NGO Monitor

February 4, 2025 | Mark Dubowitz, Ben Cohen

USAID was rotten, but Trump needs the ‘soft power’ of foreign aid done right

By abruptly shuttering the US Agency for International Development (USAID) only two weeks after returning to Washington, President Trump is signaling that he will bring accountability and efficiency...

July 19, 2024 | Ben Cohen |

An ‘abject, squalid, shameless’ debate at the Oxford Union

An Israeli professor strikes back at the Union's disgraceful attempt to paint Israel as a genocidal, apartheid state.

May 13, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany’s Largest Paper Says Yair Netanyahu Right About Berlin’s Anti-Israel Funding

Bild, Germany’s largest newspaper, wrote: “Yair says what many in the Israeli government think” about Germany’s well-funded anti-Israel NGOs that promote boycotts against the Jewish state.

May 6, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iranian Holocaust denial promoter to speak at German FM party’s think tank

Foundation invites Iranian regime official who promote war vs Israel.

May 1, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German NGO disinvites Israeli writer for slamming Berlin pro-Iran

Social Democratic Foundation worked with terrorist entity Hezbollah.

April 29, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal

Wiesenthal Center Urges Antisemitic Finnish MP To Resign

Al-Taee also compared Israel to the Islamic State and denigrated Sunni Muslims, gays, Somalis and other groups.

April 28, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Finnish MP Under Fire For Comparing Israel To ISIS

Dr. Efraim Zuroff, the head of the Jerusalem office of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told the Jerusalem Post on Sunday: “This guy [Hussein al-Taee] is obviously an antisemite.”

April 7, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Notable German Journalist Under Fire for Comparing Israel to its Enemies

Professor Steinberg added “ If Schapira is seriously interested in the treatment of minors worldwide, including by Israel, she should look at the facts, and not propaganda. And she should apologize."

March 19, 2019 | |

Outrage over Berlin Jewish Museum hosting antisemitic Iranian regime

“With the invitation, the Jewish Museum gives the Iranian Embassy the opportunity to make its antisemitic anti-Zionism part of the public debate,” said Stop The Bomb spokeswoman Ulrike Becker in a statement sent to The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.

February 1, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Three German Organizations Finance Palestinian Group Employing Terrorists

Former senior official of terrorist group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, now leads Al-Haq, Palestinian human rights NGO.

April 23, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German LGBT group closes bank account to protest BDS activity

The Magnus Hirschfeld Foundation – named after a gay German-Jewish scientist who was persecuted by the Nazis – has terminated its account with the Bank for Social Economy over the fin...

April 2, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

NGO Monitor urges Germany to halt antisemitic aid arm in Gaza, West Bank

The Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor called on the German government on Friday to immediately halt the activities and funding of its Corporation for International Cooperation operating in Jordan, the...

March 28, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Exclusive: German Company Fires Employee in Jordan for Defending Israel

The German Corporation for International Cooperation in Amman fired an employee for her pro-Israel comments on a Facebook page in December. The former employee, who asked not to be...

February 26, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Wiesenthal Calls for Jewish NGOs to End Business with German Pro-BDS Bank

The Simon Wiesenthal Center issued an urgent appeal last week to Jewish organizations to terminate their business relations with Germany’s top financial enabler of Israeli boycott activitie...

February 26, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Exclusive: PayPal Closes Second Illegal French BDS Account

For the second time in 30 days, the US-based online payment service giant PayPal shut down the account of a French organization advocating for the boycott, divestment, sanctions (BDS) campaign ta...

January 29, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Exclusive: Paypal Closes Account of French BDS Organization

The US online payment company PayPal closed the account of one of France’s most powerful boycott Israel organizations – the France-Palestine Solidarity Association – The Jerusal...

December 18, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

Germany Uses EU Funds to Finance Extremist Iranian Regime-controlled Group

The German government provides €283,150 to a radical pro-Iranian regime Shi’ite umbrella organization...

December 4, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German University Town Under Fire For Boycott Activity Against Israel

The Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor and pro-Israel advocates in Germany have expressed their disgust and outrage at the southern German city of Heidelberg for its activit...

November 29, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Italy Bars PFLP Terrorist And BDS Advocate Leila Khaled

Convicted Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled was barred from entering Italy on Wednesday on the grounds that she lacked a valid visa. Olga Deutsch, Europe Desk director at the Jerusalem-...

June 28, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Israeli Lawmaker Urges Spain to Stop Funds for BDS NGOs

The Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor and Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid launched dual criticisms on Wednesday of Spanish government funds for anti-Israel NGOs in the country’s parliament in Madri...