Charity commission investigating UK charities funding illegal Israeli settlements

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The UK Charity Commission has launched a major inquiry into eight British charities that have sent donations to illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied West Bank. The commission will examine whether the charities are using the funds for “legitimate charitable purposes” after receiving “serious allegations” about multiple charities. The specific charities have not been named. However, this announcement comes after a Declassified UK investigation, which revealed how Israeli group Shivat Zion offered to help British citizens move to “awesome” illegal settlements. According to Declassified: Shivat Zion told supporters it could benefit from UK Gift Aid, by directing donations via a separate…

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UK charities face inquiry over Israeli settlement funding

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Charity Commission announcement follows Declassified’s investigation into donations to illegal settlers A major inquiry has been launched into British charities months after Declassified revealed donations may have been sent to illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. In an unprecedented move, the Charity Commission has opened an investigation into eight groups to examine whether funds are being used for legitimate charitable purposes. The regulator claimed the decision to open an inquiry was “not a finding of wrongdoing”, but said there were “serious allegations” about multiple charities. A spokesperson refused to name the charities under investigation, instead describing them as “amongst those…

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Allianz Ireland exec makes feeble attempt to defend funding genocide

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It is a question any parent with a conscience has no doubt asked themselves at this point: what will I tell my child when they one day ask what I did during the Gaza holocaust? If he has any offspring, Allianz Ireland’s chief customer officer, Geoff Sparling, now has an answer he can give them: “I wrote a column in a national newspaper defending my company’s ongoing funding of the ‘Israeli’ war machine.” Researchers have identified the Allianz crime family as the biggest foreign financier of the Zionist entity. Pro-Palestine campaigners in Ireland have placed particular focus on the company due…

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‘Huge’ cost of aircraft carriers meant ‘less scope’ for funding health and education

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“Vulnerable” aircraft carriers are about Britain “counting for something in the world” and being an “effective ally” of the US, declassified files show Tony Blair’s treasury secretary Alistair Darling told the prime minister that buying aircraft carriers was a “political” rather than a military choice and would mean less funding for social services.Declassified files from 1998, Blair’s first full year in government, contain deliberations among officials and ministers on Labour’s manifesto commitment to replace Britain’s three aircraft carriers with the two new ones the UK currently possesses.Darling wrote to Blair in June 1998 about the carriers and the aircraft to go…

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Irish government steps up its funding of genocide-backing Palantir

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Micheál Martin’s toxic government has doubled down on backing one of the world’s most nakedly criminal corporations, by allowing the Irish Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF) to increase its shares in the murderous Palantir. The Ditch reports the following: The Irish Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF) held 22,073 shares in Palantir valued at €3.34 million at the end of 2025, according to the National Treasury Management Agency’s (NTMA) annual report published yesterday. ISIF’s annual report for the previous year showed a lower holding of 13,060 shares, for a total of just under €1 million euros. So as Palantir’s appalling activities have become increasingly…

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