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"Hundreds of thousands of pounds of UK taxpayers’ money are annually pumped into War on Want projects. These funds are granted by the Department for International Development for commendable efforts to improve the lives of farmers in Sri Lanka, Brazil and other places but they also enable War on Want to fund its anti-Israel tirades. Unsurprisingly, the public rarely distinguish between War on Want’s various projects, and so in the public mind government funding equates to a stamp of approval for the organisation as a whole. If this were so, then the government would be granting money to an organisation campaigning against the Brown administration’s own policy. War on Want’s support of an Israel boycott, and its stand against the British presence in Iraq, is a classic case of biting the hand that feeds it. Like a helpless drug addict, the government finds itself paying for something which can only harm its interests. It is time it broke the habit and conducted a thorough review of the upside-down world of NGO funding. If not, the United Kingdom could find itself aiding an Israel boycott campaign."