This is a surprising turn. But equally surprising is that the EU still apparently doesn’t realize the obvious: that virtually every Palestinian organization is linked to jihad terror. Even the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) was found to be inciting violence against Israel in its schools. It is the mandate of the Palestinian establishment to wage jihad against Israel. It is stated in the charters of the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, and Fatah that they intend to obliterate the state of Israel. The manifesto of the PLO indicates that it was founded for the purpose of “liquidating” Israel.
According to the Ministry of Strategic Affairs, Badil is one of 130 Palestinian organizations refusing to sign Article 1.5. The organizations in question refuse to do so, claiming Palestinian terrorist groups are merely “political parties.”
No surprise there.
In fact, more broadly, most mainstream Islamic organizations are linked to jihad terror, as evidenced by the largest jihad terrorism funding trial in American history of America, the Holy Land Foundation Trial. For a list, see HERE.
Let’s hope this is a precedent-setting move, the first of many to come.
“In First, E.U. Nixes Funding from Palestinian NGO over Refusal to Disavow Terror”, by Deborah Danan, Breitbart, June 18, 2020:
TEL AVIV – The European Union last week for the first time pulled funds from a Palestinian nonprofit over its refusal to sign a clause ensuring no terrorist organizations benefit from the aid.
The E.U. informed Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights it was withdrawing the €1.7 million (about $1.9 million) granted for a three-year project called “Mobilizing for Justice in Jerusalem.”
The project aimed at “enhancing the resilience of Palestinians and highlighting Israeli human rights violations and international crimes in Jerusalem,” Badil said.
“Based on your reply we conclude that Badil cannot abide by the General Conditions as they stand, and we are therefore obliged to consider your application no longer valid,” the letter read, according to a press release by the NGO.
According to Badil, the cancellation of funding came after a series of correspondence between the NGO and E.U. officials over its refusal to sign Article 1.5 of Annex II of its general conditions, otherwise known as the anti-terror clause.
The clause, which was introduced to E.U. contracts with nonprofits in 2019, stipulates no E.U. funds go to terror organizations including Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
“Grant beneficiaries and contractors must ensure that there is no detection of subcontractors, natural persons, including participants to workshops and/or trainings and recipients of financial support to third parties, in the lists of E.U. restrictive measures,” it says.
According to Badil, it refused to sign the clause because it “criminalizes the Palestinian struggle against oppression and requires the recipient organization to perform ‘screening’ procedures which amounts to policing its own people.”…
terry sullivan says
most of the eu funding is from uk
Beverly says
Money talks and bullshit walks. For a country allegedly being genocided by Israelis, their population continues to grow. Stopping the money is a good first start.
gravenimage says
EU pulls funds from Palestinian NGO that refused to bar jihad terror organizations from benefiting from the aid
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Finally, a modicum of sanity from the EU.