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Government Funding for NGOs involved in BDS

Updated: March 2014

Israeli and Palestinian NGOs receive funding via two primary channels: direct funding from foreign governments (marked in red); and indirect funding

provided by governments to third parties (foundations, humanitarian, development and church based NGOs), which channel funds to local NGOs.

Unless indicated otherwise, Palestinian NGOs do not publish an annual financial report, including total budgets. The funding information below is based

on donor reports, correspondence, and partial information such as lists of donors on NGO websites.

Secretariat: In 2008, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and Switzerland established the Human Rights and Good Governance Secretariat (HR/GG

Secretariat), managed by the NGO Development Center (NDC) in Ramallah. This framework is a major source of NGO funding in Israel and the

Palestinian Authority. In August 2013, these governments ended their relationship with the NDC. Starting in 2014, the funds will be managed by the

European multidisciplinary consulting company NIRAS and the Institute of Law at Birzeit University (IoL-BZU), as part of “The Human Rights and

International Humanitarian Law Secretariat.”

Many of the funders listed below are church-based humanitarian organizations that promote BDS campaigns in addition to funding them. These include:

ICCO, Christian Aid, Diakonia, Trocaire, DanChurch Aid, Bread for The World (EED), Broederlijk Delen, HeKs, Cordaid, Kerk in Actie and CCOPDP

Canadian Catholic. (See NGO Monitor’s BDS in the Pews project for more details.)

Palestinian NGOs Israeli NGOs International NGOs

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Palestinian NGOs

NGO Government Funders Funding Amount BDS Involvement Notes

Addameer

Secretariat $423,000 (2012)

Signatory to 2005 BDS call.

In 2013, Addameer launched a new campaign against administrative detention, calling for action against the security company G4S.

Addameer Chairperson Abdullatif Ghaith was banned by Israel from travelling internationally because of his alleged membership in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror organization.

Ireland €60,000 (2012)

ICCO (Netherlands) Undisclosed Amount (2012)

Christian Aid (UK) Undisclosed Amount

Solidarity for Development and Peace (Sodepaz)

(Spain – Extremadura & Navarra)

Undisclosed Amount (2012)

Al Haq

Ireland €60,000 (2012) Signatory to 2005 BDS call.

Leader of anti-Israel “lawfare” and BDS campaigns.

Issued a 2013 position paper, “Feasting on the Occupation,” calling on the European Union and “relevant United Nations bodies” to boycott Israeli produce. The paper accuses Israel of “violations of international humanitarian law” “illegal conduct,” and “extensive destruction and appropriation of Palestinian resources.”

In 2013, Al Haq was part of a libelous campaign falsely suggesting that Israel steals water from Palestinians in order to interfere with cooperation between Dutch companies and the Israeli company Mekorot.

Norway $155,000 (2012)

Secretariat $663,400 (2012)

Spain $8,872 (2009)

Belgium Undisclosed Amount

Diakonia (Sweden) $120,490 (2009)

ICCO (Netherlands) Undisclosed for 2012

EED (Germany) Undisclosed Amount (2012)

Christian Aid Undisclosed Amount

Medico International (Germany)

Undisclosed Amount (2012)

Al Mezan

Secretariat $44,5000 (2012) Signatory to 2005 BDS call.

Signatory to joint petition against prison contractor G4S. (2012)

Norway $120,000 (2012)

Trocaire (Ireland – Irish Aid)

Undisclosed Amount

Applied Research Institute

Jerusalem

Spain $645,220 (2011) $861,641 (2010)

Signatory to 2005 BDS call.

In February 2014, ARIJ joined a political campaign. accusing the Israeli Mekorot water company of “wilful wholesale destruction and pillage of Palestinian water infrastructure” and “displacement of Palestinians,” calling for an Italian water corporation to boycott its Israeli counterpart.

In February 2013, ARIJ (along with partner Land Research Centre) called for “ending international trade

United Kingdom $75,200 (2011) $58,103 (2010)

European Commission $534,745 (2011)

Sweden $1,389,503 (2011)

Dan Church Aid (Denmark)

$44,795 (2011)

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Secretariat $40,000 (2010)

with Israeli agricultural companies.”

USAID $10,476 (2010)

Badil (PA) Secretariat $575,000 (2012)

Leader of BDS movement, displays a prominent BDS section on its website and a “BDS campaign update” on BDS activities worldwide.

Produces resources "for the Palestinian civil society-led Campaign for Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions."

Active in utilizing BDS as part of anti-peace efforts, including opposing the “Roadmap for Peace” and the Arab Peace Initiative.

Defence for Children

International - Palestine

Section

European Union €600,000 (2009-12)

Signatory to 2005 BDS call.

DCI-PS supports BDS campaigns, and is an active participant in boycott efforts within the UN framework. Lobbies the UN and the EU to promote these campaigns.

After the “Free Gaza flotilla,” joined other NGOs in petitioning “the international community as a whole,” to “enforce[] sanctions against Israel until such time as ends the siege of Gaza and the occupation of the occupied Palestinian territories."

General Director Rifat Odeh Kassis is a major BDS advocate, and is also the coordinator of Kairos Palestine, which is a central leader in the BDS campaign.

Website section on “ways you can get involved” cites BDS as a “suggested action.”

Secretariat $639,000 (2012)

United Kingdom £12,500 (2010)

Save the Children (Sweden)

459,000 SEK (2009-11)

ICCO (Netherlands) Undisclosed Amount

Bread for the World (Germany)

Undisclosed Amount

ARCI Cultura e Sviluppo (European

Union) €77,800 (2012)

Mundubat (Spain - AECID)

Undisclosed Amount

Broederlijk Delen (Belgium - Belgian

Federal Government and Flemish Provinces) (European

Commission)

€20.000 (2012)

United Nation Development Program

Undisclosed Amount

Swiss Interchurch Aid- HeKS (Switzerland -

SDC) Undisclosed Amount

Gaza Community

Switzerland $1,480,000 (2011) Signatory to 2005 BDS call.

GCMHP has repeatedly endorsed, promoted, and

Sweden $503,642 (2011)

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Mental Health Programme

(GCMHP)

UNDP $40,739 (2011) received funding from BDS campaigns.

Released a statement stating: “It is essential to boycott Israeli products as an effective measure to hinder the economy feeding the war crime machinery behind the massacres.”

UNRWA $10,314 (2011)

Norway $124,867 (2011)

National Endowment for Democracy (USA –

US Congress) $21,700 (2011)

Netherlands $332,956 (2010)

Austcare – Action Aid (Australia)

$34,325,000 (2010)

Bread for the World (Germany)

$110,000 (2011)

Medico International (Germany)

$3,120 (2011)

Holy Land Trust

National Endowment for Democracy (USA –

US Congress) $124,300 (2012)

Signatory to 2005 BDS call.

Signatory to 2005 "open letter from Palestinian Civil Society in Support of AUT Academic Boycott."

Supporter of the 2011 Kairos Palestine document.

Cordaid (Netherlands) €1,713,000 (2012)

United Kingdom ₤15,000 (2010-2011)

Medical Aid for

Palestinians (MAP)

United Kingdom £498,000 (2010-2013) In November 2012, MAP was one of 22 political advocacy NGOs that called on the EU to “ban imports of settlement products”…”discourage businesses from purchasing settlement goods and from all other commercial and investment links with settlements,” and “issue guidelines for European tour operators to prevent support for settlement businesses.”

MAP reported donations of £3,074,000 from government

agencies, individuals, philanthropic foundations,

and fundraising events

Ireland Undisclosed (2013)

OFID (OPEC States) Undisclosed (2013)

European Commission €237,527 (2010)

United Kingdom Undisclosed (2013)

Netherlands Undisclosed (2013)

Australia Undisclosed (2013)

Trocaire (Ireland) Undisclosed (2013)

Miftah

Norway $130,000 (2012)

Signatory to 2005 BDS call.

Publishes articles that advocate for BDS against Israel, alleging that “the BDS campaign calls for justice first, framing the conflict in terms of colonization, oppression and denial of the basic human rights of the Palestinian people."

Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (Germany)

$44,702 (2012)

Secretariat $240,000 (2012)

UNDP $70,477 (2012)

Ireland $66,680 (2012)

European Union $79,906 (2010)

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Oxfam Novib (Netherlands)

$5,272 (2012)

National Endowment for Democracy (USA-

US Congress) $31,883 (2012)

Palestinian Agricultural

Relief Committees

(PARC)

Luxemburg €4,212,056 (2008-2016)

Publicly supports BDS: “PARC salutes all activists and international supporters for the BDS campaign and especially our French friends and partners who were able to frustrate the Agrexco attempt to conduct a joint press conference with a few exploited Palestinian producers.”

Signed petitions calling for BDS against Israel and in support of the campaign to boycott Israeli academia.

United States $117,000 (2012)

The Netherlands $25,217,400 (2009-2012)

European Union €4,403,496 (2011-2015)

UNDP $268,661 (2011-2013)

Secretariat $416,732 (2011-2013)

France 400,000 NIS (2011-2013)

Switzerland $25,000 (2011-2012)

Spain €305,399 (2011-2014)

Diakonia (Sweden) €99,606 (2012)

UNFPA €66,720 (2012)

Wallonia (Brussel) €95,963 (2012-2013)

UNFAO $9,114 (2012)

Palestinian NGO Network

(PNGO)

Diakonia and Arab NGO Network

(Sweden-SIDA) Undisclosed Amount

Main Objective: “Promoting PNGO’s role in supporting the BDS movement.”

The language of the UK academic boycott movement resolutions was initially taken from PNGO.

Promotes anti-Israel divestment debates and resolutions among Lutheran, Anglican, and other Protestant church groups.

Prominent BDS members include: Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees, DCI-PS, Al-Haq, Badil, Miftah, Palestinian Medical Relief Society, Addameer, Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center, ARIJ, MA’AN Development Center.

Sida funds PNGO through Diakonia and the Arab NGO

Network for Development (ANND) on a project titled "Advocacy Role of Civil Society Organizations in

Social and Economic Policy Making in the MENA

Region.” Sida also directly funds many of the NGOs

within the PNGO umbrella.

Secretariat $130,000 (2012)

NDC and PNGO are connected at an

organizational level. PGNO is a main member of NDC's General Assembly, which

votes as part of NDC's Board of Directors.

Spain - Basque Government

Undisclosed Amount

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Sabeel

Kerk in Actie (Netherlands)

€50,000 (2012) Leader of global church divestment movement

Sabeel director Naim Ateek was one of the signatories of the Kairos Palestine document, which advocates for BDS.

Hosted a March 2014 conference emphasizing topics such as “strategies for boycott and divestment campaign.”

Friends of Sabeel – (FOSNA) is a driving force behind BDS, including those initiated by mainline Protestant churches. Examples of participation include designing trips and conferences, producing publications and encouraging grass roots advocacy.

Diakonia €44,277 (2012)

CCODP Canadian Catholic

130,694 NIS (2011)

Palestinian Center for

Human Rights (Gaza)

Secretariat $350,500 (2012)

Leader of BDS movement and key proponent of the Durban Strategy.

Promotes the academic boycott of Israel.

Political, anti-Israel agenda in the media and international frameworks is often cited as supporting evidence for BDS campaigns.

Advise supporters to divest from Israel and to "become active in your local Palestine Solidarity Campaign.”

In a February 2002 statement to the UN Human Rights Commission, PCHR called on the international community to "to exclude Israel from all UN-sponsored conferences and organizations."

Participated in a May 2006 international conference calling for "an unprecedented mobilization of the international movement of solidarity with the Palestinian people" through "sanctions... to pressure the state of Israel."

In March 2010, condemned the rededication of the Hurva Synagogue in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem as a “war crime,” and called on EU member states to boycott Israeli goods in protest.

Although the Danida funding database does not list PCHR

as a recipient, PCHR includes the Royal Danish Representative Office in its 2012 Annual Report as one

of its funders.

Oxfam NOVIB (Netherlands)

Undisclosed Amount

Christian Aid (UK) Undisclosed Amount (2012)

Dan Church Aid (Denmark)

Undisclosed Amount (2012)

Norway $120,000 (2012)

Irish Aid €60,000 (2012)

Kvinna till Kvinna (Sweden)

Undisclosed Amount (2013)

Trocaire (Ireland- Irish Aid)

Undisclosed Amount

Austria Undisclosed Amount (2012)

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Israeli NGOs

NGO Government Funders Funding Amount Involvement Notes

Alternative Information

Center

ICCO (Netherlands) 202,492 NIS (2012)

"Yes to Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Against Israel" claims that there are “similarities” between Israel and the South African apartheid regime: “both are racist states with (different kinds of) apartheid.

Published a template email (February 2014) urging readers to “send a message to your Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ask them to uphold international law and oppose Israel’s violations of Palestinian human rights by publishing warning to business about the problems and risk associated with doing business with Israel."

Switzerland (Geneva Municipality)

23,692 NIS (2013)

France 71,760 NIS (2013)

CCFD (France) 95,856 NIS (2013)

Diakonia (Sweden) 501,521 NIS (2012), 483,860 NIS (2013)

Spain - the Basque gov't (via MUNDUBAT)

434,877 NIS (2012), 259,645 NIS (2013)

Coalition of Women for

Peace

European Commission 1,035,514 NIS (2011-2012)

Initiated the “Who Profits” campaign “in response to the Palestinian Call for BDS on Israel.” “Who Profits?” is an activist tool and a database that identifies targets for anti-Israel divestment and boycotts.

CWP is involved in campaigns against major Israeli banks, the Elbit and G4S security companies, Ahava cosmetics, and Agrexco produce; in support of the Berkeley divestment vote; and a successful divestment initiative with the Norwegian Government Pension Fund.

Endorses the “Free Gaza Movement.” Following its May 2010 violent confrontation with the Israeli navy, CWP stated that it “stands in solidarity with the people of Palestine and with heroic members of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla.”

In 2014, CWP was involved in boycott calls against the Israeli companies Mekorot, Sodastream and Africa Israel.

In 2014, Who Profits registered as an independent non-profit. The two

groups remain “sister” organizations.

Oxfam Novib (Netherlands)

1,278,542 NIS (2011-2013)

ICCO 1,129,314 NIS (2011-2013)

EED-Bread for the World (Germany)

428,315 NIS (2011-2013)

Diakonia (Sweden) 50,230 NIS (2012)

Trocaire (Ireland – Irish Aid)

49,951 NIS (2013)

Medico International (Germany)

49,951 NIS (2012)

Israeli Committee

Against House

Secretariat $236,000 (2012) Leader in BDS activism, claiming to be the first Israeli organization to endorse a BDS campaign, calling on the international community to support it in 2005.

European Union €169,661 (2010-12)

Spain €105,000 (2009–2010)

€76,508 (2009)

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Demolitions (ICAHD)

Solidaridad en Acción (Spain –

AECID and Andalusia) €250,000 (2010)

Website section on “What can you do?” cites BDS as a something to "learn more" about, stating "check out the campaigns of our partners, in which ICAHD is also involved."

Co-founder and Director of ICAHD Jeff Halper is a strong advocate of BDS including acting as a speaker at Israel Apartheid Week 2010, his speech entitled “Israeli Apartheid: The Case For BDS.”

Machsom Watch

European Union 314,252 NIS (2012)

In 2009, orchestrated Norwegian Pension Fund divestment campaign, calling “upon the Norwegian people to join us in our efforts and to stop investing in the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory.”

Partners include Coalition of Women for Peace, Mossawa, Israel Social TV, Women Against Violence, Israel Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), Zochrot, and Alternative Information Center (AIC).

