State Department Gives $41K to Charity That Partners With Terrorists

According to records reviewed by The Washington Post, the State Department has funded a project to train Palestinian journalists. This will be implemented by a charity which has partnered with terrorist organizations. Washington Free Beacon.

Fares Al-Arab was awarded $41,000 by the State Department last September. This organization is located in Gaza Strip and has a history with partnering with Hamas. Fares Al-Arab is to launch a 15-month training programme that will be. “target employed and unemployed journalists” Keep your eyes on the prize “developing the Palestinian journalists’ English language skills,” The grant documents say.

As recently as 2021, the charity was openly working with Hamas on a housing project. It also regularly collaborates with terrorist organizations on other projects. Fares Al-Arab awarded its media award for a radio station run by the Islamic Jihad Movement. It honored Fares Al-Arab’s self-described journalist who belonged the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Fares Al-Arab also hosted a press conference that featured an Islamic Jihad spokesperson and co-led human rights training courses with a terrorist. This group also denigrated Israel. “apartheid” regime supports boycotting the Jewish state and has signed on to a petition calling on the United Nations. “uncover the terrorist face” Israel

Areej Al-Massry was a spokesperson for Fares Al-Arab. Free Beacon That “the group’s views on Israel will not be a part of the media training program.” The program participants will be selected “in partnership with the project’s management staff in the U.S. Department of State,” She said. The State Department has not responded to a request of comment.

Legislators are worried about the group’s history of anti Israel activism and its association with terrorist organizations. The Israel Defense Forces Warned That terror groups use “journalism as a cover for terrorism,” Hamas is reported to have employed operatives as cameramen, operating out of media buildings and employing them as cameramen. An Israeli soldier was captured in 2015. Stitched A terrorist dressed as a photographer, and wearing a yellow shirt, injured and killed. “press” vest.

“It’s no surprise that the Biden State Department is funding groups committed to inciting violence against Israel and waging economic warfare against our Israeli allies,” Ted Cruz, Senator from Texas, spoke at the Free Beacon. “Biden officials have been taking money that Congress allocated for programs in Israel aimed at coexisting and integration, and instead poured them into Hamas-controlled areas.”

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