A far-left wing Israeli organization, Molad, has filed a lawsuit against Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son for a Facebook post it claims is libelous for claiming the organization was “radical and anti-Zionist” and funded by foreign interests.
As an Associated Press article notes, Netanyahu’s son was “…responding to a post on social media by Molad criticizing him after he reportedly refused to pick up after the family dog at a public park. He signed his Facebook rebuttal with middle finger and poo emojis. Molad’s lawyers seek a public apology from the prime minister’s son and $39,000 in damages.”
In Netanyahu’s post, he claimed that Molad was funded by the radical American non-profit The New Israel Fund. In a play on words in Hebrew, he called the organization "The Israel Destruction Fund."
According to NGO monitor, Molad stopped accepting funds in March 2016 from the New Israel Fund. According to documents apparently leaked from the George Soros-founded Open Society Foundation, since 2013, Molad has received two grants from OSF totaling $200,000.
NGO Monitor notes examples of Molad's anti-Israel radicalism:
In June 2015, Mikhael Manekin, current Fellow and former Executive Director at Molad, stated that “If settlement labeling teaches us anything, it is that there is an overwhelming consensus in the world that Israel’s control of the West Bank is illegitimate… a measure against Israel’s presence in the West Bank.”
Molad published a December 2013 report, “Alliance in Crisis: Israel’s Standing in the World and the Question of Isolation,” which placed sole responsibility for the continuation of the conflict and unfavorable international opinion on Israeli policies in the West Bank and Gaza.
On October 29, 2013, founder and then staff member Avrum Burg published an opinion article on Mondoweiss, an extreme anti-Israel blog, promoting a “one-state” framework for the Arab-Israeli conflict (“We must enter a new Israeli discourse based in equality, justice, and freedom”). The article was part of a series on the blog, “What Comes Next?: A forum on the end of the two-state paradigm,” initiated by Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), a U.S.-based NGO that views itself as the “Jewish wing” of the Palestinian solidarity movement and seeks to create “a wedge” in the Jewish community over support for Israel.
In June 2012, Avraham Burg, supporting the BDS movement, wrote in The Independent,
I have decided to not buy any product that comes from the settlements. I do not cross the Green Line, not to promote public causes and not for family events. Because everything happening across the Green Line is the dark alter ego of Israel. Its hidden personality is manifest there. Evil, aggressive and impenetrable. This personality threatens to take over the good and humane parts of the legitimate Israel. With international help, we must return these demons to their bottles, or rather to those positive domains for which this state was established.
Netanyahu’s lawyer said in a statement that the “aggressive” suit sought to silence the prime minister’s son.