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Foundations leverage funding to suppress support for Palestine.
(prismreports.org)
Representatives from Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies firmly but politely told the abortion fund it should no longer expect funding from the foundation, stripping the organization of hundreds of thousands of dollars in a region with multiple abortion bans that force people to travel long distances for care.
The Schusterman Family Foundation portrays itself as a supporter of progressive issues while simultaneously donating to “hawkish, pro-Israel causes,” The Intercept reported. This includes more than $1 million in 2019 to the American Israel Education Fund, a charitable organization founded by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). A report published in 2019, written and researched by Stephanie Skora and supported by Jewish Voice for Peace Chicago, the National Lawyers Guild, and Independent Jewish Voices in Ottawa Carleton, also found that the foundation has “an extensive history of giving to right-wing organizations.” The report was written to expose the pinkwashing practices of A Wider Bridge, an organization that purports to build “a strong relationship between the LGBTQ communities in North America and Israel.”
If your "progressive" stances are tied to your political beliefs. Then it's not a progressive stance. Just a politically convenient one.