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Spanish Government Fundingfor NGOs: 2009-2011

Assessing ransparency, Accountability, & Impact

Soeren Kern, Author

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executive ummary

Spanish government unding, in dierent orms,is allocated to a number o Palestinian, Israeli,

and Spanish NGOs that are among the leaders inideological campaigns to delegitimize Israel viaBDS, laware, and other orms o demonization.

Between and , approximately million in Spanish government unds have beentranserred to political advocacy NGOs activein promoting this agenda through the dierentunding rameworks ( million to Israeli andPalestinian NGOs, and million to SpanishNGOs.). Grantees include some o the most

radical groups operating in Israel and thePalestinian authority:

Applied Research Institute Jerusalem:176,637 2011, 849,715 2010 and98,347 20092010 or planning or thegeopolitical uture o Jerusalem. ARIJ isactive in promoting BDS and other ormso anti-Israel delegitimization, includingmembership in the Palestinian Grassroots

Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign and supportor the global anti-Israel boycott movement;ARIJ employs the rhetoric o ethniccleansing, transer, land grab, andcolonization activities in its publications.

Breaking the Silence (BtS): 173,188 2011,180,763 2010 and 24,790 2009. InMay , El Pas published a eature storyon BtS, and the members o this ringe group

have appeared in numerous public events,acilitated by the unding received rom theSpanish government. BtS promoted manyo the war crimes accusations againstIsrael repeated in the now discreditedGoldstone Report, based on anonymousand unveriable hearsay testimonies. Teirclaims are central to delegitimization.

Israeli Committee Against HouseDemolitions: 181,508 20092010.

Promotes the demonization o Israel,supports boycotts and divestment campaigns,and leads the Gaza boat publicity missions.

Founder Je Halper advocates or a one-state ormula that would eliminate Jewishsel-determination rights. ICAHD rhetoricincludes accusations o Israeli apartheid,bloody and sadistic actions, and atrocities.

Popular Struggle Coordination Committee(PSCC): 107,700 2011. PSCC saysit aims at strengthening internationalsupport networks and their direct tiesto the struggle or liberty in Palestine.According to its mission statement, PSCCpromotes a unique orm o communitybased organizing and resistance in thetradition o the rst Palestinian Intiada.

Tese diverse, non-partisan committees leadcommunity resistance to Israeli occupationin various orms, such as marches, strikes,demonstrations, direct actions and legalcampaigns, as well as supporting boycott,divestment and sanctions.

Xarxa dEnlla amb Palestina: Funded byBarcelona and Catalonia, in May , Xarxaorganized a concert in Barcelona to mark

the Palestinian Nakba; in May , Xarxasigned a letter titled Enrique Iglesias, dontsing or the Israeli apartheid!, which advisedthe Spanish musician against perorming at aconcert in Israel on May .

In March , Spains new conservativegovernment announced austerity measuresthat would cut the total Spanish oreign aairsbudget, including development aid, by at least. billion in . In response, some Spanish NGOs published an open letter toSpanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy askinghim to make a commitment to maintainingthe previous Socialist governments ocus onunding development cooperation.

Te levels o transparency and accountability orNGOs unding at Spains ederal, regional, andmunicipal levels are oen highly inadequate;the process by which AECID chooses projects

and awards contracts to NGOs operating in thePalestinian Authority is opaque, and AECIDhas insucient supervisory mechanisms to


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determine how NGOs use government aidunds. Only a small handul o Spanish NGOsreceiving government money actually publishannual reports that would enable the generalpublic to assess how taxpayer monies are beingutilized.

In , the OECD published a Peer Review oSpanish development unding, which criticizedthe lack o oversight mechanisms and evaluationsystems in the aid budget.

See Spain: Development Assistance Committee (DAC),Peer Review , Organization or Economic Co-operationand Development (OECD), available athttp://www.oecd.org/dataoecd///.pd


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table of content

I. Overview

able . Spanish ODA to the Palestinian Authority (-)

II. Political Context o Spanish Foreign Policy

III. Spanish Government NGO Funding Frameworks

IV. Palestinian and Israeli Political Advocacy NGOs unded by AECID (-)

Palestinian NGOs

Israeli NGOs

able . Palestinian and Israel Political Advocacy NGOs unded by AECID (-)

V. Spanish Political Advocacy NGOs

AECID-unded projects

Regionally-Funded Projects

able . Spanish Political Advocacy NGOs Funded by AECID and Regions (-)

VI. Lack o ransparency in NGO Funding

VII. Summary and Recommendations

Appendix A: Complete List o NGOs Active in Israel/Palestinian Authority, Funded by

Spain (AECID and/or Regions) (-)

Appendix B: NGOs unded by Spanish Autonomous Communities (-)

Appendix C: Other Spanish Entities Active in the Palestinian erritories


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i. overview

he NGO Forum o the Durban Conerence adopted

a strategy o political warareand delegitimization againstIsrael, based on campaigns using

allegations o apartheid, racism, war crimes,and similar rhetoric. Tis strategy has beenimplemented by a network o non-governmentalorganizations, oen under the banner opromoting human rights, democracy, peace andhumanitarian aid. Te mechanisms, modeled onthose used to overturn the apartheid government

in South Arica, include boycotts, divestmentand sanctions (BDS), and exploiting universaljurisdiction statutes and rameworks, such as theInternational Criminal Court, to promote legalcases against Israeli ocials (laware). Mucho the unding or the NGOs that lead this ormo political warare is provided by Europeangovernments.

In this report, we examine the unding providedby the Spanish government, in dierentrameworks, or these NGO activities.

Te Palestinian Authority is the second-largestrecipient o Spanish government overseasdevelopment assistance (ODA). Only Perureceives more money rom Spain, which providesODA to countries.

Te Spanish government provided the PalestinianAuthority with a total o . million in ODA

(including both multilateral and bilateral aid)during the ve year period -.

Gerald M. Steinberg, Te Politics o NGOs, Human Rightsand the Arab-Israel Confict, Israel Studies . Summer

See http://www.aecid.es/es/donde-cooperamos/

Ibid.

See http://www.aecid.es/galerias/cooperacion/porPaisesdescargas/territorios-palestinos/erritorios_Palestinos.pd

table 1. panih oda to thepaletinian authority(2007-2011)

2007 53 million

2008 69 million

2009 71.3 million

2010 32.5 million

2011 48.9 million

More than o Spanish ODA to thePalestinian Authority is channelled to or through

dozens o Spanish NGOs and humanitarianorganizations, many o which also provideimportant input into the ormulation o Spanishoreign policy vis--vis the Palestinian Authority.

In , Spain allocated to the PalestinianAuthority a total o . million in ODA.Tis amount (which includes both multilateraland bilateral support) was distributed to thePalestinian Authority through three primarychannels:

) the central government in Madrid, primar-ily through the Spanish Foreign Ministry;

) the decentralized Spanish autonomouscommunities; and

) local municipal governments.

Spanish ODA or the Palestinian Authoritywas channelled as ollows: .% o the undswere channelled through the Spanish Foreign

Ministry and its primary aid-giving agency, theSpanish Agency or International DevelopmentCooperation (AECID). Te other .%was distributed through Spains autonomouscommunities (.%) and local municipalgovernments (.%). Te remaining .% wasdistributed through other ministries and/oragencies.8

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.


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O the .% o total ODA distributed throughthe Spanish Foreign Ministry, .% involvedmultilateral transers and the remaining .%were bilateral transers through the AECID. Teother .% o ODA distributed through theautonomous communities and local municipalgovernments was all bilateral (i.e., Bilateral =AECID + Autonomous Communities + LocalMunicipal Governments).

In real terms, the multilateral component oSpanish ODA was million, and the bilateralcomponent o Spanish ODA was . million.

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Roughly % o bilateral Spanish ODA to thePalestinian Authority in was made underthe unding category Inrastructure and SocialServices, the constituent parts o which arebroken down as ollows: government and civilsociety (.%); health and reproductive health(.%); education (.%); water (.%); equalityor women (.%); and other inrastructure andsocial services (.%).

In addition to these two strategic lines o action,Spain has also provided at least . million(-) directly to the Palestinian Authorityunder the rubric o humanitarian assistance.

Regionally, Catalonia provided ,,to the Palestinian Authority during the our-

year period -.

Te Basque Countryprovided ,, during the three-year

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Presentaci de lexecuci de lAOD durant el perode-, available athttp://www.gencat.cat/docs/cooperaciocatalana/Continguts/ACCD/resultats_cooperacio_catalana/resultats_-/documents/Ajut%Ocial%al%Desenvolupament%-.ppt

period -. Te Province o Navarraprovided , during the our-year period-.

In March , Spains new conservative

government announced austerity measuresthat would cut the total Spanish oreign aairsbudget, including development aid, by at least. billion in . In response, some Spanish NGOs published an open letter toSpanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy askinghim to make a commitment to maintainingthe previous Socialist governments ocus onunding development cooperation.

In April , AECID announced that Spainstotal budget or development cooperationwould be limited to million in , a %reduction rom the million in . Othat amount, million would be or projectspreviously approved; only million would beavailable or new projects.

