If passed, the law would require any left-wing NGO that receives 50% or more of its funding from foreign governmental sources to reveal this fact in every single interaction with Israeli government authorities. They would also be required to wear special name tags when lobbying\u00a0or testifying before committees in\u00a0the Knesset.<\/p>\n
Right-wing NGOs receive spectacularly larger sums of money from many anonymous foreign sources. But because these do not typically come from governments, they\u00a0would be exempt.<\/p>\n
Haaretz published\u00a0this justification\u00a0from Jewish Home Party Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked:<\/p>\n
According to\u2026Shaked, the bill\u2019s sponsor, \u201cblatant intervention in internal Israeli affairs by foreign government through funding is unprecedented and widespread, and infringes on the accepted norms and rules of relations between democratic countries,\u201d she said, adding that foreign funding of organizations active within Israel \u201cundermine [the state\u2019s] sovereignty and identity.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Now along comes \u201cIm Tirtzu,\u201d a right-wing NGO, with a disgusting video that attacks four left-wing NGO\u00a0leaders\u00a0as \u201cforeign plants\u201d who suborn terrorism.<\/p>\n
In the video (below) the individuals cited as supporters of terrorism are: Ishai Menuhin, executive director of the Public Committee Against Torture; Avner Gvaryahu, director of public outreach for Breaking the Silence; Sigi Ben Ari, an attorney at Hamoked: Center for the Defense of the Individual; and Hagai Elad, director general of B\u2019Tselem, a human rights organization.<\/p>\n
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