• NIF-funded groups and their publications were featured centrally in the Goldstone report, which focused on alleged Israeli "war crimes" in the 2009 Gaza war. The report referenced B'Tselem more than 56 times; Adalah, 38; and Breaking the Silence, 27.
  • Many of these citations referred to speculative issues unrelated to the conflict in Gaza, seeking to brand Israeli democracy as "repressive" and to widen the scope of the condemnations.
  • Since the initial publication of the Goldstone report on September 15, 2009, these NIF-supported NGOs – including B'Tselem, ACRI, Gisha, PHR-I, and Yesh Din – have continued supporting Goldstone and lobbying the governments of the United States, the European Union, and others to legitimize the report's extreme biases and endorse its recommendations.
  • In response to the controversy over their support for Goldstone, these organizations and the NIF launched an offensive against critics. NIF supporters accused NGO Monitor of "silenc[ing] expression," and being "extremist," "incendiary," the "rotten fruit of Israeli democracy," and "McCarthyite."
  • In addition to involvement with Goldstone, several organizations funded by NIF, including Adalah, campaign against the legitimacy of Israel as a Jewish democratic state. Others such as Mossawa and Coalition of Women for Peace are active in worldwide boycotts, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaigns targeting Israel.
  • The political impact of NIF-supported NGOs, based on NIF's annual budget of $32 million, is bolstered by additional funds from European governments and church groups that allocate funds to the same recipient organizations.