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Source: https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-702100
U.S. Offering $1 Million to Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations
(Jerusalem Post) Lahav Harkov - The U.S. State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor is offering a grant of up to $987,654 for projects that include reporting human rights violations by Israel, raising concern about abuse by organizations seeking boycotts, sanctions and international law tribunals against Israel. Prof. Gerald Steinberg, Director of NGO Monitor, said the U.S. funding announcement is unprecedented. Steinberg wrote to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken saying that NGO projects of this kind "are exploited for campaigns targeting Israel. These grantees lobby the International Criminal Court and UN frameworks - such as biased Commissions of Inquiry - to sanction Israel, promote BDS and use the 'apartheid' label. In light of the Biden Administration's repeated rejection of such campaigns, we call on the State Department to reconsider this program." Human rights organizations targeting Israel are "an industry on the order of at least $50 million to Israel and Palestinian groups from European governments."