Senators from the GOP urge Blinken to stop funding the Jewish team that is accused of inciting demonstrations against criminal change.

The proposed changes to Israel’s’s court, including its Supreme Court, have been criticized by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and four Republican lawmakers have urged Secretary of State Antony Blinken to halt U.S. funding for the nonprofit company.

Weed. signed the letter dated April 4. Tom Cotton( R – Ark. ) and Bill Hagerty, both from Tennessee. ), Marco Rubio( R – Florida ), and Ted Cruz, both from Texas.

The Movement for Quality Government ( MQG ) and all other partisan groups in Israel are undermining one of our most powerful allies and interfering with their democracy, they wrote.” We write to urge the State Department to immediately stop funding them.”

The State Department has confirmed that it has sent over$ 38 000 to MQG, an Israeli volunteer that has helped organize — and has participated in — political protests against proposed legislation from Israel’s’s democratically elected government, despite long-standing U.S. train to refrain from funding international political organizations.

The State Department has vehemently refuted claims that protests against the proposed changes — which call for the Knesset, Israel’s’s Parliament, to overturn Supreme Court rulings and allowing the government to appoint judges — have been funded.

Vedant Patel, the department’s’s chief deputy press secretary, declared on March 27 that these charges were perfectly and blatantly untrue.

” The Movement of Quality Government is an NGO, and it received a reasonable concession from the State Department that was started during the past leadership. The most recent funding disbursement occurred in September 2022, before the most recently held Jewish primaries.”

And this give provided funding for a program that added to Jerusalem schools’ political studies curricula.

Patel reaffirmed his claim two days later.