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REALITY CHECK: Denmark Cuts Funding For Palestinian Groups With Ties To Terror

   DailyWire.com

On Friday, Denmark’s Foreign Ministry announced that an internal investigation in the Danish Foreign Ministry had discovered some Palestinian NGOs had ties with terror groups, and thus Denmark would cut funding to those groups. In 2018, only 10 Palestinian NGOs will receive aid instead of the current 24.

The Danish government also tightened the conditions for Palestinian NGOs’ eligibility for aid in the future.

Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen was prompted to launch the investigation by Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan.

The Danish investigation noted the Palestinian Women’s Affairs Technical Committee (WATC) opened a center for women last June named after the terrorist Dalal Mughrabi, who was the head of the terrorist group that murdered dozens of Israelis in the 1978 Coastal Road massacre, the deadliest terror attack in Israel’s history.

On March 9, 1978, 13 Fatah terrorists, including Mughrabi, sailed from southern Lebanon for Tel Aviv on two small Zodiac landing craft. Two of the terrorists drowned when one of the crafts capsized. The 11 surviving terrorists landed on a beach at Kibbutz Ma’agan Michael. They saw an American nature photographer, Gail Rubin, the niece of U.S. Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, and asked her for directions to Tel Aviv. According to two witnesses, Mughrabi murdered her.

The terrorists then hijacked a taxi, murdered the occupants, hijacked a bus, threw one body from the bus, hijacked another bus, and ordered the passengers from the second bus to join the passengers on the first bus. With more than 70 hostages on board, the terrorists drove through one roadblock before being stopped at Glilot Junction on the northern edge of Tel Aviv. Gunfire from lightly-armed police and machine-gun-armed terrorists shattered the windows; police told the passengers to jump out, but in the end, the terrorists killed 37 people, including 13 children, and 71 people were wounded.

As Ynet reports:

WATC received half a million dollars through the Ramallah-based Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Secretariat, a donor program sponsored by Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland. According to Israel’s Strategic Affairs Ministry, the Secretariat funds many Palestinian organizations that promote the de-legitimization of Israel as well as boycotts against it. Some of these NGOs, such as Al-Haq and Addameer, also have ties to the terror organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

Israeli Minister Erdan called the Danish government’s decision “a significant achievement for Israel in its resolute struggle against the boycott organizations, which suffered a severe blow today.” He added:

It cannot be that European countries continue funding Palestinian organizations working to promote boycott and present a distorted image of Israel, and more gravely — having ties with terror elements. … I’m glad Denmark has realized the Danish tax payer does not wish to fund — directly or indirectly — Palestinian organizations with ties to terrorism. I call on other nations on the European continent to take the same measure of moral responsibility and take similar steps.

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