A look at five pro-Israel organizations that lost charitable status in Canada, and the mega-donors who funded them

The recent status revocations of the Jewish National Fund of Canada Inc (JNFC) and Ne’eman Foundation Canada suggest that the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has blinked first in the face of the International Court of Justice’s July 19, 2024, advisory opinion on the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem. The two former charities had been involved for years – the JNFC, notably, since 1967 – in transferring Canadian taxpayer-subsidized charitable donations into the hands of Israeli intermediaries involved in undermining the territorial sovereignty of Palestine, specifically in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. ….more