They also financed initiatives with the US-based Friends of the IDF, the Israeli Defense Ministry’s Department for Discharged Soldiers as well as scholarships for those with “military service as a combat or combat-support soldier.”Īs was revealed in the July complaint, CZCA allocated over $1.7 million in 2019 to YAHAD whose stated “ aim is raising funds for IDF soldiers.” In fact, the Israel Defense Forces website explicitly named CZCA as an organization “ authorized to raise donations for the IDF”. The documents uncovered by lawyer Shane Martinez show that CZCA spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on scholarships for members of the Duvdevan, a commando unit that often disguisethemselves as Palestinians while enforcing Israel’s rule in the West Bank. In the summer Palestinian-Canadian refugee Khaled Mouammar and Rabbi David Mivasair submitted a formal legal complaint to the CRA concerning the charitable status of CZCA.Īn Addendum to the complaint was submitted this week based on a decade of CZCA filings to the CRA obtained through an Access to Information request. But it’s unclear if the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) will apply its rules to the Israel focused registered charity. The Canadian Zionist Cultural Association (CZCA) was caught supporting a foreign military in violation of charity law.
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