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NGO Monitor

Website:

www.ngo-monitor.org
Type:

Advocacy Group
Formation:

2002

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NGO Monitor is a nonprofit organization based in Jerusalem that publishes research and independent analysis about non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and their funders and stakeholders within the Middle East. NGO Monitor advocates in favor of democratic values including accountability, transparency, and universal human rights. 1

NGO Monitor is a project of the Institute for NGO Research. 1

Activities

NGO Monitor provides information on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) within the State of Israel and other parts of the world, primarily those support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, as well as monitoring claims of misuse or the exploiting of human rights values  as well as those promoting anti-Israel agendas. 2

NGO Monitor’s website contains a searchable database of international NGOs, government and private funders, and a database of Palestinian NGO funding. The site also claims to provide a listing of anti-Israeli NGOs within the U.S, and a visualization of NGO influence to discredit the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) definition of antisemitism. 1

Funding

NGO Monitor is funded by donations from individuals, foundations, and businesses. NGO Monitor was founded in 2002 with the support of the Wechsler Family Foundation. 3

NGO Monitor receives significant funding from Research + Evaluation = Promoting Organizational Responsibility and Transparency (REPORT), a nonprofit based in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. 3 In 2022, REPORT donated $1.46 million to programs and research in Israel. 4

People

International Advisory Board

NGO Monitor’s International Advisory Board includes Alan Dershowitz, an emeritus Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a civil liberties attorney; 5 R. James Woolsey, a former director of the CIA in the Clinton administration; 5 Elliott Abrams, a senior fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations who worked as a deputy national security advisor during the George W. Bush administration and assistant secretary of state for human rights during the Reagan administration; 5 Michael Danby, a former Australian Labor Party Member of Parliament; 5 Tom Gross, a former Jerusalem correspondent for the London Sunday Telegraph and the New York Daily News; 6 Richard Kemp, the former chair of the COBRA Intelligence Group; 7 Douglas Murray, a political commentator who is also the associate director of the Henry Jackson Society and a former director of the Centre for Social Cohesion; 5 Judea Pearl, a chancellor’s professor of computer science and statistics at UCLA, member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a founding fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence; 8 Abraham Sofaer, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution; 5 Einat Wilf, a former member of the Israeli Knesset and senior fellow of the Jewish People Policy Institute; 5 Ruth R. Wisse, a professor of both Yiddish Literature and Comparative Literature at Harvard University; 5 Fiamma Nirenstein, a former member of the Italian Parliament’s Chamber of Deputies;  5 Vivian Bercovici, former Ambassador of Canada to Israel; 9 Alexander Downer, former Australian foreign minister; 10 Elyakim Rubinstein, a former Israeli diplomat and Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel; 11 Bonnie Glick, a senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a fellow of the Harvard Institute of Politics who worked as deputy administrator and COO at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) during the Trump administration; 5 and Michal Cotler-Wunsh, a former member of the Knesset for the Blue and White party and a former research fellow at the Institute for Counter-Terrorism at IDC Herzliya. 12

Board of Directors

NGO Monitor’s Board of Directors includes Judy Lash Balint, the former a vice president of the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, director of the Coalition for Jewish Concerns-Amcha, and as a member of the staff of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs; 13 Abraham Bell, professor of law at Bar Ilan University and the University of San Diego who sits on the board of the San Diego chapter of StandWithUs and the Israeli chapter of CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis); 13 Charles (Chuck) Freedman, who formerly worked as deputy governor at the Bank of Canada, as a consultant for the International Monetary Fund, and as a member of the faculty in the Department of Economics at the University of Minnesota; 13 Maureen Appel Molot, a former director and professor emeritus of the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, former president of the Ottawa Vaad Ha’Ir, and former chair the Community Foundation of Ottawa; 13 and Jeffrey R. Woolf, an associate professor in the Talmud Department at Bar-Ilan University, chair of the Maaseh Hoshev Institute for Leadership Development, and a member of the executive committees of the Museum of Italian Jewry and Ma’aleh: The Center for Religious Zionism. 13

References

  1. “Home.” NGO Monitor. Accessed September 22, 2024. https://www.ngo-monitor.org/.
  2. “FAQs.” NGO Monitor. Accessed September 22, 2024. https://www.ngo-monitor.org/about/faqs/.
  3. “Who Funds NGO Monitor?” NGO Monitor. Accessed September 21, 2024. https://www.ngo-monitor.org/about/who-funds-ngo-monitor/.
  4. Research + Evaluation = Promoting Organizational Responsibility & Transparency – REPORT – Inc, Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990), 2022, Schedule F, Part I, Line 3. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/262971061/202312759349301406/full
  5. “International Advisory Board.” NGO Monitor. Accessed September 22, 2024. https://www.ngo-monitor.org/about/boards/#IAB.
  6. “Tom Gross.” NGO Monitor. Accessed September 22, 2024. https://www.ngo-monitor.org/about/boards/tom-gross/.
  7. “Col. Richard Kemp.” NGO Monitor. Accessed September 22, 2024. https://www.ngo-monitor.org/about/boards/col-richard-kemp/.
  8. “Prof. Judea Pearl.” NGO Monitor. Accessed September 22, 2024. https://www.ngo-monitor.org/about/boards/prof-judea-pearl/.
  9. “Amb. Vivian Bercovici.” NGO Monitor. Accessed September 22, 2024. https://www.ngo-monitor.org/about/boards/amb-vivian-bercovici/.
  10.  “Hon. Alexander Downer AC.” NGO Monitor. Accessed September 22, 2024. https://www.ngo-monitor.org/hon-alexander-downer-ac/.
  11. “Justice Elyakim Rubinstein.” NGO Monitor. Accessed September 22, 2024. https://www.ngo-monitor.org/justice-elyakim-rubinstein/.
  12. “Michal Cotler-Wunsh.” NGO Monitor. Accessed September 22, 2024. https://www.ngo-monitor.org/about/boards/michal-cotler-wunsh/.
  13. “Board of Directors.” NGO Monitor. Accessed September 22, 2024. https://www.ngo-monitor.org/about/boards/board-of-directors/.
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