{"id":532254,"date":"2010-04-17T20:33:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T00:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opiniojuris.org\/?p=12047"},"modified":"2010-04-17T20:33:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T00:33:59","slug":"monitoring-ngo-monitor-%e2%80%94-18-days-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/532254","title":{"rendered":"Monitoring NGO Monitor \u2014 18 Days and Counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by Kevin Jon Heller <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been 18 days since <a href=\"http:\/\/opiniojuris.org\/2010\/03\/31\/who-funds-ngo-monitor\/\">I asked NGO Monitor<\/a> to provide the same detailed accounting of their funding that they demand of the human-rights groups they so regularly malign and demonize.\u00a0 Readers will be shocked &#8212; shocked! &#8212; to know that the organization has ignored my request, in keeping with its profoundly hypocritical approach to funding.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, of course, Gerald Steinberg <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Opinion\/Op-EdContributors\/Article.aspx?id=173052\">continues to criticize others<\/a> for doing precisely what NGO Monitor does:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span id=\"ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_article_control_lblArticleBody\">European  democracies are spending tens of millions of euros, pounds and krona to  manipulate Israeli society and politics. This largely hidden European  money that funds so-called \u201ccivil society\u201d organizations, like B\u2019Tselem,  Yesh Din, Ir Amim, the Public Committee Against Torture, Peace Now and  dozens more, is undermining Jewish sovereignty and the right to  determine our own future.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The hypocrisy would be pathetic if it wasn&#8217;t so dangerous.\u00a0 What is NGO Monitor hiding?\u00a0 All we can do is speculate.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the clock continues to tick.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/opiniojurisfeed\/~4\/d-YBdY63BUA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kevin Jon Heller It&#8217;s been 18 days since I asked NGO Monitor to provide the same detailed accounting of their funding that they demand of the human-rights groups they so regularly malign and demonize.\u00a0 Readers will be shocked &#8212; shocked! &#8212; to know that the organization has ignored my request, in keeping with its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}