The U.S. Department of State in a release last week condemned anti-Semitic comments made by Islamic Relief Worldwide’s (IRW) leader. The Office of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism noted that the IRW is a serious concern given that it is established as an international charitable organization, has tax exemption, and has an annual monetary allocation of approximately $100 million, and has shown “a consistent pattern of spreading the most vile anti-Semitic vitriol.” The report listed a number of examples of anti-Semitic remarks by the IRW’s trustees, starting with The Times of London, together with the director of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, publishing an expose from mid-2020 revealing that a leader of the IRW, Heshmat Khalifa, had posted on his Facebook feed a comment saying that Jews were the “grandchildren of monkeys and pigs.” The Department’s statement added that Khalifa is known to have called Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi a “Zionist pimp,” …
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