Charities use Christmas in political war on Israel

In report published this week, NGO Monitor lists Christian nongovernmental organizations that "often use offensive and inflammatory rhetoric in Christmas carols, holiday messages and cards, nativity scenes, and other items."

Israel Hayom Staff

Canadian nongovernmental organization Palestine House is circulating a Christmas card showing Santa blocked by the security barrier while attempting to enter Bethlehem | Photo credit: Palestine House

Several well-known charities are exploiting the Christmas season with political warfare against Israel, the Israeli non-governmental organization NGO Monitor said in a report published this week.

According to the report, groups such as Christian Aid (U.K.), Sabeel, War on Want (U.K.), Amos Trust, Israel Committee Against House Demolitions, and Adalah-NY are "again using theological themes to advance immoral anti-Israel campaigns, boycotts (BDS), and, in some cases, anti-Semitism."

These organizations, says NGO Monitor, "often use offensive and inflammatory rhetoric in Christmas carols, holiday messages and cards, nativity scenes, and other items. This year, verses and prayers that promote anti-Israel themes are prominent, polarizing Jewish-Christian relations and exacerbating an already complex and violent conflict. ... The abuse of Christmas messages is part of a broad international campaign to introduce political warfare against Israel into churches."

NGO Monitor was founded, according to its mission statement, to "promote accountability, and advance a vigorous discussion on the reports and activities of humanitarian NGOs in the framework of the Arab-Israeli conflict."

It says many nongovernmental organizations are funded by European and other governments.