The Kars4Kids scandal comes at a difficult time for the genocide lobby and boosts rapidly growing efforts to curtail Canada’s most important contribution to Palestinian dispossession.
On The National Friday CBC reported on a legal ruling in California to ban the Kars4Kids jingle for violating false advertising laws. The registered charity operates a car donation service supposedly “to fund educational, developmental, and recreational programs for low-income youth.” In fact, the money is used by an Orthodox Jewish group running camps exclusively for Jewish youth in New Jersey and Israel as well as Middle East lobbying efforts and sending US teenagers to Israel.
According to CBC, Kars4Kids Canada transferred $12.6 million to the US and Israel in the 2024-25 fiscal year. In October Just Peace Advocates submitted a formal complaint to the CRA regarding Kars4Kids’ registered charity (Oorah Charitable Organization). It notes that there’s “no indication of any funds to Canadian programs despite advertising suggesting helping children. Donors would expect their donations to be used in Canada and certainly would not expect the funds to go to one religious group.” The submission ads that the “funds going to Israel are not for children but for post-secondary programs” and questions whether they are being used to support illegal West Bank colonies and the Israeli military.
The publicity about Kars4Kids comes at an inopportune moment for the genocidal Jewish supremacist lobby. Over the past two weeks they’ve been screaming about how they are victims because there’s been an effort to press the CRA to apply its rules to 11 school charities assisting the Israeli military. In response to a report/email campaign submitted to the CRA calling for an investigation into 11 schools, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, B’nai Brith and others claimed applying the rules would “erase Jewish life in Canada.” Liberal MP Anthony Housefather even stood before Parliament to demand his government intercede to ignore the law.
After two weeks of complaining, CIJA instigated an email campaign to the CRA responding to the Just Peace Advocates led report/email campaign. The CIJA letter doesn’t say “don’t investigate charities potentially violating CRA rules”, but that is effectively their message. (more...)
Scandal boosts efforts to stop tax subsidies for Israel
The money from Kars 4 Kids all went to a Jewish organization called “Oorah.”
— Vincent James (@davincentjames) May 19, 2026
This is a REAL video on the REAL “Oorah” YouTube channel, lol. https://t.co/D9xMhcTQz5 pic.twitter.com/2hdbCPGX29
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