Lawmakers are asking the Ford Foundation to better monitor its grantees to ensure they are not engaged in anti-Semitism. The action was prompted by a JTA investigation, which found that the Ford Foundation funds the Palestinian Non-Governmental Organization Network and other groups that coordinated anti-Semitic attacks at the U.N. World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, in 2001.
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