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USAID Is Funding Groups that Praised Oct. 7 Massacre


(New York Post) Mark Dubowitz and Ben Cohen - In 2024, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) boosted its financial support for projects in Gaza and the West Bank, spending more than $200 million. The beneficiaries included local partners who praised the Oct. 7 atrocities committed by Hamas in Israel, such as Al Awda, with close ties to the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Palestinian Medical Relief Society, whose president described the massacres as "a glorious day for the Palestinian resistance and people." USAID's governing bureaucracy stoked false Palestinian claims that Israel was engineering a famine in Gaza and routinely parroted the talking points of terrorist organizations. Mark Dubowitz is chief executive of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, where Ben Cohen is a senior analyst.
2025-02-06 00:00:00
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