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The article refers to the discussion regarding the Israeli NGO law that took place during a workshop in Haifa 2016 and to the article of Kerstin Mueller in this volume. She outlines that “singling out” of public funds—as it is featured by the NGO law—is not just a matter of political expediency, but a part of a broader ideology that depicts public power as a danger to freedom, while private money as an expression of human flourishing. The call for transparency is highly pertinent from a democratic perspective. Therefore, advocates of progressive politics should endorse is and support the struggle to also expand it to private funds.
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Supportive pertains to funding in the form of a modest annual grant to a media outlet that defends this cause. The point made here by no means criticizes the beneficiary media association, which indeed provides a unique and relevant platform for public debate in Israel. Nor does it condone the line of criticism advanced by the organization NGO-Monitor.
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Israel’s Minister of Justice, Ayelet Shaked lays out and endorse this worldview in a recent article: “mesilot el ha’meshilut”, in HaShiloach no. 1 (2016), pp. 37–55 [in Hebrew] http://hashiloach.org.il/wp-content/themes/hashiloach_landing/dist/images/article-shaked.pdf.
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Banai, A. (2018). Supporting Democratic Politics from Abroad: Beyond the Israeli NGOs Law. In: Abelmann, A., Konarek, K. (eds) The German Political Foundations' Work between Jerusalem, Ramallah and Tel Aviv . Edition ZfAS. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-20019-0_18
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