The NGO industry has a great deal to lose if the Israeli government convinces officials and the wider public in these countries to take the links to terror seriously.
They met just a few days after an inhuman atrocity in Jerusalem which killed and maimed Israelis in a pizzeria filled with teenagers and young families. But the Durban participants made no mention of Palestinian bombings or of the victims; for the self-proclaimed leaders of international morality, Israelis do not have human rights.
The combination of violence and the “eviction” narrative became headline stories in the international media, and governmental officials, including in the Biden Administration, issued the standard calls for restraint by all sides.
Why has HRW focused so much money and energy on viciously targeting Israel for more than 20 years?
Israel has accomplished far more than even its most optimistic founders could have dreamed.
Major damage in the form of demonization of Israel has already been done.
The counter-IHRA campaign is opening the door for even more violence targeting Israeli and Jewish institutions.
The NGOs applied their standard template, used so successfully in the past twenty years.
