{"id":1977405,"date":"2023-07-19T13:51:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T17:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-left-wing-foundations-bankroll-activists-behind-anti-israel-campaign-propaganda\/"},"modified":"2023-07-19T13:52:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T17:52:52","slug":"top-left-wing-foundations-bankroll-activists-behind-anti-israel-campaign-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-left-wing-foundations-bankroll-activists-behind-anti-israel-campaign-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Top left-wing foundations bankroll activists behind anti-Israel campaign: &#8216;Propaganda&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Ftop-left-wing-foundations-bankroll-activists-behind-anti-israel-campaign-propaganda%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=1977405&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--><h2>Influential Liberal Foundations Fund Anti-Israel\u2063 Campaign<\/h2>\n<p>In a recent campaign to \u2062pressure the United \u200dStates\u200d government, a\u200b &#8220;human rights&#8221; organization \u2064funded by influential liberal foundations is demanding the revocation\u2064 of a visa for\u200b a top Israeli official, according to records. The charity, Democracy for the Arab World \u2062Now, \u2063led by anti-Israel activist Sarah Leah Whitson, has received\u2063 over \u2063$1 million in \u200cgrants from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-joe-biden-used-taxpayer-money-to-buy-young-voters-in-the-2022-midterms\/\" title=\"How Joe Biden Used Taxpayer Money To Buy Young Voters In The 2022 Midterms\">left-wing nonprofit groups<\/a>, including the Ford Foundation, which \u200chelps shape the Democratic Party&#8217;s agenda.<\/p>\n<h3>Grants\u200c Shed Light on Democratic-Linked Foundations<\/h3>\n<p>These \u200bgrants\u2063 provide insight into how Democratic-linked foundations\u200d in the\u2064 U.S. have\u200d supported entities\u2064 targeting Israel, despite ongoing terrorist attacks by groups\u200d like Hamas. Democracy for\u200b the Arab World\u2063 Now, founded by the\u2063 late Saudi dissident journalist\u200c Jamal \u2063Khashoggi, has\u2063 faced \u200bscrutiny due \u2064to \u2062controversial remarks made by\u200b Whitson about Israel. The Ford Foundation \u2063granted $1 \u200dmillion \u2064to DAWN in\u200c October 2022 to inform \u200bU.S. \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-high-time-for-america-firsters-to-push-for-untangling-ourselves-from-europe\/\" title=\"It\u2019s High Time For America Firsters To Push For Untangling Ourselves From Europe\">foreign policy debates<\/a> on human rights and \u200ddemocratization, while the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Open Society Foundations network \u2064also provided financial\u200c support.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Enabled \u2062by \u2064the Ford Foundation, DAWN\u200b promotes\u200b false and demonizing propaganda about Israel\u2062 behind the facade of \u2063support for human\u200c rights and\u200d democracy,&#8221; said \u2064Gerald \u200dSteinberg, \u200bpresident of \u200bNGO \u200bMonitor, an Israeli watchdog group.\u2063 &#8220;The false \u200cNGO claims about Israel feed demonization \u2062and antisemitism, including \u2062in\u2063 the U.S. Congress.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Israeli \u2062President&#8217;s Visit\u2064 and &#8220;Squad&#8221; Democrats<\/h2>\n<p>Israeli President Isaac Herzog&#8217;s visit to Washington coincided with the launch of the \u200danti-Israel\u2064 campaign. President Joe \u200bBiden reiterated his commitment to a\u200b negotiated two-state solution during\u200b their meeting. However, the joint meeting of\u200c Congress, which Herzog\u200c addressed, \u2063was\u200b boycotted by \u2064&#8221;Squad&#8221; Democrats, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, \u2063Ilhan \u2064Omar, and \u200dRashida Tlaib, \u200bwho\u2062 have \u200dfaced\u200c criticism for their anti-Israel \u200cties.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2064&#8221;Squad&#8221; members, along with six other\u200c Democrats, \u200bvoted\u2064 against \u2064a resolution offering \u2064support for Israel. Tlaib,\u2062 in particular, has made controversial\u200d statements about Israel, including \u200clabeling it\u200b an &#8220;apartheid\u2064 state.&#8221;\u200d DAWN helped organize an event at the Capitol lamenting Israel&#8217;s\u200c founding, according \u2064to a flyer.<\/p>\n<h3>Controversial\u2064 Allegations\u2062 and Board Members<\/h3>\n<p>DAWN, which\u200b has equated\u2063 Israel to \u200ban\u2064 &#8220;apartheid state,&#8221; alleged that Brigadier Gen. Naama\u200b Rosen-Grimberg may be guilty of \u200ca &#8220;potential \u2063war crime&#8221; based \u200don the detention of a Palestinian-American \u2063man. One of DAWN&#8217;s board \u200bmembers is Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council \u200con American-Islamic Relations,\u2064 an\u200d anti-Israel group.\u2064 Awad\u2062 has \u2062faced scrutiny \u2064for his past involvement\u200d with \u2064organizations \u2064linked \u2064to Hamas.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;DAWN seeks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-left-wing-foundations-bankroll-activists-behind-anti-israel-campaign-propaganda\/\" title=\"Left-wing foundations fund activists behind anti-Israel campaign: 'Propaganda'\">hold\u2064 accountable \u2062human\u2063 rights abusers<\/a>\u2063 from\u2062 governments supported by the\u2064 United States using the tools available \u2064to us under\u200c American laws, \u2063like Magnitsky sanctions and \u200cvisa bans,&#8221; said Omid\u2064 Memarian, a DAWN spokesman. \u2063&#8221;Our \u2062focus includes gross violations of\u2062 human \u200drights by officials in Israel, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the UAE, \u200band \u2063Egypt.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Foundation Funding and Targeting \u2062of\u200d Israel<\/h2>\n<p>The\u200b Ford Foundation, Open\u2063 Society Foundations,\u2064 and\u200b Rockefeller\u200b Brothers\u2062 Fund \u2064have been accused of\u200b funneling grants \u2063to \u200bentities \u2062targeting Israel.\u2062 The Ford Foundation provided\u200c significant funding to Amnesty \u2062International, which employs anti-Israel activists \u200cand BDS campaigners. Open Society Foundations and the Rockefeller\u2063 Brothers \u200cFund have\u2062 also contributed millions \u2062of dollars to Amnesty \u2062International and its affiliates.<\/p>\n<p>Requests for comment\u200d from the \u200cFord Foundation, Open Society \u200bFoundations, \u2064and \u2062Rockefeller Brothers \u2062Fund\u2063 were \u2062not returned.<\/p>\n<p><a \u200chref=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to\u2064 read more from the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Influential liberal foundations fund a &#8220;human rights&#8221; organization behind a recent anti-Israel campaign to pressure the United States government to revoke a visa for a top Israeli official, records show. Ahead of President Joe Biden&#8217;s Tuesday meeting with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, the charity Democracy for the Arab World Now launched an effort last week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1977406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":["post-1977405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/1977405","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=1977405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1977406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}