The New Israel Fund Are Extremists and Anti-Israel: Read AFDI Reply To Their Statement @UJAfedNY

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The New Israel Fund Are Extremists – Read Our Reply To Their Statement

David Hochberg, Sally Gottesman, And Edith Everett Join UJA-Federation President Alisa Doctoroff In Harming Israel

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The New Israel Fund issued a statement today which validated everything that the critics of the New Israel Fund (NIF) have been saying. While they refuted no facts, they simply smeared and called us names – showing that everything we said was accurate. Let us restate the facts: New Israel Fund – and their allies, including Alisa Doctoroff of UJA – support and endorse BDS, harass the Israel Defense Forces, and harm the Jewish State.  They are a blight unto our community.

As Democratic political strategist Hank Sheinkopf noted in The Observer, “Those who stand with New Israel Fund are standing against Israel. To suggest otherwise is a lie. I urge anyone affiliated with the NIF to stop supporting this organization financially. The New Israel Fund must be ostracized by the Jewish community.”

As can be seen on the NIF website, Michael Sfard issued a statement a few hours ago saying that he “…was asked for a professional opinion regarding the Israeli justice system, on which he is expert, and to explain to the jury how Israeli law defines ‘security offences’ and ‘security prisoners.’ He provided that opinion, without in any way suggesting that there was or is any justification, legally or morally, for attacks on Israeli civilians. In fact, Mr. Sfard, when asked if suicide bombings were war crimes, said he thinks they are worse than war crimes and can be classified as crimes against humanity.” Wow – The New Israel Fund thinks suicide bombings are bad. How about throwing rocks? How about shooting rockets? Notice, Sfard did not deny testifying for the PLO – nor did the New Israel Fund  deny that they support BDS, or that they collaborate with Palestinian enemies of Israel at the United Nations and worldwide. Clearly, this campaign to shame donors and expose the New Israel Fund must continue. Sfard’s friends at the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority were held liable for real acts of terror this week.
And we will continue to shame NIF donors. When most American Jews think of Jewish agencies, they think of social services, senior care, childcare, food and educational programs, or they think of support groups for various Israel causes. The New Israel Fund is none of that.

And what enables them is donors, and that is what makes the knowledge of UJA’s president’s ideologies so difficult to accept. Alisa Doctoroff heads UJA, perhaps the largest Jewish philanthropy organization in the world, representing the broadest spectrum of Jews from the Ultra Orthodox and Hasidic communities in Brooklyn to the marginally attached Jews living throughout New York. Yet Doctoroff is a big donor and major backer of the harmful agenda of the New Israel Fund. She also supports other extremist left-wing causes. Alisa Doctoroff uses her position at UJA to promote the NIF agenda and that is very wrong. WHY HAS THE UJA NOT FIRED THEIR PRESIDENT FOR SUPPORTING BDS?

Then there is Karen Adler, a board member of the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC-NY) in New York, and she is also a major funder of NIF. Karen R. Adler is also head of the Jewish Communal Fund. Doctoroff and Adler have been pushing JCRC, the presenter of the annual Celebrate Israel Parade, to permit the NIF to march up Fifth Avenue and laugh in the faces of the hundreds of thousands of Jews who come to cheer for Israel.

To be sure, the New Israel Fund supports some very virulently anti-Israel programs — Doctoroff and Adler are not alone.

Dr. Gabor T. Herman, is a pioneer in the field of computed tomography, an important medical diagnostic procedure. He is also an author of books on digital geometry and digital topology, 3D rendering in medicine and discrete tomography. He has written well over 100 research articles in various fields of science, medicine and engineering.

David Hochberg is another donor that may have had his good intentions twisted. This foundation has made many donations to various charities over the years, including to the independent film industry. The two largest grants that this foundation has given out are to the American Association of Implant Dentistry (AAID) and the New Israel Fund (NIF).

Then there is Sally Gottesman, who describes herself as a “committed Jew,” supporting some Jewish groups and NIF. Gottesman founded and is the current president of The Eleemosynary Group, which consults various nonprofit organizations in New York City. Her true dedication to Israel has come into question because of her involvement with NIF, having previously served as the director of its New York branch, she continues back it today.

NIF granted almost $30 million to progressive NGOs and left-wing organizations in Israel. Most of that money was used to destabilize Israel.  One organization, the Coalition of Women for Peace, received NIF money and then boycotted everything that had to do with Israel. Two other organizations provide support for alleged terrorist activity; Breaking the Silence accuses Israel of war crimes, and B’Tselem provides cameras to groups harassing Israeli soldiers.

