Artikkel i Haaretz 30. juni:
(Hele artikkelen nederst under Kilde)
"Israelis Are Funding Terrorism"
Journalisten tar for seg det nylige mordet på palestineren Ali Hassan Harb, og hvordan den mistenkte og arresterte israelske settleren støttes av organisasjonen"Honenu".
Med sitt virkefelt beskrives Honenu som en terror-organisasjon.
Og den har skattefri-status, dvs donasjoner gir skattefridadrag både i Israel og USA,
Sterk melding fra en israelsk journalist.
Terrorvirksomhet med skattefrihet!
Skudeneshavn 1. juli 2022
Jan Marton Jensen
Kilde:
30. juni 2022
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2022-06-29/ty-article-opinion/.premium/israelis-are-funding-terrorism/00000181-b0e3-d21b-a1eb-f2fb4dae0000
HELE artikkelen i Haaretz 30. juni 2022:
Opinion |
Israelis Are Funding Terrorism
Mourners
carry the body of Palestinian Ali Harb, who according to Palestinian
health ministry was stabbed to death by an Israeli settler, last week.Credit: MOHAMAD TOROKMAN/Reuters
Honenu has issued over 20 press releases since last Wednesday, in the
wake of the arrest of a Jewish man from Ariel on suspicion of murdering a
Palestinian man in a clash between settlers and Palestinians the day
before. In its steady flood of announcements, the right-wing legal aid
organization depicts the suspect – who was arrested by the Shin Bet
security service and is being represented by Honenu – as having been
“saved from lynching,” a recurrent phrase in its press releases, and as
being tortured by the Shin Bet under interrogation.
This brainwashing was so successful that a few hundred people, nearly all of them from the mainstream of the Jewish settlement movement
in the West Bank, demonstrated outside the Ariel police station
Saturday night to support the suspect. The protest was titled “Jews are
attacked in a lynching and find themselves tortured in the Shin Bet’s
cellars.” And on Tuesday, a group of religious Zionist rabbis, including
some considered moderate, issued a statement urging the authorities to
“release the suspect immediately and unconditionally!” A reminder: This
is a man who is suspected of stabbing another man to death. Would they protest this way on behalf of a drug dealer who murdered a rival?
This is an escalation of Honenu’s activity.
The organization is a registered nonprofit whose goals, as stated on
GuideStar’s Israeli, Hebrew-language website, include “encouraging
employers to give preference to Israeli military veterans.” If you’ve
ever encountered any activity by the organization in this field, please
call NASA’s new UFO search team. Its main, if not sole, activity, is
defending (Jewish) terrorists and fighting the Shin Bet and its tactics
(when they’re used against Jews). And while it isn’t a newcomer to the
media, it hasn’t previously engaged with it this extensively,
intensively and effectively.
Honenu
marked its 20th anniversary this year. According to GuideStar, its
volume in 2020 was 4.6 million shekels ($1.3 million); foreign sources
accounted for 670,000 shekels (most of it from a single donor who wasn’t
identified in the organization’s annual report).
Honenu is authorized to receive
tax-deductible donations under Article 46 of the tax code, which means
the state – that is, we – are indirectly funding its activities. These
activities are now being reviewed by the Registrar of Associations,
because Honenu’s certification of compliance with the registrar’s rules
of proper administration has lapsed. In the past three months, the
registrar has informed it no fewer than five times – the latest just
this week – that it hasn’t yet submitted all the documents necessary for
its request for recertification to be considered.
Donations from the United States are made via the
Central Israel Fund,
a charitable organization that has already starred in several
investigations here. Contributions to that organization are
tax-deductible in America, though it seems unlikely that defending
ultra-nationalist settlers meets IRS requirements. It generally allows
tax-deductible donations only to organizations engaged in social-welfare
activity, while coming down hard on “charities” that provide assistance
and money to terrorists.
And
we should call a spade a spade – the defendants Honenu represents are
terrorists, from members of the Bat Ayin underground through Yitzhak
Pass to Jack Tytell (in contrast, the man arrested last week is still
only suspected of murder, but if he is convicted and is proved to have
committed the murder out of nationalist motives, he will be considered a
terrorist). And by indirectly funding Honenu’s activity, Israel is
expressing support for its actions.
Honenu’s Hebrew-language website says the
following: “We also look at the background and the motives. We
understand the mindset of someone who, moved by the harm done to the
Jewish people, crossed the line and, in his warmheartedness, took action
against the desecration of the Jewish people’s national honor. And we
think he deserves to receive all his rights.”
Desecrating our national honor? Would we still fund it if those words were written in Arabic?
