A right-wing organization has demanded Defense Minister Benny Gantz outlaw both the Palestinian NGO Development Center over its alleged ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
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An investigation by Ad Kan into the funds the NCD transfers to various organizations in the Palestinian Authority and Israel point to the NDC's maintaining close connections with the terrorist group. According to Ad Kan, its research pointed to the NDC promoting radical anti-Israel ideology, including support for the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement as well as campaigns against the normalization of Israel ties, among other things.
The NDC further requires organizations its funds both commit to and act to advance its ideology. NDC representatives confirmed the demand in a conversation with Ad Kan representatives shared with Israel Hayom in which they also confirmed NDC's funding of left-wing organization Breaking the Silence.
Ad Kan further found the NDC to be transferring funds to Shafaq, a network of cultural organizations in sovereign Israeli territory in east Jerusalem with ties to the PFLP that it fears is operating as a cover for the PFLP.
In a letter to Gantz, Ad Kan CEO and founder Gilad Ach emphasized that following the defense minister's move to ban six Palestinian organizations over their ties to the PFLP, the ministry must now look into the operations of NDC and Shafaq.
In a statement, Breaking the Silence said: "We are proud of all of our donors who support our activities to end the occupation and the apartheid and are ashamed of the persecution campaign being run against Israeli and Palestinian civic organizations."
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