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NIF CEO: Trump Signs Muslim Ban; Israel’s Government Enacts Progressive Ban
6 March 2017In response to the “Boycott Bill,” which passed in the Knesset today, New Israel Fund CEO Daniel Sokatch released the following statement . . .
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New Israel Fund CEO, VP Detained at Ben Gurion Airport Respond to Israel Denying Visas to Human Rights Watch:
24 February 2017“Every country has the right to decide to whom to grant visas. But having that right doesn’t make it any less wrong for Israel to decide to bar the entry of our colleagues at Human Rights Watch. . . this may be legal, but it’s morally unacceptable and anti-democratic.”
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Mobilizing Dissent: How We Responded to Jen’s Detention
23 February 2017I 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.
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OpEd: American Jews Are New Target of Israel’s Unprecedented Escalation Against Civil Society
13 February 2017In 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’.”
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We will not be stopped at Ben Gurion. We will not stop at all.
10 February 2017There is a context to the detention of an NIF Vice President at Ben Gurion Airport. It’s the years-long effort to demonize Israel’s civil rights sector.
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