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Israeli campaign to fight BDS cuts off fundraising accounts of 30 organizations

According to the Strategic Affairs Ministry, a two-year campaign aimed at exposing the connections between anti-Israel groups and terrorist organizations is starting to show results.

by  JNS and Israel Hayom Staff
Published on  06-11-2019 16:12
Last modified: 06-11-2019 17:47
Israeli campaign to fight BDS cuts off fundraising accounts of 30 organizationsGideon Markowicz

Israel's Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan | Photo: Gideon Markowicz

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A two-year campaign by the Strategic Affairs Ministry to dry up the funds of organizations that support the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement with ties to terrorist organizations has resulted in 30 bank accounts in various western countries being closed, the ministry reported Monday.

According to a statement from Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan, "For years, boycott promoters have disguised themselves as 'human-rights activists,' managing to raise tens of millions of euros from Western countries and citizens who thought they were contributing to causes supporting justice and equality.

"Over time, however, we have revealed that the supposed 'human-rights' NGOs are actually filled with anti-Semitic operatives with deep ties to terrorist groups fixated on destroying the State of Israel," Erdan continued.

"Our efforts have drastically undermined the boycott campaign," said Erdan, directly reducing the funding of pro-boycott NGOs and also "bar[ring them] from receiving financial services."

Included in the 10 American and 20 European accounts were the PayPal, Donorbox and Plaid accounts of the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, after it was divulged that Samidoun maintained close ties with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and utilizes terrorists as representatives in Europe. The credit-card accounts of Al-Haq were also closed after it was discovered that the director general of the organization was a senior PFLP terrorist who had spent several terms in Israeli jails.

Erdan spearheaded the 79-page report titled "Terrorists in Suits," published by the Strategic Affairs Ministry earlier this year, which revealed more than 100 links between terrorists and organizations promoting BDS, and illustrated how terrorists hide under the guise of human-rights activism.

According to Channel 13, several NGOs, U.S. and French Jewish groups, as well as a number of foreign journalists, took part in the effort to shutter the terror-related accounts.

This article is reprinted with permission from JNS.org.

Tags: BDSfundraisingGilad Erdanstrategic affairs ministryTerrorism

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