Extremist Propaganda Disguised as NGO Advocacy

Serious students of the left need to bookmark NGO Monitor. It documents extreme, seditious, far-left "non-governmental organizations" (NGOs in UN-speak) that misrepresent themselves as neutral non-political advocacy groups with benign agendas.

Operated by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, the NGO Monitor Web site reveals many of the most respected NGOs to be hotbeds of America-bashing, anti-Semitism disguised as anti-Zionism, and anti-Israel agitprop.

Extremist NGOs include everything from Oxfam to Christian Aid to Amnesty International to the misnamed "Physicians for Human Rights."

Take, for example, the innocent-sounding "Alternatives." Here's what NGO Monitor has to say about this stealth propaganda organ for Palestinian terror:

"Its domestic advocacy is unceasingly critical of Israel even as it downplays Palestinian human rights abuses and ignores Palestinian terrorism. An op-ed on the Alternatives website by Neve Gordon (a Counterpunch regular -- Moonbat Central) on the subject of the construction of the security fence accuses Israel of 'ethnic cleansing' and ignores the complex reasons behind the wall. Instead, Gordon resorts to simplistic slogans such as exhorting `international leaders' to `tell Prime Minister Sharon that at this historical moment he has an option between walls and ethnic cleansing, on the one hand, and open borders and freedom, on the other.' Moreover, Gordon simplistically compares the State of Israel to Nazi Germany: 'As the government of the Jewish state forces the Palestinians in ghettos, history must be turning in its grave… yet the so-called security wall does not separate these Palestinian residents from Jewish Israelis, but rather from their brethren in the West Bank.' "