Dr. Aaron Lerner
IMRA
20 September '10
"We allocate grants to whoever believes in the right of the Jewish People to self determination, and whoever sees Israel as a democracy, for everyone. If someone would act, not say something, but will act significantly against this principle and other principles of the NIF, I assume that he will not be entitled for a grant."
Rachel Liel, NIF-Israel Executive Director interviewed on Israel Radio's "Seder Yom" program
20 September 2010
In other words, a radical Israeli organization that openly and vocally opposes the right of the Jewish People to self determination - for example the Israeli Arab group Adallah, that calls for revoking the Law of Return that grants Jews from the Diaspora the right to Israeli citizenship if they immigrate to Israel, could continue to receive NIF funding since this is only "saying something"?
So just what exactly constitutes "acting"?
Lying down on the runway at Ben Gurion to block planes landing with Jewish immigrants?
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In other words, a radical Israeli organization that openly and vocally opposes the right of the Jewish People to self determination - for example the Israeli Arab group Adallah, that calls for revoking the Law of Return that grants Jews from the Diaspora the right to Israeli citizenship if they immigrate to Israel, could continue to receive NIF funding since this is only "saying something"?
So just what exactly constitutes "acting"?
Lying down on the runway at Ben Gurion to block planes landing with Jewish immigrants?
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The NIF wants to have it both ways.
ReplyDeleteWhat is clear is it isn't a Zionist organization of any stripe.