Steinberg's militancy is all about keeping Israel outside the reach of international law, and silencing critics as Israel evades its legal responsibilities as an occupier. Israel's diktat trumps all, even the law.
Why should Canadians care? Undue access to influential decision makers by Israeli ultra-nationalists like Steinberg, and lobbying within Parliament by the Israel Christian Allies Caucus (created by the Conservative Government, announced by the Jerusalem Post), have resulted in the Canadian government taking ideological decisions. These include withdrawing funds from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), severing long-term satisfactory working relationships with certain Canadian NGOs - not on the basis of the quality of their work, but for the irrelevant and self-defeating proposition that standing up for Canadian values of fairness and justice means being anti-Israel - and stacking boards of Canadian institutions with pro-Israel individuals whose task is to unduly import Middle East politics, as happened in the case of Rights and Democracy.
It is worth noting that the current Rights and Democracy chair, Aurel Braun, is an ally of NGOM's Steinberg and sits on a least one board with him and another well-know pro-Israel propagandist, Daniel Pipes (Campus Watch). Disregarding R&D's twenty-year history of supporting human rights and democracy in countries like Burma, Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Braun's dogged and unapologetic approach was clearly about protecting Israel, and blocking any attempt at providing support for human rights in the Palestinian Occupied Territory.
How does NGOM fulfil its objective "to end the practice used by certain self-declared 'humanitarian NGOs' of exploiting the label 'universal human rights values' to promote politically and ideologically motivated anti-Israel agendas"?
It targets:
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