Have all Canadians underwritten $180 million of a billionaire power couple’s donations to a charity assisting a murderous military in violation of Canada Revenue Agency rules? How long until the CRA finally shutters a charity it never should have registered?
On August 10, the CRA revoked the charitable status of the Jewish National Fund of Canada and Ne’eman Foundation, which have raised a combined $350 million over the past decade. The news has sent shockwaves through the network of 200+ charities raising over a quarter billion dollars a year for projects in Israel, prompting open conflict between the JNF and Canadian Jewish News.
While most attention has focused on the far more influential JNF, the CRA’s rationale for revoking the Ne’eman Foundation’s charitable status threatens multiple Zionist charities, notably Gerry Schwartz and Heather Reisman’s HESEG Foundation for Lone Soldiers. In its rationale for revoking Ne’eman, the CRA states clearly that it considers assisting the Israeli military and specifically “lone soldiers” a violation of charity rules.
The revocation letter notes, “We further stated that increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), which is further discussed in section 2.b), is not a charitable purpose.”
It repeats that point on multiple occasions and identifies assistance for “lone soldiers” as assistance for the Israeli military. Referring to “lone soldiers” more than a dozen times, the CRA letter notes, “The Lone Solider Centre’s website also clearly defines the term lone solider as ‘an IDF solider with no family in Israel to support him or her’… As such, we are unable to accept the Organization’s representations that this agent does not support the IDF and that lone soldiers are simply immigrants without a family in Israel.” (more...)
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