NIF

Counter-report accuses Im Tirzu of distorting truth about Goldstone Report.

High Court accused of regarding itself as “a branch of the NIF rather than of the State of Israel."

Last week, Im Tirtzu ("If you will it"), a relatively new purportedly-Zionist group, organized a brutal campaign against the New Israel Fund (NIF), an organization committed to democratic change and social justice in Israel, which has - in the last three decades - supported more than 800 cutting-edge civil society organizations.

Co-authored by Jesse Bacon, JVP Board Member and co-editor of theonlydemocracy.org.

Over the last week there has been a significant outcry in Israel and in some Jewish circles in the US about an ugly, anti-Semitic, and sexist ad campaign against the US-based New Israel Fund (NIF), a key funder of Israeli civil society and human rights groups.

Disclosures that the New Israel Fund aids anti-Israel groups have split Diaspora Jews, some of them defending the NIF and others castigating it.

Former Likud campaign manager who targeted NIF was involved in 2004 gov't referendum.

The Israeli student group Im Tirtzu is saying that there could be no Goldstone report without groups supported by the New Israel Fund. Does Im Tirtzu's report on NIF back up that claim?

A campaign against the New Israel Fund -- a U.S.-based organization that funds civil society activists in Israel -- has sparked a fierce debate over the limits of free speech, the financing of NGOs, the dictates of loyalty to the state and, ultimately, over the fundamental values of Israel's Zionist democracy.

Minister of Welfare condemns 'hunting people down based upon their views' and attempts 'to prevent protest.'

Next week, Bibi Netanyahu will be celebrating his first (and may it be the last) anniversary of his February 10 election victory.

After one year in office, Bibi's got reasons to be fairly pleased with himself. Security-wise, 2009 was the quietest year in the past decade.