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LORI LOWENTHAL MARCUS FOR Z-STREET: NEW ISRAEL FUND’S VISION FOR A MORE DEMOCRATIC ISRAEL….ARAB MAJORITY

Posted By Ruth King on September 5th, 2011

New Israel Fund’s vision for a more democratic Israel: an Arab majority state!

Lori Lowenthal Marcus
president, Z STREET
WWW.ZSTREET.ORG

09/04/11 A new batch of Wikileaks has been posted, and there’s quite an interesting entry about the background to the effort in the Israeli knesset to pass an NGO transparency law which would require NGOs to reveal where their funding comes from.  In addition to some information about how much the delegitimizers of Israel are funded by the Europeans, we also learn that an official with the New Israel Fund envisions a brighter future for Israel, one that will be more democratic – when there is an Arab majority!

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Last Updated on Sunday, 04 September 2011 14:31

This is from the latest Wikileaks cable:
¶7. (C) New Israel Fund (NIF) Associate Director in Israel Hedva Radovanitz, who manages grants to 350 NGOs totaling about 18 million dollars per year, told PolOff on February 23 that the campaign against the NGOs was due to the “disappearance of the political left wing” in Israel and the lack of domestic constituency for the NGOs. She noted that when she headed ACRI’s Tel Aviv office, ACRI had 5,000 members, while today it has less than 800, and it was only able to muster about 5,000 people to its December human rights march by relying on the active staff of the 120 NGOs that participated. Radovanitz commented that the NIF was working behind the scenes through many NGOs to prevent the NGO legislation from passing in its current form. She commented that she believed that in 100 years Israel would be majority Arab and that the disappearance of a Jewish state would not be the tragedy that Israelis fear since it would become more democratic. She also said the NIF was currently re-evaluating its strategy and was hoping to create a movement rather than just a lot of NGOs. She said the NIF had no plans to build a human rights constituency within the right wing of Israeli society, though she believed politics had shifted to the right for the foreseeable future. www.zstreet.org

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