Norway 383,877 NIS (2012)

Mossawa

European Union 1,944,333 NIS (2013)

Member of the coalition of NGOs that encouraged Norwegian Pension Fund divestment campaign, calling “upon the Norwegian people to join us in our efforts and to stop investing in the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory.” (2009)

According to Mossawa’s quarterly reports, the European Union grants are shared with other, undisclosed, NGOs

European Union 1,570,836 NIS (2012)

EED (Germany) 362,125 NIS (2012)

+972 Magazine

Heinrich Boell Stiftung (Germany)

€6,000 (2011), €12,000

(2012), €12,000 (2013)

Search results for original BDS reports on its site returns hundreds of articles such as:

o “Israel crosses the tipping point, becomes an economic liability”; Hiding from the boycott: An industry of settlement deceit; Consensus wisdom: The boycott of Israel is working.”

Columnist Uri Horesh defended a 2012 BDS event held at the University of Pennsylvania against criticism by what he dismissed as “local Jewish-Zionist circles.” He also defended Ali Abunimah, the conference’s keynote speaker who heads Electronic Intifada and a central leader of anti-Israel demonization.

Writer Itamar Mann wrote glowingly of the 2012 “One State Conference” at Harvard, calling it “one of the most informed, nuanced, creative,

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and responsible discussions on Israel-Palestine.”

Listed British physicist Stephen Hawking among its 2013 “People of the Year” for giving “the boycott movement it’s most serious boost this year.”

International / Humanitarian Aid / Other

NGO Government

Funders Funding Amount Involvement Notes

Amnesty

Campaigns for an arms embargo against Israel, while ignoring the massive flow of offensive weapons and explosives from Iran and Syria into Gaza.

In February 2014, issued a report that repeats the calls for political warfare against Israel, in the form of an arms embargo.

UK DFID Grant (£708,000 (2012)) “may only be used by the Charity in support of

its human rights education work in Africa.”

Christian Aid

Irish Aid

£10.3m (2012 over four years)

In October 2007, Christian Aid was listed as a "supporting partner" at an Ittijah initiated conference held in Cyprus. The conference included some of the most ardent supporters of BDS and called upon NGOs to “turn[] utmost attention to the boycott, divestment and sanction campaign against Israel and pursuing the Zionist organizations worldwide.”

In October 2012, twenty-two NGOs, including Christian Aid, released a report titled “Trading Away Peace: How Europe Helps Sustain Illegal Israeli Settlements,” repeating the BDS agenda

Christian Aid strongly supports World Council of Churches which plays key role in mobilizing the church BDS effort globally.

In June 2012 Christian Aid issued a call for legislation banning the import of goods to the UK from “illegal Israeli settlements.” At the July 2012 Methodist Conference, a motion was passed supporting this call.

Featured on the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s (IPSC) website as a strong promoter

United Kingdom £21.7m (2011 over three

years)

European Union £6.4m (2012-2013)

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of BDS.

Cordaid Netherlands €345 million (2012-

2015)

In February 2014, Cordaid co-authored a paper targeting "Dutch Institutional Investors and Investments related to the Occupation of the Palestinian Territories."

Cordaid’s former director René Grotenhuis, during a 2011 panel in the Dutch parliament, argued that BDS is a defensible tactic because “it is important that people in Palestine look for ways to resist occupation, and it is a nonviolent way to do so.”

Cordaid is also the leading group in an international network called “Together for Change, Communities of Change,” which expects to receive €357 million

from the Dutch government from 2011 to 2015.

Diakonia

European Union

29,665,000 SEK (2012)

Advocates for divestment strategy against Israel, lobbies against EU-Israel relations, including the exploitation of legal processes and courts to harass Israelis or companies doing business with Israel.

Diakonia’s legal advisor presented “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions - Legal Concepts in International Law” at the March 2007 and 2008 IHL Forum.

Partners with the Tamer Institute,Charles Shamas, Lucy Mair, Alternative Information Center, Al Haq, Al Mezan, Sabeel and Wi’am all strong advocates for BDS.

Sweden SEK 145 million (2013)

Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI)

Japan and UNICEF Undisclosed Amount Promotes the Kairos Palestine document that calls for BDS against Israel, noting, “These advocacy campaigns must be carried out with courage, openly sincerely proclaiming that their object is not revenge but rather to put an end to the existing evil.”

