Many of the "civil society" organizations funded under the European Commission's Partnership for Peace Programme (PfP) are active participants in the Durban strategy that exacerbates the conflict and promotes campaigns against Israel. In the most recent round of funding (2007-8), support for the tendentious activities of ARIJ, Ir Amim, Associazione Comunita Papa Giovanni XXIII, and Panorama was renewed.

Highlights of the report:

• Many of the projects funded by the EC in the PfP framework promote a pro-Palestinian political bias.
• The selection process for this highly sensitive use of taxpayer funds remains entirely hidden, in sharp contrast to the transparency claimed in EU regulations. The EC has rejected NGO Monitor's requests for copies of the program evaluations and protocols.
• After eight years of funding, support for ICAHD – a radical Israeli NGO – was not renewed. The EC had been ICAHD's main source of support.
• The ARIJ project "aims at disseminating information on Israeli colonization by monitoring Israeli colonization activities." The EC support for this biased agenda is clearly incompatible with "partnerships for peace" rhetoric..
• Funding for Ir Amim's Jerusalem project adds to friction on the most sensitive and explosive dimension of the conflict. The project title "Final Status in Jerusalem" is deceptive and masks a very one-sided agenda.
• Participants in Associazione Comunita Papa Giovanni XXIII's project adopt the Palestinian narrative and use the rhetoric of "colonizing," "massacres," and "ghettoizing." Project publications repeat unsubstantiated allegations of Israeli violence and "poisoning pasture[s] and water tanks."

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