AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, May 15 (UPI) -- Holland's Foreign Ministry plans to halt the transfer of millions of euros to Dutch and Palestinian organizations that boycott Israel, a report said.

A study by the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel, based in the Hague, Netherlands, said the Foreign Ministry allocated at least 10 million euros ($14.1 million) over a five-year period to organizations supporting a boycott of Israeli goods, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday.


Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal, who has initiated reforms to stop local charities from funding anti-Israel boycotts, sent a letter to center last month saying, "Intervention will occur in cases of organizations acting against Dutch policy," the newspaper said.

"I would like to thank you for drawing my attention to the report by CIDI entitled 'Dutch government unknowingly funding Israel-boycott and one-state solution initiatives,' which lists Palestinian NGOs [non-governmental organizations] which are active in the Palestinian territories and which are supported [financially] by the Dutch government," the newspaper said Rosenthal wrote to center Director Ronny Naftaniel.

"The department, the Dutch Embassy in Tel Aviv and the Dutch representative office in Ramallah are acutely mindful of the political sensitivities connected to the funding of NGOs operating in Israel and the Palestinian Territories."

In its 15-page report, the center said base on a lack of transparency on the part of most non-governmental organizations it reviewed, it "believes its findings give only a partial view of the true extent of the use of Dutch taxpayer funds for the support of initiatives which contradict the policy of Dutch governments, and which reject peace settlements which observe Israel's right to exist."

The report named Palestinian and Dutch non-governmental organizations that received subsidies from the Dutch Foreign Ministry to fund activities.