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Pro-Israel Group’s Money Trail Veers Hard Right

by Eli Clifton, October 22, 2009

StandWithUs — an "organization that ensures that Israel’s side of the story is told" — has become increasingly aggressive in challenging the "pro-Israel" credentials of moderate Jewish-American groups, going so far as to suggest that receiving money from Arab donors and supporters of Human Rights Watch undermines a group’s commitment to Israel and peace.

J Street — the "Pro-Israel and Pro-Peace" advocacy group — faced criticism last week for accepting contributions from donors who have been critical of Israeli government actions.

But an IPS investigation into the tax records of the donors to StandWithUs, which professes to be ideologically neutral, found a web of funders who support organizations that have been accused of anti-Muslim propaganda and encouraging a militant Israeli and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.

Some of these organizations have tied the origins of Palestinian nationalism to Nazi ideology, and suggested that a vast Muslim conspiracy — in a similar vein to the anti-Semitic Protocols of the Elders of Zion — is mobilizing to undermine the U.S. constitution and impose Sharia law.

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