THE EXTREMIST, RADICAL NEW ISRAEL FUND AND ITS FUNDERS

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THE EXTREMIST, RADICAL NEW ISRAEL FUND AND ITS FUNDERS
The immense funding campaign behind the anti-Israel organization.
By Ronn Torossian
November 27, 2014

During these sensitive times, as the world is a kinder-box due to Muslim extremists, Jewish extremists must also be rejected. As Israeli Ambassador Ron Prosor recently said in United Nations speech, “Most people believe that at its core, the conflict is a battle between Jews and Arabs or Israelis and Palestinians. They are wrong. The battle that we are witnessing is a battle between those who sanctify life and those who celebrate death.” The Ambassador is right – which means organizations like the New Israel Fund (NIF) which empower terrorists must be shunned. The New Israel Fund supports groups that hurt the Jewish State.

An NIF grantee, the Executive Director of the Human Rights Defenders Fund (HRDF), received $332,625 from 2011-2013 in grants from the New Israel Fund and recently called Israel “racist,” and “murderous,” and described the country as a “temporary Jewish apartheid state.” She actively promotes the Palestinian ‘right of return.’ Other NIF grantees demand boycotts of the State of Israel, and contribute to gross Anti-Semitism by funding campaigns for Breaking the Silence who tour college campuses to accuse Israel of war crimes.  These organizations are outside the consensus. As The Algemeiner Journal reported New Israel Fund is “a controversial foundation that supports dozens of Israel related causes, many of which are considered hostile to the Jewish State.”

Thankfully today it was revealed that Birthright and Young Judea will no longer work with New Israel Fund. New Israel Fund is associated with funding boycotts of Israel and programs to support the Israel Defense Forces, hence the Jewish community is rejecting these extremists. As Algemeiner added, “NIF actively supports organizations like Machsom Watch, which harass Israeli soldiers while on duty at checkpoints, Breaking The Silence which dispatches former Israeli soldiers on international tours accusing the IDF of human rights violations and war crimes, and +972 magazine, which offers a ready stream of anti-Israel articles and opinions pieces. During the recent Gaza war, New Israel Fund dispatched emergency grants to fund anti-Israel protests in Israel.”

NIF donors support extremists’ viewpoints with barely any support amongst the democratic electorate of Israel. While one constantly hears about donors on the right, why is the left given a pass when they help fund anti-democratic behavior?

Irwin Jacobs, a co-founder of Qualcomm is a major donor to The New Israel Fund, as is his fellow San Diegoan, The Leichtag Foundation.  While The Fohs Foundation claims that their position is “not to look back, not to criticize Israel or place blame, but rather to promote opportunity going forward,”, yet by supporting the New Israel Fund, they stand with calling Israeli soldiers war crimes.  That is out of bounds – and responsible donors must reject these extremists.

From the Edith and Henry Everett  Foundation who fund The Jewish Book Council, Joint Distribution Committee, American Friends of Israel Sci-Tech Schools and others, one fails to comprehend why they would want to be associated with the New Israel Fund, which Professor Gerald Steinberg recently described as an organization that “..claim to support Israel and human rights principles, they enable the highly destructive activities that do the opposite. By the time these funders acknowledge this failure and end their support, the damage will be done.”

From the Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund to The Irving Harris Foundation, Arnold Hiatt to many others, The New Israel Fund annual report is a study in those who seek to fund campaigns which support boycotts of Israel, supporting Anti-Semitism on campus, and prosecuting Israeli war crimes.  The supporters of these causes are all visible in the New Israel Fund annual report.

The New Israel Fund has decreased in funding from $37 Million in 2010 to $27 Million in 2013. This dangerous extremist organization neglects the reality on the ground and the will of the people. America’s closest Middle East ally, Israel, faces a grave enemy of terrorists and despots, and supporting organizations which undermine the Israel Defense Forces and encourage boycotts of Israel are simply dangerous.

