Friday, June 23, 2017

Satirical Piece on Uri Blau

After Blau published this piece,

Exclusive Firebrand Anti-leftist Group, Which Slams Foreign Funding of Israeli NGOs, Received Over $1M From U.S. Donors
Majority of funding in 2015 to Im Tirtzu, a frequent and outspoken critic of Israeli human rights organizations, came from two U.S. groups close to Netanyahu and the GOP
which is BS as the money is not from foreign governments like all the leftist NGOs and there is no comparison, I was sent this satirical piece:

Seeking to rebuild his reputation after a conviction for leaking classified information, Uri Blau has set out on a courageous mission to show how right wing political groups in Israel are in fact foreign political agents. This bold moves comes as the investigation into possible collusion between President Trumps campaign team and the Russian Government, and the possibility this may have undermined democracy by impacting the US election, continues to make headlines across the world. Blau has has made a bold effort to borrow from reporting on the US scandal littering his piece with references to the GOP. 

Blau's creative article shows how leading American Jews with right of center views play leading roles in supporting both right of center American causes and in supporting right of center Israeli causes. He even reveals that Israel's Prime Minister, Bibi Netanyahu, who heads a right of center party is close to people heading the American friends of his party. This will no doubt come as a shocking revelation to many, Blau has made an extraordinary contribution to journalism in exposing these connection. He should share any journalism prizes for this contribution with the source, revealed in his article, who gave him that critical breakthrough by suggesting he use the Google Search Engine to find the answers to his questions. 

Unfortunately neither the comparison to the alleged involvement of the Russian state in influencing the US election, nor the comparison to the very real direct foreign government funding of political NGOs in Israel and their efforts to influence Israeli domestic politics compares well to the situation Blau discovered at the right of center Israeli NGO Im Tirtzu. For a start, the majority of Im Tirtzu's funding came from Israelis. Compare this to... (insert content). For another things, the foreign funding Im Tirtzu received came not from governments but from individual charitable donations. 

What Blau's article titled "Exclusive Firebrand Anti-leftist Group, Which Slams Foreign Funding of Israeli NGOs, Received Over $1M From U.S. Donors" actually exposes is the fact that Jewish community leaders in the US support Israel. Just as left of center community leaders in the United States run left of center groups and raise funds for left of center Israeli NGOs, so do right of center groups run right of center groups and collect money for right of center Israeli NGOS. What it fails to highlight is that these donations on the right, coming from individuals, are a boost to civil society in Israel and not the hijacking of civil society that has occurred in response to payments from foreign governments who have through their funding taken control of the activities of much of the left of civil society. 

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