itimize Israel, and, citing NIF’s approval, more funds are provided for the same NGOs through European governments. Funding for these highly politicized organizations – which are active in the BDS movement and call for the end of Israel as a Jewish state – directly contradicts NIF’s new guidelines, While NIF recently cut ties with CWP, the NGOs Adalah and Mada al-Carmel, both leaders in the delegitimization efforts, continue to receive NIF funding. Two members of Mada al-Carmel, spoke at the March 16, 2011 Israeli Apartheid Week event at Tel Aviv University, “Life and Struggle in Apartheid.” The NGO also co-authored the “Haifa Declaration” (2007) that calls for a “change in the definition of the State of Israel from a Jewish state” and accuses Israel of “exploiting” the Holocaust “at the expense of the Palestinian people.”65:{"position":8,"content":"$66"} 67:{"position":9,"content":"Adalah officials, also involved in the Haifa Declaration, wrote and edited large portions of a May 2009 pseudo-academic study that refers to Israel as “a colonial enterprise which implements a system of apartheid.” The report delegitimizes Israeli self-defense measures as “inhumane act[s] of apartheid...perpetrated in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over another.” Adalah also drafted a “Democratic Constitution,” which calls for replacing the Jewish foundation of the state with a “democratic, bilingual and multicultural” framework.”"} 68:{"position":10,"content":"A serious exchange between NIF and NGO Monitor coul

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