Pro-Israel ‘charities’ flout tax laws with seeming impunity

 

United Israel Appeal is the most important Israel-focused charity in Canada. Its violation of tax law highlights the hubris of Zionist charities, which have received billions of dollars in public subsidy over the years.

UIA is the principal Israel funding arm of Canada’s Jewish federations. With billions of dollars in assets the federations oversee community centres, museums and other facilities. They receive tens of millions of dollars annually in government grants (and tens of millions more through tax receipts to donors). The federations claim half of all Canadian Jews as supporters. The federations’ official “advocacy agent” is the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs.

Since 1990 UIA has raised nearly $2 billion. Most of its money is transferred from the Toronto and Montreal Jewish federations.

During upticks in Israeli violence UIA has usually launched special fundraising campaigns. They raised $100 million as the genocide began last year.

As a complaint submitted to the Canada Revenue Agency in May detailed, UIA has largely failed to account for its wealth transfer to Israel. From 1997 to 2022, UIA indicated $1.15 billion on its T2 (international) filings but only $6.6 million of this sum identified specific entities that received the money. The CRA has allowed this wealth transfer to undisclosed recipients in Israel to go on for years.  (more...)

Pro-Israel ‘charities’ flout tax laws with seeming impunity