Speaking with me by phone, Shoval explained what he regards as the connections: “What we see as 16 separate groups are really the different hands of the same body, which instigates and directs them … to incite against IDF soldiers and Israel.” The various “hands” of the NIF, he claimed, are deliberately “aiding Hamas in its war against Israel” by making soldiers fear to fight. “The purpose of the New Israel Fund is to dismantle Israel as a Jewish state,” he told me, and the human-rights terminology of groups it supports “serves Communist interests.”
via Free Speech and Funding in Israel | The American Prospect.
