According to the memo, federal funds flowed to Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, which funded PEF Israel Endowment Funds, which in turn distributed money to Blue White Future, which the House committee describes as a “radical anti-Netanyahu organisation.”
“The committee’s oversight shows that Blue White Future, a key player in the anti-Netanyahu protests, may have been a downstream recipient of US grant funding,” the memo stated.
The House panel noted that “the fungibility of money – the ability to easily replace one set of funds with another set of funds of equal value – suggests that PEF donations may have included funding that originated with the US government.”
“More broadly, when an NGO receives government funding for a project, it can use the money previously earmarked for that project on something else which it would have otherwise not been able to fund,” it stated.
The Republican Jewish Coalition called the memo’s findings “outrageous” and said “the Biden-Harris administration transferred nearly a billion dollars to left-wing NGOs in Israel [which had] the goal of undermining the democratically elected government.”
The committee said that its investigations are ongoing.
