A just-released research report reveals that one of the world’s most well-known human rights organizations has launched a new BDS initiative with financial support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

According to the Algemeiner, Human Rights Watch (HRW) “announced on Wednesday it was encouraging punitive measures against Israeli banks which provide services to Jewish communities in the West Bank. HRW’s Israel and Palestine department received a grant of $10,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in June, in recognition of its 'Program Goal: Advance Just and Durable Peace.'”

HRW declared in a statement that the Israeli banks “violate their international law responsibilities to avoid contributing to human rights and other abuses, including unlawful land seizures, discrimination against Palestinians, and de facto annexation of the West Bank by Israel.”

Professor Gerald Steinberg of NGO Monitor said that the Rockefeller Brothers Fund had been “irrevocably stained” by its growing financial support for BDS campaigns — including HRW’s latest project: “The evidence speaks for itself, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund has been irrevocably stained by empowering hate groups like JVP, and BDS leaders like Human Rights Watch,” Steinberg said.

NGO Monitor observed that the timing of the campaign against Israeli banks coincides with the “preparation of the discriminatory UN Human Rights Council blacklist, currently being prepared by UN functionaries in conjunction with BDS groups like HRW.”

Rockefeller Brothers funds a number of US NGOs, including David N. Myers’ pet project organizations The New Israel Fund, Jewish Voices for Peace, and J Street. They also fund Human Rights Watch, Molad and Breaking The Silence.