"This debacle shows, yet again, that the people setting Middle East policy for the Biden administration simply hate Israel," Cruz said. "They genuinely believe that Israel is like apartheid South Africa and that Israeli Jews should be boycotted. When they think of human rights abuses, they don't think Russia or China or Cuba, and they certainly don't think Iran; instead, their smears are reserved and hyper-focused on the world's only Jewish state."
The legal foundation's FOIA request covers "all records of or referencing the funding opportunity," including all "records sufficient to identify the person(s) who requested, authorized, reviewed, directed, or wrote" the grant. This is meant to publicly identify the State Department officials responsible for spearheading the effort and tailoring it to focus on alleged Israeli human rights abuses.
AFLF also wants information on any group that has already applied for the grant and records that expose the Biden administration officials in charge of selecting who will cash in on the nearly $1 million grant, according to the FOIA.
A second FOIA request filed by AFLF instructs the State Department to turn over all communications for senior officials working on the Israeli-Palestinian foreign policy portfolio. This FOIA is meant to unearth information related to the Biden administration's decision to omit information about Palestinian terrorism and incitement against Israel from a legally mandated oversight report to Congress, as the Free Beacon first reported in August of last year.