In May , Secretary o State or CooperationJess Manuel Gracia Aldaz said that althoughthe Palestinian Authority remained a priorityor the new government, austerity measuresmeant it would need to negotiate a reduction

Evaluacin participativa del plan estratgico y directorcooperacin para el desarollo -, available athttp://www.elankidetza.euskadi.net/x-content/es/contenidos/inormacion/plan_director/es_plandire/adjuntos/evaluacion.pd

II Plan Director de la Cooperacin Navarra, -, Annex III, Page , available athttp://www.navarra.es/NR/rdonlyres/FFE-D-DD-BD-FBDE//IIPDdenitivo.pd

See El Gobierno recorta . millones de euros encooperacin internacional, El Mundo, March , ,available athttp://www.elmundo.es/elmundo////solidaridad/.html

See ONG piden a Rajoy un compromisopresupuestario con las polticas sociales, El Mundo, March ,, available athttp://www.elmundo.es/elmundo////solidaridad/.html

See La AECID dispondr de millones de euros paraONG en , Europa Press, April , , available athttp://www.europapress.es/epsocial/ong-y-asociaciones/noticia-aecid-dispondra---millones-euros-ong--ciento-menos--.html


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in bilateral development cooperation. Teimpact on unding or political advocacy NGOsis currently unknown.

ii. political context ofpanih foreign policy

Analysis o Spanish government documentsreveals a high level o politicization in ODAallocated to the Palestinians. Nearly all othe Spanish NGOs involved in developmentcooperation with the Palestinian Authorityor with Palestinian solidarity groups areassociated with the le or ar-le o theSpanish political spectrum.

he bulk o Spanish ODA orPalestinian causes was awardedwhile Leire Pajn, a ar-leideologue and member o theSpanish Socialist Party, was the

Secretary o State or Cooperation (-).(Beore entering politics, Pajn was president oSolidaridad Internacional, an ideological NGOthat promotes Palestinian causes.)

Beore becoming the Secretary o State orCooperation in , Pajn was responsible orestablishing the Socialist Partys relations withthe NGO community in Spain (-).As a result, the directors o many Spanish NGOsreceiving ODA or the Palestinian Authorityhave close personal ties to Pajn and other topdecision-makers within the leadership o theSocialist Party.

As detailed below, Spanish NGOs receivingODA support have requently advanced BDS,laware, and other orms o political campaignssingling-out Israel. Tese activities go ar beyond

See Espaa reducir la ayuda al desarrollo a Palestina,aunque seguir siendo un pas prioritario, Europa Press, May, , available athttp://www.europapress.es/epsocial/politica-social/noticia-espana-reducira-ayuda-desarrollo-palestina-seguira-siendo-pais-prioritario-.html

See http://www.msps.es/gabinetePrensa/biograas/leirePajin.

htm

Ibid.

Ibid.

the ocially stated objectives o providinghumanitarian and inrastructure support to thePalestinian Authority, and promoting the peaceprocess.

For example, in January a public serviceadvertisement on Palestinian television calledor the boycott o all Israeli goods. Teadvertisement included an acknowledgemento sponsorship by the Spanish government,the Spanish Ministry or Foreign Aairs,AECID, ACSUR (a Spanish NGO, see below)and the Canaan Joint Development Project orJerusalem.

However, when the anti-Israel activity washighlighted, the Spanish government distanceditsel rom these eorts. For example, whenthe then Spanish Ambassador to Israel, lvaroIranzo Gutirrez, was asked about the televisioncommercial, he denied the Spanish governmentsnancing o the advertisement. But Iranzoadded that while a boycott o Israeli productsis not a policy o the Spanish government, hereiterated that Israeli products originating

rom the Occupied Palestinian erritories donot enjoy tax benets in the European CustomsUnion. Te advertisement was then correctedso that it reerred only to goods made in Jewishsettlements.

Tis example and many others indicate thatthe Spanish government has not implementedmechanisms to prevent a repeat o suchactivities. Nor has the government reprimandedor disciplined those NGOs involved in politicalwarare against Israel.

Spain has also been a European leader inNGO-led laware strategies against Israeli

Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, SpanishGovernment Sponsors PA V Ad Calling or Boycotto all Israeli Products, Palestinian Media Watch,January , , available athttp://palwatch.org/main.aspx?=&doc_id=

Ibid.

Herb Keinon, Spain Denies Sponsoring Palestinian Ad toBoycott Israel, Jerusalem Post, December , , available athttp://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=

Ibid.


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ocials.26 For example, in SpanishNational Court Judge Fernando Andreu said hewould redouble his probe o seven top Israelimilitary and government ocials or suspectedcrimes against humanity.27 He claimed thatthe decision was made aer determining thatdocuments submitted by the Israeli Embassyin Madrid showed that Israel would not beprosecuting anyone or the targeted killing oSalah Shehadeh, the commander o the militarywing o Hamas, in Gaza City in July .

At the time, Spanish law (universal jurisdiction)allowed the prosecution o oreigners orgenocide, crimes against humanity, and torture

committed anywhere in the world, i Spaindetermined that the suspects would not be triedin their home country.

Te case was brought to the Spanish court by thePalestinian Center or Human Rights (PCHR),an anti-Israel NGO that is represented in Spainby Gonzalo Boy, a Marxist revolutionarywho was sentenced to years in prison orcollaborating with the Basque terrorist group

EA.28 A seven-page court document said theinitial evidence suggested that the attack in thedensely populated Gaza City, which killed civilians, should be considered a crime againsthumanity. Supporters o the lawsuit said Spainshould pursue the suit because it has universal

jurisdiction in such cases.29

As head o Hamas military wing, Shehadehmasterminded hundreds o terror attacks,including a Jerusalem bus bombing in June

For more inormation on this issue see, Anne Herzberg,NGO Laware: Exploitation o Courts in the Arab-IsraeliConfict, NGO Monitor Monograph Series, December (d ed.).

El juez Andreu sigue con la investigacin contra Israelpor un bombardeo contra Gaza en , El Pas, February, , available athttp://elpais.com/elpais////actualidad/_.html.

Gonzalo Boy est detrs de la querella contra el exministro de Deensa israel, Libertad Digital, January , ,available athttp://www.libertaddigital.com/mundo/gonzalo-boye-esta-detras-de-la-querella-contra-el-ex-ministro-de-

deensa-israeli-/.

See Auto de juez, January , , available athttp://www.elpais.com/elpaismedia/ultimahora/media///espana/elpepunac__Pes_PDF.pd

that killed Israeli civilians. He wasalso responsible or the Passover massacre at thePark Hotel in Netanya in March that killed civilians and injured . Tis context wasmissing rom PCHRs lings.

Facing international pressure to depoliticize theSpanish justice system, the Spanish governmentenacted a bill in November that wouldlimit the reach o its universal jurisdiction law.Te move came aer the Spanish parliamentapproved a resolution in May urgingthe then Prime Minister Jos Luis RodrguezZapatero to limit the power o judges toprosecute people or atrocities and human rights

crimes committed abroad under the concept ouniversal jurisdiction.

In April , the Spanish Supreme Courtarmed a decision by the Spanish Court oAppeals to dismiss the criminal inquiry into thetargeted killing o Shehadeh.

Similarly, in January , Spains new ForeignMinister, Jos Manuel Garca Margallo, declaredthat the Spanish government would in no casesupport a boycott o Israel. He also challengedthe Israeli government to take advantage o themediating role that Spanish King Juan Carloscould play to grease riendship in the Arabworld.

See Herzberg, n. .

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passover_massacre

See Boletn Ocial del Estado, No. , November ,, available athttp://www.boe.es/boe/dias////pdsBOE-A--.pd

See PSOE y PP pactan limitar la jurisdiccin universal dela Audiencia Nacional, ABC, May , , available athttp://www.abc.es//nacional-tribunales/psoe-pactan-limitar-jurisdiccion-.html

See ribunal Supremo Sala de lo Penal, Auto /,March , , available athttp://estaticos.elmundo.es/documentos////auto_gaza.pd

See Margallo dice que el Gobierno de Espaa nuncaapoyar un boicot al Estado de Israel, Radio y elevisinEspaola, January , , available athttp://www.rtve.es/

noticias//margallo-dice-gobierno-nunca-apoyara-boicot-israel-pide-tel-aviv-aproveche-mediacion-del-rey/.shtml

Ibid.


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But Margallo has not announced any practicalsteps his government would take to distanceitsel rom the previous governments support oanti-Israel policies.

iii. panih governmentngo funding framework

Spanish ODA vis--vis the PalestinianAuthority is guided by andimplemented within the ramework o:

) he Memorandum o Understandingon Spanish-Palestinian Cooperation,

signed in unis on July , ;

) he results o the Spanish-Palestinian andJoint Commission o January 37; and

) he Master Plan or Spanish DevelopmentCooperation -.38

Te previous Master Plans were:

Master Plan or Spanish DevelopmentCooperation -39; and

Master Plan or Spanish Development

Cooperation -.40Spain provides nancial support to thePalestinian Authority and NGOs via bilateral andmultilateral mechanisms (under the auspices othe European Commission, the United Nations,and international nancial institutions such asthe World Bank.)

AECID is the main implementing agency orbilateral assistance, and it operates a echnical

Cooperation Oce in Jerusalem (attached to the

Acta acordada de la quinta reunin de la Comisin MixtaHispano-Palestina de Cooperacin Cultural, Educativa,Cientca y cnica, January , , available athttp://www.aecid.es/galerias/web/descargas/erritorios_palestinos/Acta_VCM_PP_espanol_para_Espana.pd

Plan Director de la Cooperacin Espaola -,available athttp://www.aecid.es/galerias/publicaciones/descargas/libro_PlanDirector_LR.pd

Plan Director de la Cooperacin Espaola -,available athttp://www.aecid.es/galerias/publicaciones/

descargas/Plan_Director_Esp.pd

Plan Director de la Cooperacin Espaola -,available athttp://www.aecid.es/galerias/publicaciones/descargas/Plan_Director-.pd

Spanish Consulate in Jerusalem), rom whichaid to the Palestinian Authority is coordinated.

