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Soros put £7.7m towards groups critical of Israel

August 18, 2016 10:45
Revelations: Soros

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According to newly leaked documents, an international civil society network headed by billionaire investor George Soros has given millions of dollars to organisations that are highly critical of Israel, including one that promotes boycotts and another that questions its right to exist.

A hack of the Soros-chaired Open Society Foundations by DC Leaks - the group that published copies of Hillary Clinton's emails earlier this year - revealed that the network had given nearly $10 million (£7.7m) to Adalah, I'lam and other groups that are critical of Israel.

Among the 2,500 files published by DC Leaks was a document in which Open Society Foundations said that one of its aims was to challenge "Israel's racist and anti-democratic policies".

According to another document, titled the Arab Regional Office Presidential Portfolio Review, the network has given $2,688,561 in 14 grants to Arab rights group Adalah since 2001.