{"id":21168,"date":"2010-07-16T07:25:38","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T15:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=21168"},"modified":"2010-07-16T07:43:48","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T15:43:48","slug":"yisroel-pensack-germany-bans-turkey-based-gaza-flotilla-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=21168","title":{"rendered":"Yisroel Pensack: Germany Bans Turkey-Based Gaza Flotilla “Charity”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buried deep down in a story headlined, “Sponsor of Flotilla Tied to Elite of Turkey,” The New York Times reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Humanitarian Relief Foundation was founded in the early 1990s, first as a charity for the poor in Istanbul, and later for Bosnian war victims. It works in more than 100 countries…The charity has one branch in the West Bank and another in Gaza…<\/p>\n

On Monday, Germany banned the charity\u2019s offices, citing its support for Hamas, which Germany considers a terrorist organization. Interior Minister Thomas de Maizi\u00e8re said the charity abused donors\u2019 good intentions \u201cto support a terrorist organization with money supposedly donated for charitable purposes.\u201d The newspaper S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung said that from 2007 the charity collected $8.5 million and transferred money to six smaller organizations, two belonging directly to Hamas and four with close ties to it.<\/p>\n

The charity called the ban a \u201cdisgrace\u201d and \u201cmisanthropic\u201d and said it would challenge it in court.<\/p>\n

A June 21 letter signed by 87 United States senators urged the White House to investigate whether the charity should be designated a foreign terrorist organization. Israel has accused the charity of bolstering Hamas. It also says the group has links to Al Qaeda<\/a> and has bought weapons, accusations the charity denies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Buried deep down in a story headlined, “Sponsor of Flotilla Tied to Elite of Turkey,” The New York Times reports: The Humanitarian Relief Foundation was founded in the early 1990s, first as a charity for the poor in Istanbul, and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,13633,139,37,16759,18818],"tags":[13993,22870,22394,22868,1172,22869,22871,22872],"class_list":["post-21168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity","category-germany","category-islam","category-israel","category-turkey","category-yisroel-pensack","tag-al-qaeda","tag-banned","tag-flotilla","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-humanitarian-relief-foundation","tag-i-h-h","tag-terrorist-organization"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t