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Netanyahu’s office parrots baseless spin on foreign funding of NGOs

The fierce backlash against attacks on Israeli human rights NGOs has pushed to the front an old argument against foreign funding for these groups. Various right wing columnists and politicians have been parroting it, but now you hear it from Netanyahu’s office as well: As for questioning the legitimacy of foreign government funding of Israeli NGOs,…

By Roi Maor January 23, 2011

Hard right hearts human rights on Knesset NGO inquiry

Some members of the hard right have harshly criticized the Knesset inquiry into human rights NGOs. They seem to believe that Israel can continue to rule the Palestinians while respecting their rights. This contradiction is enabled through sophisticated mechanisms of privatization, which may be a greater danger for Israel than fascism Benny Begin, the son of late…

By Roi Maor January 7, 2011

Displeased founder ."What, that's what you really wanted"? (Yossi Gurvitz)

On the morning following the putsch

The Knesset’s decision to investigate NGOs demonstrates the “end of the (democracy) party” The decision taken by the Knesset plenum yesterday, to create a parliamentary investigative committee for “the phenomenon of de-legitimization of the IDF in the world on the part of Israeli organization”, has nothing whatsoever to do with an investigation. Israel has investigative…

By Yossi Gurvitz January 6, 2011

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