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Coca Cola in Israel donated 50,000 shekels, or about $13,850 to Im Tirtzu, a right wing group that targets leftists and human rights groups in Israel. The donation was first reported by Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. Im Tirtzu had tried to keep the donation secret by requesting the Israel Corporations Authority not to report it….
A right-wing Israeli group apologized for a controversial campaign calling leftist artists “foreign agents” and “traitors.” Matan Peleg, the director of the group Im Tirtzu, wrote on Facebook Friday that his organization did not “sufficiently consider” the new campaign. “Dear friends, we erred,” the group wrote on its official Facebook page. “We posted a mistaken…
JERUSALEM — 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. The campaign comes on the heels of an Im Tirtzu campaign introduced last month that singled out four Israeli human rights activists and…
A right-wing Israeli activist group tried today to counter the anti-Netanyahu campaign of a reserve generals’ peace group, Commanders for Israel’s Security, by announcing its own list of “Officers and Soldiers Against the Partisan-Political Use of the IDF.” The pro-Netanyahu daily Israel Hayom reported on Monday that Im Tirtzu, best known for its attacks on…
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: Kahanism Redux: Eli Yishai, the former Shas party chairman who quit in December and formed his own religious-right party, Yahad-Ha’am Itanu (“Together – The People…
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.” Unfortunately, as with so much else the organization touches, the facts of the case are a bit murky. Im…
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…
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. The activist group, Im Tirtzu (“If you will it” — from Theodor Herzl’s epigram “If you will it, it is no dream”), made the Friday (January 29) front page of Maariv,…
