If you missed my article for The Forward of the NIF controversy, here's the link, and a couple of paragraphs:

Granted, the criticism of NIF was at times ugly in tone, too personal and quite disgusting in its use of tasteless images of NIF's president, Naomi Chazan (the kinds of things one typically finds in fierce Israeli debates). But it is also a manifestation of real concerns and legitimate frustrations that Israelis have with the way liberal American Jews and their Israeli emissaries try to affect Israeli society.

Yes, it was a blunt message: NIF, we don't like how you strengthen organizations that we find harmful to Israel. We don't like that your grants support anti-Zionist Arab groups, that you help people who busy themselves bad-mouthing Israel and its policies around the world, that you have too many friends who seem to think that Israel can do no right, that you seem quite unmoved by the anxieties of Israelis who worry about the likes of the Goldstone Report and quite unready to share the burden of rebutting unfair criticisms of Israel.

I don't expect NIF and its beneficiaries to enjoy such a message. But this isn't McCarthyism. It's telling the NIF crowd the blunt truth, and maybe, hopefully, making them realize that while they're busy making their liberal benefactors abroad happy, they've lost touch with Israelis.

http://cgis.jpost.com/Blogs/rosner/entry/a_blunt_message_to_nif

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