According to an ocial state memo datedOctober , , the echnical Cooperation

Oce in Jerusalem is charged with managing andadministering all AECID-related projects in thePalestinian territories. Te oce in Jerusalemis also responsible or identiying, ormulating,executing, monitoring and controlling bilateralcooperation projects.

According to AECID, the primary objective oSpanish ODA to the Palestinian Authority is toacilitate the creation o a viable Palestinian state

by means o two strategic lines o action:) capacity building or state institutions; and

) support o civil society activities to promotedemocratic values and oster a Palestiniancultural identity.

Spain also provides substantial ODA unding tothe Palestinian Authority via Spains autonomousregions, including those o Andalusia, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, Extremadura, Navarra,

the Basque Country, and the Baleric Islands,as well as local administrations (includingBarcelona, Madrid, and Mlaga).

Tese decentralized actors manage their ownaid programs, most oen channelling undingthrough political advocacy NGOs. In ,more than % o Spanish development aid wasmanaged through decentralized rameworks.

In January , the OECD published a PeerReview o Spanish development unding.Among other ndings, the OECD criticizedSpain or the lack o oversight mechanisms andevaluation systems to manage its aid budget.

Boletn Ocial del Estado, October , , No. ,available at http://www.boe.es/boe/dias////pdsA-.pd

Ibid.

See Spain: Development Assistance Committee (DAC),Peer Review , Organization or Economic Co-operationand Development (OECD), available athttp://www.oecd.org/dataoecd///.pd


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iv. paletinian and iraelipolitical advocacy ngosfunded by aecid (2009-2011)

In , . million Euro in Spanishgovernment unds were transerred toPalestinian and Israel political advocacyNGOs active in promoting an anti-Israelagenda.

paletinian ngos

a r i J ariJreceived 176,637 2011 rom AECID or a

project to evaluate needs in Nablus, Salt andQalqilya,44 199,715 2010 to evaluate needsin Jerusalem, Ramallah and Jericho,45 plus anadditional 650,000 2009 or a project denedonly as support or NGOs.46

Separately, ARIJ also received 98,347 20092010 or planning or the Geopolitical uture oJerusalem as well as evaluating Israeli planningin Jerusalem rom the national, district, andlocal levels rom to .47

Founded in , ARIJ claims to be a non-protorganization dedicated to promoting sustainabledevelopment in the occupied Palestinianterritories and the sel-reliance o the Palestinianpeople through greater control over their naturalresources.

In practice, ARIJ is very active in promotingBDS and other orms o anti-Israel activity. TeNGO is a member o the Palestinian Grassroots

Boletn Ocial del Estado (BOE), May , , No. ,p., available athttp://www.boe.es/boe/dias////pds/BOE-A--.pd

Boletn Ocial del Estado (BOE), March , , No. ,p., available athttp://www.boe.es/boe/dias////pds/BOE-A--.pd

See Relacin de las ayudas y subvenciones de cooperacininternacional concedidas en el cuarto trimestre del ao, p. , available athttp://www.aecid.es/galerias/descargas/

convocatorias/ Anexo___.doc

Boletn Ocial del Estado (BOE), October , , No. ,p. , available athttp://www.boe.es/boe/dias////pds/BOE-A--.pd

Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign and supportsthe global anti-Israel boycott movement.Tis Palestinian NGO employs the rhetoric oethnic cleansing, transer, land grab, andcolonization activities in its publications.

ARIJ runs an EU-unded project calledMonitoring Israeli Colonization Activities inthe Palestinian erritories. Te project callsor a Daily Report to shed the light on theIsraeli violations taking place in the occupiedPalestinian territory against lands and propertiesalong with a map depicting the location o theaected areas.

ARIJ describes the purpose o the daily reportas ollows: Troughout the years o occupationo the Palestinian territory, Israel has engagedin excessive and disproportionate violations oevery existing humanitarian code and routinelyemployed its eorts to undermine any realaction towards a comprehensive peace with thePalestinians. Tese violations are consideredunlawul and breach o human rights and civilizedlaws including the right to Sel-Determination,

the right to reedom o movement, the right towork, the right to medical treatment, the right toeducation, the right to an adequate standard oliving and access to holy places.

p a r cparc received 305,399 2011 rom AECIDor a project called Improving the uture o

See http://www.ngo-monitor.org/articlepalestiniangrassroots_anti_apartheid_wall_campaign_

pgaawc See Palestinian Civil Society Calls or Boycott,Divestment and Sanctions against Israel Until it Complieswith International Law and Universal Principles o HumanRights, available athttp://www.bdsmovement.net/call#.tHMnKqYUM

See Report on the Israeli Colonization Activities in theWest Bank & the Gaza Strip, Volume , August ,available athttp://www.arij.org/publications%%/Monitoring%Report/%august%.pd

See http://www.poica.org/

See Monitoring Israeli Colonization Activities in the

Palestinian erritories, available athttp://www.poica.org/dailyreports/daily/index.php?Y=

See ARIJ Daily Report, June , , available athttp://www.poica.org/dailyreports/daily/view.php?recordID=


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civil society by increasing their participation inpublic lie.

PARC operates a range o agricultural, economicand social projects in the West Bank and Gaza,

primarily devoted to rural development.However, it is also involved in political advocacycampaigns utilizing demonizing rhetoric,including reerring to the IDF as the Israelioccupation orces.

It employs apartheid and other raciallycharged language, or example: Te occupationcontinued its aggression, settlement policies,building o the Apartheid Wall, the Judaization

o Jerusalem, the siege and restriction o theentire Palestinian people movements on thecheckpoints that aim to penetrate and disruptthe unity o collective, national and liberalconsciences.

PARC alsely accuses Israel o war crime[s],and erases the context o terror that necessitatessecurity measures: Te creation o the so-calledbuer zone land is considered one o the mostIsraeli practices in violation o the provisionso international law that constitutes war crime[sic].

PARC is active in the BDS movement againstIsrael. For example, in May , PARC signeda letter applauding the decision by the Co-Operative Group, a British supermarket chain,or its decision to end trade with companiesinvolved with Israeli violations o internationallaw.


See Annual Report , Agricultural DevelopmentAssociation (PARC), p., available athttp://www.pal-arc.org/annual/e.pd

See Annual Report , Agricultural DevelopmentAssociation (PARC), p. , available athttp://www.pal-arc.org/annual/e.pd

Ibid., , .

See Palestinian Civil Society Applauds UK Co-operativeMovement Decision to End rade with CompaniesInvolved with Israeli Violations o International Law, May, , available athttp://www.bdsmovement.net//palestinian-civil-society-applauds-coop-

In July , PARC signed a letter warmlysaluting a decision by the Washington-basedOlympia Food Co-op to set a historic precedentby becoming the rst US grocery store toremove all Israeli products rom its shelves.

PARCs letter employed infammatory rhetoric,reerring to Israels colonial wall and accusingIsrael o human rights violations and oppressiono the Palestinian people. PARC also complainsabout Israels ever growing colonial settlements,the Wall and hundreds o military checkpointsin the occupied Palestinian territoryIsraelcontinues to ravage Palestinian livelihoods withull impunity.

PARC has also signed petitions calling or BDSagainst Israel and in support o the campaignto boycott Israeli academia.

In , PARC issued the ollowing statement:PARC salutes all activists and internationalsupporters or the BDS campaign and especiallyour French riends and partners who were ableto rustrate the Agrexco attempt to conducta joint press conerence with a ew exploitedPalestinian producers.

Al Maqdese or Society Development (MSD)received , ()64 and , ()65or a project called Improving awareness and/

Palestinian Civil Society Salutes Olympia Food Co-opsDecision to Boycott Israeli Goods, July , , available athttp://www.olympiabds.org//palestinian-civil-society-salutes-olympia-ood-co-op%E%%s-decision-to-boycott-israeli-goods.html

Ibid. See Palestinian Call or Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions(BDS), available athttp://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=

See Palestinian Popular Movements and Civil Society Re-Assert Call or Comprehensive Academic Boycott o ApartheidIsrael, available athttp://www.al-awda.org/academicboycott.html

PARC Renounces the Utilization o its Name by the IsraeliCompany Agrexco, January , , available athttp://www.pal-arc.org/press.html

Boletn Ocial del Estado (BOE), May , , No. ,p., available athttp://www.boe.es/boe/dias////pds/

BOE-A--.pd



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or legal deense at the national and internationallevel o the Palestinians o East Jerusalem, as anintervention against violations committed byIsrael.

In its mission statement, MSD says it works todisclose, document, and publish Israeli violationsagainst Palestinians rights, and demands thatthe Israeli authorities stop these violations andrespect Palestinians individual and collectiverights according to the provisions and rules ointernational humanitarian law.

In March , MSD published a statementaccusing Israel o racist practices in Jerusalem

and called on the international community toundertake immediate, practical procedures toprotect Jerusalem, and to ulll its responsibilitiestowards the city. Jerusalem is subject to Israeli

violations and dominance over the city on adaily basis.

In March , MSD published a report accusingIsrael o ruthless, unorgiving and above allillegal policies in Jerusalem. Te report alsoreers to an apartheid wall and accuses Israelo crimes so heinous they make a mockery ointernational law and Israeli legitimacy. MSDaccuses Israel o running a system o abuse andracism masquerading as security.

