A watchdog group is calling on the Biden administration to turn over all internal records related to a nearly $1 million grant that is being offered for nonprofit groups to investigate alleged human rights abuses in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza Strip.
The State Department has been asked to turn over all documents and internal communications related to the grant, which critics view as an effort to delegitimize Israel and empower groups that promote boycotts of the Jewish state and was first exposed by the Washington Free Beacon earlier this month.
The grant from the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor solicits nonprofit groups to apply for grant money up to $987,654 to "Strengthen accountability and human rights in Israel and the West Bank and Gaza" and drew outrage from top Republican foreign policy leaders, including Sen. Ted Cruz, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Groups applying for the grant money are required to investigate alleged crimes inside Israel and the surrounding territories.
The State Department is being asked to disclose who approved the grant and the names of any groups applying for it, according to a Freedom of Information Act request issued by the America First Legal Foundation, a watchdog group that investigates government malfeasance.
Cruz told the Free Beacon the grant is evidence that the Biden administration's State Department is staffed with appointees who hold animus toward Israel.
AFLF also wants information on any group that has already applied for the grant and records that expose the Biden administration officials in charge of selecting who will cash in on the nearly $1 million grant, according to the FOIA. A second FOIA request filed by AFLF instructs the State Department to turn over all communications for senior officials working on the Israeli-Palestinian foreign policy portfolio.
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