[Opinion] An NGO terror front led to the “no Jews allowed” football farce
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The absurd policy, amounting to a de facto ban on Jews from a Western sporting event, was neither independent nor a fluke. Per a Daily Mail report, it was orchestrated by the Hind Rajab Foundation, a highly opaque NGO chaired by a self-described member of the “Hezbollah resistance” against Israel, who is “proud” of his military training with the proscribed terrorist group. The Hind Rajab Foundation, launched in September 2024, is the project of Dyab Abou Jahjah, who is based in Belgium and banned from entering the United Kingdom. He is infamous for praising Al-Qaeda’s Sept. 11 attacks as “sweet revenge,” has a history of homophobic vitriol and a refrain of Holocaust denial for which he was censured by Belgian authorities.
The sources of the necessarily significant funding consumed by Jahjah’s numerous worldwide projects are carefully hidden. Moreover, according to a February report in The Jerusalem Post, Jahjah is linked by family and business ties to several actors designated as part of Hezbollah’s vast terror funding network. He is also allegedly included in the U.S. government’s “No Fly” list due to terror ties.