Cruz demands DOJ launch criminal probe of US nonprofit allegedly helping terrorists

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Cruz demands DOJ launch criminal probe of US nonprofit allegedly helping terrorists


A handful of Senate Republicans are urging the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into a U.S.-based nonprofit that raises money for UNRWA, the United Nations refugee agency for Palestinians that critics have long said promoted an anti-Israel agenda in the Middle East and recently came under scrutiny for its alleged ties to Hamas.

Led by Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz, Republicans in the upper chamber will send a letter this week to Attorney General Merrick Garland outlining their concerns about UNRWA USA, a nonprofit with a self-described mission to support the "work of UNRWA through fundraising, education, and advocacy in the United States."

"We write to call on you to open a criminal investigation into UNRWA USA, its principals, and its leadership for knowingly providing material support to foreign terrorist organizations, including Hamas," the lawmakers wrote. "This support facilitated and continues to facilitate terrorism, including the October 7 terrorist attack in which Palestinian terrorists killed or kidnapped dozens of Americans and over 1,200 Israelis.

"According to its 2021 annual report, UNRWA USA dispersed nearly $5 million in donations to UNRWA that year, making the organization UNRWA’s largest institutional donor."
According to the nonprofit's website, UNRWA USA was "created to educate the American public about the work of UNRWA (the U.N. Agency) to benefit Palestine refugees and fundraise for specific UNRWA projects where we can have an impact."

The lawmakers pointed to comments made in 2004 by then-UNRWA Commissioner-General Peter Hansen, who told CBC TV he had no problem with having Hamas members on UNRWA's payroll, a chief concern that landed the U.N. agency in hot water in recent weeks after the terror group's invasion of Israel last fall.

"Oh, I am sure that there are Hamas members on the UNRWA payroll, and I don't see that as a crime," Hanson said in part at the time.

Senate Republicans, however, noted in the letter that Hanson's assessment "is incorrect," noting that it "is in fact a crime."

Americans are in general prohibited from knowingly providing material support to Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs). 18 U.S.C. § 2339B states that ‘Whoever knowingly provides material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization, or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both, and, if the death of any person results, shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life,’" they wrote....
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The FBI should investigate UNRWA USA for knowingly supporting terrorist. Well if they can tear themselves away from investigating American Catholics :palm:.
 
UNRWA and the entire UN should be defunded and removed from NYC.

Why should American taxpayers fund a terrorist organization?
 
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