(Commentary) Evelyn Gordon - Israel passed a law mandating new reporting requirements for NGOs that are primarily funded by foreign governments. An organization that gets most of its funding from a foreign government isn't a "nongovernmental" organization at all, but an instrument of that government's foreign policy. If an organization is an instrument of a foreign country's foreign policy, it seeks to pressure Israel into adopting the foreign government's preferred policies. Israelis might be less willing to trust an organization's assertions once they realize it has a not-so-hidden policy agenda.
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