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These Billionaires Subsidize the Israeli Military Through a US Nonprofit

By Derek Seidman , Truthout, December 2, 2024

A US nonprofit funnels money from billionaires like Home Depot’s co-founder to effectively subsidize Israeli troops.By Derek Seidman , TruthoutPublishedDecember 2, 2024

srael’s war on Gaza — marked by extensive war crimes, and widely seen as an ongoing genocide — has been backed by the U.S. government, which has provided Israel with billions of dollars in weapons to be used against Palestinians. On the ground and from the air, the genocidal siege has been carried out by Israel’s military, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), whose soldiers regularly post videos and images on social media of them destroying Palestinian neighborhoods, looting Palestinian homes and abusing Palestinian prisoners.

“The main and sometimes only machinery of repressing, killing, genociding and ethnically cleansing Palestinians is the IDF,” Haim Bresheeth, author of the wide-ranging history of the Israeli military, An Army Like No Other: How the Israel Defense Force Made a Nation, told Truthout. “This is an illegal, immoral army.”

In the U.S., there’s one group that has long worked to mobilize ironclad support for the Israeli military: the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF).

Founded in 1981, the FIDF is a nonprofit organization that raises tens of millions of dollars annually to fund a range of programs that effectively subsidize the Israeli military by providing numerous services and benefits for Israeli troops. It also channels major donations from a host of powerful billionaires toward these programs.

In building and maintaining support for the IDF, particularly among U.S. Jews, the FIDF promotes and reproduces the dominant Zionist notion that American Judaism is synonymous with support for Israel, and that the essence of support for Israel is support for the Israeli military……………………………………………………………………………………….more https://truthout.org/articles/these-billionaires-subsidize-the-israeli-military-through-a-us-nonprofit/?utm_source=feedotter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FO-12-02-2024&utm_content=httpstruthoutorgarticlesthesebillionairessubsidizetheisraelimilitarythroughausnonprofit&utm_source=Truthout&utm_campaign=5bf019f3e8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_12_02_09_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bbb541a1db-5bf019f3e8-650192793

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