NIF CEO: Banning Amnesty Staffer “Confirms Our Fears… Policy of Autocracies, Not Democracies”

On Monday, Israel denied entry to Amensty International staff member Raed Jarrar, after extensive questioning about Amnesty’s support of a boycott of products from settlements in the West Bank.

NIF CEO: “We Don’t Support BDS. Kansas Law Harms Israel And Free Speech.”

Today, in response to a lawsuit filed by the ACLU challenging a Kansas law that imposes penalties on those who call for boycott of Israel or Israeli settlements, Daniel Sokatch, CEO of the New Israel Fund, released the following statement.

For the Love of a Democratic Israel

Israel’s new boycott law sacrifices the great ideological pillars behind Israel’s establishment for political expediency in the service of a hard-line ethno-nationalist ideology. It now falls to the judiciary, to civil society, and to supporters of Israel to act as a check on the runaway train that is the Netanyahu government.

Mobilizing Dissent: How We Responded to Jen’s Detention

I am proud of the message that we sent to the authorities: democracies don’t shut down or keep out dissenting voices. Rather, they welcome the debate. That is the essence of democratic society.

OpEd: American Jews Are New Target of Israel’s Unprecedented Escalation Against Civil Society

In this op-ed, which was originally published in Haaretz, NIF VP of Finance, Operations and Administration Jennifer Gorovitz writes: “Given Netanyahu’s repression of dissent, perhaps I shouldn’t have been surprised that Israel’s border control considered me a ‘national security risk’.”

NIF’s positions on BDS and Universal Jurisdiction

Go straight to the source. Get your facts about where NIF stands on these issues.

Background on Torossian / Geller Campaign

A smear campaign misrepresenting NIF’s position on BDS, on Universal Jurisdiction, and other matters is underway. Get the facts here.

Don’t Ban Us From the Celebrate Israel Parade

NIF CEO Daniel Sokatch writes in The Forward about the politics of exclusion, and what comes next.

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Statement of the New Israel Fund: Baloney. Distortions. Simply Not True.

Yet again, the NGO Monitor distorts the facts in a misleading attempt to associate the New Israel Fund with the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement.