Four GOP senators have called on Secretary of State Antony Blinken to stop U.S. funding for a nongovernmental organization that has been accused of influencing the protests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed changes to Israel’s judiciary—including its Supreme Court.
The April 4 letter was signed by Sens. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).
“We write to urge the State Department to immediately cease funding the Movement for Quality Government [MOG] and all other partisan organizations in Israel, which undermines one of our strongest allies and interferes in their democracy,” they wrote….