The Daily Mail Blows Up Palestinian Terror Funding

Daily Mail front page funding terrorismIt’s hard to overstate what the Daily Mail (Mail on Sunday) has done in the UK today.

They’ve completely blown the lid off the scandal of foreign aid and specifically UK Government money being sent to the Palestinian Authority and being used to pay salaries to the murderers of Jews. They’ve put this within a massive series of articles that lists huge waste and probably fraud across the UK’s entire foreign aid budget.

I’ve put the entire top of the Daily Mail website on the right of the post so you can see the scale and context of where they’ve put the pieces.

This is the headline and lede of the main article:

Revealed, how UK aid funds TERRORISTS: After yet more budget cuts, another £12bn of your taxes are being splurged on foreign hand-outs for militants, killers, Palestinian palaces and jobs that don’t exist

  • Daily Mail funding terroristsMail On Sunday investigation shows that UK money has funded terrorists
  • £72million was given to Palestine, which spent £8million on a new palace
  • £5.9million was given to a US-based think-tank which has a £12million HQ
  • You can sign the MoS petition to force a Commons debate on spending

The article gives in depth details including pictures of terrorists who are free (released in exchange deals) and receiving money for their past crimes.

I’ll pull out one detail that I’m glad someone is talking about. The whole issue of the complete shadow civil service in Gaza. When Hamas came in they didn’t kill or exile all of Fatah’s people (just some). Those working for the civil services stopped working and their jobs started being done by Hamas people. Only their salaries didn’t stop: Fatah pays them for jobs they don’t do and Hamas pays the new people! The UK says it doesn’t fund Hamas, but by massively supporting the economy in Gaza this way, Hamas gets to spend its money on terror tunnels and rockets.

Daily Mail Gaza money for nothing money shotThis is Gaza:

Getting paid from Britain while living here means you can have a good life,’ he said, although he added that his home was devastated in Israeli air strikes two years ago.

The salary payments are a legacy of the Palestinian divisions since Hamas took control of Gaza from Fatah, the rival faction recognised by the international community.

At least 60,000 officials were told to stop working by Fatah yet are still being paid. Many of them have been replaced by Hamas officials.

Mohammad Aboshair, 37, a police officer, said: ‘We hoped it would not last long. It is really wrong to stay in our homes and get paid without jobs. I wanted to serve my country, not become a burden – this is crazy.’ Three years ago auditors urged the EU to stop the salaries. Critics condemned ‘blatant misuse of taxpayers’ money’ that undermined the credibility of Brussels when millions of Europeans were jobless. Dfid sources said the cash went only to civil servants on an approved EU list and insisted they took precautions to ensure British aid did not support Hamas.

You have to see all the coverage to get a picture of the scope of work done by the Daily Mail, but I urge you to start with this one:

Revealed, how Britain’s foreign aid funds TERRORISTS: After yet more budget cuts, another £12bn of your taxes are being splurged on hand-outs for killers, Palestinian palaces and jobs that don’t exist

They’ve also got a petition to sign (if you’re a UK citizen):

Now YOU can end the foreign aid madness by signing official petition that forces MPs act: Click in here to get your voice heard

UPDATE 17:00: First I should note that the Daily Mail’s petition is really taking off: it has 75,000 signatures since this morning. I also want to note this article by Arnold Roth is so significant I must link to it here.

At the heart of the revelations published in today’s Mail on Sunday is the ongoing fraud perpetrated by the conniving Palestinian Authority to hide its REWARD FOR TERROR scheme, and the active involvement of hundreds (maybe more) of European politicians and bureaucrats – many of them British – in funneling the indispensable cash without which it could not happen.

Did we say active involvement? Yes, and about a year ago we outlined how it’s done. (See “02-Jun-15: The obvious, petty lies that keep European money flowing into the hands of the PA’s terrorists“). To save readers from searching back in time, here it in bare-bones form.

  • In essence, the Palestinian Authority, under its “moderate” front man Mahmoud Abbas PA has been engaging in a clever little trick since 2014 to hide the way it takes foreign aid from the West and uses it to fund that scheme.

