Israeli report accuses European governments of helping incite violence

An Israeli report has accused the governments of a number of European countries of funding NGOs that incite violence and legitimise attacks against Israeli civilians.

The report, published by NGO Monitor and which was distributed to 300 members of the European Parliament, “documents a disturbing nature of some organisations’ work that incite to violence”.

The Israeli report claimed that European, Palestinian and Israeli leftist organisations receive large amounts of money from the European Union, and “exploit them to legitimise violence as part of the terrorist activity”.

The coordinator of the Palestinian BDS National Committee, Mahmoud Nawaja, said the Israeli report is “a new attempt to disrupt the work of the BDS movement and combat its achievements and campaigns internally and externally.”

In an interview with Quds Press, he described the Israeli allegations as “slander and lies” pointing out that the organisation does not receive aid from any European or Arab governments.

He added that the Israeli reports come to cover up the Israeli failure to thwart the BDS movement’s achievements and try to delegitimise it and stop its activities.