 Hello friends and subscribers and welcome back to my YouTube channel Daniel Rosal here bringing this video today from Jerusalem on the 18th of December 2023 and I continue to receive very nice messages from some folks in Ireland who are saying that My shame, my extremely pro-Israel perspective, pro-Zionist perspective is welcomed by them in the constellation of voices talking about Israel in Ireland. Publicly on Twitter X I receive a lot of very very negative messages as well as a few death threats, nothing I'm not able to deal with, but it's interesting in that I think the public support or the public messages I get from Ireland tend to be made privately and the endless grief that I guess a lot of it is public. So there's this kind of asymmetry and I think it's understandable people don't want to draw the ire of the anti-Israel side upon themselves too readily, but anyway so that's why I'm making this video. I want to make a video today about Ireland's funding of anti-Israel NGOs, the Irish government's funding of them, and this is a utilizing report from NGO Monitor that was published on, updated I should say on February 22nd 2023. So this is a report that I've been seeing on the internet for a few years now and I decided it would be worth making a video about not just for the Irish context, but also because I think this is relevant for a lot of Western governments and how they fund the Palestinians because you would kind of assume that well money goes from these Western you know these pro-peace are ostensibly ostensibly pro-peace Western governments like Ireland, Sweden, the Netherlands, what have you, you know, into some kind of an EU pot and you kind of expect that that pot goes on the other side to, you know, wheeze and flower and building schools and stuff that is kind of both audited and unobjectionable and the reality is not that a lot of the money that is collected goes into very very politicized and sometimes NGOs that are have links actually to prescribed terrorist organizations as we will see. So let's jump into the page here and before I do that let's talk firstly about NGO Monitor who they are founded in 2002 or what they say they are founded in 2002 NGO Monitor is a globally recognized research institute promoting democratic values and good governance we work to ensure the decision makers and civil society operating in accordance with the principles of accountability, transparency and universal human rights. We published, we published sorry I'm changing the font size around and messing everything up here, we published fact based research and independent analysis about NGOs, their funders and other stakeholders but primarily in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict and I would say that's a little, just a little bit misleading. What they really do, this is my take and my description of if you ask me to describe what is NGO Monitor, I would say they're kind of really a Hasbara organization which is highlighting problematic money flows or problematic NGOs in the context of the conflict here. That would be my description of what they actually do. And I've said that I think Hasbara has its place although sometimes it does and this is my criticism of Hasbara which is a word used to describe broadly Israeli public diplomacy, people would call it propaganda. My criticism is that it tends to really make things make things black and white and that's not often, not often the case in the real world. But nevertheless, here's what they have to say regarding Ireland, here's their activity so Ireland via its program for overseas development called Irish aid provides millions of euros through direct and indirect funding processes to politicized NGOs operating in Ireland, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. Organizations receiving Irish funding lead campaigns and political activities that are inconsistent with Ireland's policies to promote peace as well as a two state framework in the Arab-Israeli conflict. And some of these groups also promote anti-Semitic rhetoric and have alleged ties to the PFLP, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which is a designated terrorist organization by the US, the EU, Canada and Israel. And in 2021, so this is again slightly we're looking really we should have more updated figures but these might be the latest ones that they got at the last updates. In 2021 Ireland's official development assistance package or ODA to the West Bank West Bank and Gaza, i.e. the Palestinian Palestinian controlled areas was just shy of 11 million 10.8 million. So let's firstly look at direct funding from the Irish government, Irish aid funding to Palestinian NGOs. So just to remember that Irish aid is the development over its official program for overseas development. So in 2021, Adamir received 81,000 euro from Irish aid, Adamir is an official PFLP affiliates and several of Adamir's current and former employees, as well as lawyers that work for Adamir are linked to the PFLP. The PFLP has a long history of of terrorism against Israel and just is just filling in the gaps from my own personal knowledge, particularly airplane hijackings, they have a power military wing but really, you know, the distinctions between the political parties in the power power military and the Hamas and Al Qassam are tenuous at best, but their power military wing to the extent that it's a separate organization did participate in the I think that's the Ali Mustafa Brigades. They participated in October 7th, you know, their fighters slash power militaries. So they're really, you know, they're basically a terrorist organization. On October the 22nd, 2021, the Israeli Ministry of Defense declared Adamir to be a terrorist organization because of that association with the PFLP. And we can go on reading about Adamir. Now let's talk about Al Haq, Al Haq, which means the law in Arabic received 81,000 from Irish aid, the same amount as Adamir in 2021. Al Haq is a leader in anti-Israel lawfare campaigns. And this is actually because this article is a little bit out of days. Al Haq was actually one of the Palestinian NGOs that Israel shut down for incitement to terror or raided their offices. That happened, I believe was it this year, 2023, a lot's happened this, I think it was this year. So Al Haq is a leader in anti-Israel lawfare campaigns. And on October 2021, the Israeli MOD declared Al Haq a terrorist organization because it is part of a network of