{"id":1398599,"date":"2022-03-24T13:44:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T17:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1398599"},"modified":"2022-03-24T13:44:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T17:44:58","slug":"biden-admin-offering-million-dollar-grant-to-report-on-alleged-israeli-human-rights-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-offering-million-dollar-grant-to-report-on-alleged-israeli-human-rights-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Offering Million-Dollar Grant to Report on Alleged Israeli Human Rights Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-admin-offering-million-dollar-grant-to-report-on-alleged-israeli-human-rights-violations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1398599&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The U.S. is offering nearly a million dollar grant for projects that include reporting alleged human rights violations by Israel, prompting critics to lambast the Biden administration as \u201chostile\u201d to its key ally.<\/p>\n<p>The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) at the State Department announced \u201can open competition for projects that strengthen accountability and human rights in Israel and the West Bank and Gaza\u201d last month. According to the<em> Jerusalem Post<\/em>, which first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-702100\">reported<\/a> on the matter, it is the first competition of its kind from Washington and one that raises concern over\u00a0the potential for abuse by entities who seek to boycott and sanction Israel.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The aim is to \u201ccollect, archive and maintain human rights documentation to support justice and accountability and civil society-led advocacy efforts, which may include documentation of legal or security sector violations and housing, land and property rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>International human rights lawyer Arsen Ostrovsky called the move \u201coutrageous\u201d and a \u201cgross interference in Israel\u2019s domestic affairs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It will \u201conly empower those seeking to delegitimize Israel under guise of \u2018human rights,\u2019\u201d Ostrovsky tweeted.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is outrageous! Not only potential gross interference in Israel\u2019s domestic affairs, but will also only empower those seeking to delegitimize Israel under guise of \u2018human rights\u2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@StateDept<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecBlinken?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SecBlinken<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USAmbIsrael?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@USAmbIsrael<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BYMV30C64J\">https:\/\/t.co\/BYMV30C64J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ostrov_A\/status\/1506679030552178692?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Prof. Gerald Steinberg, director of human rights watchdog NGO Monitor, a group that tracks anti-Israel non-profits, wrote a letter to\u00a0Secretary of State Antony Blinken\u00a0 saying that the initiative will open the gates for anti-Israel groups to legitimize the \u201capartheid\u201d charge against Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn light of the Biden Administration\u2019s repeated rejection of such campaigns, we call on the State Department to reconsider this program,\u201d Steinberg wrote. \u201cIf however the NOFO [notice of funding opportunity] proceeds, the application of clear and rigorous safeguards will be necessary to ensure that taxpayer funds are not provided to organizations advancing a discriminatory, anti-Israel agenda under the fa\u00e7ade of accountability and human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on to say that the U.S. is in danger of allowing such projects to follow in the footsteps of\u00a0European governments, which justify funding organizations that have advocated for boycotts of Israel and for Israeli officials to be tried for war crimes under the guise of human rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to see any other explanation for this type of grant,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Such human rights organizations targeting Israel are \u201can industry on the order of at least $50 million to Israel and Palestinian groups from European governments, plus there is UN support. It\u2019s even more if you include Human Rights Watch and Amnesty\u201d \u2013 both of which have accused Israel of being an apartheid state \u2013 \u201cand this funding could, in theory, go to them,\u201d Steinberg said, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>According to the DRL\u2019s contest rules, applications cannot \u201creflect any type of support for any member, affiliate or representative of a designated terrorist organization\u201d or benefit foreign militaries or paramilitary groups.<\/p>\n<p>The submitted projects can also \u201ctake meaningful action in pursuing truth, accountability and memorialization; and\/or provide psychosocial support to survivors of atrocities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. is offering nearly a million dollar grant for projects that include reporting alleged human rights violations by Israel, prompting critics to lambast the Biden administration as \u201chostile\u201d to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1398599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}