Dr. April Nowell

There are still brave and principled people in the arts. Well done 🙌

@DahliaKurtz Good luck. I tried for a year to find the identity of this woman who said "Jewish women are way too ugly to be r*ped" at an anti-Israel rally in Victoria, British Columbia on April 27, 2024. Never found out who she is.

Adam Sandler: "I will always stand by Israel, I can't stand people who criticize Israel and aren't in their shoes. I hate the lies they spread and their lack of knowledge, I'm proud to stand for the Israelis".

Indigenous Jews of Judea praying at the ruins of their ancient and sacred temple for the annual new year festival they have been celebrating for thousands of years.

“Jewish rats. Palestine will triumph!” Jewish students near Madrid, Spain 🇪🇸 received these letters in their mailboxes. Do you seriously still think this is just “criticism of Israel”?

WHO IS THIS WOMAN? She harassed a group of visibly Jewish children. She called 12-year-olds "kikеs." Told them to "go back to the concentration camps." This happened Monday in Toronto at Bathurst and Finch. No matter where you live, please share so we can learn her identity.

BREAKING: Denmark refuses to join the trend of discrimination against Israeli artists at Eurovision. “We do not express support or protest against countries, but rather a desire to maintain cross-border ties."

Paramount condemns the Israeli film boycott after Emma Stone, Joaquin Phoenix, and nearly 4,000 others pledge to avoid Israeli film companies accused of “genocide and apartheid against Palestinians.” "At Paramount, we believe in the power of storytelling to connect and inspire people, promote mutual understanding, and preserve the moments, ideas, and events that shape the world we share. This is our creative mission. We do not agree with recent efforts to boycott Israeli filmmakers. Silencing individual creative artists based on their nationality does not promote better understanding or advance the cause of peace. The global entertainment industry should be encouraging artists to tell their stories and share their ideas with audiences throughout the world. We need more engagement and communication—not less." variety.com/2025/film/news…

Scarlett Johansson cast real Holocaust survivors in her directorial debut, Eleanor the Great, giving them a space to share their stories on the big screen. What a beautiful moment in a dark time for Jews in cinema.

BREAKING: Paramount unequivocally condemns the boycott of Israeli film directors and actors. Moral clarity.

Paramount condemns the celebrities who signed boycott of Israeli Film Industry: ‘We Need More Engagement Not Less’ “We do not agree with recent efforts to boycott Israeli filmmakers… Silencing individual creative artists based on their nationality does not promote better understanding or advance the cause of peace. The global entertainment industry should be encouraging artists to tell their stories and share their ideas with audiences throughout the world.” It seems like it’s going to be hard to book another film deal with Paramount for this lot… 👀

Lucy is now on display for the first time in Europe.

“There’s no reason to boycott artists. I selected those actors for their merits as actors.” "In The Hand of Dante" director Julian Schnabel responds to "activist" calls to disinvite Israeli actress Gal Gadot from the Venice Film Festival because of her identity. Artists don't dictate foreign policy, in Israel or anywhere else. Protests against Gal Gadot have nothing to do with politics, and everything to do with discrimination.

Please join us as we stand up for #Canada. #cdnpoli

A Jewish woman was stabbed in Ottawa by an antisemite who has ranted about Jews on his social media. Canadian Jews have a right to feel safe in Canada. This fall the recommendations in the Justice Committee report on antisemitism must be implemented by every level of government.

