Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked his British counterpart Theresa May on Monday to halt funding Israeli left-wing organizations Israeli media sources revealed.
“I gave them [the British] the [names of] the various NGOs that the government of Britain funds among them Breaking the Silence and I asked her to stop funding them” Netanyahu told reporters accompanying him on an official visit to the UK.
Theresa May was set to conduct a “re-examination” of Britain’s approach to funding NGOs he added.
Breaking the Silence responded to Netanyahu’s remarks by saying the British government does not currently provide any funding to the organization.
When it was pointed out that the British government does not fund Breaking the Silence Netanyahu’s Office in Israel hurried to issue a clarification that said Britain funded Breaking the Silence and other NGOs indirectly via other organizations.
Breaking the Silence is an organization that collects testimonies from former Israeli occupation soldiers about human rights violations they witness in the Palestinian territories during Israeli military raids.
