Organization: U.S., Zionist NGOs Fund Far-Right Extremists

Date: 04 May 2021 - 21:34

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WEST BANK (Dispatches) – NGOs and tax-exempt foundations in the U.S. and occupied territories are funding far-right extremist groups which rampaged through occupied East al-Quds over a week ago while chanting "death to Arabs”. The details have been exposed by T’ruah, a non-profit organization of rabbis.
T’ruah uncovered details of how money is being channeled to violent extremist groups like Lehava, which organized the anti-Palestinian street protests. These sparked condemnations from many quarters.
Jill Jacobs from T’ruah criticized comments that cast right-wing Jewish rioters as marginalized outsiders. Such an approach, she argued, "erases the roles of both the Israeli government and American Jewish funders in enabling and encouraging such violence.”
Writing in Haaretz, Jacobs said that over several years, T’ruah has made a number of complaints to the Inland Revenue Service about U.S. tax-exempt foundations that funnel money to Lehava and other right-wing extremist groups.
An investigation into Lehava’s sources of funding ties it to a number of foundations and individuals within the occupied territories and the U.S. through an elaborate funding scheme. It’s said that while the group does not have its own tax status in the occupied territories, investigations have shown that it receives money from other registered non-profit groups, which are in turn funded by American foundations and individuals.
Jacob cited the American Friends of Yeshivat HaRa’ayon HaYehudi (‘Yeshiva of the Jewish Idea’), whose partner organization is "explicitly” listed by the U.S. State Department as a "foreign terrorist organization” along with the Charity of Light Fund, which is named in tribute to the late Rabbi Meir Kahane. The U.S.-born rabbi preached and directed terrorism against those he viewed as enemies of the Zionist regime, and advocated the forced expulsion of Palestinians from territory controlled by the regime. He and his group were designated as terrorists.
Meanwhile, Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Riyad al-Maliki called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to take a firm stance against the regime’s land grab and home demolition policies in East al-Quds, as hundreds of Palestinians are facing an imminent threat of eviction from their homes in the occupied territories.
In a letter sent to ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda on Monday, Maliki urged the international tribunal to voice its strong opposition to the regime’s actions and crimes against the residents of Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, where Palestinian homes and structures are being demolished for the construction of a new settlement outpost in the area, Palestine’s official Wafa news agency reported.
A day earlier, an Israeli court ruled that at least six Palestinian families must vacate their homes in the area by Thursday, despite having lived there for generations.
Maliki denounced the decision by the court in the case of Sheikh Jarrah as "unacceptable” and "inadmissible,” saying it completely contradicts international law and is particularly in favor of Zionist settlers.
More than 600,000 Zionists live in over 230 settlements built since the 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East al-Quds.
Emboldened by former U.S. president Donald Trump’s all-out support, the regime stepped up its settlement construction activities in defiance of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, which pronounced settlements in the West Bank and East al-Quds "a flagrant violation under international law.”