In June , MSD published a report accusingIsrael o racist and oppressive policies topromote the Judaization o Jerusalem.

m d c received 201,610

2011 rom AECID or a project to help

See http://home.al-maqdese.org/en///

Within the ramework o Israels campaign todisplace Jerusalemites, Al-Maqdese calls on theInternational Community to Act Immediately, March, , available athttp://home.al-maqdese.org/en////?tn=news_and_reports

Moaz Al-Zatari and Jonathan Molony, Israeli Violationsin Jerusalem: -, March , , available athttp://

home.al-maqdese.org/attachment/

Moaz Al-Zatari and Jonathan Molony, House Demolitionsin Silwan: Te Judaization o East Jerusalem, July ,available athttp://home.al-maqdese.org/attachment/

Palestinian armers adapt to climate change.Maan received 83,330 2010 rom AECID ora project called emergency action to improveliving conditions o Palestinian inhabitants inrural areas o the Jordan Valley.

In a Case Study on a Qalqilya armer, as well asin other such case studies, Maan DevelopmentCenter reers to Israeli colonization, and Israeligovernments are described as consecutiveoccupation governments since . Itcontains testimony rom a local armer,accusing Israel o the atrocity o the occupationcutting o human ngers in order to capture thenecessary ngerprints.

Te anti-terror security barrier is consistentlyreerred to as the Apartheid Wall and thesection that surrounds Qalqilya is described [a]sa control mechanism, which takes on the ormo an enclosed cage in this area, transorming itinto an open-air prison.

t r c v t trc) received 185,1102011 rom AECID or a project titledRestoration o human rights or torturesurvivors in the South and the North WestBank. RC received 182,487 2010 romAECID or a project called Improve provisiono services to victims o torture and political

violence or those living in the West Bank.RC received 195,814 2009 rom AECID or


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See Up Against the Wall: Te Story o a Qalqilya Farmer,March , available athttp://www.maan-ctr.org/pds/Qalqiliya.pd

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a project called elimination o the consequenceso torture and organized violence.

RC has been outspoken in its opposition to theIsraeli blockade o Gaza. For example, in a press

release dated June , RC states: Te Israelimeasures and procedures against the PalestinianPeople have never been subject or any humanrights standards or measures, starting romoccupying other nations and keeping themunder severe oppression and ending with the lastmilitary attack on the reedom ships destinedor Gaza StripFor Israel, killing, detention,torture, closures, starvation, land conscation,ethnic cleansing and houses acquisition and

demolitions were not enough to suppress thewill o the Palestinian People to lie.

p c cpcc received 107,700 2011 or a projectcalled Protect Deenders: Strengthening,promotion and deense o Human Rights in theOccupied Palestinian erritory.

Te PSCC says it aims at strengtheninginternational support networks and their directties to the struggle or liberty in Palestine.80

Te PSCC also says it promotes a unique ormo community based organizing and resistancein the tradition o the rst Palestinian IntiadaTese diverse, non-partisan committees leadcommunity resistance to Israeli occupationin various orms, such as marches, strikes,demonstrations, direct actions and legalcampaigns, as well as supporting boycott,

divestment and sanctions.

Boletn Ocial del Estado (BOE), October , , No. ,p. , available athttp://www.boe.es/boe/dias////pds/BOE-A--.pd

See RC condemns the Israeli Piracy on the Freedom shipsbound to Gaza, June , , available athttp://www.trc-pal.org/en/Views/PageView.aspx?pid=


See PSCC Mission Statement, available athttp://popularstruggle.org/content/mission-statement

See About the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee,available athttp://www.popularstruggle.org/content/about

a p r received 101,675 2010rom AECID to improve Israeli access toconstructive message o Palestinians and vice

versa in occupied territories. All or Peacealso received 80,969 2009 rom AECID orproject called Voices o Dialogue.

Founded in , All or Peace is a not-or-prot,joint Israeli-Palestinian radio station. It was takeno the air on November , or operatingwithout a license. Israels CommunicationsMinistry said it issued the shut-down orderbecause the station was broadcasting into Israelillegally. All or Peace Radio is currently waitingor a Supreme Court decision on the matter.

iraeli ngos

i c a h dicahd) received 105,000 20092010rom AECID or a program titled Spaceso Coexistence: Work and awareness campsmeant to bring the Spanish youth closer to theproblems o house demolitions and the humanrights situation in the Palestinian erritories.

ICAHD also received 76,508 2009 romAECID or a project called strengtheningthe cohesion and the operative capacity oPalestinian and Israeli organizations committedto dialogue in the peace process in the MiddleEast by way o dynamizing a platorm.

Separately, the Spanish NGO APY Solidaridaden Accin (see below) received 250,000 2010rom AECID or a joint project with ICAHD to


Boletn Ocial del Estado (BOE), October , , No. ,p., available athttp://www.boe.es/boe/dias////pds/BOE-A--.pd

Israeli Palestinian Radio Station Shut Down, AssociatedPress, November , , available athttp://www.ynetnews.com/articles/,,L-,.html

Boletn Ocial del Estado (BOE), October , , No. ,p. , available athttp://www.boe.es/boe/dias////pds/

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promote the education and awareness o humanrights, democracy and confict resolution in thePalestinian Authority, Israel, and Spain.87

According to reports in the center-right

newspaper El Mundo, the Spanish governmentsubsidized Spanish volunteers in ICAHDs summer camp and Spanish participantsin ICAHDs camp. According to ICAHD,Spain also subsidized individuals at the camp.

ICAHD promotes the demonization o Israel,supports boycotts and divestment campaigns,and led the Jewish Boat to Gaza political

publicity actions.

Founder Je Halperadvocates or a one-state ormula that wouldeliminate Jewish sel-determination rights.Rhetoric used by ICAHD and Halper includesaccusations o Israeli apartheid, bloody andsadistic actions, and atrocities.

In August , ICAHD built our homesin Hebron in cooperation with FundacinSocialismo Sin Fronteras with nancial supportrom AECID. ICAHD said the homes wouldreplace structures that had been demolished bythe IDF because they were built without proper

Boletn Ocial del Estado (BOE), November , , No., p., available athttp://www.boe.es/boe/dias////pds/A-.pd

See Voluntarios espaoles reconstruyen dos casaspalestinas, El Mundo, August , , available athttp://www.elmundo.es/elmundo////solidaridad/.html

ICAHD Building Camp : Day , July , ,

available athttp://www.icahd.org/?p= See http://www.icahd.org/icahdukdev/eng/documents/Manchester%Boycott%Model.htm

See ICAHD Supports the Jewish Boat to Gaza, September, , available athttp://www.icahd.org/?p=

Livia Bergmeijer, Interview with Je Halper:A two-state solution is no longer viable, we muststop talking about it, Ceasefre Magazine, April ,, available athttp:/ceaseremagazine.co.uk/je-halper-the-two-state-solution-longer-viable-stop-talking-it/

See http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/spanish_government_unding_or_icahd_more_hidden_european_

government_unding_or_anti_israel_ngos

See Campamentos de reconstruccin de casas palestinas,August , available athttp://www.icahd.org/wp-content/uploads///Prensa-Spanish.pd (link expired)

building permits. According to ICAHD, Spanish volunteers were on the ground inJerusalem and Hebron, coming to understandthe reality o the Palestinian erritories throughhands-on work rebuilding homes destroyedunder Israels continuing occupation.

Also in , ICAHD employee and JerusalemCouncil member Meir Margalit publisheda Spanish-government-unded book titledSeizing Control o Space in East Jerusalem. Heaccuses Israel o de-Arabizing [East Jerusalem]at the expense o its Palestinian population andArab heritage, ethnocratic policy o contemptor Arabs, attempting to wipe the Arab presence

o the ace o the earth, and colonialism.

In November , it was reported that Spainsoreign minister, rinidad Jimnez, had invitedMargalit to help the Spanish governmentormulate oreign policy vis--vis Israel and theMiddle East.

b b received 173,1882011 and 180,763 2010 to raiseawareness about the vulnerability o the humanrights o Palestinian people. BtS, an organizationthat produces reports aimed at internationalmedia outlets and university campuses, based onanonymous testimonies, also received 24,7902009 to promote dialogue and refectionabout Middle East peace process and createawareness among opinion makers and European

Ibid.

Ibid.

Itamar Haritan, Book Review: Seizing Control o Space inEast Jerusalem by Meir Margalit, Palestine-Israel Journal oPolitics, Economics and Culture, available athttp://www.pij.org/details.php?id=

Ibid.

See Espaa pide ayuda a Meir Margalit para delinearpoltica respecto a Israel, November , , available athttp://latinosenisrael.com/blog/index.php///espana-pide-ayuda-a-meir-margalit-para-delinear-politica-respecto-a-israel/


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public opinion about deence o human rights inthe region.

Tese budgets have unded a BtS travellingroadshow to cities across Europe and the North

America, accompanied by members o BtS whoconduct guided tours through an anti-IDFphoto exhibition and answer questions romparticipants.

In June , representatives o BtS attended theopening o a ten-day exposition called Breakingthe Silence which was held at the Circulo deBellas Artes in Madrid. Tey also travelled toBarcelona, oledo, Seville, Vigo and Santiago

de Compostella to participate in conerencesand debates in which they related their storiesto Spanish elite opinion makers, including

journalists, and to the wider public.

