Wednesday, July 21, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
NGO Monitor: NIF Whistleblower Exposes NIF´s Role in Demonization - 'The New Israel Fund's role in funding and promoting anti-Israel campaigns, as documented in NGO Monitor's research reports, is generating increasing criticism from Israelis. On July 16, 2010, Ma'ariv's Ben-Dror Yemini devoted his column to "Shlomit," a social change activist who works for an NGO providing services in the Israeli-Arab sector. In June, Shlomit attended a leadership training seminar run by Shatil (an NIF program), and sponsored by the Ford Israel Fund (a partnership between NIF and Ford Foundation). The 20 participants were all from NIF-funded organizations, including a "significant presence...from the Palestinian cause" represented by NGOs such as Mossawa, Sikkuy, Amnesty-Israel, and Neve Shalom...' [Must read.]
