New Israel Fund
A collection of quotes by the vile Zionist propaganda organization The New Israel Fund (NIF)
“If the occupation of Lod and Ramle wouldn’t have happened, there wouldn’t be a state of Israel. Now we have to move forward. The president of this country encourages this beautifully.”
“Israel before 1967 was not an occupier, that’s the State of Israel.”
https://www.nif.org.au/daniel_sokatch_interview_june_2015
“In the document defined as ‘guidelines’ of the New Israel Fund, three criteria are noted, that if organizations violate them, their grants from the NIF will be cut off. Two of them are encouraging evading service in the IDF and advancing the boycott against Israel. [...] The third criteria deals with “organizations that call for putting Israeli soldiers on trial abroad.”
“There are boycott people saying that Israel has been an occupier since 1948. But even the BDS movement is not stupid enough to present it this way.”
Q: Are Tel Aviv or Jaffa also occupied?
A: “No. You are speaking like the BDS extremists. Red lines were drawn, and according to them, the definition of the Occupation is from 1967.”
“Omar Barghouti who created BDS, decided that the New Israel Fund is also an organization to boycott, and he’s right to an extent — we are a proud Israeli organization that promotes Israel.”
https://www.nif.org.au/daniel_sokatch_interview_june_2015
“We firmly oppose attempts to prosecute Israeli officials in foreign courts as an inherent principle of our dedication to Israeli democracy”
https://newisraelfund.org.uk/about-us/faq/
“We see that Israel [inside 48] has a lot of problems. It has systemic, institutional discrimination, like America, like Britain, but it’s in no way, shape or form anything like apartheid”.
https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/1368729-2/
“We oppose the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.”
“We have written before, and will again, that we think the BDS movement is at best misguided and at worst an attempt to eradicate Israel as the Jewish homeland.”
“… concerned about damage to Israel’s status as a liberal democracy.”
https://www.nif.org/blog/opposing-the-asa-boycott-a-hopefully-flawed-israel/
“What do you call a movement that polarizes and even penalizes the progressive community, increases the intransigence of ordinary Israelis, and provides political cover for the most extreme right-wing ultra-nationalists?
These days, progressives should call that movement Global BDS.”
“We can support political leaders and organizations, in the U.S. and Israel, with a demonstrated commitment to democracy and a two state solution. Let’s do that, and relegate Global BDS to the trash-heap of failed strategies, where it belongs.”
“[NIF affiliate] has been called to account by BDS proponents who demand that this organization — which empowers the most open-minded Israelis — take political positions regarding very divisive issues, come out in favor of the Palestinian right of return, and stop “enabling the occupation. Seriously?”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-leftists-critique-of-bds
“The NIF opposes the global BDS movement, views the use of these tactics as counterproductive, and is concerned that segments of this movement seek to undermine the existence of the state of Israel as a Jewish homeland. NIF will not fund global BDS activities against Israel nor support organizations that have global BDS programs.”
https://newisraelfund.org.uk/about-us/faq/
“Although anti-Zionists root Israel’s growing acceptance of racism in the Jewish nature of the state, claiming that Israel is and will always be an ethnocentric society that cannot help but exclude and discriminate, we at NIF reject that. For all of its complexities, there’s nothing about the makeup of Israel that leads inexorably to racism.”
“We advance Israeli democracy, and try to build a society based on the values of the Declaration of Independence of this country. This is why I work here as a proud liberal Zionist.”
“NIF members are the ones that fought so that Alice Miller could be a pilot in the air force. We represent the Alice Millers of Israel”
“We promote Israel as a country that produces people who champion human rights, by promoting the rights of LGBTs and minorities. What is happening now in Israel is similar to the human rights movement that occurred in the United States in the 60s.”
“[…] oppose parts of the Goldstone Report, specifically the claim that the IDF intentionally harmed civilians.”
“You won’t feel that these people are trying to demonize the nation of Israel. They are patriots who say ‘we were soldiers and officers in combat units, we documented the commands we were given, transferred the information to the Chief of Staff, and they ignored us.’”
“The Israeli government is persisting in policies that undermine Israel’s status as a liberal democracy. […] These are the issues that real friends of Israel must address.”
