New Gaza Study: Extreme NGO Anti-Israel Bias; Will Continue

NGO Monitor's report describes the consistent manipulation of international law by NGOs in their statements on Gaza.  False accusations of Israel's 'illegal' 'collective punishment' and 'disproportionate response' have been refuted by legal experts, yet were consistently employed by numerous groups including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.  Oxfam even called for political action, declaring 'The international community must not stand aside and allow Israeli leaders to commit massive and disproportionate violence against Gazan civilians in violation of international law'. These same groups were markedly hesitant to condemn the widespread and illegal use of human shields by Hamas.  NGOs such as B'tselem, Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) and Oxfam published unverified 'eyewitness' evidence and unaccountable casualty figures throughout the conflict, which have since been refuted.  These claims helped create an assumption of Israeli guilt and were repeated and amplified by the media, influencing the conflict itself.