Every day things are changing. A progressive's election changes the water in the aquarium. David Ignatius in the Washington Post has a fabulous piece attacking the tax-deductible funds that fuel the Israeli colonies. He makes the point we've made many times here:
Yet private organizations in the United States continue to raise
tax-exempt contributions for the very activities that the [U.S.] government
opposes.
He focuses on Friends of Ir David and the Hebron Fund. Ignatius should check out our coverage of the Central Fund of Israel, which gives money to settler militias, to meet their "urgent security needs," and is supported by the likes of Michael Milken, James Tisch, and Ace Greenberg. The support for the wicked settlement project runs throughout American political life...
It is also truly shameful that millions upon millions of dollars in pension funds (from labor unions, teachers' unions, etc) have been
invested in badly-paying Israeli bonds, largely because of the heavily
Zionist leadership of these unions.
All American taxpayers pay indirectly for those fanatical settlements supported by donations from tax-exempt organizations here in the USA–directly conflicting with official USA foreign policy. Our government does nothing about it. The IRS has all the records. Those organizations should be denied
their exempt tax status.