HEAL Palestine
HEAL Palestine, founded in January 2024, is a US-based 501c3 charity. It claims to provide humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in Gaza, as well as facilitate travel to the US from Gaza for medical treatment.
The United States and Canada are not immune to the negative consequences of NGO funding. While not as extensive as the problems in Europe, some American funding does support pro-BDS groups.
HEAL Palestine, founded in January 2024, is a US-based 501c3 charity. It claims to provide humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in Gaza, as well as facilitate travel to the US from Gaza for medical treatment.
Several organizations receiving Canadian government funding act in ways that directly contradict Canada’s stated values of peace and stability, through documented affiliations with terrorist entities and the promotion of hostile, anti-Israel rhetoric and activities.
Although the Government of Canada and the UN portray HAYA as being devoted to community-based and domestic violence against women, PCHR is exploiting this framework for anti-Israel demonization.
WESPAC has been at the center of controversy due to its fiscal sponsorship of disruptive, and at times violent, anti-Israel and antisemitic activities in the aftermath of the Oct. 7th attacks.
On June 2, 2025, The Toronto Star reported that Canadian law enforcement has been “investigating potential war crimes related to the Israel-Hamas conflict” since early 2024.
In this research paper, NGO Monitor documents and analyzes the extensive links between a number of Harvard University frameworks and central non-governmental organizations (NGOs) exploiting human rights to demonize Israel.
In Rahma Worldwide's Gaza operations, the organization has partnered with NGOs and institutions tied to Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist groups, as well as the Kuwaiti Islamic Heritage Revival Society (RIHS) terror group.
Terror-linked organizations – including groups with ties to US-designated terrorist groups Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) – receive donations in the US from tax-exempt 501c3 charities, as well as through donor-advised and financial service providers.
Since 2021, the US government has funded a number of terror-linked and terror-supporting NGOs, that advance economic warfare against US companies, and that support prejudicial ICC investigations against Israel.
At least two US-funded organizations – Mercy Corps and American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) – appear to have closely coordinated with a Gaza-based ministry, run by a senior Hamas official identified by the US Treasury Department as previously responsible for part of Hamas’ smuggling operation.