Deputy foreign minister warns Europe to stop funding left-wing groups
Source: Times of Israel
Hotovely says B’Tselem, other NGOs are working to ‘blacken Israel’s name'; threatens ‘foreign agents’ legislation
Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely has warned representatives of the European Union that Jerusalem may make their countries’ funding of left-wing NGOs illegal, according to a Tuesday report.
European governments have contributed between 100-200 million euros to groups, Hotovely said, that actively “work to blacken Israel’s name in the world, accuse it of ethnic cleansing, apartheid and war crimes.”
Some of these groups, Hotovely claimed, even contribute funds to terror groups.
B’Tselem, Breaking the Silence, the Adalah Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel and the Coalition of Women for Peace are among the organizations that Hotovely fingered for getting support from foreign governments.
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