"The New Israel Fund was attacked in this newspaper by Lori Lowenthal Marcus of the Zionist Organization of America for funding Mossawa, an Israeli Arab organization that participated in preparing the Future Vision paper issued last December ("Not with my money," February 14)….As our long-time supporters know, the New Israel Fund has been funding, supporting and training Israeli civil society organizations for 27 years. We support groups that advocate for human and civil rights; social justice and economic equity; religious pluralism; and the environment. We also have always been crystal-clear in our support for a Jewish and democratic state, which we are convinced is imperative for Israeli security. In our view, both Jewish and democratic values require that Israel’s political and economic elites listen to the disempowered voices of Israeli society…"

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See: Lori Lowenthal Marcus, "Not with my money", The Jerusalem Post, February 14, 2007.