WSJ: A Congressional Campaign Against Jewish Charities
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“Several U.S. charities received letters last month from the Government Accountability Office seeking to “interview” each organization’s leader about its “compliance with IRS requirements.” The charities promote different kinds of causes, but they have one thing in common: They all support Israeli communities in the West Bank. Among them are One Israel Fund and at least five other groups that asked not to be named.
The GAO is an agency without any authority to investigate or audit taxpayers. It carries out research requests from members of Congress. In this case, the agency was asked by eight Democratic lawmakers—Sens. Peter Welch (Vt.), Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), Jeff Merkley (Ore.), Tim Kaine (Va.) and Chris Van Hollen (Md.) and Reps. Summer Lee (Pa.), Al Green (Texas) and Joaquin Castro (Texas)—to investigate “U.S. policy regarding the provision of assistance by U.S. charities to Israeli settlements, and what types of assistance did selected U.S. charities report providing Israeli settlements,” according to a description of the project provided by the GAO to House staffers…”
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