because these groups year year out fail to get anything more than a token number of votes.

Money from foreign Jew-haters can finance a very broad and sophisticated propaganda campaign to undermine Israel's resolve to defend against external enemies. This pipeline has to be exposed and shut down. Otherwise, the Israeli media will be full of ads and commercials against self defense, such as "Say no to attacking Gaza." Why should such propaganda have free reign in Israel when it is against the national interest? Let Israeli groups pay for their own campaigns.

I do not know what the hell you are talking about because your article makes no sense whatsoever.And please do not call Bibi and others cowards ,they have more guts than you will ever have.

Boaz Okon ,what is it with these lunatics whose names end in ON as in morON.?

Olease remember that the main financial support of the infamous New Israel Fund is the Ford Foundation, whose secret maneuvers played a major role in Salvador Allende's overthrowing.

That is all you need to know about the truth about Israel and its ruling elites: they do not tolerate dissenting voices nor patriotism. Potential oleh/freier/sucker: think long and hard before you do it you will fall into the hands of the elite anti-Jews currently ruling Israel sponsored by the Twelve Billionary Oligarch Families.

Leftists can't have any freedom of speech unless some foreign government gives them millions of Shekels. That is what all these idiots have declared. Then I guess a vast majority of Israel doesn't have freedom of speech, because we aren't getting that money. Damnit I served over 25 years and I don't get freedom of expression!! I demand that the money that get is channeled to a pool that all Israelis can use for our freedom of speech!

These anti-democratic measures are themselves Israel bashing. You will certainly lose support in my country. How can we defend you if you are intent on turning yourselves into a fascist state. That's right .. "fascist." The government dictates what can be said and denies full access to the court of those who don't toe their line.

No self-respecting nation permits foreign money to finance the opposition, nor should it. Stop it! Stop it now!

A few examples from other talkbacks: "The left is always willing to be the mouthpiece of antisemites/ Israel-bashers and receive their money to do so. You are a loathsome, toadying self-hating Jew as evidently and repeatedly proved by your imbecilic posts." " venom spitting from your mouth ! " "leftist phonies will disappear trash bin of history" These people are furious and afraid. They probably should be because the level of their responses shows an inability to engage meaningfully in reasonable argument. If they were capable of discussion, they would realize that there is no need for "millions of foreign anti-Semitic dollars" to express disagreement with the Israeli government. They should also think what kind of Israel there would be if the often expressed wish for the "left" (left seems to mean anyone who disagrees with me about anything) to leave the country were realized. Imagine Israel without newspapers, universities, culture of many kinds. We would be left with a country of posturing screamers, such as most of the talkbackers here. Ed Codish Pardessiya

You obviously ignore American laws governing the foreign funding of American political groups and lobbying associations. So America is a fascist state? There are enough double standards that you people apply to Israel without more nonsense. Anti-democratic because the state needs to protect its security against enemies of its existence? So now one more metaphor for the word "democracy". "democracy"

Well said! The democracy we valued is going soooo quickly! These bills are absolutely draconian!!!!!

i think you are just a useless, low life comie, who flaps his gumms, because you know you can get away with it. want to show what a great freedom lover you are. wright some garbage like this in iran, or maybe in syria.... SHAME ON YOU, TRAITOR!

#8 Haim. You've got it all backwards like usual. The Israeli left is a small and ever shrinking minority. It carries far too much weight in Israel due to massive funding by Israel's enemies. At last, Israel is taking steps to STOP the lunatic left from running our land. As for the coming elections; I am totally confident we will see leftist parties continue their long term trend towards obsolescence.