Member of Knesset Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz) has argued that an investigation against the New Israel Fund would be “a political persecution of the worst kind.” This in response a demand by MK Otniel Shneller (Kadima) that the government establish a commission of inquiry into organizations financed by the anti-Zionist NIF who gave false testimony to the United Nations Golstone Report regarding last year’s Operation Cast Lead in Gaza.