‘NIF creates the Israeli society Netanyahu brags about when he travels the world’

Published: 14 October 2017

Last updated: 4 March 2024

“WHEN THE CZAR in Russia would have a problem, he would say, ‘The Jews are to blame! Strike at the Jews and save Russia!’ Throughout history, the moment you’re in a severe political crisis, when you’ve got nothing to offer, when you’re unsuccessful, you point to someone else and say that they’re the problem. Usually, it’s a minority that isn’t in power and is in a state of maximum vulnerability.”

As the son of a Jewish family that immigrated to Israel from the Soviet Union, Mickey Gitzin is familiar with that sense of persecution, but now he’s experiencing it from a different direction in his capacity as the New Israel Fund’s new executive director in Israel.

The New Israel Fund is an umbrella organisation that promotes civil society and human rights in Israel—or, as Yair Netanyahu succinctly describes it: the 'Israel Destruction Fund.'

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Another common charge against NIF is that it is not an Israeli organisation because its funding comes primarily from American Jews

Photo: Mickey Gitzin (Shaul Golan)