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.
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…