PART 5b : SMOKING GUN? DID the PALESTINIAN YOUTH MOVEMENT (PYM) FUNDRAISE for TERRORISTS? FALL 2024 FUNDRAISER with CORRUPTED PARTNERS linked to & LIKELY FUNDRAISING for the POPULAR FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE (PFLP) & HAMAS (DO CANADIAN MP’s, LIBERALS & PM MARK CARNEY KNOW? DO THEY CARE? DO THEY ASSIST?) Return to THE PYM PRO-TERROR, PRO-HATE CANADIAN ELECTION INTERFERENCE SCANDAL SERIES - CHAPTER 20, THE SCHEME: PYM FUNDING HAMAS, LINKS TO TERRORISM & THEIR POLITICAL INFILTRATION & INFLUENCE in CANADA PART 5b\ (continued from PART 5a) So to summarize from PART 5a of our now CHAPTER 20: PYM’s first partner in the fall 2024 $1,000,000 fundraiser, none other than MECA, has a very long history of hatred of Israel, incitement of hatred towards Israel and Jews, and links to a great number of terrorist-linked organizations, including its multiple connections to Hamas and PDLP. And now we move on to PYM’s second partner in the fall 2024 $1,000,000 fundraiser: THE CANADIAN PALESTINIAN FOUNDATION OF QUEBEC (CPFQ)/ LA FONDATION CANADO-PALESTIENNE DU QUEBEC The COFQ bills itself as a “non-profit charitable organization based in Montreal. We provide services to our community, raise awareness of the Palestinian cause and support our people through initiatives such as our child sponsorship program and our Gaza food program, which provides meals in Rafah for displaced residents.” Which sounds wonderful. Providing food and humanitarian services to needy children. But should we try to explore what services they actually run and fund? Fortunately, registered as a “non-profit charitable organization” with the CRA in Canada, their tax information is publicly available here: charitydata.ca/charity/the-ca… Contrary to their description of themselves, they don’t appear to run many services in Montreal or Canada as they report that almost all their revenue annually is spent as expenditures outside of Canada. And in the last couple of years one quarter of a million to half a million dollars annually spent on “research grants and scholarships”. There is no information regarding the recipients or criteria. There is also some creative accounting going on here as their figures do not actually add up. For example, their total 2023 expenditures are listed as being the same as their expenditures before grants to donees, and then they list $0 to donees, however when you go to their specific list of donees their are many interesting entities. Then in 2022, their total for total charitable expenditures is the exact same figure ($469,659) as their figure for “research grants and scholarships” ($469,659), though these are very different things and former is oddly $400,000 higher than all other years in 2022. The sense reviewing all these figures that do not add up and appear to be listed incorrectly, is there appears to be a shell game of misdirection to obscure what these funds are actually being used for and where. The reality is that almost all their funds are spent in the Gaza Strip and donated to organizations there. Fortunately the are required to report the names of these organizations, which come up with some very interesting results, with the organizations receiving the vast majority of their funds being: The Red Crescent Society for Gaza Strip: 2016 to 2020 donations - TOTAL $1,243,684 (with a 2017 not directly designated but listed as “per attached”, but the same sum as every year for Red Crescent (without 2017, this total is $980,019)). Community Abdel Shafi: 2021-2023 donations TOTAL $1,079,588 (with a 2021 sum also not designated but listed as “per attached” at $402,747 (without 2021 the total is $676,841)). Now here’s the thing: the two above are the same organization, because RCS4GS changed their name. So all COFQ donations to this organization TOTAL, for 2016-2023, $2,323,272. Now COFQ’s total revenue in these years happens to be $2,850,193. Meaning a SHOCKING 81.5% of ALL COFQ REVENUES WENT TO FUND the Red Crescent Society for Gaza Strip (RCS4GS)/Abdel Shafi Community Health Association (ACHA). How is this linked to terrorism? Well first of all, there are the many instances since the October 7th massacre of Hamas using Red Crescent Society ambulances and staff to transport Hamas terrorists, including for attacks, weaponry, rockets, and hostages, all forbidden by international law and laws of war. #google_vignette" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">jpost.com/israel-news/ar… aijac.org.au/fresh-air/fact… But there is more: the Red Crescent Society for the Gaza Strip has been closely connected with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization (a designated terrorist entity in Canada that it is illegal to fundraise for) since its very beginnings, and many of its members are terrorists within PFLP! From NGO Monitor: Abdel Shafi Community Health Association (ACHA) (formerly known as the Red Crescent Society for the Gaza Strip (RCS4GS) was founded and is directed by senior members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Employees have demonstrated support for Palestinian terror groups and their actions. On multiple occasions, ACHA facilities were used by the PFLP to hold events (repaste with links). In 2021, the UN oPt Humanitarian Fund provided $649,999 in a