State Department Funds BDS Movement – Susan L.M. Goldberg/PJ Tatler
by NewsStand
Your tax dollars at work… against the Jewish State.
Now that a new academic year is upon us, pro-Israel advocates are gearing up for another round of boycott/divestment/sanctions (BDS) blather on many an American college campus. As the most recent Israeli elections taught us, if you want to know who you’re up against, just follow the money. As The Algemeiner reports:
The controversial New Israel Fund and its social change and political lobbying organization – known as SHATIL – have received more than $1 million from the State Department under a program designed to create political change, reform, and activism in the Middle East.
The program, called Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI), operates in countries including Algeria, Libya, Lebanon, and Yemen. Not exactly stable and economically prosperous democracies like Israel. Yet, the New Israel Fund/SHATIL are among the leading recipients of MEPI grant dollars.
Vocal critics in both the U.S. and Israel charge that the New Israel Fund has knowingly financed groups that support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction (BDS) movement, and worked to get Israeli soldiers prosecuted for so-called ‘war crimes.” Benny Yanay of an Israeli military organization called Consensus, representing some 3,000 members of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), stated, “The New Israel Fund acts against Israel—against the soldiers of our country. It is supported by foreign governments and organizations so that Israeli soldiers will be weakened.” Other Israel military men and women have alleged that the NIF is trying to “destabilize the IDF.”
Knesset Deputy Speaker Yoni Chetboun added that the NIF was bent on “erasing the Jewish identity from the Jewish State.” Chetboun adds that through its SHATIL subsidiary, NIF represents the biggest left-wing political lobby in Israel.
In February 2015, spokesmen for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and Economy Minister Naftali Bennett’s nationalist Jewish Home party both derided the NIF as “anti-Zionist.” Both political parties cancelled participation in a Haaretz newspaper conference when they learned NIF was a sponsor. The Jewish Home party was quoted in the Jerusalem Post stating, “We will not take part in a conference in which an anti-Zionist organization that invests all its time and money in harming IDF soldiers and the State of Israel as a Jewish State is involved.”
The New Israel Fund does not distinguish between a boycott of Judea and Samaria and a generalized boycott of Israel. Bottom line: American tax dollars are funding organizations that seek to delegitimize the State of Israel in its entirety.
As per usual, zionist breadheads are making a mountain out of a molehill.
Two points to madam Goldgerg:
1- It is the right of every single anti-zionist American to get state funding for their cause in the same way that zionist Americans get (by fuck far more!) state funding for their evil cause. Let’s also be mindful here of the humongous amount of dollars from private American zionists funding the building of illegal jewish settlements in the holy land and agitating for religious wars in the middle east.
2- It’s a joke that the supremist Goldberg is harping on about a pitiful amount of money going to BDS when israel gets 3+ billion tax dollars in aid per year and Sheldon and his jewish tentacles have allocated some 50 million dollars to fight BDS with. Sounding off the alarm like she is doing is an absurdist joke! “Your tax dollars at work… against the Jewish state” printed at top of article is her own phrase – so cry me a river and hide my fears under a feather WTF?!
All jewish charities should be under investigation by both the Feds (for anti-Americanism) and by the IRS (for fleecing the American tax payer and tax collector simultaneously). The jewish charities that have not spent a cent on israeli Apartheid and colonialism can keep their doors open and the ones that have need to be prosecuted to the full length of the law and their charities shamed and closed down.
But who will take on the task of legally targeting American jewish charities? Who are the doers and strategists in the Palestine movement? (No not you JVP and ugly clones!). Is the solidarity movement all just book writers and bloggers and soft-handed academics?
Help me out here.
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I have never heard of the NIF and I have no idea what the NIF is, but if they are agin’ it, then I am for it! 🙂
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