
The French Development Agency (AFD) has been targeted by a pro-Israel lobby group for donating almost $10 million last year to a Palestinian organisation to promote good government practice in the occupied West Bank. The pro-Israel NGO Monitor accuses France of supporting the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign with its donation for the NGO Development Centre (NDC). The lobby group makes its allegation on the basis that the NDC facilitated the "Palestinian NGO Code of Conduct" in 2008, which includes a rejection of "any normalisation activities with the occupier [Israel], either at the political-security or the cultural and developmental levels." READ: MP to reactivate international solidarity to end Israel's siege of Gaza According to the Jerusalem Post, NGO Monitor […]
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