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rename yourself "new Nuremberg fund", since you support the first law limiting Jewish property rights since 1935

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https://www.algemeiner.com/2018/02/12/why-are-grantees-of-the-new-israel-fund-supporting-terrorists/
Why Are Grantees of the New Israel Fund Supporting Terrorists?
By Ronn Torossian
FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The New Israel Fund (NIF) — a radical American Jewish non-profit organization — continues to harm Israel on a regular basis. But the latest revelations about the NIF by Makor Rishon, an Israeli newspaper, are shocking.

An investigative report has revealed that Mourad Jadallah, an employee and field researcher for Yesh Din — an organization that has received more than $500,000 from the NIF in recent years — praises Palestinian terrorists and posts pictures of them.

Jadallah has praised “the engineer” Yahya Ayyash and senior Hamas member Hassan Salameh on Twitter, lauding them as “Palestinian legends” responsible for the murder of more than 150 Israelis. Jadallah uploaded photos of himself with Salah Hamouri, an East Jerusalem resident who served jail time in Israel for plotting to assassinate former Sephardic Chief Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef.

The investigation revealed that Jadallah also worked for B’Tselem (another NIF grantee) and participated in the writing of a report published last year about the condition of Palestinian youths in East Jerusalem. Yet despite his support for terrorists, Jadallah remains employed by these so-called “human rights” organizations.

There is plenty of evidence of his radical views on social media — such as the one below:

Mourad Jadallah’s tweet praising terrorists Yahya Ayyash and Hassan Salameh.

In order to document the reality on the ground, organizations such as B’Tselem, Yesh Din, and Hamoked for the Defense of the Individual rely on Palestinian employees who work in the field. Is their support for terrorists acceptable to the New Israel Fund’s donors?

Dirar Abu Kteish, a video photographer in B’Tselem’s Public Outreach Department, published a Facebook post comparing Israel’s security leadership to the Nazis.

Abu Kteish shared the post — titled “Is this the rebirth of Nazism?” — featuring two photos on top of each other. The top photo shows Hitler and his military commanders examining maps and the bottom photo shows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his advisors doing the same.

Makor Rishon further revealed that other B’Tselem employees have published video clips expressing support for the boycott against Israel.

Salma a-Deb’i, the organization’s Nablus district field researcher, wrote that there was no reason not to boycott Israeli products, which are “steeped in the blood of Palestinian children.” On another occasion, she wrote: “There are increasing calls from the settlers to embroil young Palestinians in contrived attempted stabbings. The settlers start to run, as if someone is chasing them, and then throw a knife on the ground near Palestinian youths and shout in Hebrew, ‘Look out, he has a knife.’”

Some of the Palestinian employees of these organizations also express solidarity with Palestinian prisoners. B’Tselem field researcher Iyad Hadad posted a photo of Palestinian security prisoner Mohammed Al’an, who was convicted of aiding and recruiting terrorists.

B’Tselem Camera Project Coordinator Rima Essa posted a picture on her Facebook page featuring Palestinian terrorist George Ibrahim Abdallah, who is serving time in a French prison for complicity in the 1982 assassination of Israeli diplomat Yacov Barsimantov in Paris, and in the murder of an American diplomat and the injury of another.

Yesh Din refused to answer questions on this subject, claiming, “Yesh Din does not lend a hand to Makor Rishon’s witch hunt against human rights organizations and the attempt to portray their work as illegitimate. We therefore have no intentions of relating to your question.” B’Tselem similarly refused to answer questions on this issue.

The old adage, “Tell me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you who you are” is very applicable here. The New Israel Fund must demand the firing of these employees — and stop aiding the boycott of Israel.

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The New Israel Fund funds HaMoked where HaMoked used this money to defend Palestinian terrorist Monir Rajabi who ordered the Bus terrorist attack in Haifa in 2003 which murdered 17 people, 9 of whom were high school students. 

