Following Haaretz Reports, Israeli NGO Halts Support for Families of Jewish Terror Suspects

IRS made inquiries into major U.S. donor to Israeli nonprofit Honenu that provides legal aid to Jews accused of violent attacks against Palestinians.

Uri Blau May 05, 2016

Honenu, an Israeli nonprofit organization that provides legal aid to Jewish terror suspects, has curtailed part of its activities and United States tax authorities have made inquiries into the funding the organization receives in the U.S., Haaretz has learned.
According to a major donor of the organization, Honenu has stopped providing support to the families of Jews suspected or convicted of violent, nationalistically-motivated crimes, which usually target Palestinian civilians.

However, the group continues to provide legal aid to the suspects themselves, including those charged in the arson murder of three members of the Dawabsheh family in the West Bank village of Duma in July.

The decision to halt the support for the families followed media reports about Honenu, including a Haaretz investigation into the flow of funds from private U.S. donors to NGOs that support Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
The change in policy also came after the Central Fund of Israel, Honenu’s largest U.S. donor, temporarily severed its ties with the organization. The flow of donations resumed after Honenu pledged to stop supporting the families of Jewish terror suspects, said CFI Director Jay Marcus.

In December, Haaretz published a series of articles exposing a network of tax-exempt U.S. nonprofits that have funneled to the settlement project at least $220 million in private donations between 2009-2013, with the figures growing steadily each year.

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