The New York Sun reports:
Three years after the Ford Foundation's grants to anti-Israel groups prompted a furor in Congress, the $10 billion New York-based philanthropy is at it again, according to a report by the NGO Monitor, an Israel-based organization overseen by Israel's former ambassador to the United Nations, Dore Gold.
The NGO Monitor, whose publisher is Mr. Gold, issued a report yesterday targeting 11 Ford Foundation grants since the foundation adopted new standards against promoting violence, terrorism, or bigotry.
According to the report, the foundation has given significant contributions to groups such as the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, International Committee of Jurists, Miftah, Al-Haq, and Al-Mezan, among others. "Their activities are primarily political, and they exploit human rights rhetoric to delegitimize Israel," the NGO Monitor said in its report. "The cumulative effect of continued association with supporters of the academic boycott of Israel and the one-state solution is a serious challenge to the Ford Foundation's credibility."
Anyway,the Ford Foundation,here,is adhering to the spirit of Henry Ford on the issue.
Ford was a strong and early supporter of the Nazis:
On December 20, 1922 the New York Times reported that automobile manufacturer Henry Ford was financing Adolph Hitler's nationalist and anti-Semitic movements in Munich. Simultaneously, the Berlin newspaper Berliner Tageblatt appealed to the American Ambassador in Berlin to investigate and halt Henry Ford's intervention into German domestic affairs. It was reported that Hitler's foreign backers had furnished a "spacious headquarters" with a "host of highly paid lieutenants and officials." Henry Ford's portrait was prominently displayed on the walls of Hitler's personal office
Ford Foundation values.
