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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.

All stories by: Gerald M. Steinberg

First steps toward stability?

“If Abbas and the Fateh organization manipulate the process to ensure continued control, they will lack the legitimacy necessary to bring stability.” The end of the Arafat era presents unprecedented opportunities for change both in Palestinian society and for relations…

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Don’t stop disengagement

Yasser Arafat’s reputation as a survivor notwithstanding, his judgment and timing have always been badly flawed. In 1970, his attempt to overthrow King Hussein of Jordan failed and he was unceremoniously exiled to Beirut, from where he fled in 1982…

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BMJ: Summerfield’s fictions and agenda of hatred

Prof. and Director of the Program on Conflict ManagementBar Ilan University, Israel Send response to journal:Re: BMJ: Summerfield’s fictions and agenda of hatred Editors, Derek Summerfield’s article consists of numerous fictitious claims designed to exploit medical and health norms to…

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NGOs Make War on Israel

The horrors of the Holocaust and the outrage over the failure of Allied powers to intervene provided the impetus for the creation of today’s international human rights system, anchored in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.[1] The United Nations…

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Abusing ‘apartheid’ for the Palestinian cause

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=109332527 1356&p=1006953079865 The 1975 UN resolution equating Zionism with racism was the opening shot in the political war to dismember Israel through what Palestinian leaders refer to as “the South African strategy.” The process has continued, most notably in the…

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Comment: Parleys Won’t Stop Iran’s Nukes

With world attention focused on the banks of centrifuges producing enriched uranium for Iran’s illicit nuclear-weapons efforts, International Atomic Energy Agency head Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei is trying to find a non-confrontational solution. The evidence of Teheran’s violations of commitments under…

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