Israeli right-wing wants to persecute left-wing groups

Machsom Watch women in West Bank

YNetnews.com:

The Knesset will discuss Wednesday a motion by MK Faina Kirshenbaum (Yisrael Beiteinu), who is calling for a parliamentary investigation on the funding of leftist organizations in Israel, especially those filing lawsuits against IDF officers.

Kirshenbaum has garnered the support of much of the right wing, in addition to a number of Kadima MKs, for her motion. It calls on the government to probe who is really behind the organizations monitoring IDF operations in the West Bank.

Hagai El-Ad, who heads the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, compared the desired Knesset committee to that which investigated Senator Joe McCarthy in the US in the 1950s.

Breaking the Silence, for its part, said all of its financial sources were documented "with full transparency" online. "We would like it if Yisrael Beiteinu's website could enlighten us as to the funding received by Avigdor Lieberman, who is currently being investigated by police," the group said.

Machsom Watch was also up in arms. "We are all patriots. Lieberman will not teach us about the love of our country," a statement from the women said, while B'tselem also boasted "full transparency", adding that "political persecution will not stop us".

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