  • From time, the scheme has been mildly criticized. (Our 2015 article provides links.) The clever Abbas and his fellow kleptocrats eventually understood that defensive measures were needed in order to protect the in-flow of Euros and pounds. What they did was startlingly brazen and simple.

  • They tore down their Ministry of Prisoners Affairs one evening, and overnight (in August 2014) replaced it with a brand-spanking-new, purpose-built entity that they claim has nothing whatsoever to do with the Palestinian Authority. The switcheroo is of course completely bogus and works only because public servants and their political masters in various European governments want oh-so-badly for there to be a fig leaf to cover their nakedness.’

Read it all.

6 thoughts on “The Daily Mail Blows Up Palestinian Terror Funding”

  1. Signed the petition and when I checked there were 44,181 signatures.
    You need 10,000 for a reply from the Government, and 100,000 to be considered for a debate.

    1. Thanks for posting this info about the NIF.
      I didn’t know this.
      This is unreal how there also supporting Palestinian terror.

      http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/american-jewish-donors-must-stop-supporting-the-families-of-arab-terrorists-in-jerusalem/2015/06/21/
      American Jewish Donors Must Stop Supporting The Families Of Arab Terrorists In Jerusalem
      By: Ronn Torossian
      Published: June 21st, 2015

      The latest action of a New Israel Fund (NIF) organization devoted to harming Israel comes via a ruling from The Israeli Supreme Court. This week, the court rejected a petition brought by Hamoked- an NIF grantee -to allow the wife of Ghassan Abu Jamal who murdered five Israelis in November 2015 during morning prayers in Jerusalem to remain in the Holy City. Rightfully, the court ruled that the terrorists’ wife – who is not a citizen of Israel – will not be allowed to remain in Jerusalem.

      Hamoked’s supposed mission is to assist Palestinians “whose rights are violated due to Israel’s policies” – and hence will appeal this decision in court on July 13, 2015. In the past, Israel’s State Prosecutor concluded that HaMoked’s “self-presentation as ‘a human rights organization’ has no basis in reality and is designed to mislead.” Yet, Hamoked has received $688,901 worth of grants from NIF between 2008-2013. American Jewish donors are paying to defend the families of Arab terrorists in Jerusalem.

      NIF organizations spend considerable time in Israeli courts. A few months ago, NIF funded organizations – Gush Shalom, Adalah – the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) – sought permission of boycotts of Israel. Then too, the organization was rejected. Israel’s High Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s Finance Minister can “impose fines and withhold funding from Israeli NGOs calling for boycotts of businesses in all or parts of Israel and the power to file lawsuits against those NGOs.” At the time, Justice Hanan Meltzer described boycotts as “political terrorism,” clarifying that the State of Israel has a right to defend itself from them.

      It is time for donors to New Israel Fund to stop funding the rights of terrorist families, and other actions to harm Israel.

      Donors to NIF, including Barbara & Eric Dobkin, William & Serra Goldman, Yaffa & Paul Maritz, Elisabeth and Gareth Turner, Karen R. Adler, The Jewish Communal Fund, Alisa Doctoroff of UJA-Federation and others must support Israel and stand for Jewish rights – not boycotts and the families of Arab terrorists.

      As Ze’ev Jabotinsky wrote in 1929: “The Jewish people – all of us, 100 percent want peace.” Peace does not come from strengthening the rights of terrorists families.

    2. Great article below about NIF and its radical agenda against Israel.
      http://pamelageller.com/2015/02/jaccuse-ujafedny-president-alisa-doctoroff-karen-r-adler-jcrc.html/
      J’accuse @UJAfedNY President Alisa Doctoroff, Karen R. Adler, JCRC et al
      By PAMELA GELLER
      February 25, 2015

      Shame On Alisa Doctoroff, Karen R. Adler, the JCRC and more.

      There has been a lot of commentary about the actions of a controversial tax-exempt group named, innocently enough, The New Israel Fund. The New Israel Fund’s work runs counter to seeing a strong, vibrant, and democratic Jewish nation state. They are simply anti-Israel.