joint grant to PMRS, Abdel Shafi Community Health Association (ACHA), and the Culture and Free Thought Association (CFTA). Now PMRS, partner to ACHA, has many terrorists and terrorist connections actively working within their staff (e.g. in May 2023, Israel arrested PMRS member Mohammad Al-Barq alongside five other suspects who were responsible for manufacturing and planting a bomb on a bus in the town of Beitar Illit, on March 9, 2023 on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP); on August 23, 2021, Al-Barq shared a poster featuring Walid Hanatsheh, Yasan Majamas, Samer Arbid, and Qassem Shibli - PFLP members who are accused of perpetrating the August 23, 2019 bombing that murdered 17-year-old Rina Shnerb and injured her father and brother. Al-Barq wrote, "On August 23 we say our thanks to those who restored the memories, restored our heads high and appreciation for the most devine legacy. Long live the anniversary lof the attack]." On July 17, 2018, Al-Barq shared a photo of Leila Khaled carrying a machine gun and wrote, "Just two days ago the Saudi woman drove a car, but over 40 years ago the Palestinian woman hijacked an airplane." Leila Khaled is a "prominent member of the PFLP," responsible for hijacking multiple airplanes. In October 2022, Mustafa Barghouti, head of PMRS, and head of Hamas Yahya Sinwar, architect of the October 7th massacre, were photographed standing next to each other at a rally. "in support of Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque." In May 2019, Mustafa Barghouti attended a memorial event organized by the PFLP. PMRS' support for Hamas's October 7 atrocities when on that very day, Barghouti declared: "Today is a glorious day for the Palestinian resistance and people. The resistance paid with interest for the attacks of the terrorist settlers, and for the attacks against the Al-Aqsa Mosque. It paid with interest for those who normalize [their relations] with the occupation." There are also numerous other examples of the PMRS’s connections to the PFLP and terrorism, here: ngo-monitor.org/ngos/palestini…) But what of the RCS that COFQ donated $2.3 Million dollars to (from Canadian donors) in 2016 to 2023, more than 80% of the funds that it raised in Canada? Does it have connections to terrorism and the PFLP? Yes, many, according to NGO Monitor: Abdel Shafi Community Health Association (ACHA), formerly known as the Red Crescent Society for the Gaza Strip (RCS4GS)1, was foundedin 1972 and purports to be “a developmental NGO that seeks to contribute to improving the health, educational, cultural and social conditions of the community through comprehensive quality programs based on justice and equality.” However, ACHA was founded and is directed by senior members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a designated terrorist organization by the US, EU, Canada, and Israel. Many ACHA employees have demonstrated support for Palestinian terror groups and their actions. On multiple occasions, ACHA facilities were usedby the PFLP to hold their formal events. ACHA founder Haider Abdel Shafi was a member of the Arab Nationalist Movement, which was headed by PFLP founder George Habash and whose Palestine branch was eventually transformed to the PFLP. According to the Dr. Haider Abdel Shafi Center, Abdel Shafi was arrested for “supporting the military activities” of the PFLP, and although “he always denied membership of the PFLP,” Abdul Shafi “expressed sympathy for its radical stand.” A List of ACHA Staff with Ties to the PFLP: Younis Ahmed Al-Jaro According to ACHA, chairs ACHA’s board of directors. described as a “former leader in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine” in his bio for a 2017 conference commemorating the violent Palestinian uprising of 1987-1993. Bakr Hussein Abu Safiya According to ACHA, a member of the ACHA’s board of directors. According to the PFLP, “a member of the PFLP’s central committee.” • Following Israel’s August 2022 military operation against Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist forces in Gaza, Abu Safiya took part in an official PFLP delegation to honor senior members of PIJ who were killed during the fighting. Fayrouz Arafa According to ACHA, member ACHA’s board of directors. According to several Arabic–language news outlets, arrested in the 1970s due to her membership in the PFLP. In 2015, the PFLP referred to Arafa as “the comrade, [Popular] Front revolutionary and historic fighter.” Issa Saba According to ACHA, is ACHA’s vicechair of the board of directors. Previously, Saba served on Al-Dameer’s board of directors in 2015–2020and on the Palestinian Center for Human Right’s (PCHR) board of directors in 2013–2019. Multiple PCHR officials have ties to the PFLP, including its General Director Raji Sourani, who was publicly honored by the PFLP in 2014. Saba participated in several PFLP events and uses his social media to demonstrate support for the PFLP, its members, and terrorists affiliated to other terror groups: following the death of Samir Kuntar on December 20, 2015, Saba posted pictures of Kuntar, a senior Hezbollah operative who carried out a brutal attack in 1979. Kuntar is notorious as one of the cruelest psychopaths of Palestine terrorists. In that attack Israeli authorities and