Posted on May 1, 2025
State Department To Dismantle Anti-Israel Grantmaking Office in Effort To Rein In ‘Rogue People’...
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A little-known grantmaking entity within the State Department created an anti-Israel program without adequate authorization during the Biden administration. Now, President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio plan to shut it down.
The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) offered nearly $1 million to nonprofit groups for investigating alleged human rights abuses in Israel, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank, the Washington Free Beacon reported in 2022. DRL instructed applicants to "collect, archive, and maintain human rights documentation to support justice and accountability and civil society-led advocacy efforts, which may include documentation of legal or security sector violations and housing, land, and property rights."
The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) offered nearly $1 million to nonprofit groups for investigating alleged human rights abuses in Israel, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank, the Washington Free Beacon reported in 2022. DRL instructed applicants to "collect, archive, and maintain human rights documentation to support justice and accountability and civil society-led advocacy efforts, which may include documentation of legal or security sector violations and housing, land, and property rights."
State Department To Dismantle Anti-Israel Grantmaking Office in Effort To Rein In ‘Rogue People’...
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Very misleading headlines. There is nothing in the article to support the claim of this being
anti-Israel.
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor is still operational
From the article"
"The State Department's plan involves closing down the Office of Global Programs, eliminating a 38-person staff of career bureaucrats and transferring remaining grant programs to regional offices."
anti-Israel.
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor is still operational
From the article"
"The State Department's plan involves closing down the Office of Global Programs, eliminating a 38-person staff of career bureaucrats and transferring remaining grant programs to regional offices."
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MSG Thomas Currie
I suppose it would be possible to investigate human rights abuses in Israel and Gaza on an impartial basis, but it seems highly unlikely that any such impartial basis was being conducted or even espoused.
The wording of the program, asking for grant recipients "collect, archive, and maintain human rights documentation to support justice and accountability and civil society-led advocacy efforts, which may include documentation of legal or security sector violations and housing, land, and property rights." focuses entirely on claims made against Israel for supposedly denying so-called Palestinians housing, land and property rights.
These grants would be paying people to document unfair legal practices while totally ignoring human rights violations committed against Israelis because those offenses are largely outside the law.
The wording of the program, asking for grant recipients "collect, archive, and maintain human rights documentation to support justice and accountability and civil society-led advocacy efforts, which may include documentation of legal or security sector violations and housing, land, and property rights." focuses entirely on claims made against Israel for supposedly denying so-called Palestinians housing, land and property rights.
These grants would be paying people to document unfair legal practices while totally ignoring human rights violations committed against Israelis because those offenses are largely outside the law.
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