Lawsuit seeks federal investigation into US groups funding settlements

Lawsuit seeks federal investigation into US groups funding settlements

By Alex Kane

A federal lawsuit filed last week alleges that U.S.-based tax-exempt entities who raise money for Israeli settlements are engaged in money-laundering and other crimes, and seeks a Treasury Department investigation into those activities. The lawsuit could bring attention to the widespread practice of Americans getting tax-deductions for donations that fund illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. “What’s going over there is wholesale violence, ethnic cleansing, theft of private property, murder and maiming of innocent civilians,” said Martin McMahon, one of the lawyers who worked on the suit. “This is not what 501c3s should be doing.”

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