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/268556 
'A decades-long battle is over'
Bereaved father who lost son in 2003 Haifa bus attack in which 17 murdered praises Interior Min. for revoking terrorist's residency permit.
09/08/19

Yossi Tzur, a bereaved father, praised Interior Minister Aryeh Deri for revoking the residency permits of two eastern Jerusalem residents: Izaak Tahar Salah Arafa and Monir Rajabi, who were both convicted of terror offenses.

Tzur’s son Assaf was murdered in the terror attack on the #37 Bus Route in Haifa in 2003, which was carried out by Rajabi. Tzur said about the decision to revoke Rajabi’s residency, “We held a public relations campaign for years. It was led by three fathers- myself, Ron Karman and Yossi Mendelevitz, whose sons were also murdered in the attack in 2003. Today our battle has come to a close.”

Tzur thanked Interior Minister Deri, Justice Minister Ohana and Attorney General Mandelblit, but also added that while this battle has come to a close, the parents said they would still continue to fight for a broader solution “so that no terrorist should ever receive a residency permit to live in Israel and even worse, to be able to return to Haifa where the murder occurred and where the bereaved families still live.”

In particular, given that terrorists in Israeli prisons receive many benefits from the Palestinian Authority, including stipends and other benefits, there is a clear relationship established between the PA and the terrorist. Therefore, the parents argued that if a terrorist is released, he should move to PA-controlled area and live there. “We cannot allow a situation to arise where one of the family members of the victim could happen to see the terrorist in a shopping mall, on the street, or in another public place.”

Prior to the decision, the bereaved families sent a letter to Interior Minister Aryeh Deri requesting to participate in the hearing regarding Rajabi’s residency status. In their letter, they noted that the HaMoked Organization had agreed to help the terrorist and that HaMoked was representing Rajabi at the hearing.

The “Ad Kan” Organization quickly mobilized to help the bereaved families and supported their request to Minister Deri. Their letter strongly criticized HaMoked and emphasized that assisting the terrorist represents spitting in the faces of the bereaved families. Moreover, the letter stated, “It appears that for HaMoked this is not simply a matter of representing a legal client, but rather it shows their ‘empathy’ for Monir Rajabi and their disregard for his Jewish victims.” Following the hearing, ‘Ad Kan’ also praised Minister Deri for revoking Rajabi’s residency.

Director of ‘Ad Kan’ Gilad Ach, also praised the ruling. “We thank the Interior Minister for revoking the residency status of the terrorist. It is unthinkable that a terrorist who killed Israelis, including young children, would be allowed to roam free in Israel and continue his life like normal.

“Furthermore, Minister Deri’s decision also sheds new light on the decision of HaMoked to support the terrorist Monir Rajabi and to represent him during the hearings. We are pleased that the Minister did not accept the arguments of HaMoked and chose to follow the path of clear logic and justice.”

Attorney Tzur Polak, Head of the Legal Department at ‘Ad Kan’, said “We are pleased with Interior Minister Deri’s decision. We hope that this decision will serve as a precedent against other terrorists who take advantage of their Israeli residency to murder Jews.”

Attorney Polak also commented on the actions of HaMoked, saying “We are already familiar with HaMoked and their support for Israel haters. We realize that Minister Deri’s decision will also likely be appealed to the Supreme Court where on one side will stand Minister Deri and the bereaved families, while HaMoked will be on the other side supporting vile terrorists.

“We hope that the Supreme Court will make it very clear that Israel is a country of laws and that when a terrorist harms Jews for the crime of being Jews, he should not expect to continue receiving benefits as an Israeli resident or citizen. This is what the law enacted by the Knesset states.”

The terror attack on the #37 Bus in Haifa in 2003 murdered 17 people, 9 of whom were high school students. Rajabi was convicted of perpetrating the attack and was sentenced to life in prison. His sentence was later set to 20 years.