Did American Taxpayers Fund Anti-Netanyahu Protests? Congress Says Yes
A new House Judiciary Committee report says the U.S. government subsidized the groups behind the protests, alleging links to terrorist-tied organizations and potential violations of nonprofit tax law.
“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:
This isn't the first time we've seen evidence that the Biden administration tried to interfere with internal Israeli politics.
They actually admitted it themselves:https://t.co/Z6g6myy55H
— Yehuda Teitelbaum (@chalavyishmael) May 29, 2026
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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Democrat party operatives also have engaged in PM elections in an attempt to oust or defeat Netanyahu. The Democrat party is an enemy of Israel and of the USA. I don’t know what else it takes for them to demonstrate this.
And the Jews just keep on voting Democrat in spite of the fact the Democrats wouldnt hesitate to put them in to work camps if they could.
self-loathing Jews in the USA aren’t the same as the Israeli Jew.
But they’re close. The fact that half the Israeli electorate votes for leftists, either open or in sheep’s clothing, and that so many came out for the radical Kaplan demonstrations, gives the lie to any notion that Jews are smarter than other people.
Well if one looks at the average intelligence Jews are a bit higher than the US white population. However, it is still the case that half the Jewish population is below that level and some amount are far below. I would like to say that the leftists all fall below the average but that is unfortunately not the case. A lot have just been programmed from birth either by their leftist parents or the leftist school system.
Give it a rest already. Young white college graduated women also keep voting democrat but no one harps on them,
Yes we all know that 70% of Jews vote democrat and those of us in the 30% are angry and unhappy about that. We don’t need to be told that in every discussion. We’re not the problem.
Oh you can spare me your usual sweetie response. What you could do is suggest any way to change that voting dynamic,
Lots of ink spilled and podcasts discussing the dynamic of younger college educated women becoming rabid d/prog leftists. Especially 30 and under.
One suggestion for shifting the politics is to force them to ensure the policies they vote for. A key lever there is ending the SALT deduction entirely. When leftists in blue metros gotta near full cost of the high State/Local taxes to fund their big government/socialism and can’t deduct one dime of it from Federal income taxes it might be enough of an incentive for them to rethink their political outlook.
Unfortunately the establishment forced the rollback of Trump 1.0 era cap on SALT deduction of $10K and demanded it be increased to $40K to secure their support for the ‘big beautiful bill’. The indirect effect of eliminating SALT deduction is the spur to exodus to lower tax/sane jurisdictions for both businesses and individuals and that internal migration drives the Census count and apportionment of CD resulting in less political power in blue States and more in Red States.
Except those states are no longer so red with progressives moving there and voting the same politics. Examples of this include NH, Vermont, Maine, Colorado, and a host of other states which if not yet blue are perhaps purple.
I hate to tell you but the North Eastern US haven’t been ‘conservative’ in a very long time. When’s the last time you had two Senators and Gov from each of those States who championed smaller govt, less taxes, less Federal intrusion (both +/-)in that they declined special handout/carve outs for the constituents/industry as well as less regulation? I didn’t look it up but I doubt it was within my lifetime and probably not the last 35 years. Colorado has long been lefty kind of a Western State version of the City of Austin TX; an anomalous cluster of a bunch of crunchy, granola hippies and goofy lefty boomers stuck on outdated ’60s rhetoric.
Lots of people leaving today are not the prior limousine liberals migrants. Today it is more often middle class, small business folks who don’t want their kids raped by drug addled vagrants on their way to school and who don’t understand why the local govt won’t police the street, fix the potholes but has time to raise taxes, prohibit a backyard shed and distribute free drugs and paraphernalia at the local library during drag queen story time. IOW by and large they ain’t changing zipcode to lower their own taxes and have safer school or neighbors while commuting into their same job and importing loony leftist policies whose consequences they ran from. Some exceptions sure but most of those will bail out from heat, humidity and lack of a receptive audience to their lefty woke nonsense in the Sunbelt which is the prime destination these days.
If you’re against Israel you’re against America. Simple
I can never determine whether you’re serious.
But the truth is worse. If you’re against Israel you’re against God.
