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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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Gerald M. Steinberg: 60 Years on the Map

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1209627008957&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Israel’s major accomplishment in 60 years of independence is surviving – staying on the map as a sovereign state, with equal status among the nations of the world. The many economic and cultural achievements have helped to contribute to…

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Gerald M. Steinberg: Is Canada Funding ‘Human Insecurity’?

http://www.cjnews.com/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14437&pop=1&page=0&Itemid=86 “Human security” is one of those politically correct, new-age terms that sound good, but are often without content and readily exploited to promote conflict. And in at least one important case, this is the result of Canada’s Department of…

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Gerald M. Steinberg: Watching Human Rights

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/09/opinion/edlet.php Sixty years after the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, its values have been reduced to political and ideological slogans. In the United Nations, the reformed Human Rights Council – headed by Libya, Cuba and Iran –…

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Gerald M. Steinberg: The Bush Visit and Tensions in the U.S.-Israel Relationship

http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=1&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=376&PID=0&IID=2007&TTL=The_Bush_Visit_and_Tensions_in_the_U.S.-Israel_Relationship The December “surprise” resulting from the publication of the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate disrupted fifteen years of Israeli policy based on working with the international coalition to pressure Iran to drop its nuclear weapons program through sanctions and the…

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Gerald M. Steinberg: Righting Rights Wrongs

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OGVlNTgzNzhhZTUxMDVmMWE4NzFiYThiZWVmMzkwMTM= December 10 is International Human Rights Day – marking the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations in 1948. In accepting this document following the unimaginable horrors of the Holocaust, the…

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