NIF supports of the Human Rights Defenders Fund (HRDF), which has supported the abolishment of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people. The HRDF’s executive director, Alma Biblesh, has spoken out against Israel as a Jewish homeland. The New Israel Fund has authorized grants of over $300,000 to this organization, in a curious reversal of their own stated goals. Is this the group that UJA’s president Doctoroff and JCRC’s Adler should be allowing to plow hateful agendas?

We continue on to expose the hate of The New Israel Fund. Those who help fund Israel’s enemies must be exposed.

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Walter Sieruk
Walter Sieruk
9 years ago

One thing is for sure. Which is those who want and even try to destroy the State of Israel are engaging in actions of extreme futility and wasting their lives ,time and energy. This is because they are very much overruled by the God of the Bible. For is He is Strongly for,and in His Might preserving as in keeping Israel. For God is pro-Israel. For example, the Bible teaches “For the Lord has chosen Jacob for Himself. Israel for his special treasure.” Psalm 135: 4. [N.K.J.V.]

kktex12
kktex12
9 years ago
Reply to  Walter Sieruk

Walter, let’s get right down to where the rubber meets the road.

Rev 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. 1611 KJV

Gen 12:1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

Gen 12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

Gen 12:3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. 1611 KJV
Also, Walter, please stop quoting one of satan’s perversions of the Word of God.

AV
AV
9 years ago

Pamela, please check your gmail account for an email about an Oregon Senator, who is seeking to destroy medical rights of Oregonians and her family Fund which donates to the NIF. Please help get the word out!

EJO
EJO
9 years ago

Here is something that is pro-Israel
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By: Alan Dershowitz

VIDEO: A comprehensive look at the legal history of Israel’s birth as a nation from a Harvard Law professor. The conclusion: Challenging Israel’s legitimacy is little more than “bigotry.”

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153929840092316&fref=nf
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kktex12
kktex12
9 years ago
Reply to  EJO

I will tell you how. It was prophesied in the Books of Daniel, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, and the Book of Revelation. God said it would happen and it has.

Ken Kelso
Ken Kelso
9 years ago

Gerald Steinberg exposes NIF Director Rachel Liel for the liar and PRO BDS person she is.

http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/views_of_nif_head_mask_bitter_reality_
LETTER TO RACHEL LIEL (NIF EXEC DIR) IN RESPONSE TO THE INTERVIEW IN THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
Gerald Steinberg
June 04, 2010

Dear Rachel,

I read your interview in the JC (May 21 2010) with interest and sadness. While the statements about Israeli democracy are noble, they mask the bitter realities evident in grants provided by the New Israel Fund for groups that promote the antithesis of these principles. In parallel, NIF’s crude and personalized attacks against me and NGO Monitor’s systematic research also reflect a disdain for informed debate and free speech.

Israel is under unprecedented attack using false charges of “war crimes” and “apartheid”, led by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that exploit the language of morality. Such allegations are used to justify BDS – boycotts, divestment, and sanctions – aimed at isolating and then eliminating Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people.

Your claims in the JC interview not withstanding, the evidence clearly shows that NIF-funded groups provide the underpinning for many of these campaigns, including Goldstone’s indictment. NGO Monitor’s fully referenced research provides the evidence, including listing of hundreds of footnotes in the Goldstone report citing statements by NIF-funded NGOs. Officials from these NGOs also presented highly tendentious anti-Israel testimony, and 8 NIF grantees (a combined $2.2 million in 2008) submitted a joint statement to Goldstone alleging “human rights violations for which Israel must be held accountable.” In addition, B’Tselem, Adalah, ACRI, Gisha, PHR-I, and Yesh Din continue to lobby governments to legitimize the report’s extreme biases and endorse its recommendations.

The damage from NIF grants to such groups is amplified by the additional and much greater funds provided by European governments. When asked to explain why they support NGOs involved in anti-Israel demonization, many European officials cite the NIF as the source of legitimacy. The processes by which the European Union allocates these funds are also entirely secret, violating the essential democratic principle of transparency and the EU’s own regulations.

This hypocrisy from Europe is the reason for the Knesset legislation to reinforce transparency requirements to end the secret funding provided by foreign governments. But instead of supporting the public’s right to know, the NIF and its NGO allies have undemocratically boycotted the discussions. The NIF/NGO coalition has also grossly misrepresented this legislation, including the false allegation in your JC interview that this would “make it much harder for human rights organisations to operate in Israel and receive foreign funding”.

You and other NIF officials also claim to oppose BDS and other forms of the Durban Strategy of political warfare against Israel, but NIF grantees continue to lead these campaigns. For example, an official from the Coalition of Women for Peace (CWP) participated in a May 12 anti-Israel divestment rally in Brussels, targeting a bank with an Israeli subsidiary. One rally leader drank fake blood out of a wine glass – an apparent reference to the libel of Jews drinking Christian blood as wine – to highlight Israel’s alleged brutality. NIF funding for CWP and its BDS projects cannot be justified under the banner of pluralism and the right to dissent.

