PRESS RELEASE
January 26, 2012
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German government-funded EVZ Ends Support for "Nakba" NGO
Major Victory in Battle to Hold Funders Accountable

JERUSALEM - In response to reports that the German government-funded
"Remembrance, Responsibility, Future (EVZ)" Foundation announced it will
stop funding the Israeli NGO Zochrot, Prof. Gerald Steinberg, president of
NGO Monitor, released the following statement:

This is a significant victory in the battle to hold funders accountable for
their support of NGOs involved in demonization. Zochrot, a radical Israeli
NGO, supports the Palestinian claim to a "Right of Return" - which has no
legal basis and would end the existence of Israel as the Jewish
nation-state - endorsed the violent "Free Gaza Flotilla," and falsely
accused Israel of "ethnic cleansing" and "forcible displacement and
dispossession of the Palestinian people."

EVZ's decision is recognition that such immoral funding is entirely opposed
to its declared mission of compensating slave laborers of the Nazi regime.
The hate-filled attacks against Israel, which were enabled by EVZ funding,
also make a two-state solution based on coexistence more difficult.

We urge EVZ and other taxpayer-funded German organizations to undertake a
complete and independent examination of their partners, to ensure that these
activities are consistent with their missions and do not abuse the language
of peace in order to promote hatred and potential violence

In October 2011, numerous news stories detailed EVZ funding for German and
Arab-Israeli student programs that incited Israel-hatred and "included
elements of Holocaust denial." In particular, EVZ funds contributed to a
program that brought Hajo Meyer, a highly controversial anti-Israel
activist, to speak to students.

For more information on EVZ, see NGO Monitor's factsheet.
http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/remembrance_responsibility_and_future_evz_and_europeans_for_peace

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