jewish state using any means to fight the "oppressive" zionist entity.

TAKE ACTION


Click here to send a support letter to the executives at Carnegie Hall. Tell them the background of the demonstration taking place outside, counter the hate spread by Adallah NY and support the Israeli Philharmonic.

Wespac Foundation is led by Nada Khader. There is no better way to learn about an organization than to study the person who runs it. Mrs. Khader is a Palestinian woman that has been living in the US since she was a child. She is a frequent speaker at campuses across the states and many of her speeches are available online.

Mrs. Khader is very articulate. Listening to her speeches uncovers conspiracy theories and support for terrorism that shed a different light on her views and those of the organizations she represents. Here are a couple of quotes from Mrs. Khader speeches:

“They [the Palestinians] have not been allowed to live lives of dignity and that was the cause of the rockets [fired by Hamas on Israeli citizens] by the way” (source - speech given in Binghamton University, February 12, 2009)

"The Hollywood industry has created over 700 commercial films for American consumption that portray my [Arab] community in a derogatory manner [...] Why? To justify American policy in our region [the Middle East]. It is easier for Americans to accept dropping bombs on Palestinians in Gaza, on Palestinians in Lebanon, on Iraqi people, on Lebanese people. It is easier for you to accept that when you are used to seeing dehumanized images of Arabs every single day. So there is a collusion between the Hollywood industry and the Pentagon" (source - talk given at Greenwich, CT, October 2008)

Read carefully what Mrs. Khader is saying - she justifies shooting rockets, specifically aimed at children and women in Israeli cities. She justifies terror against civilians. She also believes that Hollywood and the Pentagon secretly work together to manipulate the American public opinion.

So while the Israeli Philharmonic will give a beautiful classical performance inside Carnegie Hall, those that support terror and feel that Hollywood and the Pentagon are collaborating against them will demonstrate outside.

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NIF Israel head: we don't care what grantees say against our principles just what they do

Dr. Aaron Lerner
IMRA
20 September '10

"We allocate grants to whoever believes in the right of the Jewish People to self determination, and whoever sees Israel as a democracy, for everyone. If someone would act, not say something, but will act significantly against this principle and other principles of the NIF, I assume that he will not be entitled for a grant."
Rachel Liel, NIF-Israel Executive Director interviewed on Israel Radio's "Seder Yom" program

20 September 2010

In other words, a radical Israeli organization that openly and vocally opposes the right of the Jewish People to self determination - for example the Israeli Arab group Adallah, that calls for revoking the Law of Return that grants Jews from the Diaspora the right to Israeli citizenship if they immigrate to Israel, could continue to receive NIF funding since this is only "saying something"?

So just what exactly constitutes "acting"?

Lying down on the runway at Ben Gurion to block planes landing with Jewish immigrants?

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Our enlightened Fisher-clones

Sarah Honig
Another Tack/JPost
26 February '10

Most Israeli leftists are hardly hostile anti-Zionists. They are just a lot like Irving Fisher, the self-confident star-economist.

Israel’s left-wing elite, cliquey opinion-makers, self-serving trend-setters and bon-ton groupies glory in posturing as anti-establishment nonconformists.

Their premise that Jews must always pay is perhaps the root symptom of the Jewish nation’s abnormality and inability to behave like other sovereign nations. Nowhere is there another country whose citizens ponder daily what more to offer their foes, what they can cede to appease and how to curry a little favor abroad.

The need to pay for our right to live is a uniquely Jewish syndrome. We alone bear an onus to justify what’s a self-evident, inalienable right to any other people. Our obsession to analyze things from our enemies’ perspective and understand them is simply unparalleled.

That said, most Israeli leftists are hardly hostile anti-Zionists. They are just a lot like Irving Fisher – among the forerunners of the modern breed of celebrity gurus. The self-confident star-economist’s most famous prediction – in October 1929 – was that “stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.” But literally several days later, alas, reality confoundedly interfered with his rosy forecast and financial markets uncooperatively crashed.

Was the oracle of Wall Street a smidge contrite? Heck no. For long months Fisher (non-Jewish despite his name) clung to his optimistic orientation. The Great Depression’s misery notwithstanding, he assured despairing investors that recovery was just around the corner.

Today, when psychologists discuss the cognitive malfunctions and logical fallacies collectively known as wishful thinking, Fisher is almost inevitably cited as a prime example of one whose deductions weren’t based on evidence or sound analysis but on what he desired.

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Trojan Horse: The Impact of European Government Funding for Israeli NGOs

NGO Monitor
24 November 09

The report Trojan Horse: The Impact of European Government Funding for Israeli NGOs is a detailed analysis of major funding provided by foreign governments, primarily in Europe, for highly politicized Israeli NGOs. The report was published in conjunction with the Institute for Zionist Strategies, and is the basis for a conference to be held in the Knesset on December 1, 2009.

Click here to read the Hebrew report

Executive Summary in English [click here for PDF]

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) wield very significant political and legal power in Israel, particularly through their use of the language and frameworks of human rights and humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians. These NGOs are also a major and often hidden channel for external influence in Israeli foreign and security policies.

Much of the funding for political lobbies that claim to be based in Israeli “civil society” comes from foreign sources – particularly European governments, including the European Commission – as well as foundations such as the New Israel Fund, the Ford Foundation, and the Open Society Institute. By using the generous resources made available by these external donors, the Israel-based NGO network is able to promote particular political ideologies, and to oppose the policies of the democratically elected government on many issues.

The NGOs discussed in this analysis are highly active and visible participants in both the international and national debates on issues such as the status and future of Jerusalem, the disputed territories in the West Bank, and the actions of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). These NGOs issue high-profile statements and reports, generate media publicity, organize demonstrations, speak to student groups and army units, and use the courts to advance their political agendas.

In the international arena, the same NGOs submit statements to United Nations frameworks such as the Human Rights Council, run major media campaigns, and spearhead lawsuits in various countries. Using the tens of millions of shekels, euros, and dollars they receive each year, the externally funded NGO network is far more powerful than other Israeli organizations that do not enjoy similar support from foreign governments.

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