Genesis 12:1-3
Probably the fact that Democrats make up the majority of people who hate Israel with a passion while also hating their homeland with the same intensity.
and probably hating god right there with it all
Nothing on this earth is more serious than this. I resent your accusation.
It wasn’t an accusation. It was my difficulty determining from your comments whether you’re being serious or sarcastic. Please forgive me if you’re being serious.
My third sentence should have read “If one is against Israel one is against God.” I wasn’t referring to you.
Psalm 64
This is not true. The proposals were quite modest, and would merely have given the government a stronger voice in making appointments to the supreme court. In most countries with constitutions similar to ours this is exclusively the government’s role. In the USA the president makes all judicial appointments on his own authority, subject only to the senate’s consent. And yet no one would suggest that the US government controls the supreme court, let alone that it has “full control” of it.
well I agreed until your last thought there
“full control” could be argued that you are correct but…..
the us government controls over any court including the supremes is without doubt the truth that there is overlap..Im not just talking abouti the nomination process but the whole shebang
when the supremes wouldnt even look at that voting issue in 2020 (PA illegally allowing mail in votes agreed to by committee )
that was imho, b/c the scotus feared the fjb klan wouldnt offer military protection to the court as the summer of love boiled over to the winters discontent etc fn etc!!
That’s nonsense. In the USA the government has no control over the judiciary whatsoever.
My understanding is that the Israeli Govt under Netanyahu was seeking to reign in the Supreme court. It was trying to remove it’s authority to overturn any law that was passed for seemingly any reason and stop it’s power to appoint it’s handpicked successors.
Exactly. That is not anything even remotely like “full control”. The court would still have far more power than the courts of any other country, especially the USA.
By the way, this authority the Israeli court has to overturn any law it doesn’t like isn’t found in any law; the court itself made it up. And now it has gone even further and is claiming the authority to order the prime minister to fire any minister it doesn’t like. The plain truth is that Israeli democracy is a sham. It holds free elections, but the results don’t matter because the true government ignores whoever wins the election.
We always end up footing the bill for left wing NGOs. While orgs that could do good are left unfunded.
Well, so much for tail wagging the dog.
This has Obama written all over it.
Obama was interfering in Israel elections before it was President autopens turn. And leftists always threw a hissy fit when the US covertly interfered in the domestic policies of socialist or communist governments,
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but trump, as I noted yesterday,,if he is in fact thinking that iran is holding back from the “peace plan” b/c israel is still taking out eneny forces ,,in their own region,,,is sadlyyy mistaken and is being played
and this is important because/c either dont publicize it (trump) and let israel continue to decimate the enemy in their own region
AND TRUMP CAN TURN HIS ATTENTION to the court protected radicals of the usa who are controlling our streets our schools our businesses our speech etc
maga means just that…… maga!
How about we stop funding NGOs? No grants, no contract for service, no Federal funding period. Then bar transfers between NGOs and require that a max of 20% can be spent on administrative costs while 80% minimum must be spent on whatever the mission of the NGO is. If save the squirrels’ international raises $100 million then they gotta spend a minimum of $80 million on actually saving the squirrels v anything else.
5% admin costs. Progressives have gotten very fat and happy working for NGOs. As such they will find problems where they don;t exist to keep their gravy train rolling.
Sure, 5% seems fine to me. I.suspect the ban on Federal funding and even a 20% max on admin/salary/operational costs would whittle down the ranks of grifting leftists and NGOs themselves.
My family in Israel always told me that the Netanyahu protests did not feel Israeli or organic in anyway and looked and acted like an imitation of American protests. For example an actual organic Israeli protest about housing affordability that occurred at the same time was not this organized machine with elaborate news coverage and signs and slogans. Sovereignty is an issue here and the US has long meddled in its allies affairs. It’s even more disturbing to see how they do it using our tax payer money and going through terrorist networks. One of the reasons why Israel has suffered so much in this latest round d of war is the stupid propoganda meddling which doesn’t allow actual Israelis to let their voice be heard.
Lots of American political consultants have been helping the Israeli left and it shows.
The US has interfered in foreign countries at least since 1898.
Nicaragua, Haiti, Santo Domingo. Iran, Italy, Greece, Libya, Colombia, Panama and Belgian Congo come to mind.
Why are we getting panties in a wad about this?
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