Sunday, January 31, 2010
But you knew that...The Goldstone report took 92% of its anti-Israel material from organizations funded by the New Israel Fund.
This weekend's Maariv exposes the New Israel fund for financing anti-Israel propaganda groups in Israel. The expose is based on a study by Im Tirtzu, a Zionist student group. The study found that the New Isreal Fund finances most of the Israeli anti-Zionist organizations. The group also discovered that the UN Goldstone report took 92% of its anti-Israel material from organizations funded by the New Israel Fund...
Maybe the leftist do-gooders at the New Israel Fund should make sure they don't fuck up the old Israel first.
Update: Much more here: Im Tirzu: NIF NGOs gave bulk of Goldstone testimonies
...According to the report, 92 percent of the negative citations used in the Goldstone Report to criticize the IDF's conduct in Gaza last year came from 16 Israeli NGOs, which Im Tirtzu has alleged received some $7.8 million in financial support from the NIF in 2008-2009 alone.
Among the NGOs listed in the report are Adalah, Breaking the Silence, B'Tselem, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, the Center for the Defense of the Individual, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, Yesh Din, Doctors for Human Rights, Gisha, Bimkom, Rabbis for Human Rights, Itach, Other Voice, New Profile, Machsom Watch and Who Profits from the Occupation.
The report states that the above NGOs contributed "hundreds" of testimonies and other materials to the Goldstone Report, and that while Palestinian and UN sources inside Gaza were also consulted during Judge Richard Goldstone's investigation in the Gaza Strip last summer, the bulk of the damage was done using the material provided by the Israeli NGOs.
"The Goldstone Report looks the way it does because of these 16 groups and the quotes they provided," a spokesman from Im Tirtzu told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday. "In that vein, our goal is to remove the NIF's mask and show the public what they really are - which is a fifth column, plain and simple."...
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The NIF has been circulating what can only be called one of the whinier emails I've read by a major group in response to Im Tirzu's expose of the types of groups they've been funding and the use that funding... Read More
But isn't that the idea?
For the non-Hebrew speakers in the room, by the way: "Im Tirtzu" is from the phrase "im tirtzu, ein zo agada", well-known to every Israeli schoolchild. It's a translated quote from Theodor Herzl: "If you wish it, it is no dream!"
respectfully,
Daniel in Brookline
Calling an Israeli civll liberties lobby group 'anti-Zionist' or 'anti-Israeli' is like calling the ACLU 'anti-American'. Let's not go back to the 1950s.
JJ Goldberg: Rightists Target New Israel Fund Over Grantees' Goldstone Testimony
J Street Responds to Attacks on New Israel Fund
Typical J Street. Attack the Christian friends of Israel and defend truly vile slander groups like Gisha, Adalah and Breaking the Silence.
Why is it 'vile slander' to call attention to civil liberty problems in one's country?
It's not. It's also not what some of those groups are really about. Their agenda is far less innocent than that.
They strike me as signs of a healthy democratic civil society that accommodates dissenting views. Why do you say otherwise?
Does it interest you what these groups actually do? Is that relevant at all?
They strike me as signs of a healthy democratic civil society that accommodates dissenting views.
So where they participate in trying to break the security fence so that terrorists can enter and blow up kids in pizza parlours is healthy democratic dissent?
What has a minuscule sum, compared to what Arab countries, the EU and George Soros have pumped in for those opposing the state, donated by Right Wing Extremists to those supporting Settlers, eeeeuw, do apart from appearing as an ad hominem attack?