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"The group, founded just four years ago, is the recipient of considerable largesse. Funds flow, legitimately, from The New Israel Fund, Oxfam, Hermod Lannungs Fund, Jacobs Charitable Trust, The Marc Rich Foundation and the Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation. It is also supported by the powerful Israeli law firm of Yigal Arnon. But it’s the money Yesh Din gets from foreign governments that’s troubling. The European Commission, the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland and the UK all want Israel out of the West Bank. We suspect they give Yesh Din money because its work helps delegitimize Israel’s presence there. Unfortunately, Israel lacks anything like America’s "Foreign Agents Registration Act," which requires persons to disclose if they are "acting as agents of foreign principals in a political or quasi-political capacity." Yesh Din’s volunteers and individual contributors are doubtless sincere about promoting human rights; but this is one of several organizations funded by foreign governments that work against the interests of Israel’s mainstream by chipping away at any Jewish claims beyond the 1949 Armistice Lines. Israel’s security concerns – for instance, how to prevent the West Bank from becoming a Kassam launching-pad against the Jewish state’s main population centers – do not interest Yesh Din; nor does the threat of terrorist infiltration."