MOSCOW (Sputnik) – During its anti-Netanyahu campaign the OneVoice used its political infrastructure including voter contact lists, professionally trained organizers and social media platforms, developed with the help of the US grant.
"The Israeli and Palestinian arms of OneVoice, OneVoice Israel (OVI), and OneVoice Palestine (OVP), received more than $300,000 in grants from the US State Department to support peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine over a 14-month grant period ending in November 2014," the report, issued on Tuesday, said.
"Within weeks, an international organization known as the OneVoice Movement absorbed and funded an Israeli group named Victory15 or ‘V15’ and launched a multimillion-dollar grassroots campaign in Israel. The campaign’s goal was to elect ‘anybody but Bibi [Netanyahu]’ by mobilizing center-left voters," the report said.
The report found no evidence that the US grant was spent on the anti-Netanyahu campaign but pointed out that the Department of State failed to take steps to reduce the risk of OneVoice’s engagement in political activities after the end of the grant.
