NGO Monitor (of which Steinberg is the president) has criticized several major international human rights organizations, apart from Human Rights Watch including such as Christian Aid, Amnesty International, Oxfam, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Médecins Sans Frontières (also known as Doctors Without Borders)of anti Israeli bias

In an 2005 article "Monitoring the Monitor", Jewish writer and critic of NGO Monitor Leonard Fein writes that NGO Monitor is "an organization that believes that the best way to defend Israel is to condemn anyone who criticizes it…

Fein, a former Professor of Politics and Klutznick Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies at Brandeis University, also takes issue with NGO Monitor's statement that Human Rights Watch places "extreme emphasis on critical assessments of Israel" and has issued more reports about HRW than on any other of the 75 NGOs it concerns itself with.

In his article, Leonard Fein writes that HRW has devoted more attention to five other nations in the region — Iraq, Sudan, Egypt, Turkey and Iran — than they have to Israel; but that, despite extensive correspondence, Mr Steinberg has failed to correct the "misleading" statement about HRW on the NGO Watch website


In an opinion column he writes for the The Jerusalem Post, Larry Derfner asserted that
"NGO Monitor doesn't have a word of criticism for Israel, nor a word of acknowledgment, even grudging, for any detail in any human rights report that shows Israel to be less than utterly blameless.
In fact, on the subject of Israel's human rights record, NGO Monitor doesn't have a word of disagreement with the Prime Minister's Office.

"Rattling the Cage: The smearing of human rights organizations"


NGO Monitor has been characterized as a "right-wing Israeli NGO" by Inter Press Service.
Didi Remez, a spokesperson for the Peace Now group, said NGO Monitor "is not an objective watchdog:
IT IS A PARTISAN OPERATION THAT SUPPRESSES ITS PERCEIVED IDEOLOGICAL ADVERSARIES THROUGH THE SOPHISTICATED USE OF MCCARTHYITE TECHNIQUES – BLACKLISTING, GUILT BY ASSOCIATION AND SELECTIVE FILTERING OF FACTS."

Mideast: Israel Declares War on Peace NGOs IPS, Dec. 24, 2009

While it is, of course, legitimate to post copy and paste pieces from NGO Monitor sources on the forum, I believe it is important to look at what this privately funded, free of public funding regulations organization (unlike the other organizations it targets) seeks to achieve by its press releases.