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Land Grab: Israeli settlements in the West Bank

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Gush Shalom campaigns to deny federal tax exempt status to US charities supporting settlements

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Last week I posted on an exciting new campaign that Gush Shalom is kicking off to cut off funding from the US for Israeli settlements. Now we have more information on the campaign directly from Gush Shalom itself, and the campaign is focused much more broadly than just money to the settlements.

The organization was kind enough to share more details on the campaign, which I’ve included below. In addition to targeting US-based non profit organizations which serve as financial conduits to the settlers, and larger Jewish charities, such as Nefesh B’Nefesh and the Jewish National Fund, that support projects in the occupied Palestinian territories, Gush Shalom is also going after “those supporting policies enabling illegal settlement activity through propaganda campaigns” such as StandWithUs and The Israel Project. Great work.

Israeli left begins to fight the settlers – in the US

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Israeli peace organizations are taking the lead on a campaign that should really be coming from Jewish organizations in the US – cutting off the funding for the settlements coming from the US. The Jerusalem Post reports that Gush Shalom is evidently taking up the cause partly in response to the Israeli government’s attempts to cut off European funding to Israeli peace organizations. One of the early targets of the campaign is going to be Shuva Israel which looks to be an evangelical Christian organization that supports Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Interestingly the campaign is going to move on to hit some cornerstones Jewish philanthropy including Nefesh B’Nefesh, the Jewish National Fund and the World Zionist Organization.

Israeli right welcomes US envoys with racist rally

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A rally was held this evening protesting the arrival of the US envoys in Israel. Members of National Union, Likud and Israel Beiteinu led the crowd, which included Kahanists wearing t-shirts saying “Kahane was right,” referring to Meir Kahane’s ideology of violence against all who stand in the way of the constant expansion of Jewish territory.

The people that attended the rally think that occupying another people and chanting racist slurs at the first black president of the United States (who was elected by a majority of American Jews who support him) is their expression of freedom and democracy. As a humanist and a pragmatist, it can feel very uneasy and unsafe in this country. (VIDEO)