New Israel Fund
“Calling for collecting funds for this without first of all condemning Hamas is indecent,” said Matan Peleg, author of “A State for Sale.”
Residents told Channel 14 they did not know of any plot by right-wingers to seize control of the communities.
In the wake of Oct. 7, far-left NGO Mitvim started strategizing so as not to miss a “historic” opportunity.
It “invests in organizations bent on destroying Zionism,” Gadi Taub, a senior lecturer at the Hebrew University, tells JNS.
The NIF is incorporated as a foreign company in Israel and therefore its Israeli donors aren’t entitled to tax benefits.
The NIF issued a “special grant” to civil society groups that helped organize Saturday’s “huge demonstration” in Tel Aviv, the group said.
Uri Zaki raised 734,000 shekels in 2017-2022 for his nonprofit from the New Israel Fund, a U.S.-based NGO that supports progressive groups in Israel.
The Im Tirtzu findings contradict NIF claims to donors that “it will not support organizations that call for and support a comprehensive boycott of the State of Israel.”
Nejmeh Hijazi, a speaker at the upcoming online event, “Jewish Riots in the Territories,” has shared dozens of anti-Israel social-media posts.
“It is illegal for a foreign company to intervene in the Israeli elections by funding organizations in Israel,” says Im Tirtzu policy director Alon Schvartzer.
ZOA told JNS that another example of the far-left’s “cancel culture” is aimed at “undermining” the organization, as well as “Klein’s strong defense of Israel and the Jewish people.”
Israeli NGO Adalah says the International Criminal Court “made the right decision” with regard to prosecuting Israel for war crimes and is “prepared to submit legal material” to that end.
