Monday, May 22, 2006
The Ford Foundation's goals are "to strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation and advance human achievement.[1] It gives priority to work in the Palestinian territories, acknowledging that "a just resolution of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is of central importance to the region as a whole, as well as to the peoples directly affected.[2] However, contrary to the pledge made by the Ford Foundation following the 2001 Durban Conference not to support "groups that promote or condone bigotry or violence, or that challenge the very existence of legitimate, sovereign states like Israel,"significant funding is still channeled through NGOs such as Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, International Committee of Jurists (ICJ), Miftah, Al-Haq, Al-Mezan, SHAML and EMHRN. Their activities are primarily political, and they exploit human rights rhetoric to delegitimize Israel, while undermining efforts towards a peaceful end to the conflict...
The report goes on to detail the scope of the connections between Ford and each of the named groups.
I tried to post this before, but it didn't stick.
There is a long history of anti-semitism by the Ford family that goes back a long way.
Henry Ford was the distributor of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" in the US in the 30's. He was a backer of the Nazis in the US at the time.
During the war, he played both sides of the street with his plants in Germany turning out goods for the Naziz and using slave labour.
For a complete description of this history, see the "American Axis" by Max Wallace.