BAN JEWISH CANADIAN CHARITY ORGANIZATION
A Canadian
Jewish organization has been stripped of its CHARITY status following a government audit that found it had
provided support to “foreign armed forces,”
The Beth Oloth Charitable Organization, based in Toronto, had been a registered
charity since 1980 and was one of richest in Canada, with more than $60-million
in revenues.
The Canada Revenue Agency also identified a list of other
problems such as funding projects in the occupied territories, which it said
was contrary to Canada’s policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
president of the former charity could not be
reached for comment. The address listed in CRA RECORD is a
home in North York. The group does not appear to have a website.
But in the
audit documents, the CRA Charities Directorate said the group had not issued
tax receipts properly, lacked “direction and control” over the use if its
funds, and had funded non-charitable activity.
That included educational programs called mechinot that
prepared high school students for Israeli military service.
The programs provide weapons training, physical and
martial arts training, mentoring by Israel Defence Forces officers and visits
to army bases and sites of historical battles, the stance of CRA wrote.
“It is our position that these pre-army mechinot exist to
provide support to the Israel Defence Forces, and that funds forwarded to these
mechinot are therefore in support of foreign armed forces,”
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