[Peace-discuss] at MoveOn: IRS: Investigate Tax-Exempt Support for West Bank Settlements

[Stuart Levy via Peace-discuss]

I don't know about saluting, but am happy to support this idea. Signed 
(sighned).


On 10/23/14 5:32 PM, Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss wrote:
> There's been renewed buzz recently about U.S. policy towards Israeli 
> settlements in the West Bank. The Israeli government has recently made 
> some very aggressive announcements. The U.S. government and J Street 
> have gotten more rhetorically aggressive in response.
>
> Last week, former U.S. Ambassador and former White House Middle East 
> Adviser Marc Ginsburg had a piece at Huffington Post calling for 
> heightened scrutiny of private tax-exempt donations from the U.S. to 
> support Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank. Ginsburg noted 
> the major story about this in the New York Times in July 2010.
>
> Of course this is not the first time that people have thought about 
> going after this; some of us discussed it at the time of the NYT 
> article. But following the Ginsburg piece, some people approached Just 
> Foreign Policy and said, "Could you put up a petition at MoveOn about 
> this? Maybe the climate is different now."
>
> "Why not?" we said. "Let's send it up the flagpole and see who salutes."
>
> IRS: Investigate Tax-Exempt Support for West Bank Settlements
> http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/IRS-West-Bank-settlements
>
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