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Source: http://www.cjnews.com/andy-levy-ajzenkopf-staff-reporter/kenney-halts-funding-palestine-house
Canada Halts Funding to Palestine House
(Canadian Jewish News) Andy Levy-Ajzenkopf - Citizenship and Immigration Canada has stopped funding a settlement program administered by a Palestinian non-profit in Mississaugua, Ont., the Palestine House Educational and Cultural Centre. Palestine House received $950,000 from Ottawa last year and has received funding for the past 18 years to provide services to the Palestinian community in the Toronto area. A Feb. 14 report on Mississauga.com stated that Jason Kenney, minister of citizenship, immigration and multiculturalism, sent a letter to Palestine House in January indicating the funding would cease due to concerns of the non-profit's "pattern of support for extremism." In the report, a spokesperson for the minister said Palestine House has in the last few years aligned itself with terrorist causes, including celebrating the release of terrorists and honoring the founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a group that "in the 1960s and '70s was responsible for numerous armed attacks and aircraft hijackings."