CRA revokes the charitable status of Herut Canada, a proudly Zionist organization

 

On November 15, 2025, the Canada Revenue Agency revoked the charitable status of Herut Canada Charitable Foundation (business number 714293479RR0001 and also known as Magen Herut Canada or Herut Canada).

The CRA does not provide extensive details on revocations in the Canada Gazette, but did cite three Income Tax Act provisions as the basis of revocation. These provisions confirm that Herut Canada failed to comply with the requirements of the Income Tax Act, including at least some of sections 230 to 231.5 (full provisions are included at the bottom of this post).

We welcome this news after making two submissions to the CRA requesting an audit, and community members sending 19,282 letters. Also included in one of these complaints to the CRA was Shomrim Toronto, another Zionist paramilitary group.

Herut Canada, based in Dorval, QC, was initially registered as a charity in January 2021. Herut’s roots are with the pre-Israeli state Irgun terror group. In 1948, Albert Einstein and other prominent Jewish intellectuals labeled Herut “a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties.” In the late 1980s Herut became the Likud party. They market themselves as a proud Zionist organization, as evidenced by their website homepage.

Their long list of activities includes: “Support for Lone Soldiers in the IDF [and] Practical Zionism / Settling the Land of Israel.” They clearly encourage illegal settlements, as noted in their statement: “We promote Aliyah and support the right of Jewish communities to live and thrive throughout Israel, including in Judea and Samaria.” Judea and Samaria are references to the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. This violates domestic and international law, as well as Canadian public policy. Herut Canada also spews anti-Palestinian racism throughout their website, denies the reality of Israeli apartheid, and falsely claims that “under international law, the Jewish people own the entire Land of Israel.”  (more...)

CRA revokes the charitable status of Herut Canada, a proudly Zionist organization