      Let there be no doubt: the UJA’s President financially supports the New Israel Fund (NIF) and other heinous organizations, as has been shown. And the JCRC partners with the New Israel Fund (in Boston) and is allowing them to march in the parade. Yet they are not alone. The Neturei Karta stands on the sidelines against Israel – and that is where the New Israel Fund belongs. Next to them.

      The New Israel Fund spends some $30 million annually on efforts meant to undermine Israel’s military, bring its leaders before war crimes tribunals, and defend terrorists’ interests over the Jewish victims and the families of those who have died.

      Who joins Alisa Doctoroff in giving this pro-BDS organization money?

      New Israel Fund, Pro-BDS Supporters:

      Karen R. Adler is the President of the Jewish Communal Fund – She signed an open letter to Bill De Blasio: “the needs and concerns of many of your constituents–U.S. Jews like us among them–are not aligned with those of AIPAC, and that no, your job is not to do AIPAC’s bidding when they call you to do so. AIPAC speaks for Israel’s hard-line government and its right-wing supporters, and for them alone; it does not speak for us.”

      Adler is a board member of the Israel Policy Forum, a radical organization, that “…helped convince President Obama to adopt its Middle East Roadmap, basically the Saudi Initiative (Israel’s return to the 1949 Armistice lines, evacuation of all settlements, and the incorporation of Arab refugees and their descendents into Israel – in return for “normal relations).” Netanyahu calls those borders “Auschwitz Borders.”

      Irwin & Joan Jacobs: Irwin Jacobs is a co-founder of Qualcomm, a wireless-communications company. Irwin and Joan Jacobs give mostly in the San Diego area, but last year their largest donation, a pledge of about $133-million, was made to establish the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute at Cornell NYC Tech. The institute will house a dual-degree master’s program at Cornell Tech, a new science and engineering graduate school that Cornell University is building on Roosevelt Island, in New York. The graduate school aims to foster new business ventures between academe and industry. Somehow, he still gives to an organization that supports BDS.

      Fohs Foundation: The Foes trustees work for “greater integration and equal status of the Arab community in Israel.” (Sort of like the Abraham Fund Concept which Doctoroff is funding to get Arab voters out in Israel.) Fohs also says they “ It believes that a major obstacle to lasting internal peace, security, and a healthy economy, as well as to respect in the international community, is the lack of equal opportunity and equal treatment of the Arab/Palestinian* population that remained in Israel after 1948.”

      Bonnie and Marty Tenenbaum Foundation: World-renowned Internet commerce pioneer and visionary, founded CommerceNet (1994) to accelerate business use of the Internet. The foundation sends a good deal of money to cancer research and non Jewish causes. They donated the Board of Jewish Education offices located in the JCC of Palo Alto – yet also fund New Israel.

      It goes on and on – all available by reading the annual reports of the New Israel Fund. The donors to the gross New Israel Fund include Mimi and Peter Haas, Irving Harris, Ruth B. Ziegler, Joel and Julia Greenblatt to the Edith and Henry Everett Foundation who serve on boards including The Jewish Book Council, Joint Distribution Committee, American Friends of Israel Sci-Tech Schools (chair), and more.

      Hank Sheinkopf in the NY Observer this week said it right – “Those who stand with New Israel Fund are standing against Israel. To suggest otherwise is a lie. I urge anyone affiliated with the NIF to stop supporting this organization financially. The New Israel Fund must be ostracized by the Jewish community.”

      1. I strongly recommend the book http://www.financingtheflames.com by Edwin Black which contains well documented information and the website of ImTirtzu, https://imti.org.il/en/ , they are really proactive.
        For my website I orient myself on the articles of Ronn Torossian. My primary target is the NIF, which I call “Notorious:Infame:Fiendish”. To my mind the NIF is the most dangerous anti-Israel, anti-Zionist and anti-Jewish organization. NIF supports the BDS-movement, together with the PA BDS invented the “Apartheid-Libel”.
        The NIF is a dangerous organization because they have lots of funds and very powerful people supporting them: practically every anti-Semitic and anti-Israel organization.

  2. Western governments have been funding, training, arming and protecting terrorists murdering Jews. They are committing acts of war

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