eyewitnesses confirmed that in his murder of a father with his four year old daughter, Kuntar first shot the father at close range in the back, in front of his daughter, and drowned him in the sea to ensure he was dead. Next, he smashed the head of 4-year-old Einat on beach rocks and crushed her skull with the butt of his rifle. Yet this monster, Samir Kuntar, is a hero to Palestinians throughout Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon. Rami Murad According to ACHA and Arabic-language sources, has served on ACHA’s board of directors at least since August 2021. in 2012–2013, Murad was a member of the “PFLP’s youth group,” the Progressive Student Labor Front (PSLF), and was referred to as a “comrade.” Tariq Abu Al-Khair held a seat on ACHA’s board of directors in 2018–2020. Also served in UHWC’s board of directors in 2014-2018, and served as its chair in 2014-2015 and 2017. On December 9, 2018 Al-Khair commented that “the PFLP is our pride and glory” to a Facebook user who wrote to him “you are the pride and glory of the PFLP.” 2014, named by the PFLP as a comrade and a “member of the sub-committee of the PFLP’s central committee and head of its cultural operations in the northern [Gaza] district.” Mona El-Farra According to several Arabic-language sources, in 1999–2018, Mona El-Farra held a seat on ACHA board of directors. El-Farra was also the board’sdeputy chair in at least 2012–2016. According to Arab media outlets, Mona El-Farra is “a founding member of UHWC.” According to MECA, El-Farra is currently MECA’s Director of Gaza Projects. El-Farra uses social media to demonstrate her support in the PFLP. Rabah Muhanna According to the PFLP, former PFLP Political Bureau member Rabah Muhannaserved as vice president of ACHA’s boardof directors and a member of the board for 10 years. A list of other ACHA staff members who support terrorism, as well as much more about the organization and its terrorist ties can be found here: ngo-monitor.org/reports/abdel-… Finally CPFQ, has donated to An Najah National University in Nablus a total of $11,599 from 2016 to 2022. Al-Najah National University hosts several student groups affiliated with Palestinian terror groups, such as Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Hamas’ student group gained almost half of electoral votes in 2023 elections for the university’s student union. According to a report published by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy in 2007, Al-Najah is known for “terrorist recruitment, indoctrination and radicalization of students…via various student groups,” in particular, the Hamas’ student group. The institute notes that “some of the most notorious Hamas terrorists have held senior positions in the al-Najah [Hamas] faction.” Thus in funding An Najah National University, the CPFQ is funding a university particularly known for its student groups that indoctrinate and recruit for Hamas and the PFLP. washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysi… NGO Monitor reports x.com/NGOmonitor/sta… And to summarize, CPFQ almost entirely fundraises for the Red Crescent Society of the Gaza Strip, whose ambulances Hamas uses for terrorism, whose leaders are also PFLP leaders who constantly praise terrorist attacks, and also donates to a university full of student groups that recruit for Hamas and the PFLP. And MECA works as an activist organization inciting for Palestinian terrorism, antisemitism, and the destruction of Israel, funds many terrorism linked groups, particularly branches of Hamas and the PFLP. And this is who the funds went to that they raised in Canada in the fall of 2024. And one final word: the posters for this fundraiser are the same all across North America, EXCEPT that the PYM Toronto chapter has a prominent Canadian flag on it, and the CPFQ emblem. None of these flyers for the American chapters do. HOWEVER, the flyer for the international PYM Instagram page is the same as PYM Toronto’s with the Canadian flag on it and the CPFQ emblem, meaning: 1. The PYM International flyer was likely made by PYM Toronto. PYM international may be led by Yara Shoufani, leader of PYM Toronto, and herself likely the most prominent and powerful international PYM leader in recent years. 2. That very possibly fundraising for PYM International, and not just the Toronto chapter, all flows through Canada (due to much lighter or lack of enforcement of laws and sanctions vs. terrorism funding in Canada (e.g. Samidoun is a Canadian designated terrorist entity and yet the CRA has still not removed its charitable organization status for fundraising!). 3. This money was almost certainly fundraised for the PFLP and Hamas in Canada by PYM, breaking many anti-terrorism laws and Hamas sanctions in Canada, and making it clear just how dangerous this PYM organization is linked to hundreds of election candidates, 28 Canadian MP’s and our the Liberal federal government of Canada! ***And stay tuned for PART 6 re: yet another likely instance of PYM fundraising for Palestinian terrorists*** @BarbaraRKay @ZevBenMeirBC @BryanPassifiume @TerryGlavin @kinsellawarren @TristinHopper @AllFactsNoHate @mashakleiner @RealAndyLeeShow @PierrePoilievre @MelissaLantsman @DahliaKurtz @MarkJCarney #liberal #Carney #election #antisemitism #Hamas @KatKanada_TM