Te group has received considerable presscoverage in Spain, acilitated by the undingreceived rom the Spanish government. InMay , the Socialist daily newspaper El Paspublished a eature story on BtS, demonstratingthe close links and infuence o political advocacyNGOs and the media.

In June , the Barcelona-based newspaperLa Vanguardia published a lengthy interviewwith BtS co-ounder Simcha Leventhal, whowas invited to Barcelona to speak at theAteneu Barcelons cultural center by AmnestyInternational and Horitz Europa, a le-leaningCatalan NGO. Te newspaper story was titled:

Boletn Ocial del Estado (BOE), January , , No. ,p., available athttp://www.boe.es/boe/dias////pds/BOE-A--.pd

See Representantes de Breaking the Silence, asociacin deex-militares israels, de gira por Espaa, ercera Inormacin,June , , available athttp://www.tercerainormacion.es/spip.php?article

Ibid.

Enric Gonzlez, Exsoldados israeles narran lashumillaciones a las que son sometidos los Palestinos, El Pas,May , , available athttp://internacional.elpais.com/internacional////actualidad/_.html

Te moral disintegration o Israel has continuedor years.

In July BtS accompanied a group o ourdeputies rom the Spanish Socialist Party on a

trip to Hebron. When Israel prohibited the grouprom entering the Gaza Strip, one o the deputies,Ftima Aburto, declared: We are indignant. Weconsider it an error that Israel tries to cover-upthe situation in Gazai they have to hide thetruth it is because there is something very badbehind itit is very suspicious.

BtS was particularly active in promoting the warcrimes accusations against Israel aer the Gaza

confict in January , based on anonymousand unveriable hearsay testimonies. TeUN Goldstone Commission report repeatednumerous BtS claims as the basis o mucho its accusations against the Israel DeenseForces (IDF). In April , Judge Goldstoneacknowledged that many accusations ound inthis report were not based on reliable evidence,and that the war crimes allegations were not

valid. (BtS also receives unding rom George

Soros, New Israel Fund, and the EU.)An analysis by Amos Harel in Haaretzconcludedthat Breaking the Silence...has a clear politicalagenda, and can no longer be classed as ahuman rights organization. Any organizationwhose website includes the claim by membersto expose the corruption which permeates themilitary system is not a neutral observer. Teorganization has a clear agenda: to expose theconsequences o IDF troops serving in the WestBank and Gaza. Tis seems more o interest to

Flix Flores, Leventhal: La desintegracin moral de Israellleva aos, La Vanguardia, June , , available athttp://www.lavanguardia.com/internacional///leventhal-la-desintegracion-moral-de-israel-lleva--anos.html

Israel impide la entrada a Gaza a cuatro diputados delPSOE, Libertad Digital, July , , available athttp://www.libertaddigital.com/mundoisrael-impide-la-entrada-a-gaza-a-cuatro-diputados-del-psoe-/.

Richard Goldstone, Reconsidering the GoldstoneReport on Israel and War Crimes, Washington Post, April ,, available athttp://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/reconsidering-the-goldstone-report-on-israel-and-war-crimes////AFgJC_story.html.


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its members than seeking justice or specicinjustices.

p c a t ipcati received 60,000 2010 rom AECID

or a project to ght against torture, accessand legal advice or Palestinians incarcerated inIsrael.

In October , PCAI published a report,nanced by AECID, called Doctoring theEvidence, Abandoning the Victim: TeInvolvement o Medical Proessionals in ortureand Ill-reatment in Israel. Te report accusesIsraeli medical proessionals o being requently

involved either actively or passively in torture orill-treatment. Te report claims to presentthe legal situation which enables the persistenceo torture in Israel.

In , PCAI signed a petition submittedto the Spanish government opposing aparliamentary resolution that limits the exerciseo universal jurisdiction o the Spanish courts.Te resolution was introduced in the Spanishparliament ollowing laware cases againstseveral oreign nationals including Chinese,American, and Israeli ocials.

(At one point in mid-, judges at theSpanish National Court were pursuing morethan a dozen international investigations intosuspected cases o torture, genocide and crimesagainst humanity in places as ar-fung as ibetand Rwanda even though most o these caseshad little or no connection with Spain. Tese

Amos Harel, Gaza estimonies: Diverting the Debate romthe Real Issues, Haaretz, July , , available athttp://www.haaretz.com/newsgaza-testimonies-diverting-the-debate-rom-the-real-issue-..

Boletn Ocial del Estado (BOE), March , , No. , p., available athttp://www.boe.es/boe/dias////pds/BOE-A--.pd

Public Committee Against orture in Israel (PCAI),Doctoring the Evidence, Abandoning the Victim: TeInvolvement o Medical Proessionals in orture and Ill-reatment in Israel, (October ), available athttp://stoptorture.org.il/les/Doctoring%the%Evidence%

Abandoning%the%Victim_November.pd

Ibid.

Ibid.

included a case against seven current or ormerIsraeli ocials over an air attack in Gaza thatkilled Salah Shehadeh, a top Hamas terroristleader, in July .)

hm c d i received 147,690 2011 and147,690 2010) rom AECID or a projecttitled Question Systemic Denial: ImplementSocial Rights and Residence in East Jerusalem.

Hamoked is an Israeli human rights organizationwhose main objective is to assist Palestinianso the Occupied erritories whose rights are

violated due to Israels policies.

HaMoked has described Israels policies asethnic cleansing and racist using the rhetorico political warare. For example, in an interviewwith Te National, Dalia Kerstein, the director oHaMoked, said Tere is clearly a policy to pushPalestinians out o Jerusalem and Israel to reducewhat is called here the Palestinian demographicthreat. Its really a case o ethnic cleansing.

In June , the Barcelona-based newspaper

La Vanguardia published an article accusingIsrael o revoking the residency o ,Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank sinceit occupied their territories in . Tearticle quotes Hamoked activist Ido Blum, whosaid this is a clear violation o international

Soeren Kern, Spain Changes ack onUniversal Jurisdiction, PJ Media, May , available athttp://pjmedia.com/blog/spain-changes-tack-on-universal-jurisdiction/



See http://www.hamoked.org/home.aspx

Jonathan Cook, Jerusalem Bookseller a Foreignerin Homeland, Te National, April , , availableathttp://www.thenational.ae/news/world/middle-east/jerusalem-bookseller-a-oreigner-in-homeland

See Israel expuls a . palestinos de Gazay Cisjordania en aos, La Vanguardia, June ,,available athttp://www.lavanguardia.com/internacional///israel-expulso-a---palestinos-de-gaza-y-cisjordania.html


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law, which should be considered as a orm odeportation, absolutely illegal.

h r d f hrdfreceived 60,000 2011 rom AECID or a

project called Strategic support or the legaldeense o children in East Jerusalem.

HRDF, which is based in Ramat Gan, says itsmission is to support non-violent activistsworking or democracy, liberty and equality, inIsrael and the territory it occupies.

HRDF is a political group that promotes thePalestinian narrative in a legal ramework.HRDF shareholders include Dina Goor,

Mooky Dagan and Menucha Moravitz, all owhom are co-ounders o another politicaladvocacy NGO called Yesh Din (Volunteers orHuman Rights).

Other HRDF ocials include Shai Carmeli-Pollak, an activist with the Popular StruggleCoordination Committee, (see above) andWiam Shabita, an activist with aayush, a pro-Palestinian group committed to tearing down

the walls o Apartheid.

r h r rhr) received146,043 2011 and 195,453 2010 romSpain or the deense o human rights, raisingawareness and improving legal and logisticalassistance or the Palestinian town o MassarYattah (Hebron).

RHR claims to seek to prevent human rightsviolations in Israel and in areas or which

Ibid.


See http://hrd.org.il/

See http://hrd.org.il/?page_id=

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Israel has taken responsibility and to have noaliation with any political party or ideology.

In practice, as has been documented in detail,RHR is requently involved in politicized

activities such as protests and legal advocacy onbehal o the Palestinian narrative.

a c r i acri2009 received 100,000 or an -monthprogram beginning in December oradvancement o housing rights and shelteror Palestinian residents o Area C in the WestBank. ACRI is a controversial Israeli politicalorganization, and this project ocuses on highly

complex and contentious issues in a partisanmanner.

