One of the world’s most well-known human rights organizations has launched a new BDS initiative with financial support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund — now the most high-profile private foundation in the US that is openly backing the campaign to isolate Israel economically and culturally.

Professor Gerald Steinberg, a prominent Israeli expert on the financing of the global BDS campaign, told The Algemeiner on Thursday that the fund had been “irrevocably stained” by its growing financial support for BDS campaigns — including Human Rights Watch’s latest project.

HRW announced on Wednesday it was encouraging punitive measures against Israeli banks which provide services to Jewish communities in the West Bank. HRW’s Israel and Palestine department received a grant of $10,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in June, in recognition of its “Program Goal: Advance Just and Durable Peace.”

HRW declared in a statement that the Israeli banks “violate their international law responsibilities to avoid contributing to human rights and other abuses, including unlawful land seizures, discrimination against Palestinians, and de facto annexation of the West Bank by Israel.”

One of the world’s most well-known human rights organizations has launched a new BDS initiative with financial support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund — now the most high-profile private foundation in the US that is openly backing the campaign to isolate Israel economically and culturally.

Professor Gerald Steinberg, a prominent Israeli expert on the financing of the global BDS campaign, told The Algemeiner on Thursday that the fund had been “irrevocably stained” by its growing financial support for BDS campaigns — including Human Rights Watch’s latest project.

HRW announced on Wednesday it was encouraging punitive measures against Israeli banks which provide services to Jewish communities in the West Bank. HRW’s Israel and Palestine department received a grant of $10,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in June, in recognition of its “Program Goal: Advance Just and Durable Peace.”

HRW declared in a statement that the Israeli banks “violate their international law responsibilities to avoid contributing to human rights and other abuses, including unlawful land seizures, discrimination against Palestinians, and de facto annexation of the West Bank by Israel.”