NGO Monitor: New Israel Fund’s NGO Grants under Critical Spotlight

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From NGO Monitor: The New Israel Fund (NIF) organized the ‘NIForum‘, a 10-city North American tour of meetings on a “Progressive Vision for Israel” in October, 2007. As detailed analysis by NGO Monitor has shown, NIF grants are influenced by radicals whose private agendas have been overwhelmingly rejected by Israeli voters. NIF continues to use “civil society” grants to support groups including Adalah, Mossawa, the Arab Human Rights Association (HRA), Hamoked, and others which lead the campaign to end Israel as a Jewish State, and promote “apartheid” rhetoric, boycotts and sanctions. Similarly, NIF provided funding for Jeff Halper — a

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The Episcopalian church

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More detestable news from the Episcopalians: The Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA) is planning to honor a Palestinian Anglican priest who considers the state of Israel to be the source of all problems in the Middle East. On Saturday (June 17, tonite) Episcopal Peace Fellowship plans to present Naim Ateek with a “Peace and Justice” award at the denomination’s General Convention in Columbus, Ohio. Ateek, founder and director of the Jerusalem-based Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center, once likened Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to Jesus’ crucifixion. We’ve written about the despicable Jew-hating Naim Ateek before, which you can read here. Sadly, no

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