An organization that supports terrorists, breaks U.S. law and promotes antisemitism shouldn’t benefit from the U.S. tax code. I’ve asked the IRS to investigate the Palestinian Youth Movement’s funding and ties to terrorism.

PART 5a : SMOKING GUN? DID the PALESTINIAN YOUTH MOVEMENT (PYM) FUNDRAISE for TERRORISTS? FALL 2024 FUNDRAISER with CORRUPTED PARTNERS linked to & LIKELY FUNDRAISING for the POPULAR FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE (PFLP) & HAMAS (DO CANADIAN MP’s, LIBERALS & PM MARK CARNEY KNOW? DO THEY CARE? DO THEY ASSIST?) Return to THE PYM PRO-TERROR, PRO-HATE CANADIAN ELECTION INTERFERENCE SCANDAL SERIES - CHAPTER 20, THE SCHEME: PYM FUNDING HAMAS, LINKS TO TERRORISM & THEIR POLITICAL INFILTRATION & INFLUENCE in CANADA PART 5\ I had thought that my previous post in Part 4 would have presented the strongest evidence that the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) is nearly certainly fundraising for Hamas in Canada (violating a number of Canadian anti-terrorism laws and specific sanctions on funding Hamas), when we found that a April 2023 fundraiser with the IRC (already linked to Hamas) raised money, just six months before the October 7th massacre, for Al Shifa where Hamas had it’s underground headquarters and held (and murdered) a number of hostages. x.com/LionofJOct7202… But then I dug deeper into the material for this post and was again surprised to find that the more I researched it, the stronger the evidence became that PYM was raising money for Palestinian terrorists with this fundraiser as well. This has been the pattern in researching the organizations involved in this pro-Hamas movement; when you dig just a little bit, you find intriguing results, however, the deeper you realize that you dig through layers of deception and find more and more links to terrorist-supporting organizations, the more you realize the scope…and the deeper I researched the fundraising partners and “humanitarian” providers, the more links were found to terrorism…and before we go any farther, it’s a bit of a simplification when we refer to just Hamas as being responsible for the October 7th massacre and this war. In point of fact, there were many different terrorist organizations working together under the unified command of Hamas in the massacre, and still fighting and holding hostages today. In addition to Hamas (Al-Qassam Brigades), other terrorist organizations involved include Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)(the Al-Quds Brigades), Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)(Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades), Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (National Resistance Brigades/Martyr Omar Al-Qassem Forces), Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades (aligned with Fatah/PA), Popular Resistance Committees (split from Fatah; Al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades), Palestinian Mujahideen Movement (Mujahideen Brigades), Palestinian Freedom Movement (Al-Ansar Brigades), as well as large mobs of Palestinian “civilians” who joined the invasion of Israel on October 7th, and joined in on the atrocities, looting, and hostage taking in the massacre. ngo-monitor.org/reports/pflp-i… In the case of this PYM fundraiser, it appears most of their fundraising appeared to be for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), as well as some likely for Hamas. The PFLP is one of the oldest Palestinian terrorist groups, going back to the hijackings of the 1960’s and 1970’s, though they’ve continued many viscous and murderous attacks in the decades since. canarymission.org/organization/P… It’s a natural fit for PYM to fundraise for PFLP, as they are very closely aligned, with PYM praising many specific PFLP terrorists through the years and providing educational sessions and memorials about them. In fact, it may be that similar to Samidoun, PYM may be able to be considered a North American wing of the PFLP. This seems like an obvious fit with the Marxist PFLP, because when you listen to PYM leader Yara Shoufani in interviews and her speeches she continually uses Marxist language, like “Liberation movement“, “the Revolution”, “comrade”, “against the imperialists”, and “class traitor”. It’s like taking a time machine back to a revolutionary Marxist cafe in the ‘60’s - except far more dangerous as she is serious about it, has the means, has no compunctions about it, and has the allies in Canada… Through the fall of 2024, PYM held an international fundraiser for Gaza that eventually reached the $1 Million dollar mark by December 3rd, 2024. Their partners were two organizations that allegedly provide or fund humanitarian services in Gaza, the Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) and the Canadian Palestinian Foundation of Quebec (or La Fondation Canado- Palestienne Du Quebec). The only problem is that both organizations have long histories of connections to terrorism, the PFLP, and Hamas… Firstly, according to both Influence Watch and NGO Monitor (sourced in an attached tax return), MECA is funded by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Open Society Foundation (the private donor foundation of billionaire and Far Left anti-Zionist Jew, George Soros) organizations that also just happen to fund many of the anti-Zionist organizations in North America, including those who supported Hamas and incited hatred against Jews and Israel through “protests”, rallies and encampments, including Samidoun (widely known for its very close ties to one of the oldest Palestinian terrorist groups, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, PFLP), If Not Now, the “Jewish Voice for Peace” (JVP), Defence for Children International - Palestine (which has close links to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, PFLP) and (via the New Israel Fund) Breaking The Silence, B’Tselem, Adalah, J Street, Independent Jewish Voices (IJV), Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), and Al-Haq (whose leaders have ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, PFLP). MECA has also been associated with Far Left radical activist Noam Chomsky, whose praises are quoted on the MECA website. In recent years, Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Open Society Foundation have contributed over half a million dollars each to MECA (at minimum). [And though not a known donor to MECA, it should