Pro-Israel
Attorneys Get PayPal to Cutoff British Charity
by John Rossomando • Oct 23, 2018
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Pressure from pro-Israel attorneys convinced PayPal to cutoff donations to the British
social justice group War
on Want due to alleged ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine (PFLP) terrorist group.
UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) and the U.S. based Lawfare Project filed a complaint with the U.K. Charity Commission last
month alleging
that War on Want "misuses charitable funds to support terrorist
organisations and promote political propaganda." It also acts
"contrary to the public benefit as it stokes hatred of Israel and Jews
and encourages antisemitism."
A War on Want partner, Addameer, includes many PFLP members. Among
them is Sumoud Sa'adat, identified by the terrorist group as the daughter of
PFLP General Secretary Ahmad Sa'adat.
The Lawfare Project and UKLFI pointed to a December 2016 War on Want
project carried out in conjunction with Addameer called "Political
Prisoners' Stories." It aimed to advance the PFLP's strategy of
"using human rights forums" to promote a "national struggle,"
they said. The goal was to pressure Israel to release imprisoned PFLP
comrades.
"Our relationship with Addameer ensures we can bring the latest
news and reports affecting imprisoned Palestinians to our UK
campaigns," War on Want's website says.
The PFLP originally was known for its pioneering of airline
hijacking, but in recent years it has become a player in the international Boycott,
Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. BDS aims to isolate
Israel economically and politically through a regime of boycotts and
sanctions.
PFLP terrorists claimed responsibility for an attack on a West
Jerusalem synagogue in December 2014.
War on Want also works with the BDS National Committee, which
coordinates the international BDS movement. PFLP, Hamas, Palestinian
Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
(DFLP) and Fatah participate
in the BDS National Committee as members
of the Council of National and Islamic Forces in Palestine.
"PayPal has decided to no longer allow its service to be abused by
those who promote violence, lies and propaganda," Lawfare Project
Director Brooke Goldstein said in a statement published online.
"Congratulations to UKLFI on this result and to Paypal for taking a
stand against the misuse of its platform."
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Court Ruling Upholds Judgment Against Radical British Cleric
by Abha Shankar • Oct 23, 2018 at
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A federal appeals court has upheld a radical British Islamist cleric's 2014
terrorism conviction.
Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, more commonly known as Abu
Hamza, was convicted of 11 terrorism charges in Manhattan
federal court and sentenced to life in prison. He was charged
with multiple counts of providing material support to
al-Qaida and with participating in a hostage-taking operation in Yemen. He
also helped set up a terrorist training camp in Bly, Oregon, and
facilitated violent jihad in Afghanistan.
He spent much of the 1990s running London's Finsbury Park Mosque. He was
arrested in 2004, triggering a
nine-year legal battle over his extradition to the United States.
In its ruling Tuesday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals did dismiss convictions on two counts relating to
helping the jihad in Afghanistan in 2000-01 because U.S. law relating to
providing material support to terrorists was confined to material support
"within the United States" at the time of the conspiracy.
"Evidence that Mustafa, in London, arranged for [Feroz] Abbasi to
be transported from London to Afghanistan, could not satisfy the statute's
nexus requirement because no part of the conduct occurred within the United
States," the court ruled.
The terrorism statute was amended after the 9/11 attacks to include
material support that occurred outside the United States.
The Yemen attack took place in December 1998, and involved the abduction
of 16 tourists, including two American. Abu Hamza "aided and abetted
the terrorist Islamic Army of Aden" in the attack by providing a
satellite phone and advice to the kidnappers. Four hostages were killed,
which Abu Hamza subsequently described as "a good thing" in Islam
In 1999, Abu Hamza and several co-conspirators tried to establish a
terrorist training camp in Bly, Oregon, to support al-Qaida. He directed
two men to travel from London to Bly to help set up the camp.
One, Oussama Kassir "brought with him various tools to conduct this
training, including manuals on manufacturing poisons, nerve gas, and
explosives...[and was] also was in possession of letters addressed to both
Usama Bin Laden and Abu Hamza, reflecting his support for those
individuals," a prosecution sentencing memo said.
Kassir was convicted in connection with the conspiracy and sentenced in 2015 to 20 years in prison.
At his sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge Katherine B.
Forrest described Abu Hamza's conduct as "barbaric,
misguided and wrong" and remarked, "[I]t is important to me that
you have not expressed sympathy for the victims of the Yemeni
kidnappings."
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