“Faith Under Occupation” demonstrates EAPPI’s clear support for the BDS movement.

EAPPI frequently uses inflammatory and demonizing rhetoric against Israel and engages in boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaigns.

EAPPI is a “wholly owned” subsidiary of the World Council of Churches

(WCC) under the WCC’s financial control.

FinnChurchAid (Finland)

€197,000 (2012)

Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe (Local Austrian Governments)

€10,812 (2011)

Act for Peace (Australia)

Undisclosed Amount

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Human Rights Watch

Supported the Caterpillar boycott.

Style and rhetoric mirror the NGO Durban Forum strategy.

Endorses BDS and demands for punishing Israel by withholding U.S. security assistance.

Major non-government funders include: Ford Foundation, $445,000 (2009-11);

Soros' Open Society Institute, $100,000,000 (2010-20)

ICCO

Netherlands €81,921,779 (2012)

Publications and activities promote BDS efforts.

Support for BDS is illustrated by funding for political and/or radical organizations.

Supporter of the Kairos Palestine document, which calls for BDS against Israel and denies the Jewish historical connection to Israel. In October 2011, ICCO representatives met with Kairos Palestine officials to discuss “ways of promoting the document.”

In the last two years, ICCO has jointly written two major publications promoting BDS and identifying companies to be targeted by international activists.

ICCO (Interchurch Organization for Development and Cooperation) is a

Dutch church-based non-governmental organization that receives large scale

funding from the Dutch government. The Dutch government also views ICCO as an important partner in the Middle East.

European Union €5,310,874 (2012)

La Asociación para la

Cooperación en el Sur (The

Association for Cooperation in

the South)

AECID (Spain) Undisclosed Amount

Sponsored a conference in Barcelona in March 2009, “Seminari per al Dia d’Acció Global de Boicot, Desinversió i Sancions contra l’Apartheid i l’ocupació israelians” (Seminar for a Global Day of Action, Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction Against Apartheid and Israeli Occupation).

Published a press release: “Ayer Sudáfrica, hoy Palestina” (Yesterday South Africa, Today Palestine), announcing ACSUR’s commitment to the BDS movement and calling for boycotts against Israeli institutions, commerce, academia, and culture.

Lobbied for the cancellation of the OECD meeting in Jerusalem in 2010.

Agencia Catalana de Cooperación

(Spain – Catalonia) Undisclosed Amount

European Commission

€350,000 (2012)

IKV Pax Christi Netherlands (via

Freedom from Fear Alliance)

€6,109,000 (2012)

Has made significant contributions to the BDS efforts in the Netherlands through its reports, “Dutch Economic Links with the Occupation” and “Trading Away Peace.”

Pax is a member of United Civilians for Peace (UCP), a main proponent of divestment efforts in

Pax notes that it is: “the leading party for the Freedom from Fear Alliance. It bears legal and economic responsibility before

the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for all alliance parties' compliance with MFS II

grant requirements.”

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the Netherlands.

Trocaire

United Kingdom €1.6 million (2012)

Trócaire conducts a campaign to sanction Israel (and Europe) by suspending mutually beneficial trade agreements.

Attempted to block Israel’s inclusion in the OECD.

Joined Badil’s 2007 “Call to Action,” which advocated anti-Israel boycotts and sanctions.

Created campaigns directed at the governments of Ireland and the UK, urging the Irish government to push for withdrawing Israel’s trade privileges in Europe including the suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement.

Published a joint report in 2009 with 13 other NGOs recommending that the EU Council sanction arms shipments to Israel, calling for review of arms export licenses.

Ireland – Irish Aid €18.5 million (2012)

European Union €2.8 million (2012)

War on Want

Ireland €51,026 (2011)

Leader of BDS movement.

Produced a 2010 report entitled "Report: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions" and highlights BDS on its website.

Through lobbying, WOW contributed to the British Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) recommendation that retailers label goods produced in the West Bank as “Israeli settlement produce” or “Palestinian produce.”

United Kingdom €162,554 (2012)

European Union € 309,753 (2012)