“They cannot continue down this road,” said President Biden in March 2023. It was a striking statement from a sitting U.S. president about an ally’s domestic affairs. Biden wasn’t speaking through private diplomatic channels to convey his concerns. He was speaking to a group of reporters in North Carolina to express his opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans to reform the Israeli judicial system.
So why was the White House publicly telling a longstanding ally to abandon its own legislative agenda?
And who, exactly, was the “they” running down the wrong “road”? The Israeli government? The Israeli people?
In a new memo, the House Judiciary Committee suggests answers: the massive anti-Netanyahu protests that swept Israel in 2023 were financed in part by the American taxpayer. The “they,” it turns out, was Netanyahu’s government.
And “We, the People,” helped fund the effort to bring it down.
The committee’s investigation was sparked by media reports that U.S. taxpayer money had been funneled through various American and Israeli non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to finance the demonstrations against Netanyahu’s proposed plans to give the government full control of the Supreme Court.
In other words, our tax dollars were being used to meddle in the internal politics of a foreign country.
After initial inquiries directed at six NGOs, the committee released its first set of findings in July 2025, revealing that U.S. government grants had reached anti-Netanyahu protest groups through a chain of intermediary organizations. Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and the Movement for Quality Government were identified as direct recipients of federal funds — more evidence that American tax dollars were flowing to organizations working to undermine Netanyahu’s government.
Now, we find out, it gets worse. Last week, the committee published its update, “The Biden-Harris Administration’s Funding of Anti-Netanyahu Non-Governmental Organizations, Part II.”
The committee’s second memo expanded the inquiry to newly added organizations — Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Tides Network — and further alleged the ties between funded groups and terrorist organizations.
It also included mounting evidence that major American nonprofits may be violating their 501(c)(3) status in the process — again, all on the taxpayers’ dime.
The committee detailed how the misuse of taxpayer dollars continued through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the State Department, and other federal agencies.
It’s worth pausing for a moment to note that USAID no longer exists in its original form. Created by President Kennedy in 1961, the Trump administration formally dismantled the federal agency on July 1, 2025, partly for the same reasons the memo alleged — it funded programs that were at odds with U.S. interests.
The committee’s new key findings speak for themselves: Rockefeller Brothers Fund provided nearly $4 million to radical, anti-Israel groups, including some with alleged ties to terrorist organizations. The Tides Network — a USAID grantee — funneled over $1 million to similar groups. The Jewish Communal Fund and its grantees, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and PEF Israel Endowment Funds, may be violating their 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status by funding radical anti-Israel groups. Israeli nonprofit, Movement for Quality Government, has failed to cooperate with the committee’s inquiry. And Abraham Initiatives, another U.S. government grantee, failed to comply with anti-terrorism procedures, according to a 2023 audit.
Just to be clear, the committee does not allege that the White House wrote a check directly to protest organizers in Tel Aviv. The money arrived through a multi-step funding chain and via a mechanism called money fungibility — the idea that when an organization receives government funds for one designated purpose, it frees up its own money for other uses.
The funding chain, in the case of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, looks like this: USAID/State Dept.→Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA)→Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF)→various anti-Israel groups, including some with ties to terrorist organizations.
RPA received more than $50 million from USAID and the State Department. It donated $557,000 to its affiliate RBF. RBF, in turn, provided nearly $4 million to groups the committee characterizes as radical and anti-Israel — including some with alleged ties to terrorist organizations. Similar chains run through the Tides Network and Jewish philanthropic networks.
Nonprofit groups that fund anti-Netanyahu protests do so at their own risk. The IRS is explicit that restrictions against political activity “exist in a foreign context as well” — meaning an organization that tries to influence the laws of a foreign country can lose its tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3). The committee says the Jewish Communal Fund and its grantees, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and PEF Israel Endowment Funds, may be doing exactly that.
This is not the first time we’ve seen evidence that the Biden administration was meddling in Israel’s domestic affairs. On X, @chalavyishmael flagged a remarkable April 2025 Israeli television investigation revealing that senior Biden administration officials — including members of the Oval Office inner circle — were actively discussing ways to remove Netanyahu from office during the early stages of the Gaza war:
And now, the committee has informed us, the Biden administration was working to bring down Netanyahu’s government all along — at the American taxpayers’ expense.
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