{"id":1912725,"date":"2023-04-10T21:10:27","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T01:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-senators-call-on-blinken-to-stop-funding-israeli-group-accused-of-influencing-protests-against-judicial-change\/"},"modified":"2023-04-10T21:18:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T01:18:37","slug":"gop-senators-call-on-blinken-to-stop-funding-israeli-group-accused-of-influencing-protests-against-judicial-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-senators-call-on-blinken-to-stop-funding-israeli-group-accused-of-influencing-protests-against-judicial-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators from the GOP urge Blinken to stop funding the Jewish team that is accused of inciting demonstrations against criminal change."},"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\">42<\/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%2Fgop-senators-call-on-blinken-to-stop-funding-israeli-group-accused-of-influencing-protests-against-judicial-change%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=1912725&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=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0410\/2ca1c245-e776-45d1-b646-ab7c1408e1f2\/audio.mp3?length=2254509&#038;duration=188\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The proposed changes to Israel&#8217;s&#8217;s court, including its Supreme Court, have been criticized by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and four Republican lawmakers have urged Secretary of State Antony Blinken to halt U.S. funding for the nonprofit company.<\/p>\n<p>Weed. signed the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewSolender\/status\/1645452253619159040?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> dated April 4. Tom Cotton( R &#8211; Ark. ) and Bill Hagerty, both from Tennessee. ), Marco Rubio( R &#8211; Florida ), and Ted Cruz, both from Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The Movement for Quality Government ( MQG ) and all other partisan groups in Israel are undermining one of our most powerful allies and interfering with their democracy, they wrote.&#8221; We write to urge the State Department to immediately stop funding them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The State Department has confirmed that it has sent over$ 38 000 to MQG, an Israeli volunteer that has helped organize \u2014 and has participated in \u2014 political protests against proposed legislation from Israel&#8217;s&#8217;s democratically elected government, despite long-standing U.S. train to refrain from funding international political organizations.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department has vehemently refuted claims that protests against the proposed changes \u2014 which call for the Knesset, Israel&#8217;s&#8217;s Parliament, to overturn Supreme Court rulings and allowing the government to appoint judges \u2014 have been funded.<\/p>\n<p>Vedant Patel, the department&#8217;s&#8217;s chief deputy press secretary, declared on March 27 that these charges were perfectly and blatantly untrue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; The Movement of Quality Government is an NGO, and it received a reasonable concession from the State Department that was started during the past leadership. The most recent funding disbursement occurred in September 2022, before the most recently held Jewish primaries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And this give provided funding for a program that added to Jerusalem schools&#8217; political studies curricula.<\/p>\n<p>Patel reaffirmed his claim two days later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four Republican senators have called on Secretary of State Antony Blinken to stop\u00a0U.S. funding for a nongovernmental organization that has been accused of influencing the protests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s proposed changes to Israel\u2019s judiciary\u2014including its Supreme Court. The April 4 letter was signed by Sens. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Ted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1797,"featured_media":1912726,"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":[543],"tags":[4029,4636,5103,3977,22820,6513,6203,5842,6906,3709,4000,4927],"class_list":["post-1912725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-accused","tag-blinken","tag-change","tag-criminal","tag-demonstrations","tag-funding","tag-gop","tag-inciting","tag-jewish","tag-senators","tag-team","tag-urge"],"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\/1912725","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\/1797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1912725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1912726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1912725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1912725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}