Where is the new, transparent Dutch governance culture when it comes to financing Palestinian organizations?

CommentariesSeptember 28, 2022

By Mr. Freek Vergeer The Dutch government must publish the Proximities investigation report on the links between the…

Sovereignty and Legitimacy of the State of Israel under International Law

CommentariesSeptember 18, 2022

By Dr. Cynthia Day Wallace, senior fellow at thinc. Remarks delivered on the occasion of the 125th Anniversary…

Growing international criticism of UN Human Rights Council’s one-sided historical and legal narrative

CommentariesJune 9, 2022

By Andrew Tucker, Program Director, thinc. Earlier this week in Geneva, 22 UN member states (coordinated by the…

The UNHRC ongoing Commission of Inquiry into Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (Res. S-30/1) – a fundamentally flawed institution

Briefing papersApril 13, 2022

An extensive analysis of the UNHRC’s ongoing Commission of Inquiry (Res. S-30/1), leading to radical conclusions and recommendations,

Notitie betreffende het WOB-verzoek van The Rights Forum

Nederlandstalige publicatiesMarch 30, 2022

De auteurs leggen de werkelijke bedoelingen van het Rights Forum bloot: het boycotten van de Joodse Staat Israël.

False knowledge and Neo-Orientalism

CommentariesMarch 21, 2022

Two reports in which definitions and claims of apartheid in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that delegitimise the State of…

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Sep282022

Commentaries

Where is the new, transparent Dutch governance culture when it comes to financing Palestinian organizations?

By Freek Vergeer

By Mr. Freek Vergeer The Dutch government must publish the Proximities investigation report on the links between the Palestinian NGO UAWC (Union of Agricultural Work Committees) and the terror organization PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine). The report, commissioned by the Dutch Minister of Trade and Development in 2021, may answer the question…

Sep182022

Commentaries

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By Dr. Cynthia Day Wallace

By Dr. Cynthia Day Wallace, senior fellow at thinc. Remarks delivered on the occasion of the 125th Anniversary of the First Zionist Congress in Basel – 1897-2022, sponsored as a Solidarity Event of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem on Sunday, August 28th, 2022, Stadtcasino Basel, Switzerland, arranged by ICEJ Swiss Branch. As you will all…

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Commentaries

Growing international criticism of UN Human Rights Council’s one-sided historical and legal narrative

By Andrew Tucker

By Andrew Tucker, Program Director, thinc. Earlier this week in Geneva, 22 UN member states (coordinated by the United States) signed a statement to the UN Human Rights Council expressing very strong legal and policy concerns with the establishment in 20221 of the Council’s Commission of Inquiry (COI) into Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The occasion…

Apr132022

Briefing papers

The UNHRC ongoing Commission of Inquiry into Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (Res. S-30/1) – a fundamentally flawed institution

By Pieter Hoogendoorn

An extensive analysis of the UNHRC’s ongoing Commission of Inquiry (Res. S-30/1), leading to radical conclusions and recommendations,

Mar302022

Nederlandstalige publicaties

Notitie betreffende het WOB-verzoek van The Rights Forum

By Matthijs de Blois en Freek Vergeer

De auteurs leggen de werkelijke bedoelingen van het Rights Forum bloot: het boycotten van de Joodse Staat Israël.

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Commentaries

False knowledge and Neo-Orientalism

By Pieter Hoogendoorn

Two reports in which definitions and claims of apartheid in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that delegitimise the State of Israel are deconstructed, exposing the premeditated attempts of powerful NGOs to delegitimise the Jewish State.

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Op-eds

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By Eugene Kontorovich

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Op-eds

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Nederlandstalige publicaties

Durban, de BDS beweging en het internationaal recht

By Andrew Tucker and Pieter Hoogendoorn

In deze bijdrage plaatsen de auteurs de feiten en gevolgen van de ‘Durban Verklaring’ van 2001 in het licht van het internationaal recht. Wat ooit bedoeld was als een oproep tegen racisme en discriminatie is uitgemond in een manifestatie van antisemitisme waarvan de gruwelijke gevolgen zich tot op de huidige dag manifesteren, o.a. in de vorm van de BDS beweging. Bepaald geen reden voor een feestelijke herdenking.

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