Im Tirtzu
Coca Cola Donates to ‘Fascist’ Israeli Group
Coca Cola Israel gave more than $10,000 to Im Tirtzu, an Israeli group that targets human rights organizations.
Right-Wing Group Sorry for Calling Israeli Artists ‘Traitors’
A right-wing Israeli group apologized for a controversial campaign calling leftist artists “foreign agents.”
Right-Wing Group Ripped for Ads Targeting Israeli Artists as Traitors
Israeli officials from across the political spectrum have denounced the right-wing group Im Tirtzu for an ad campaign that attacks Israeli performers and artists affiliated with left-wing groups as traitors.
Lame Effort To Counter Generals' Attack on Bibi
A new ad aims to counter the outpouring of opposition to Benjamin Netanyahu by retired military brass. J.J. Goldberg says it winds up highlighting just how serious the anti-Bibi effort is.
Knesset Briefs: Kahanist on Board, Bennett's Soccer Foul & More
The final deadline passed this afternoon for Israel’s political parties to register for the March 17 Knesset elections. Several last-minute decisions will substantially affect the map in the weeks ahead:
Right Wing Gadfly Group Has Day in Knesset
Im Tirtzu, the right-wing Israeli truth squad best known for bashing the New Israel Fund, allowed itself a victory lap this week after taking credit for an “emergency” gathering in the Knesset on “delegitimization of Israel.”
Knesset Slimers Retreat After Foxman Slams Defamation of New Israel Fund (update)
The threatened Knesset investigation of the New Israel Fund by the Israeli right has been halted, for now, following several angry phone calls to Knesset speaker Reuven Rivlin from irate American Jewish communal leaders, warning that an Israeli investigation could backfire on other Jewish organizations involved in Israel. Abe Foxman of ADL is quoted telling the New York Jewish Week it was “absurd to blame Goldstone on the NIF.” He told Barnea himself that the probe was “almost undemocratic.”
Rightists Target New Israel Fund Over Grantees’ Goldstone Testimony
A right-wing Israeli activist group is waging a multi-pronged public campaign to discredit the New Israel Fund (NIF), which supports human-rights groups in Israel.