be noted that George Soros other major donor foundation in addition to the Open Society Foundation is the Tides Foundation, which just happens to fund (through the WESPAC foundation) SJP, the Palestinian Youth Movement, Within Our Lifetime, the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN), and outside of WESPAC, JVP, NIF, IJV, If Not Now, Adalah, J Street, and Samidoun (via Alliance for Global Justice). And right there you have the vast majority of organizations involved in the hate fest rallies since October 7th, 2023, not including American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), which has even more direct connections with Hamas. It should be noted that the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) joined Samidoun in being two of the organizations that also praised Elias Rodriguez’s terrorist murders of two Israeli embassy staff in May 2025.] But not only is MECA known for being funded by donors who fund some the world’s most major Palestinian terrorism supporters and enablers, but MECA has it’s own long history of spreading hatred against Jews and Israel. MECA staff have long been incredibly hateful to Israel and Jews, with anti-Zionist Jew Barbara Lupin being a MECA founder (in 1988) and the Executive Director and believing that Israel is racist by its very nature, accuses it of ethnic cleansing by fighting to survive in 1948, accuses Israel of apartheid, and insists that Jewish morality is dead and that Jews “can be fascists, terrorists, and Nazis just like everybody else.” She was quite active in Berkeley in the 1980’s and 1990’s, the same era and founding place of SJP, JVP, and home of Hatem Bazian. Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch, long-time Executive Director of MECA, has in the past written that the “Nakba” has never ended and since the October 7th massacre has been very supportive of Hamas, has stated that “soon” “Palestine” will be free “from the River to the sea” (code for slaughtering all of the Jews in Israel from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.) MECA attempts to delegitimize Israel by accusing it of “apartheid,” “genocide,” and “ethnic cleansing” towards Palestinians. Additional, MECA has engaged in other anti-Israel activism, including the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, has celebrated investigations into alleged Israeli “war crimes”, signed multiple statements condemning Israel, and offered teacher training seminars titled “Palestine in our Classrooms, which claimed to advocate on “incorporating Palestinian history, narratives, and culture into K-12 classrooms,” but seems to mostly just encourage children to become anti-Israel activists and to hate Israel based on the biased inflammatory and hostile one-sided perspective it gives. standwithus.com/wp-content/upl… MECA has been involved with other indoctrination efforts as well, as it has long organized propaganda delegations to “Palestine/Israel” where participants can “witness the impact of the Israeli occupation and…learn about refugees, land confiscation, political prisoners…” Trip highlights include learning “about the origins of the Palestinian refugees and the Right of Return, and how it can be implemented” (which is code for the destruction of Israel as a Jewish state). Shamrouch calls for a new Intifada. He has MECA frequently co-sponsoring events with most of the organizations commonly involved into the Pro-Hamas rally/encampment movement, including AL-Adwa SF, ANSWER Bay Area (whose other chapters included member Elias Rodriguez who murdered the young Israeli embassy couple), AMP (chaired by Bazian), Palestine Legal, SJP, and others. Not only does it appear that MECA supports the Hamas October 7th massacre, but they indulge in atrocity inversion, bizarrely claiming that Israeli was the responsible party on October 7th, not the terrorists who committed the massacre, and long before and defensive actions were taken against Gaza they completely lie on the website : “On October 7, Israel launched the bloodiest attack on the people of Gaza ever, killing and injuring thousands of people, destroying homes, schools, and emergency shelters, depriving the population of food, water, electricity, and medical care.” In June 2009, MECA raised $75,000 for British MP George Galloway’s “Viva Palestina” convoy “following the massacre in Gaza.” Galloway is a long-time Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist supporter who Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh gave his own personal Palestinian passport as a gift. MECA called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to dismantle Israel, fought against the adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism, called for the ICC to investigate Israel for “war crimes”, and generally spread anti-Israel propaganda through a great number of other projects. One example of these was that MECA was the sponsor of a rally in July 2021 that called to “End US Aid to Israel… [and] End the Apartheid State of Israel. Finally, MECA condemned the decision by the Israeli Ministry to designate six Palestinian NGOs as branches of the PFLP terrorist organization. The statement signed by MECA and others read, “As funders invested in human rights, we refuse to be silenced or intimidated. We conduct thorough due diligence processes in our grant-making, including accompaniment of projects. Our funding decisions belong to our boards and our conscience, not the Israeli Defense Department.” And what has been problematic about that MECA funding in the past? Well, they have been chronically linked to terrorist organizations and support for terrorism repeatedly throughout the years: MECA was the fiscal sponsor for International Solidarity Movement -USA. In 2009, donations to ISM were used to “interfere with the construction of the annexation barrier” were made out to “MECA (ISM-USA Fund).” (Israel’s security barrier was in fact built after the Second Intifada to keep out West Bank terrorists that snuck into Israel to carry out many of the terrorist attacks of the Second Intifada. These attacks have decreased dramatically since the barrier was built.) ISM itself has a long history of encouraging violence and supporting terrorism. In April 2018, during the violence on the Gaza border, MECA called for people to “show your solidarity” and join the “Transnational Great Return March” , it should be noted that this event