organizations again that operate on behalf of the PFLP. In May, 2018, Visa Mastercard and Amex shut down online credit card donations to Al Haq due to the group's ties to the PFLP and is directed by or was directed by Shahwan Jabarin. So another 81,000 was handed out to another Palestinian NGO. This one was the Palestinian Center for Human Rights and they're also involved in anti-Israel lawfare and BDS campaigns. And they, like these other groups, ignore the existence of terrorism against Israeli civilians. The PHCR describes Israel's policies as apartheid and accuses Israel of ethnic cleansing war crimes and the Judaization of Jerusalem while regularly distorting or denying the context of terrorism against Israeli civilians. I'm just skipping, I'm trying to kind of just give a broad brush overview, some details I think don't really add a whole lot to the picture, but the picture that's emerging should be pretty clear. In 2021, Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center JALAC received 81,000 from Irish AIDS and JALAC is highly active in promoting BDS, lobbying international bodies and utilizing highly inflammatory rhetoric. In 2010, JALAC published the first edition of its book, We Have Names, We Have a Homeland, which alleges that brutality and sadism is the true face of Zionism and the state of occupation and accuses Israel of savage abhorrence and fascist practices. In 2021, MIFTAH received 81,000 from Irish AIDS, MIFTAH regularly promotes resistance and this is, they say, a euphemism for terror attacks, which is something I've been trying to highlight through my work recently of when I point to extremist rhetoric in Ireland. In Ireland, people don't seem to understand that resistance in the Palestinian vocabulary means terrorism, it's called moqawama in Arabic and I ask people, look up what Hamas stands for. The Islamic resistance movement and we don't need anyone to tell us what Hamas interpret moqawama as standing for. So when people like Richard Boy Barrett endorse Palestinian resistance, they are endorsing terrorism and I think a lot of people don't really, they think resistance. Oh, that means just kind of diplomatic, no it doesn't. It means in the use they intend, it means blowing stuff up, terrorism, resistance as in October 7th, resistance killing civilians. So in March 2013, MIFTAH published an article written by Nawa Al-Zaru that repeated the anti-Semitic blood libel that Jews use Christian blood to pass over matzah. I wish aid funding to Israeli NGOs and this is also interesting just to see who while they're funding some Israeli NGOs, but look at look at the look at look at look at look at who the Israeli NGOs are in 2021. BIMKOM received 81K from Irish Aids. BIMKOM regularly files petitions in an attempt to alter government policies related to spatial planning, planning procedures in Bedouin communities. GISA received 81K. GISA employs apartheid rhetoric and vocabularly based on international law human rights to promote a partisan political and ideological agenda. And at each dean, almost 81K central to the allegation that Israeli investigative and court systems are unable to investigate allegations of wrongdoing and as part of a wider lawfare strategy of pressing war crimes cases. So basically wanting the point here and then another one criticizing the building in area C, their era meme promotes a one sided Palestinian narrative accusing Israel of the Judaization of Jerusalem. So basically the Israeli NGOs that they fund are anti-Israel as well as a Palestinian NGO. So the whole overall approach is completely biased and anti-Israel. The first aid funding to NGOs active and we can see just a list here of the of the funding indirect funding mechanisms from Irish aid to Israeli and Palestinian NGOs. So in 2021, Troker, the overseas development agency of the Catholic Church in Ireland received 22.7 million euro from Irish aid. Troker funds highly politicized and biased NGOs that support BDS, engage in anti-peace rhetoric against Israel, including Badil al-Haq. These are all anti, I'm familiar with most of them and they're correct. They're all incredibly anti-Israel. Troker does not disclose the extent of these partnerships nor the amounts given to these NGOs. And in opposition to Irish government policy, Troker reconducts campaigns in Europe calling for sanctions against Israel and suspension of trade agreements. Troker was among the 22 NGOs involved in the trading way peace, how Europe helps sustain legal Israeli settlements, which lobbied the EU and national governments to wage political warfare through economic sanctions, a form of BDS against Israel. In 2018, Troker supported the infamous Occupy Territories Bill, which attempted to criminalize the importing or sale to Ireland of settlement goods and the provision of attempt provision of settlement services. Christian aid Ireland got 5.6 million from Irish aid and they fund and turn highly politicized and anti-Israel NGOs like al-Haq, BDS, again and anti-Israel, technically Israeli, but anti-Israel and so on and so forth. So you get the overall picture, they have more details here and then the indirect funding, as I said, is called indirect because it goes through Troker or another one of these developments. So the Irish aid gathers the money from the taxpayer, then disperses it to these organizations and then they in turn fund these organizations and where money is available through the intermediary, the amounts are listed there. And then via the UN in 2021, Ireland provided 315K to the UN OCHA, which is also very anti-Israel, UNICEF, you can go on and so forth. So basically, the Irish taxpayer is funding a lot of anti-Israel activity and none of this, of course, needless to say. I mean, you just look at the so-called Israeli NGOs they chose, it's all basically anti-Israel and I've made the point before, but I'll just make it again. Ireland is not pursuing an approach towards this conflict. That is, neutrality is a myth that deserves to be put to bed regarding how Ireland approaches this conflict. And you can see one manifestation of that is the way that it funds these NGOs very, very selectively and very deliberately in a very one-sided anti-Israel manner. Thanks for watching today's video. This has been Daniel Roso bringing you this video from Jerusalem. To get more videos from me about stuff to do with Israel and Jerusalem, please consider subscribing to this YouTube channel and have a very good day.