"Canadian donors are playing a crucial role in backing controversial Jewish settlements on the front lines of the Israeli-Palestinian conflicts.
A number of Canadian registered charities and affiliates are channeling millions of dollars to settler groups in the Israeli-occupied territories, a Star investigation shows.
Revenue Canada stepped in earlier this year to revoke the charitable licence of the Toronto Zionist Council after confirming it was channeling money to settlements."
That is an interesting development. Sabina Citron, Ernst Zundel's well-known
nemesis who keeps on suing him, was mentioned way back in an article in
the Toronto Sun of November 23, 1981, headlined "Zionists want charges",
wherein there is agitation against Ernst Zundel. The article states, "Sabina
Citron, of the {Toronto Zionist} Council's Holocaust Remembrance Association.
. . "
In a June 1982 promotion for a Holocaust flick "Who Shall Live And
Who Shall Die" on the letterhead of the Canadian Holocaust Remembrance
Association it states in large letters, ". . . affiliated with the
Toronto Zionist Council. . ."
On May 26, 1987, Sabina Citron sued the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
(CBC) on her own behalf, on behalf of members of the Canadian Holocaust
Remembrance Association, and ". . . the Toronto Zionist Council".
More yet, the Toronto Star, of November 23, 1993 states in an article on
Page A3, "But at least one local Jewish group - the Toronto Zionist
Council - has taken up the settlers' cause and is advertising in today's
issue of the Canadian Jewish News for donations to support settlers . .
. 'We have been concerned about the settlers for some time now because it
seems the've been abandoned," said Toronto Zionist Council president
Helen Smolack."
The Canadian Jewish News of September 21, 1989, page 36, lists Sabina Citron,
"currently vice-president of the Toronto Zionist Council and a Co-founder
of the Canadian Holocaust Remembrance Association."
And so it goes. All of this is, of course, very revealing and very damning
information. Those paper trails come back to haunt people, it seems.
Now there is nothing wrong with giving money to your own causes and to your
own people. Jews have a perfect right to support their own group to the
extent they need support and that support can be marshalled. Nobody argues
that. They do not have the right, however, to do that under the cover of
a charitable, tax exempt institution, as not a few fundraising organizations
are doing. The Toronto Star mentions a staggering 300 charitable (tax-deductible)
Jewish organizations.
According to the Toronto Star investigation,
". . . Ottawa is investigating a number of (Jewish) charities whose activities may violate Revenue Canada rulings that prohibit charitable tax deductions for funds spent in the occupied territories. Revenue Canada would not identify the targets of its audits.
The Canadian government and the United Nations consider the Jewish settlements to be "contrary to international law and unhelpful to the peace process," according to recent Revenue Canada correspondence with a registered charity. . .
"The law says that a charity should not operate against stated public policy," Carl Juneau, acting director of Revenue Canada's Charities Division, said in an interview. If they do, they will lose their tax exempt status. Directors of such a charity could face prosecution under the Income Tax Act."
This article goes on to say that
". . . Israeli settlers and fundraisers boast that supporters in Canada's Jewish community contribute far more, on a per capita basis, than America and other Jews living outside Israel.
"There's a cartel of Canadian millionaires who give massive amounts of money," says David Ramati, a resident of the West bank settlement of Kiryat Arba and who runs Hebcom Communications.
"Toronto is especially known as, in quantity, a small Jewish community, but in relative terms contributing much more than its percentage (share)," said Rabbi Eliezar Waldman. His Kiryat Arba seminary is backed by a major charity, Mizrachi of Canada; he is also an officer of Israel's biggest settler group, Yesha, which says it raised $700,000 a year from Canadians."
Mizrachi Organization of Canada, in its latest public filing with the
Charities Division, shows it raised more than 3.2 million in 1994 and dispursed
2.4 million. And this is only one of hundreds of such "non-profit,"
tax exempt operations.
"By funding these settlements, 'the charities are subsidizing the state infrastructure (of Israel),' and that contradicts Canadian foreign policy, Juneau said."
The Star's investigation shows another little-known registered charity,
called the Press Foundation - which, one would think, might be a journalism
outfit - has been linked with fundraising activities in both the Golan Heights
and the Jewish settlements in Hebron. Despite keeping a very low profile,
the organization is an impressively successful opration. According to its
annual public filing with the Federal Charities Division, it shows it raised
$5 million in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1995. It disbursed some $4.8
million.
The Star reports that
". . . it is unclear how much of its $4.8 million in disbursements went to Israel." The Press Foundation, in its filed papers, claims that its main activity is to 'help support needy and poverty-stricken families.'"
One of the charities is reported by the Toronto Star as having bought,
among other things, "security equipment" for the squatters in
those heavily armed illegal settlements. Would uzzis or Galil rifles qualify
as "security equipment"? Just asking.
Furthermore, I am just wondering how many Jews living on land that once
belong to Palestinians might be needy and poverty-stricken? I remember a
conversation I once had with my very liberal friend, Nancy, who had just
come back from that part of the world, and who marveled at the wealth of
the Israelis compared to Palestinians.
"It's stark," said Nancy. "There is a dividing line between
Israel's living standard and Palestinian living standard that is as sharp
and abrupt as if drawn by a ruler."
This is just one example of how "victimhood," against the backdrop
of the "Holocaust" is being used, right under the Canadian taxpayers'
noses. Tens of thousands of Canadian taxpayers pay more taxes because of
this parasitism of those who slip money to Israel under false pretenses.
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
"Here we are sitting in a shower of gold, with nothing to hold up but a pitchfork."
(Jules Bertillon)