See http://www.rhr-na.org/issuescampaigns/israel-and-the-

occupied-palestinian-territories/-rabbis-or-human-rights-in-israel.html

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Palestinian NGOs Amounts and Years

Applied Research Institute Jerusalem(ARIJ)

176,637 (2011); 650,000 (2009-2010);199,715 (2010); 98,347 (2009-2010)

Palestinian Agricultural ReliefCommittees (PARC)

305,399 (2011)

Al Maqdese for Society Development 238,000 (2011); 210,049 (2010);349,510 (2009)

Maan Development Center 201,610 (2011); 83,330 (2010)

Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre forVictims of Torture (TRC)

185,110 (2011); 182,487 (2010);195,814 (2009)

Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 107,700 (2011)

(PSCC)

All for Peace Radio 101,675 (2010); 80,969 (2009)

Sub-Total 3,366,352

Israeli NGOs

Israel Committee Against HouseDemolitions (ICAHD)

105,000 (20092010); 76,508 (2009)

Breaking the Silence (BtS) 173,188 (2011); 180,763 (2010);131,000 (2010); 24,790 (2009)

Public Committee Against Torture inIsrael (PCATI)

60,000 (2010)

Hamoked 147,690 (2011); 147,690 (2010)

Human Rights Defenders Fund 60,000 (2011)

Rabbis for Human Rights 146,043 (2011); 195,453 (2010)

Association for Civil Rights in Israel(ACRI)

100,000 (2010-2009)

Subtotal 1,548,125

Total: funding for Palestinian andIsraeli Political Advocacy NGOs

4,914,477

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v. panih politicaladvocacy ngos

aecid-funded proJect

Apy areceived 250,000 2010 romAECID or a political advocacyproject to promote the educationand awareness o human rights,

democracy and confict resolution in thePalestinian Authority, Israel and Spain.129According to its annual report, APY is doingthis project in cooperation with its Israeli

counterpart, the Israeli Committee AgainstHouse Demolitions (ICAHD), (see above).130

APY also received 280,297 2011 rom AECIDor a project to promote sustainable managementand use o water resources or agriculture in theGaza Strip,131 and 247,306 2010 or a projectto improve the socio-economic conditions,labor security and capacity to deend humanrights o , amilies o shermen on the GazaStrip.132

APY also received 295,100 2009 romthe Autonomous Community o Andalusiaor a project called Medical, Psychological,Physiotherapuetic and Social Assistance toVictims o the Attack on the Gaza Strip.133

In December , APY sponsored a conerencein the southern Spanish city o Huelva titled TeRole o the Woman in the Palestinian-Israeli

Boletn Ocial del Estado (BOE), November , , No., p., available athttp://www.boe.es/boe/dias////pds/BOE-A--.pd

See Fundacin para la Cooperacin APY Solidaridad enAccin, Memoria Actividades , pp. -, available athttp://www.apysolidaridad.org/images/PDFs/memoria_.pd


Boletn Ocial del Estado (BOE), March , , No. ,p., available athttp://www.boe.es/boe/dias////pds/

BOE-A--.pd

Boletn Ocial de la Junta de Andaluca (BOJA), March ,, No. , p., available athttp://www.juntadeandalucia.es/boja/boletines///d/upd/d.pd

Confict in which the project coordinator,Natalia Snchez, reerred to Israel as a policestate.134 She also claimed that Palestinianwomen are living in apartheid conditions andthat to live under occupation is to live underconstant humiliation.135 Sanchez repeated aphrase she said was oen used by Palestinians:the worst danger stems not rom Israelis butrather rom Zionism.136

In October , APY signed a letter to SpanishForeign Minister rinidad Jimnez criticizing herspeech to the UN General Assembly.137 Te lettercomplained about Spains lack o protagonismin the deense o the right o the Palestinian

people to have a state that is a member o theUnited Nations.138 Te letter calls on Jimnezto exert a decided external pressure on Israelbecause years o negotiations have shownthat bilateral talks are insucient to reach anagreement.139

a c p pz acpp(Madrid) received 480,000 2011 romAECID or a project aimed at Improving access

to ood and sanitation o , people in BeitHassan, Al-Nassaryia and Aqrabanyia, JordanValley, West Bank.140

According to ACPPs annual report or activitiesrealized between June and June ,ACPP also received 2,305,684 in unding romdozens o regional and municipal governmentsacross Spain or dierent projects in the

See El papel de la mujer en el conficto palestino-israel,a debate en La Rbida, El Peridico de Huelva, December ,, available athttp://www.uhu.es/otri/kimeraa/documents/news/odiel_inormacion___.pd

Ibid.

Ibid.

See ONGs espaolas en Palestina critican el discurso deJimnez en la ONU, ABC, October , , available athttp://www.abc.es/agencias/noticia.asp?noticia=

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Palestinian territories.141 Some o these projectswere o a political nature, including 122,210received rom the regional government o theBaleric Islands or a project to raise awarenessamong Israel and Palestinian populations o theenvironmental impact o the lack o peace andto promote a sustainable solution within theramework o the peace initiative o the ArabLeague.142

In , ACPP was instrumental in establishingthe so-called Madrid Coalition, an alliance onearly Palestinian, Israeli, and Europeancivil society organizations promoting a peaceinitiative sponsored by the Arab League.143

In a May , blog post titled Days oHunger Strike, ACPP writes that the Palestinianhunger strikes refect the brutality o Israelioppression over the Palestinian population.144Te same blog post says that Israeli SupremeCourt decisions in practice have served tolegitimize torture.145

In , ACPP produced a documentary calledPalestine Without Barriers that examines thelives o handicapped Palestinians in confictzones.146 Te main objective o the lm isto generate public pressure within Spain toconvince Israel to li the blockade on the GazaStrip.

In May , ACPP issued a statementcondemning Israel or its unacceptable andinadmissible oensive against the Free Gaza

See Memoria de Actividades: Junio Julio ,available athttp://issuu.com/acpp/docs/memoria_acpp__?mode=window&backgroundColor=%

Ibid.

See http://he-il.acebook.com/pages/Madrid-Coalition/?sk=wall&lter=

See das en huelga de hambre, May , , available athttp://asambleaacpp.wordpress.com/////

Ibid.

See Los Palestinos no quieren depender de laayuda internacional sino ser autosucientes, January

, , available athttp://asambleaacpp.wordpress.com///los-palestinos-no-quieren-depender-de-la-ayuda-internacional-sino-ser-autosucientes-entrevista-a-la-dra-jean-calder-y-dalal-altaji-por-ursula-urdillo/

fotilla.147 ACPP accused Israel o war crimesand called on the international community toprevent acts like this committed by Israel romgoing unpunished and to give a rm response tothis crime.148

In February , the newspaperABCreportedthat the Spanish government had withdrawnACPPs accreditation due to embezzlemento public monies and that AECID waswithholding urther transers o money to theNGO.149 Addressing the Spanish Parliament,the-then Secretary o State or InternationalCooperation, Soraya Rodrguez, admitted thatACPP (which according to ABC is linked to

the Socialist Party) was involved in a case oembezzlement, but she also sought to deendAECID and asked opposition lawmakers toavoid making insinuations about the lack otransparency and not question the operation othe agency.150 It would be better to cease makingthese insinuations. Conservative lawmakersdisputed that assessment and insisted that theGovernment was not suciently transparent.151

novac i (Barcelona) received 187,100 2011 romAECID or a project called Strengthening thePalestinian Civil Society that is committedto deending human rights and a nonviolentresolution o conficts.152 In addition, NOVAreceived 322,560 2010 rom AECID ora project called Promotion o a strategy orpeaceul management o conficts and eective

See Asamblea de Cooperacin por la Paz condena elataque israel a la fotilla que llevaba ayuda humanitaria aGaza, May , , available athttp://acpparagon.blogspot.com///asamblea-de-cooperacion-por-la-paz.html

Ibid.

Paloma Cervilla, El Gobierno retira la calicacin a laONG an al PSOE condenada, ABC, February , ,available athttp://www.abc.es//espana/abcp-gobierno-retira-calicacion-an-.html

Ibid.

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deense o human rights in Palestine andIsrael.153

NOVA also received 130,000 2010: 45,000;2011: 45,000; 2012: 40,000 in conjunction

with Servei Civil Internacional-Catalunya(SCI-Catalunya) (Barcelona) and AssociaciCatalana per la Pau (ACP) (Barcelona) romthe Autonomous Community o Cataloniaor a contract titled Research, elaboration ostrategies or the compliance o internationallaw and respect or human rights in the confictbetween Palestine and Israel.154

In , NOVA was tasked by the city o

Barcelona to organize the rst session o theRussell ribunal on Palestine, which washeld in Barcelona rom March -, .155Issues discussed at the conerence includedthe settlements and the plundering o naturalresources, the annexation o East Jerusalem,the construction o the Wall in the OccupiedPalestinian erritory, and the blockade o Gazaand operation Cast Lead.156

NOVA supported the Rumbo a Gaza initiative,which attempted to break the Israeli blockade oGaza in .157

In , NOVA published an -page reporttitled Spain-Israel: Military, Armaments andSecurity Relations, which attempts to answerthe question o how Spain contributes to

violence in one o the most battered regions o


Diari Ocial de la Generalitat de Catalunya (DOGC), July, , No. , p., available athttp://www.gencat.cat/eadop/imatges//.pd

See Primera sesin del ribunal Russel por Palestina enBarcelona, available athttp://noviolencia.nova.cat/proyecto/primera-sesion-del-tribunal-russel-por-palestina-en-barcelona

Ibid.

See http://noviolencia.nova.cat/en/news/-conerence-human-rights-and-universal-criminal-justice-gaza-today-and-tomorrow

the world.158 Te report has a orward writtenby Je Halper, director o the Israeli CommitteeAgainst House Demolitions (ICAHD), a pro-Palestinian activist group (see above).159

c e oz c J cecJ (Madrid) received175,132 2010 rom AECID or a Campaignto raise awareness about air trade.160

CECJ is a grouping o dierent air tradeorganizations throughout Spain. Organizationsbelonging to CECJ are active in Spains BDSmovement against Israel. For example, CECJmember SODePAZ (see below) has a prominent

section about BDS on its website.161f f b) (Madrid) received120,000 2011 rom AECID or summercamps to rebuild Palestinian homes.162 Teorganization received 143,189 2010 romAECID or raising awareness o human rightsin Palestinian territories and in Israel.163

Socialism without Borders, which works

closely with ICAHD (see above), is dedicatedto rebuilding homes demolished by the IDF.In an article titled Rebuilding PalestinianHomes Made in Spain, published by the ar-le newspaper Pblico, activists with the groupsaid we know it is very likely that the Israeliswill take down what we build, but we are here

Alejandro Pozo Marn, Espaa-Israel Relaciones enmateria militar, armamentista y de seguridad. Balancey tendencias, November , available athttp:/www.palestinaino.org/images/Pd/espana_israel_relaciones_militares_armamentisticas_seguridad.pd

Ibid.


