Switzerland follows Denmark, Norway and Holland in stopping funds to an Arab organization that has ties to a youth terror center. Given Swiss backing for anti-Israel terrorists, this is a significant first step toward admitting that "Palestinian" "humanitarian" organizations are just a cloak for murdering Jews and ending the Jewish state. Switzerland has yet to acknowledge that Hamas and Hezbollah are terrorists. They have donated millions to entities sworn to the annihilation of Israel. The sum of money withheld here is a paltry $36,000. Still, its a beginning. The bill to withhold funds was introduced in the Swiss parliament by MP Christian Imark. In pressing the Swiss Lower Council to pass the bill, he said, "Swiss foreign policy is not credible if it supports organizations that don’t recognize - and even boycott - the existence, the sovereignty, and the democracy of the State of Israel."
MP Christian Imark introduced bill in Swiss Parliament to stop funding "humanitarian" causes that incite terrorism against Israel. |
National Council in Switzerland where bill originated to ban funds for terror, hatred, and anti-Semitism. |
Jerusalem Post
BY BENJAMIN WEINTHAL AUGUST 22, 2017 14:11
The Human Rights
International Humanitarian Law Secretariat failed to cut its ties to terrorist
organizations.
The Swiss Foreign Ministry
announced that it suspended funds
and support for the Ramallah-based Palestinian NGO Human Rights International
Humanitarian Law Secretariat because the organization failed to cut ties to
terrorism, according to a Sunday report in the Swiss newspaper Sonntags
Zeitung.
“This
is an important first step in NGO funding accountability by the Swiss Foreign
Ministry, and reflects the recent legislation on this issue,” Prof. Gerald
Steinberg, the president of the Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor, told The Jerusalem
Post on Monday.
“In halting payment to WATC
[Women Affairs Technical Committee], the Swiss follow similar moves by Denmark
and Holland. The radical Palestinian NGO is one of many funded by these
countries through the Ramallah-based Human Rights Secretariat, with an annual budget
of $4 million,” he added.
He asserted that “a number of
the recipients are affiliated with the PFLP terror organization.
Having now frozen WATC
funding, the question is whether the Swiss federal government will seriously
reexamine participation in the very problematic secretariat mechanism, and in
other frameworks that misuse tax money under the facade of human rights and peace.”
The Human Rights
International Humanitarian Law Secretariat provides funds to the WATC, which
named a youth center after a Palestinian terrorist.
Critics of the secretariat
say it glorifies Palestinian terrorism.
The Palestinian NGO also
receives funds from Denmark,
the Netherlands and Sweden.
The Swiss Foreign Ministry
said its internal investigation showed that it did not directly funnel money to
the WATC project. The payment of $36,000 for the Palestinian NGO was suspended
and a definitive decision about a continued payment will be issued.
A date for the decision was
not cited in the Swiss media reports. Switzerland, which has hosted Hamas
officials over the years, is not a member of the EU and has declined to outlaw
Hezbollah and Hamas as terrorist entities.