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Gerald M. Steinberg

Gerald M. Steinberg

Prof. Gerald Steinberg is president of NGO Monitor and professor of Political Studies at Bar Ilan University, where he founded the Program on Conflict Management and Negotiation. His research interests include international relations, Middle East diplomacy and security, the politics of human rights and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), Israeli politics and arms control.

NGO Monitor was founded following the 2001 UN World Conference Against Racism in Durban South Africa, where powerful NGOs, claiming to promote human rights, hijacked the principles of morality and international law.  NGO Monitor provides information and analysis, promotes accountability, and supports discussion on the reports and activities of NGOs claiming to advance human rights and humanitarian agendas.

In 2013, Professor Steinberg accepted the prestigious Menachem Begin Prize on behalf of NGO Monitor, recognizing its “Efforts exposing the political agenda and ideological basis of humanitarian organizations that use the Discourse of human rights to discredit Israel and to undermine its position among the nations of the world.”

Steinberg is a member of Israel Council of Foreign Affairs; the Israel Higher-Education Council, Committee on Public Policy; advisory board of the Israel Law Review International, the research working group of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), and participates in the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism (ICCA). He also speaks at a variety of high-level government sessions and academic conferences worldwide.

Publications include “NGOs, Human Rights, and Political Warfare in the Arab-Israel Conflict" (Israel Studies); "The UN, the ICJ and the Separation Barrier: War by Other Means" (Israel Law Review); and Best Practices for Human Rights and Humanitarian NGO Fact-Finding (co-author), Nijhoff, Leiden, 2012.

His op-ed columns have been published in Wall St. Journal (Europe), Financial Times, Ha’aretz,International Herald Tribune, Jerusalem Post, and other publications. He has appeared as a commentator on the BBC, CBC, CNN, and NPR.

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Abusing medicine for propaganda

Professor Steinberg is Editor of www.NGO-Monitor.org and Director, Program on Conflict Management and Negotiation, Political Studies, Bar Ilan University. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East spme.org If there is…

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Funding NGOs is no solution

The writer is the director of the Program on Conflict Management at Bar-Ilan University and the editor of NGO Monitor ( www.ngo-monitor.org). He is on the Board of Directors of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East The ascendance of…

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Sanction Iran now

The writer is the director of the Program on Conflict Management at Bar-Ilan University and the editor of NGO Monitor ( www.ngo-monitor.org). He is on the Board of Directors of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East While the internal…

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ISRAEL: CONTINUITY AFTER SHARON

In the five years in which he served as Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon completely altered Israeli politics and the complex relationship with the Palestinians. In early 2001, when Sharon brought down what remained of Ehud Barak’s Labor government after the…

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Wrong-way Nobel strikes again

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1134309597698&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle %2FShowFull The aura and pomp that surround the Noble prize ceremonies notwithstanding, sometimes the selection committees get it wrong. This year, they gave the peace prize to the International Atomic Energy Agency and its head, Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei –…

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On When To Forgive

http://www.thejewishweek.com/top/editletcontent.php3?artid=4659&print=yes Gerald Steinberg is the director of the Program on Conflict Management at Bar-Ilan University and the editor of NGO Monitor. He serves on the Board of Directors of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East. How should Israel and…

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The Durban strategy

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/Printer&cid=1126318821 029&p=1006953079865 In addition to the 9/11 terror attacks in the US, four years have also passed since Durban – the UN-sponsored World Conference on Racism – which took place in September 2001. And just as Osama bin Laden’s ideology…

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