See http://www.sodepaz.org/palestina/


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to demonstrate our will. Te budget needed oreach house is around $,.164

a e c p aecop (Mlaga) received 63,616

2010 rom AECID to improve access toemployment in Bani Naim (Hebron) by meanso greenhouse agriculture.165 ASECOP, a keyplayer in Spanish eorts to demonize Israel, hasalso received 2.15 20092010 romthe Autonomous Community o Andalusia (seedetails below).

regionally-fundedproJect

a e c p aecop (Mlaga) received1,308,468 2010 rom the AutonomousCommunity o Andalusia or a total o vemedical-related projects in Bethlehem andthe Gaza Strip.166 ASECOP received 844,546rom Andalusia in . ASECOP also received63,616 2010 (see above) rom AECID toimprove access to employment in Bani Naim

(Hebron) by means o greenhouse agriculture.167

In , ASECOP published a book titled,Voyage to the Land o Apartheid that chroniclesthe injustices experienced by the Palestinianpeople due to the military occupation.168 Tebook explains how the Palestinians are sueringdue to the separation and isolation wall, theinnumerable checkpoints, the blockade oGaza, the , Palestinian prisoners in Israeli

prisons, the requent states-o-emergencywhich prevent the population rom developing

E. Garca Gascn, Reconstruccin de casas palestinasMade in Spain, Jvenes espaoles recuperan las casasdestruidas por Israel, Pblico, August , , available athttp://www.publico.es/internacional/reconstruccion-de-casas-palestinas-made-in-spain

Boletn Ocial del Estado (BOE), November , , No., p, available athttp://www.boe.es/boe/dias////pds/BOE-A--.pd

See Appendix B, able B- below or list o all projects.

Boletn Ocial del Estado (BOE), November , , No., p, available athttp://www.boe.es/boe/dias////pds/BOE-A--.pd

See http://www.eldimoni.com/article.php?id_article=

a normal lie, the killings and the daily militaryincursions, the orced military expropriations oPalestinian lands to build settlements169

ASECOP also awarded its rst annual Yasser

Araat Award to the author o the book, IsidrePalls, or his work contributing to the searchor peaceul solutions based on the respect orhuman rights and the resolutions o the UnitedNations.170 Te award is an initiative sponsoredby the Province o Mlaga to reward the bestworks o literature, journalism and essays thatdeal with the Palestinian problem.171

In April , ASECOP awarded its second

annual Yasser Araat Award to AntonioBasallote Marn, a post-graduate student atthe University o Seville, or his book titledParadise Usurped: Zionism and the PalestinianPeople, which seeks to deconstruct the allegedhistorical continuity between biblical Israel andthe modern State o Israel.172

ASECOP is active in Spains BDS movementagainst Israel. For example, in July ,ASECOP (together with the BDS GroupCatalonia) organized the boycott o a cosmeticsstore called Minus - in a shopping center inthe city o Sant Cugat near Barcelona.

In a press release dated July , ASECOP wrote:Minus - Dead Sea Cosmetic ResearchesLtd is an Israeli company that illegally extractsproducts rom the Dead Sea in the occupiedWest Bank. Te exploitation o natural resourcesrom the Occupied erritories violates the

Geneva Conventions and various UnitedNations resolutions. Moreover, it is a companythat receives direct support rom the State oIsrael, which is responsible or the oppression

Ibid

See http://www.eldimoni.com/article.php?id_article=

La Diputacin de Mlaga y ASECOP rman un conveniopara editar el premio Yasser Araat, July , , available athttp://www.iumalaga.org/node/

Luis orres, Un joven investigador del pueblo palestinogana el II Premio Yaser Araat de la Hispalense, Sevil laActualidad, January , , available atwww.sevillaactualidad.com/cultura/-estudiante-de-la-universidad-de-sevilla-gana-el-ii-premio-yasser-araat


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and suering experienced by the Palestinianpeople.173

ASECOP also organizes pro-Palestinianconerences and exhibits throughout Spain

which oen present a one-sided perspective othe Arab-Israeli confict in which the Israelis areportrayed as the aggressors.

For example, in October , ASECOPorganized an exhibit at the Joaqun RoncalCultural Center in downtown Zaragoza calledPazlestina: A Broken Peace (Paz is Spanish orpeace).174 Te exhibition, which was later movedto dierent locations around the city, consisted o

drawings, photographs, and inormation panelsthat explained the reality o the confict in theoccupied Palestinian territoriesto ensure thatthe confict does not become a normal situationwhen it should have been temporary andexceptional, or, in this case, it should never havehappened.175

In November , ASECOP organized atwo-day conerence in the town o Antequera(Mlaga province) called Aer Gaza: What?which was billed as the rst to publicly debatethe roots o the confict between Israel and thePalestinians.176 Te event was highly biasedagainst Israel, who according to ASECOPspresident, Jehad Sueiman Rachid, up untilnow, has reused to accept a single alternativeto the peace process, despite the demands o theinternational community and the oers made bythe Palestinians.177

Envia un correu demanant lexpulsi de Minus - delSant Cugat Centre Comercial, June , , available athttp://www.nodo.org/casc/spip.php?article

See http://www.joaquinroncal.org/programacion/programaciondiadetalle.asp?idNodo=&idE=&idR=

La Asociacin Europea de Cooperacin con Palestinaorganiza una exposicin en Utebo, Minutos, December ,, available athttp://www.minutos.es/noticia///

Antequera acoge el primer oro de debate sobre las races y

repercusiones del conficto entre Israel y Palestina, Minutos,November , , available athttp://www.minutos.es/noticia///

Ibid

ASECOP, together with an organizationcalled Fondo Andaluz de Municipios parala Solidaridad Internacional (FAMSI), alsoorganizes the bi-annual Andalusia-PalestineSolidarity and Cooperation Meeting.178 InDecember , during the opening ceremonyo the third such meeting, ASECOP presidentJehad Suleiman Rachid declared that Israelpractices a policy o terror against the Palestinianpeople in Gaza and he said that ASECOP wouldexercise all the pressure necessary to open andbreak the blockade o Gaza.179

Asociacin para la Cooperacin con el SurLas Segovias (ACSUR) (Madrid) was awarded

a , (: ,; : ,;: ,) contract by the AutonomousCommunity o Catalonia or a project titledPrevention o gender violence and participationo women in the occupied Palestinianterritories.180

ACSUR is also part o a consortium o sixSpanish NGOs (ACSUR, Mundubat, IEPALA,Fundacion CEAR, ACPP and Solidaridad

Internacional) that received a total o 4.5 20072012 rom AECID or a series ounspecied projects in the Palestinian Authorityto support initiatives or the construction opeace between Palestinians and Israelis by meanso strengthening civil society organizations onboth sides.181 An analysis o ACSURs annual report shows that all Palestinian andIsraeli partner NGOs collaborating with theSpanish consortium are activist groups that are

politically biased against Israel.182

See http://www.andaluciasolidaria.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=&Itemid=

Asecop ve bien que una nueva Flotilla de la Paz lleguehasta la ranja de Gaza, Europa Press, December , ,available athttp://www.europapress.es/epsocial/ong-y-asociaciones/noticia-asecop-ve-bien-nueva-fotilla-paz-llegue-ranja-gaza-.html

Diari Ocial de la Generalitat de Catalunya (DOGC), July, , No. , p., available athttp://www.gencat.cat/eadop/imatges//.pd

See http://www.acsur.org/IMG/pd/Proyectos_ACSUR_-.pd

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ACSUR also received 691,009 2010 rom theAutonomous Community o Castilla-La Manchaor three dierent projects in the PalestinianAuthority,183 including one project to developemergency action to document, provide legalaid, lawsuits and incidents o the violationscommitted during the Israeli attack on the GazaStrip.184

ACSUR received 56,000 2009 rom the cityo Barcelona or working on the First Session othe Russell ribunal o Palestine, which was heldin Barcelona.185

According to ACSURs annual report,

ACSUR partners with radical organizationssuch as ICAHD, Ittijah, Palestinian Centeror Human Rights (PCHR) and Stop theWall.186 For example, rom - ACSURpartnered with Stop the Wall to strengthenlocal committees against the construction o theWall in Palestine.187

During that same period, ACSUR partnered withPCHR on a project (paid or by the AutonomousCommunity o Castilla-La Mancha) todocument human rights violations, awarenessand legal assistance in the Occupied Palestinianerritories.188

ACSUR has also promoted PCHRs lawarecampaign, which lobbied or the cancellationo the OECD meeting in Jerusalem in October

See Annex B, able B- below.