was also held in collaboration with the Palestinian Youth Movement, as their flyer makes clear. The rhetoric in advertising this event was notably encouraging of violence and called for the total destruction of the State of Israel: “There will be no solution without the total end of the Zionist colonization of Palestine–return is our right, and demand: we will return! Palestine will be free!” MECA ignored the violent nature of the protests, which consisted of an organized armed attack on the Israeli border and IDF positions, attempts to destroy and breach the border fence, and rubber tire fire smoke camouflage attempts to hide breach attempts, sustained arson, rocket, and mortar attacks on Israeli civilian communities. These violent terrorist-led “protests” also included stone throwing, Molotov cocktails hurled, and gunfire at IDF soldiers. Although Hamas attempted to propagandize the “March of Return” as a peaceful protest as they bussed in large numbers of women and children as human shields, the reality was it was run by Hamas with many of those present being Hamas terrorists, and peaking at having 50,000 Gazans violently rioting at the border fence. As IDF soldiers lives were frequently at risk and there were serious risks of violent breaches of the border fence, and Hamas and the Gazans they sent did not respond to warnings to stay away from the border fence, the IDF had little choice but to respond at times to secure their and Israeli lives, using both live ammunition and rubber bullets, shooting and wounded some of the participants. Even then, the vast majority of the casualties were terrorists, with Hamas even admitting so. For example, Hamas spokesman Salah Barawil confirmed that 50 of the 62 people killed at the border on March 14, 2018 were Hamas terrorists. jpost.com/arab-israeli-c… Nevertheless, Hamas propaganda was partially successful in presenting the March of Return to international audiences as being peaceful civilian protests, which had an effect of normalizing potentially violent Hamas and Gazan border actions, a very key long-term Hamas strategy of lulling Israel into almost ignoring such activity for fear of international condemnation, leading to no Israeli response to months of unusual activity and rehearsal of border attacks prior to October 7th, 2023. In assisting to lay the propaganda groundwork to support these actions and deception, MEC must bear at least some indirect responsibility for Hamas’s October 7th invasion and massacre. MECA was a sponsor, with Jewish Voice for Peace, Amnesty International, Interfaith Peace Builders, and Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA; Yara Shoufani, PYM & Palestine Platform leader having been executive director of Canadian Friends of Sabeel (CFOS) from 2018 to 2022) for Bassem Tamimi’s 2015 U.S. speaking tour. Tamimi, a BDS promoter, is known for his involvement in violent confrontations with the Israel army and has posted antisemitic content on social media, including the libel that Israel arrests Palestinian youth to steal their organs and that Zionists control the media. Tamimi had also called for starting a Third Intifada against Israel in the United States. During this tour, Tamimi spoke to a class of third graders about the suffering of the Palestinians. Following the event, the Superintendent of the school district stated that Tamimi’s remarks were “skewed, inflammatory”, including when he called for the children to become “freedom fighters for Palestine”. In March 2016, the U.S. government cancelled Tamimi’s visa for lying on his application form, specifically for “failure to expose prior arrest and conviction.” Tamiko had previously been convicted and jailed in Israel for organizing youth in his village to engage in stone throwing protests at IDF soldiers on a weekly basis for several years, often involving dozens of youths simultaneously involved in attempted “stonings” of soldiers (which were typically staged with cameras rolling to attempt to catch an IDF response to distribute to international media). Although this is typically displayed as being minor in Western media, it is a frequent Palestinian tactic and stone throwing has resulted in at least 14 murders in Israel, including of several Arabs mistaken for Jews. Some of the more well-known cases involved a 2011 incident when Asher Palmer, was driving his infant son, Yonatan, on Route 60 near Kiryat Arba to Jerusalem to visit his pregnant wife. Driving in the opposite direction was former Palestinian Authority security officer Waal al-Arjeh and his accomplice Ali Saadeh. As they crossed paths, al-Arjeh threw a large rock that pierced the windshield, hit Asher in the head, caused the car to crash, and Asher and his son were killed upon impact. idf.il/en/mini-sites/… June 2001, Yehuda Shoham, a 5-month-old baby, was killed when a rock hurled by stone-throwing Palestinians crashed through the window of the car he was in and crushed his skull. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestini… These murders have included several IDF soldiers as victims, including Ronen Lubarsky who was killed when a marble slab was dropped on his head near Ramallah in 2018, and Amit Ben-Ygal who was killed by a large stone throw down from a roof in the village of Yabed in 2020. Both Lubarsky and Ben-Ygal were killed despite wearing helmets. timesofisrael.com/ronen-lubarsky… timesofisrael.com/idf-soldier-ki… In just one of its many BDS activities, in 2018, MECA held a lecture titled “Gaza Freedom Flotilla, BDS, Banned from Israel” by Ann Wright, activist with CODEPINK. Wright “was a boat leader on the 2015 Gaza Freedom Flotilla and…the Zaytouna, the Women’s Boat to Gaza in 2016.” The event was sponsored by Sabeel (again an organization with links to PYM leader Yara Shoufani), CODEPINK, and Jewish Voice for Peace. MEC is also tied to the Union of Health Work Committees (UHWC), which is a terrorist organization PFLP-affiliated health committee active in Gaza, as identified by USAID and in Palestinian documents. MECA lists UHWC as an organization “we support.” Mona El-Farra, the director of Gaza projects for MECA, is also a member of the Union of Health Work Committees,and I n 2015, El Farra was denied a visa by the Israeli authorities to travel to a conference on Palestine in Dublin for “security reasons.” In 2004, El-Farra explained that UHWC refused USAID funding because it came with the condition that they promise “not [to] give any help or any aid whatsoever for the families of the militiamen [Hamas and other terrorists], or their relatives, or anyone related to ‘terrorist attacks’” because “we consider it resistance.” (i.e. condone terrorism). the Union of Health Work Committees (now known as AWDA) is a Palestinian NGO identified by Fatah as an official PFLP “affiliate” and by a 1993 USAID-engaged audit as the “the PFLP’s health organization.” The organization has received tens of millions of dollars of international donations over the years. Academic scholar Glenn E. Robinson, who also identifies UHWC as a “PFLP-affiliated health committee,” explains “Many - probably most - doctors who joined the UHWC had political leanings similar to the leftist PFLP. As health committees tied to other political factions also existed, it was common for doctors and staff to work with that health group which reflected their politics. Both the providers and, to a lesser degree, the recipients of these medical services were aware of the larger political agenda. The ability to translate medical - and other social - services into a particular political vision was the key to the struggle within the Palestinian community for ideological hegemony” (emphasis added). Magdi Yaghi, UHWC treasurer and board member in 2016-2019, is referred to by the PFLP as a “member of the regional command” and a “comrade.” In February 2019, Yaghi participated in a memorial service organized by the PFLP for Maher Yamani, a PFLP “founder” and a “member of the Central Committee and one of its most prominent military commanders.” Partners of MECA include Ard Al-Insan, a Gaza health organization that claims to deal with malnutrition, anemia, and other conditions, and has received millions of dollars in international donations. Ard Al-Insan has long had alleged ties to terrorism, including being partnered with the Union of Health Work Committees, a Palestinian NGO identified by Fatah as an official PFLP “affiliate”. In 2006-2007, Ard El Insan received money from the International Relief Fund for the Afflicted and Needy (IRFAN); in 2014, IRFAN was labeled a terrorist entity by the Canadian government. Investigation revealed that money was transferred from IRFAN to various organizations that then funneled funds to or cooperated with Hamas, including Ard El Insan. According to the Canada Revenue Agency, from September 2006 to April 2007, International Relief Fund for the Afflicted and Needy -Canada (IRFAN) transferred $418,785 to the Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technology – West Bank (the Ministry was under the control and direction of Hamas from 2006 to 2007) through its major partner organization in Gaza, Ard El Insan (AEI). The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) found that IRFAN funded AEI, which provided food packages and aid (valued at $181,868) to the Palestinian Ministry of Health under the Hamas government. The Canadian government report states, “Our audit findings also note that, in May 2008, IRFAN-Canada sent a letter directly to the Minister of Health affirming its support for the Hamas Ministry. Ard El Insan is carbon-copied on the letter.” The Minister of Health at the time, Dr. Basem Na’im, is a long-time Hamas member. According to Meir Amit institute, MECA partner, Ard El Insan is one of the “Da’wah organizations which has become Hamas’s instrument for cementing its rule in the Gaza Strip.” According to Meir Amit, the goal of these NGOs is to “distribution of aid to the population which collaborated with the Hamas administration.” One of the Da’wah activists techniques is to distribute funds in mosques, encouraging Gazans to specifically attend Hamas-controlled mosques for indoctrination purposes. In 2015, Ard El Insan began working with Islamic Relief Worldwide. In February 2016, Ard El Insan signed a partnership agreement with Islamic Relief to implement a project titled “Milk for Preschoolers.” In January 2016, the UK-based bank HSBC had announced that it was ending all links to IRW, “amid concerns that cash for aid could end up with terrorist groups abroad.” On June 19, 2014, Israel’s Defense Minister had declared IRW to be illegal, based on its alleged role in funneling money to Hamas, and banned it from operating in Israel and the West Bank. According to news reports, the decision was made after “the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), the coordinator for government activities in the territories, and legal authorities provided incriminating information against IRW.” MECA also partners with the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committee (UPWC), identified by the Fatah terrorist organization as an official “affiliate” and by USAID as the “women’s organization” of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a designated terrorist organization by the US, EU, Canada, and Israel. UPWC also active supports BDS campaigns and utilizes inflammatory rhetoric against Israel. Finally, MECA was one of the organizations that joined in Hamas’s international assault on Israel and diaspora Jews in the days immediately after the Hamas October 7th massacre, being listed as one of the many NGO’s that almost immediately engaged in “atrocity inversion” by making false accusations of genocide and ethnic cleansing against Israel (while it was still recovering bodies) in order to distract from the Hamas massacre. Only nine days after the massacre, on October 16, 2023, before Israel had even mounted a ground offensive, MECA tweeted, “the Israeli genocide unfolding in Gaza hasn’t stopped the Israeli machinery from continuing its crimes and murders in the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem.” ngo-monitor.org/reports/false-… influencewatch.org/non-profit/mid… ngo-monitor.org/ngos/middle_ea… irishtimes.com/news/canada-ba… amchainitiative.org/wp-content/upl… "UK MP given Palestinian passport". BBC News. 12 March 2009. jpost.com/international/… ngo-monitor.org/ngos/internati… web.archive.org/web/2023053109… tabletmag.com/sections/news/… ngo-monitor.org/ngos/defence_f… sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl… To be continued in PART 5b @BarbaraRKay @ZevBenMeirBC @BryanPassifiume @TerryGlavin @kinsellawarren @TristinHopper @AllFactsNoHate @mashakleiner @RealAndyLeeShow @PierrePoilievre @MelissaLantsman @DahliaKurtz @MarkJCarney #liberal #Carney #election #antisemitism #Hamas @KatKanada_TM