A State Department grant intended to rally support for Israel-Palestinian peace also helped campaign efforts to unseat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo: Screenshot.

A State Department grant intended to rally support for Israel-Palestinian peace also helped
campaign efforts to unseat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo: Screenshot.

A State Department grant intended to rally support for peace between Israel and Palestine also helped set up political infrastructure that was later used for a campaign opposing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2015, according to a bipartisan Senate investigative report released on Tuesday.

The report found no legal wrongdoing by the State Department, since the $349,000 in grants for OneVoice were used to further the Middle East process as intended. But shortly after Netanyahu called an election for 2015, the voter databases constructed with the grant money were activated for Victory 15, an unsuccessful effort to defeat Netanyahu.

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Source:: The Algemeiner

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