{"id":1869084,"date":"2023-03-06T11:57:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T16:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-department-funds-left-wing-group-behind-protests-against-israeli-prime-minister\/"},"modified":"2023-03-06T11:59:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T16:59:36","slug":"state-department-funds-left-wing-group-behind-protests-against-israeli-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-department-funds-left-wing-group-behind-protests-against-israeli-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"State Department funds left-wing group behind protests against Israeli prime minister"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fstate-department-funds-left-wing-group-behind-protests-against-israeli-prime-minister%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=1869084&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-->\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div id=\"Brid_77860976\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:16; height:9;\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">                <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Over 330,000 Texans without power amid severe weather\">               <meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Hundreds of thousands of Texans are without power as the state is being hit by severe weather. 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Since 2020, this same entity received more than $38,000 from State Department. <i>Washington Free Beacon<\/i> <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/how-taxpayer-funds-are-flowing-to-a-group-bankrolling-anti-netanyahu-protests\/\">reported<\/a> Tomorrow is Monday. <\/p>\n<p><b><u><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign\/major-left-wing-charity-unable-to-process-credit-card-donations-following-washington-examiner-report\">MAJOR LEFT-WING CHARITY UNABLE TO PROCESS CREDIT CARD DONATIONS FOLLOWING WASHINGTON EXAMINER REPORT<\/a><\/u><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The State Department has provided small grants to the Movement for Quality Government, including a grant signed in 2020 during the previous administration and continued under the Biden administration that focused on teaching civic education and supporting good governance,&#8221; An agency spokesperson spoke to the outlet. &#8220;The last tranche of funding was awarded in September 2022. The money was meant to be used for democracy training programs in the Israeli school system.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu, 73, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/benjamin-netanyahu-securing-future-israel-western-alliance\">was elected to a sixth term<\/a> In December 2022. In December 2022. <\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<figure class=\"Figure mb-1 mb-sm-3 mb-md-1 article-lead-photo data_invisible\" data-align=\"right\" data-image-size=\"fixed\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n<div class=\"Figure-container\"> <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"767\" height=\"443\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_md\"><\/source><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" width=\"767\" height=\"443\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_md\"><\/source><source media=\"(max-width: 1440px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"645\" height=\"372\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_xl\"><\/source><source media=\"(max-width: 1440px)\" width=\"645\" height=\"372\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_xl\"><\/source><source type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"1060\" height=\"612\" data-image-size=\"1060x600\"><\/source><source width=\"1060\" height=\"612\" data-image-size=\"1060x600\"><\/source>                                 <\/picture><figcaption class=\"Figure-caption\" itemprop=\"caption\">                 Benjamin Netanyahu.                <\/figcaption><div class=\"Figure-credit\" itemprop=\"author\">                 (Balazs Mohai\/MTI via AP)                <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>MQG claims it is &#8220;nonpartisan,&#8221; It has been in existence since 1990. This entity has incited anti-Netanyahu demonstrations which were slammed both in Israel, and internationally. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/united-states\">United States<\/a>This included an event that took place outside of the Tel Aviv, Israel hair salon in March where Sara Netanyahu, Sara&#8217;s 64 year-old spouse, was getting her hair styled. <i>Washington Free Beacon <\/i>reported. <\/p>\n<p>According to grants records, MQG received approximately $10,000 to $15,000 from the State Department each year between 2020 and 2021. According to records, the department was identified as the only foreign donor of MQG. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although relatively small (52,000 shekels \u2014 about $15,000 at the time) ostensibly for teaching Israeli high school students about democracy, the MQG is a very visible political NGO,&#8221; Gerald Steinberg, President of NGO Monitor (an Israeli watchdog) <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ngo-monitor.org\/\">group<\/a>He told them the <i>Washington Examiner<\/i>. &#8220;They frequently use the Israeli High Court&#8217;s open-door policy to gain publicity for their partisan political c<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;Learn More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign\/state-department-funds-left-wing-protests-israel-benjamin-netanyahu\">State Department funds left-wing group behind protests against Israeli prime minister<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THe State Department Tens of thousands of dollars were granted to an organization of left-wing protestors. Israel For Prime Minister Benjamin NetanyahuRecords show. Non-profit organization The Movement for Quality Government has been organizing protests Netanyahu is the chairman of right-wing Likud Party according Multiple reports. Since 2020, this same entity received more than $38,000 from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1896561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[4724,4543,5779,5129,8521,8522,3970],"class_list":["post-1869084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-department","tag-funds","tag-israeli","tag-left-wing","tag-minister","tag-prime","tag-protests"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869084","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1869084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1896561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1869084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1869084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1869084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}