One of the original elements of the continuing "lawfare" against Israel , which is still resurfacing , is the assertion that the settlements are "illegal".
Some time ago on J-Wire I suggested that the controversy about the appearance of the New Israel Fund in Australia might be simply resolved by publishing a list of current recipients of funding with their website addresses. It now seems that this may not be enough.
In the May issue of Commentary there appears a 15 page article by Noah Pollack detailing the harm done by B'tselem, the self-proclaimed "Information Centre for Human Rights". As one of a number of examples, Pollack notes that the infamous Goldstone Report includes no less than 56 footnotes giving credit to B'tselem for information, much of which has subsequently been found to be false or distorted.
