Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared Tuesday that he is seeking to establish a parliamentary commission of inquiry into the activities of the New Israel Fund, which he blamed for the failure of Israel’s plan to deport African migrants from the country.

Netanyahu claimed the NIF put pressure on Rwanda to reject Jerusalem’s proposed resettlement of African migrants in the country, forcing him to seek other solutions.

The premier provided no proof of the left-wing NGO’s involvement in Rwanda’s alleged scrapping of its agreement with Israel, which led to a new short-lived agreement with the UN’s refugee agency.

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The New Israel Fund firmly denied the allegation. Its CEO Daniel Sokatch said in a statement: “The New Israel Fund did not pressure the Rwandan government to refuse to participate in Netanyahu’s cruel mass deportation plan. We did support massive numbers of Israelis standing up for what is right and demanding action from their own government.”

Sokatch added that “This isn’t about NIF. It’s about all of us — everyone who cares about democracy and equality in Israel. It’s time for everyone who cares about Israeli democracy to stand up and stand together against this blatant assault on Israeli civil society from an increasingly desperate and flailing PM. Mr. Netanyahu, you want to investigate us? I’ll answer any question you like.”

The Netanyahu deal with the UN — which would have seen some 16,250 African migrants in Israel resettled in “developed” Western countries, while a similar number would be given temporary residency — was cancelled by the prime minister due to heavy domestic criticism just a few hours after he proudly announced it.

Hadashot news, meanwhile, reported that Netanyahu is now seeking to reopen the Holot detention facility in the Negev, which had been shuttered in anticipation of the planned deportations.

He is also reported to be planning legislation to bypass the High Court of Justice’s ruling blocking deportations. Hadashot reported Monday that demands by the court had scuttled Israel’s deal with Rwanda to accept deported migrants.

The TV report said Netanyahu was applying pressure on his coalition partners, namely Kulanu leader Moshe Kahlon, to support the plan. Kahlon has in the past opposed any Knesset bills that clash with court rulings.

However, sources close to Kahlon said Tuesday evening he would back such legislation on the matter of migrants. “If Netanyahu wishes it, we can pass the bill tomorrow,” they said.

Netanyahu wrote in a Facebook post Tuesday evening: “The main source that prompted European pressure on the Rwandan government to withdraw from the agreement to remove the infiltrators from Israel is the New Israel Fund.”

He claimed the NGO, which provides funding to hundreds of civil-society groups in Israel, “endangers the security and future of the State of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people.”

Netanyahu asserted that the NIF “receives funding from foreign governments and figures who are hostile to Israel, such as…George Soros,” a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor.

The billionaire philanthropist, known for his left-wing views, has been similarly blamed by European leaders such as Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban for bankrolling unfettered immigration into the continent. However, critics have blasted the accusations as a state-sponsored conspiracy theory with anti-Semitic overtones.

Continuing his attack, Netanyahu said that “the overarching goal of the New Israel Fund is to erase the Jewish character of Israel…alongside a Palestinian nation-state free of Jews on the 1967 lines, with its capital in Jerusalem.”

He further accused the NIF of supporting “anti-Zionist and pro-Palestinian” organizations, such as the Breaking the Silence, B’Tselem, and Adalah.

“I don’t know of any Western democracy, particularly the United States, that would tolerate hostile activity funded by foreign countries, as has happened here in Israel with the New Israel Fund for decades,” Netanyahu added.

The prime minister said that he had appointed coalition chairman and Likud ally David Amsalem to establish the parliamentary commission of inquiry.

The NIF said Netanyahu had “crossed every red line in his incitement against the NIF.

“To the point, the fund had no contacts at all with the Rwandan government. All information on the activity of the NIF and its bodies is exposed, transparent, and reported.”

Netanyahu made similar accusations against the NIF on Monday when he announced suspension of the Israeli government’s deal with the UNHCR, which the prime minister had inked after he said Rwanda had backed out of an original accord to take in thousands of African migrants.

Both the NIF and Rwanda have flatly denied Netanyahu’s account.

“Netanyahu has once again resorted to lies about the New Israel Fund in order to score cheap political points. The New Israel Fund had nothing to do with Rwanda’s decision to refuse to participate in the prime minister’s cruel mass deportation plan,” the NIF said in a Monday statement.

“It is pathetic, shameful, and a stain on Israel in the global arena that the prime minister would blame Israel’s human rights defenders for his ineptitude and his immoral policies,” the NGO added.

Rwanda’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Olivier Nduhungirehe told Israel’s Kan public broadcaster Monday that “there was never a deal with Israel, neither in writing, nor verbally.”

In his Monday post announcing the suspension of the deal — later cancelled outright — Netanyahu wrote, “In recent weeks, amid enormous pressure on Rwanda by the New Israel Fund and sources in the European Union, Rwanda has withdrawn from the agreement and refused to accept infiltrators from Israel that were forcibly deported.”

The European Union’s mission in Israel also addressed the accusation in a tongue-in-cheek Twitter post.

Guess it's just one of those days. At 20:57 you congratulate #Israel & @refugees on their agreement, at 21:46 you like @IsraelMFA announcement on the deal, at 22:50 the PM suspends it and blames, among others, #EU (where #UNHCR hoped to resettle significant number of refugees). — EU in Israel (@EUinIsrael) April 2, 2018

When he had announced the agreement hours prior, Netanyahu conversely explained that a previous Israeli plan to deport migrants to Rwanda and Uganda was no longer feasible.

Then, he stressed that “legal constraints as well as political difficulties on the part of [Uganda and Rwanda]” led to the cancellation of previous deportation policies.

In his backtrack of the deal, Netanyahu on Monday night said he was freezing the agreement in response to protests by Israelis.

“I hear you, and especially the residents of south Tel Aviv,” Netanyahu said in a (Hebrew) Facebook post amid mounting right-wing criticism of the deal.