The destructive impact of these and similar events is exacerbated by NIF’s use of crude and personalized attacks on perceived “enemies” – precisely the type of campaigning that you and Naomi Chazan claim to abhor. I have no doubt that you are sincere, but many officials that speak for NIF are trench fighters out to destroy opponents, and with no real commitment to free and fair debate.

NIF’s advertisement in the Jerusalem Post is the latest example. While imitating NGO Monitor’s style and “compare and contrast” approach, the NIF text consists of hysterical allegations with no references. In contrast to the NGO Monitor text, NIF’s response is cheap political agit-prop, and avoids the substantive issues. Perhaps you quickly approved this embarrassment, or were not even consulted. Either way, an apology is in order.

At the close of the JC interview, you acknowledge the need to “examine ourselves and think a lot more about how we reach a wider public that we have failed so far.” Here, we agree. No country is perfect, including Israel, and the combination of continued conflict, occupation and terror present difficult challenges. But Jewish moral principles, including human rights norms, have been cheapened to the point of becoming meaningless by the Goldstone process and the wider NGO-based bombardment of false allegations of “war crimes”. NIF can restore its tarnished reputation and commitment to democracy by ending support for this destructive process.

I look forward to your response,

Prof. Gerald M. Steinberg

President, http://www.ngo-monitor.org

Edited version, as published in Jewish Chronicle, June 4, 2010

I read your interview with Rachel Liel, executive director of the New Israel Fund (JC, May 21) with sadness. Her noble statements about Israeli democracy mask the bitter realities evident in grants provided by the NIF to groups that promote the antithesis of these principles. In parallel, NIF’s crude, personalised attacks against me and NGO Monitor’s systematic research also reflect a disdain for informed debate and free speech.

Israel is facing false charges of “war crimes” and “apartheid”, led by nongovernmental organisations (NGOs), allegations used to justify BDS: boycotts, divestment, and sanctions.

NIF-funded groups provide the underpinning for many such campaigns, including Goldstone’s indictment. NGO Monitor’s fully referenced research includes hundreds of footnotes in the Goldstone report citing statements by NIF-funded NGOs. Officials from these NGOs also presented highly tendentious anti-Israel testimony, and eight NIF grantees (a combined $2.2 million in 2008) submitted a statement to Goldstone alleging “human rights violations for which Israel must be held accountable.”

When asked to explain why they support NGOs involved in anti-Israel demonisation, many European officials cite the NIF as the source of legitimacy. This hypocrisy from Europe is the reason for the Knesset legislation to reinforce transparency requirements to end the secret funding provided by foreign governments. But instead of supporting the public’s right to know, the NIF and its NGO allies have boycotted the discussions.

On May 12, an official from the Coalition of Women for Peace, which receives NIF funding, participated in an anti-Israel divestment rally in Brussels. One rally leader drank fake blood from a wine glass — evoking the libel of Jews drinking Christian blood — to highlight Israel’s alleged brutality.

At the close of the JC interview, Rachel Liel acknowledges the need to “examine ourselves and think a lot more about how we reach a wider public that we have failed so far.” Here, we agree. No country is perfect, including Israel, and the combination of continued conflict, occupation and terror present difficult challenges. But Jewish moral principles have been cheapened by the Goldstone process and the wider NGO-based bombardment of false allegations of “war crimes”.

(Professor) Gerald Steinberg

President, NGO Monitor, Jerusalem and

Bar Ilan University

SCREW SOCIALISM
SCREW SOCIALISM
9 years ago

BDS the NIF.

ted
ted
9 years ago

I have no use for the mainstream Jewish organizations. They also support this sorry president and liberal causes such as amnesty.

calliope
calliope
9 years ago

G-d Bless you Pamela Geller- you are doing G-d’s work, please be well and keep it up

Jeff Robbins
Jeff Robbins
8 years ago

According to http://www.nif.org/about/selected-policies#14, the NIF does NOT support BDS.

“The NIF does oppose the global (or general) BDS movement, views the use of these tactics as counterproductive, and is concerned that segments of this movement seek to undermine the existence of the state of Israel as a Jewish homeland.

NIF will not fund global BDS activities against Israel nor support organizations that have global BDS programs.”

That seems like a straightforward disavowal, on a straightforward easy-to-find link on their site.

So…what is the basis for Ms. Geller’s claim that “New Israel Fund…support and endorse BDS”???

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