What Biden’s NGOs Are Really Buying in Israel - And It’s Not Peace
It’s hard to believe anyone was truly shocked by the explosive revelation of the Biden administration’s massive financial support for the protests against Israel’s judicial reform. In fact, the same many-tentacled octopus funding the Kaplan demonstrations with one hand is simultaneously supporting Hamas and BDS with the other - spreading its progressive venom to every corner of the globe it can reach.
Anyone with even basic knowledge of how aggressively global left-wing organizations interfere in Israeli affairs understands that their meddling began long before Minister of Justice Yariv Levin attempted some modest reforms aimed merely at slightly diversifying judicial appointments and restoring democratic representation to court rulings.
A Missing Piece
Yet one thing is missing from the report - and I suspect the day will come when it too is exposed: the degree to which these same organizations have funded the so-called “Hostage Protest,” which seeks to halt the war through a surrender agreement that would hand Hamas a strategic victory.
How much money was poured into shaping a media atmosphere that paints any rational critic of such a deal as an “extremist”? How did it come to be that in a publication like Yated Ne’eman, which typically would never feature writers outside the ultra-Orthodox mainstream, there’s suddenly a weekly column by the mother of a hostage - a woman who almost certainly does not vote for Degel HaTorah, whose children don’t attend traditional Haredi schools - yet she is given a public platform to pull on readers’ heartstrings in the name of “a deal at any cost”?
How much was invested to ensure that every news outlet, across sectors, echoes a tone of “optimism” about the deal, even when everyone knows what such an “optimistic forecast” really means?
And considering that these same organizations support official terrorist groups and the boycott movement against Israel, does one really need a “core curriculum” education to put two and two together and see that anyone funding Hamas commandos with one hand and an Israeli capitulation with the other is not exactly pursuing Israel’s best interests?
The Logical Collapse
Yet here we run up against the same brick wall, the absolute refusal to engage logically, the eruption of unrestrained emotion coming from precisely those who pride themselves on being analytical, rational, and fact-driven. These are the very people who scoff at the joy of Jews dancing with a Torah scroll, who don’t understand what’s moving about reclaiming a Jewish home in the Old City, who look at a Jew waving a lulav with puzzled detachment, who see tears on Tisha B’Av as primitive sentiment. And yet now they throw logic to the wind, embracing emotion wholesale to push for the surrender deal they crave.
No, they haven’t suddenly become sensitive or spiritual. These are the same people working to dismantle the family unit and traditional society. Their sudden “solidarity” is a mask. When a Jew is murdered in Yitzhar, their empathy is nowhere to be found. The truth is: this well-oiled, many-armed octopus is operating exactly according to plan, the plan to dissolve the Jewish people and its state.
We Must Demand More
We can’t expect much from those disconnected from Torah and mitzvot, immersed in secular cosmopolitanism, those who Dr. Gadi Taub aptly labeled “The Mobile Class”: rootless, globalist elites detached from their people and heritage. But from the majority of Israel’s citizens, who do feel connected to our land and legacy, we must expect better.
And especially from those who understand the spiritual essence of our nation, who know we are God’s people bound to His Torah — we must demand a deep and painful soul-searching: How did we allow Israel’s fiercest enemies to use us as pawns in their cynical games, waving hollow slogans like “Pidyon Shvuyim” and “Pikuach Nefesh”, words once sacred, now hijacked for betrayal.
A Call from the Torah
The Torah says in Deuteronomy (Devarim 4:5–6):
“See, I have taught you statutes and judgments, as the Lord my God commanded me, to do so in the land you are entering to possess. Keep them and do them, for this is your wisdom and understanding in the eyes of the nations, who will hear of these laws and say: Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
The time has come to live that wisdom in practice.
Rabbi Yehuda Epstein is the chairman of Kedushat Zion, the Association of Haredim for a Sanctified Return to Zion.