Diario Ocial de Castilla-La Mancha (DOCM), February, , No. , p., available athttp://docm.jccm.es/portaldocm/descargarArchivo.do?ruta=///pd/docm_.pd&tipo=rutaDocm

Butllet Ocial de la Provncia de Barcelona (BOPB),August , , No. , p. , available athttps://bop.diba.cat/scripts/pisa.asp?new?bop&/.pd&

Ibid

See http://www.ongporpalestina.org/elconvenio/eng/acciones.php

See http://www.acsur.org/IMG/pd/Proyectos_ACSUR_-.pd

, and also exploited Spanish courts to harassIsraeli ocials.189

ACSUR is active in the Spanish BDS movement.For example, in July ACSUR actively

promoted a campaign involving a multi-prongedboycott o Israel: institutional, commercial,cultural and sports, and academic.190 ACSURwrote: Civil society must give answers andalternatives to the complicity o the internationalcommunity against Israeli colonial occupationand its innumerable crimes against thePalestinian people. ACSUR joins the Boycott,Sanctions and Divestment movement as long asIsrael does not comply with international law.191

In June , ACSUR announced theorganization o a major BDS conerence calledYesterday South Arica, oday Palestine, thatwas held in Barcelona rom October -,.192

In May , ACSUR organized a conerenceat the Crculo de Bellas Artes cultural centerin Madrid called Colonialism, Apartheid andNational Identity: Conficts in the Constructiono Identities in the Shadow o Zionism, and ItsAlternatives.193

In March , ACSUR sponsored a conerencein Barcelona called Seminar or a Global Day

See An Open Letter to the OECD Regarding the Decisionto Hold the Annual ourism Conerence in in Jerusalem,September , , available athttp://www.oikoumene.org/leadmin/les/wcc-main/documents/p/pie/les/OECD.pd.

See Ayer Sudrica, hoy Palestina. En el quinto aniversariode la campaa de boicot, sanciones y desinversiones al estadode Israel, July , , available athttp://www.acsur.org/Ayer-Sudarica-hoy-Palestina-En-el,

Ibid

See I Conerencia Estatal por el Boicot,Desinversiones y Sanciones (BDS) contra el apartheidisrael, June , , available athttp://www.acsur

org/I-CONFERENCIA-ESAAL-POR-EL

Semana de la Nakbah en Madrid, May , , availableathttp://www.sodepaz.org/convocatorias-mainmenu-/-actividades/-semana-de-la-nakbah-en-madrid.html


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o Action, Boycott, Divestment, and SanctionAgainst Apartheid and Israeli Occupation.194

In November , ACSUR signed a letteradvising Jos Merc, a Spanish musician, to

cancel a scheduled concert perormance at theIsrael Museum in Jerusalem on November .195Te concert was to commemorate the thanniversary o the establishment o diplomaticrelations between Spain and Israel.

Similarly in October , ACSUR signed aletter advising Paco de Lucia, a well-knownSpanish musician, to cancel a scheduled concertin Israel on October o that year.196

In January , ACSUR produced anadvertisement that appeared on Palestinianelevision. Te ad promoted a boycott oIsraeli goods.197 Te Spanish embassy in elAviv said that the logo was used without ourknowledge.198 (See above.)

ACSUR, in a press release titled YesterdaySouth Arica, oday Palestine, announced itssupport or the BDS movement, calling or the

institutional, cultural, commercial and academicboycott o Israel.199

ACSUR is a signatory o the Bilbao Initiative runby a coalition o Spanish NGOs known as MiddleEast Without Wars and Oppression Network

Barcelona: Seminari per al Dia dAcci Global deBoicot, Desinversi i Sancions contra lApartheid i locupaciisraelians, March , , available athttp://www.acsur.org/Barcelona-Seminari-per-al-Dia-d

Jos Merc cantar para Israel, November , ,available athttp://taulaperpalestina.blogspot.com///jose-merce-cantara-para-israel.html

See Carta a Paco de Lucia de la Red Solidaria Contra laOcupacin de Palestina-RESCOP, October , , availableathttp://www.acsur.org/IMG/pd/Carta_Paco_de_Lucia.pd

Polmica por el uso del logo de la AECID en un anunciode boicot a productos israeles, El Mundo, January , ,available athttp://www.elmundo.es/elmundo////solidaridad/.html

Herb Keinon, Spain Denies Sponsoring Palestinian Ad toBoycott Israel, Jerusalem Post, December , , available athttp://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=

See Ayer Sudrica, hoy Palestina. En el quinto aniversariode la campaa de boicot, sanciones y desinversiones al estadode Israel, July , , available athttp://www.acsur.org/Ayer-Sudarica-hoy-Palestina-En-el,

(MEWANDO).200 On its webpage, MEWANDOaccuses Israel o a Zionist campaign o ethniccleansing in Palestine and promotes the boycotto the Israeli apartheid state.201 In its VisionStatement MEWANDO uses rhetoric reerringto Israeli politicians as criminal members suchas Matan Vilnai, Deense Vice Minister, [who]openly threaten a Palestinian holocaust.202

In October , Carlos Sanchis, a member othe board o ACSUR-Las Segovias, criticized theSpanish government or being shaky towardits commitment to the Palestinians.203 Teywant to avoid awkward postures and prioritizethe improvement o relations with Israel during

the Spanish EU Presidency, he said.204

ACSUR is a member o the SolidarityNetwork against the Occupation o Palestine(RESCOP).205

f m (Bilbao, Basque Country)is an important conduit through which theAutonomous Community o the Basque Countrydistributes development unds to the PalestinianAuthority. Mundubat received , ()rom the Basque government or a project calledLeadership and participation o women in Gazaand the West Bank.206

Te Mundubat website states: In such a tragic anddiscouraging outlook [in Palestine], Mundubatconsiders it a matter o justice to oer its supportand solidarity to a people the internationalcommunity keeps ignoring systematically. Teclosure policy imposed upon the erritories by

See http://www.mewando.org/nuestra-vision/ (linkexpired)

Ibid

Ibid

ONG palestinas e israelies piden al Gobierno apostarpor los derechos humanos, El Mundo, October , ,available athttp://www.elmundo.es/elmundo////solidaridad/.html

Ibid

See http://www.nodo.org/causapalestina/

Boletn Ocial de Pas Vasco (BOPV), February , ,No. , p. available athttp://www.euskadi.net/cgi-bin_k/ver_c?CMD=VERDOC&BASE=BA&DOCN=&CONF=/cong/k/bopv_c.cn


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the State o Israel since September and theindiscriminate use o violence against civiliansis provoking a humanitarian crisis among thePalestinians. Tis situation makes it dicult toestablish long-term strategies; or this reason,our work in Palestine has mainly consisted inproviding emergency aid and helping to meetthe most basic needs o the population.207

Mundubat is a member o the Grupo de ONGpor Palestina (Group o NGOs or Palestine), ananti-Israel political activist group.208

Mundubat is a member o the SolidarityNetwork against the Occupation o Palestine

(RESCOP).209Mundubat has ocially endorsed the Russellribunal on Palestine.210

Mundubat is highly active in Spains BDSmovement against Israel. In , Mundubatpartially unded a report called Te Economyo the Occupation, which established theramework or an academic boycott o Israel.211

In May , Mundubat signed a letterto commemorate the Palestinian Nakba(catastrophe) day when Israel declared itsindependence in .212 Te letter states: odate, the State o Israel maintains and deepensthe brutal colonization o Palestine: illegaloccupation o the West Bank, occupation andillegal annexation o East Jerusalem and theSyrian Golan Heights, the blockade o Gaza,building o the Wall that asphyxiates Palestinian

cities, the continued the o lands and the

See http://www.mundubat.org/en/whatwedo/cooperation/palestine-context-activity.html

See http://www.ongporpalestina.org/

See http://gmj.com/main/spain/

See http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/russell_tribunal_on_palestine

Uri Yacobi Keller, Academic Boycott o Israel, October, available athttp://usacbi.les.wordpress.com///economy_o_the_occupation_-.pd

See Llamamiento de la red solidaria contra la occupacinpalestina (RESCOP) para conmemorar el da de Nakbapalestina, May , , available athttp://www.nodo.org/causapalestina/spip.php?article

continuing construction o settlements, theimpairment o the right o return o six millionreugees, legislative, judicial and economicdiscrimination and a hal million o Palestinianswith Israeli citizenship which constitute thecrime o Apartheid.213

Mundubat supports the Alternative InormationCenter, a radical political organization thatorganized the so-called Flytilla at Ben GurionAirport (el Aviv) in July .214

p f p b received 27,652 2010rom the regional government o Navarra or the

promotion o pacic confict resolution, and24,337 2009 rom the regional governmento Valencia.215 Te group has organizeddemonstrations/marches in Valencia, the third-largest city in Spain, to raise awareness o thePalestinian genocide.216 Te group has alsopublished fyers and participated in eventscommemorating the Palestinian nakba.217

Psychologists without Borders organizeda Video Forum in which it eatured adocumentary titled Jerusalem %-%,Living Apartheid which was jointly producedby the Alternative Inormation Center (AIC)and the Basque government.218

Te video states: Since the occupation andillegal annexation o East Jerusalem in ,Israel has implemented a series o apartheidmeasures in order to preserve a Jewish majorityin Jerusalem. With the construction o the

separation wall, Israel is now cutting Jerusalem

Ibid

See http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article.php?id=

Diari Ocial de la Comunitat Valenciana, September, , No. , p. , available athttp://www.docv.gva.es/datos////pd/_.pd

See Paremos el genocidio al Pueblo Palestino:Sbado de enero a Valencia available athttp://www.

psicologossinronteras.org/readNews.php?news=

Ibid

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o completely rom the surrounding Palestiniancities and villages.219

Te video continues: A team o the AIC met withresidents o East Jerusalem and the surrounding

Palestinian areas to lm the realities o theIsraeli apartheid system. Tis lm capturesthe courage o Jerusalem residents and thePalestinian and Israeli activists as they engage inthe daily struggle or the basic hu

spanish government (aecid) funding for political advocacy ngos active in the arab-israeli conflict...

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