“These organisations, whether intentionally or not, have actively depoliticised the Palestinian struggle, fragmented grassroots movements and enforced a dependency on international aid that prioritises foreign policy interests over the needs of the people. By framing and packaging the issue as one of ‘development’ or ‘humanitarian aid’, NGOs shifted the focus from addressing the structural violence of Israeli occupation to solving technical problems. I urge every Palestinian NGO worker to do the same. Build something outside this oppressive system because the system will never change. It wasn’t designed to.” Diluting the truth about structural violence Related “ The domestication of dissent that NGOs encourage will always lead in a different direction, which is the reaffirmation of the status quo.” NGOism Serves the Status Quo Turkey: The Islamist sector and the humanitarian NGOs
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51