Between war crimes, settlements, and intermittent military demolitions of Palestinian villages, the Israeli government faces a lot of criticism from human rights groups, and they don’t very much like it. Years of railing at such groups as “terror enablers” hasn’t gained much traction, however, and now Israeli Deputy FM Tzipi Hotovely has announced a major diplomatic push, demanding Europe and the rest of the world end all funding for human rights groups that have anything to say about Israel.
If your group has anything to do with peace, or a two-state solution, or has anything to say about equal rights irrespective of religion within Israel, you’re probably a target, and Hotovely insisted Israel will no longer allow such groups to “delegitimize” them with criticism.
Hotovely warned EU officials that if they didn’t agree to end all European funding to all human rights groups, the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, would pass a law to ban all the groups outright, suggesting that Europe could save the groups’ existence, albeit in a defunded manner, by blocking any money going to them.
Former FM Avigdor Lieberman, now in the opposition, tried to push a ban on many of these groups through the Knesset a few years back on the grounds that they are “terrorist organizations,” but it didn’t get very far. The Israeli court system has likewise taken a very dim view of efforts to stifle such groups.
Though Hotovely is couching the current effort as a way for countries to prevent an Israeli ban of the rights groups, the current far-right government in Israel is likely in an even worse position to try to worse such an effort through as it was when Lieberman tried it, and with no realistic chance of killing the groups politically, they are trying to badly damage them diplomatically.
Israel once again proves my point it is not a nation but only a sophisticated terrorist organization.
With America/s backing
How dare we question or ask Gods chosen to account for crime and suffering at there hands.
How dare we be antisemitic and point out their flaws.
*FLAWS* you jest *WAR CRIMES*
I was on my good mood day, lucky for the Jews.
But thumbs up to you, good friend anytime.
I wonder how a Jewish resident of 1940 occupied Europe would feel about Hotovely's move to suppress "criticism from human rights groups".
Is the human race incapable of doing the humane thing toward such a harmless and enslaved people?
For by their immense wealth are the Israelis able to get away with such brutal imperialism, by their immense poverty are the Palestine natives made so helpless and all to reach the ultimate conclusion of a planet created just to be a paradise for the rich.
Hotovely, the Israeli Ted Cruz. I hope Bibi is proud of this one because she will most likely be more of a problem than Avi was.
I would love to see Such a law passed here in states and see AIPAC and some hundreds of orthodox New England money laundering firms shut down as well.
I would love to see the removal of Educational groups that realy only represent Israel and remove any reality based discussions from our Halls of Education.
Not only do they limit speech against anything they deem possibly anti semitic they use the Jewish cardto insure they area few points above other. CandidTes in government and Education.
They have effectively destroyed funding reenues for ME and Islamic study courses on our “FREE SPEECH FREE EXPRESSION AND FREE ABILITY TO QUESTION ON OR BY ALL MAINLINE MEDIA.
It makes no diff if a Southern red neck or norther lobster that runs for public office even as president or a flaming gay democrat they are bought lock stoke and salted fish barrel by not Jewish Americans but Israelis interest. SO called Jewish americans are economicly gaining by Israels tactics.
Southern Poverty Law enter brow beats organizations who afraid of the destructive power SLC has through media pony up.
This constant demand for reparationsfromIsrael forWhat one nation did to some of them has becomeno more than blatant extortion.
Maybe at time we ban all critics of Israel we can ban the so calledChristian Zionist Zealots ; After all they do claim it is they who will inheit Jerusalem, after the convert or else the Jewish remnants.
Free speech is precious and to begin dismantling it while not ew and is largely successful in US where average males no more about their guns and second Amendment than truth about how their government runs.
We lost it a long while ago and in USmyou best not become too vocal about failurestowRds humanity’s non Jewish peoples or you could recieve knocks on door by officials, your internet hacked and buisness boycotted by Israels and americans.
If there were one thing Israel could do to alienate the West more than its behavior on the Iran deal, it is a general attack on all human rights groups.
They have not been given the South Africa treatment, but they are doing everything in their power to get that treatment. Good.
No way Zionist Israel, you will NEVER take down OR kill Human Rights Advocates or OUR collective work to out evil people’s and governments! We ARE & Will remain here on earth to make sure Evil Governments & people’s as you will be taken down! YOU Zionist Israel ARE beyond Evil, and we the people’s WILL take your Evil down and OUT !
You Zionist Israel Never should have been allowed Statehood !
Boycott Zionist Nazi Israel, take her to The Hague for Crimes Against Humanity !
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