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Beginning in 2018, a handful of groups with a self-professed political agenda have impeded the valuable work of nonprofit organizations through lawsuits, deplatforming campaigns and challenges to organizations’ tax-exempt status. Ostensibly, these groups say their actions are aimed at strengthening security. Instead, their actions impede the nonprofits’ work. At the center of these campaigns is disinformation about the work and reputations of nonprofits, disguised as “research,” which is used to exploit legitimate counter-terrorism laws and whistleblower provisions.
This is the latest chapter in the use of disinformation to delegitimize charitable work. For several years, Charity & Security Network has been aware that disinformation on nonprofits has been given an audience on Capitol Hill, and that this sham “research” has even made its way into commercial tools commonly used by financial institutions to screen customers and potential customers against sanctions lists.
Featured Resources
Congressman Introduces New Anti-SLAPP Bill
On July 24, 2020 Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN), Chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, introduced the Citizen Participation Act (HR 7771). The bill aims to make it easier to dismiss lawsuits known
Politically Motivated Attack on Black Lives Matter: DOJ Asked to Conduct Criminal Investigation
The Zachor Legal Institute, a U.S.-based advocacy group that produces legal materials “made available for use by the entire Zionist umbrella of organizations,” sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) calling for a
USAID Revises Grantee Documents Relating to Anti-Terrorism Requirements
New changes to two documents related to USAID’s contract and certification process have reduced the “look-back” period from 10 to three years, and clarified that grantees need only check U.S. government and UN terrorist lists
Citing Lack of Factual Allegations, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Seeks Dismissal of Anti-Terrorism Act Suit
In November 2019 the Jewish National Fund and 12 individual Americans living in Israel filed suit against Just Peace in the Middle East, a U.S. charity d/b/a US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR). The suit
Islamophobic Groups Attacking Humanitarian, Peacebuilding Groups and Human Rights Defenders
Click here for a printable PDF of this fact sheet In recent years, two U.S. organizations have conducted smear campaigns against charities and human rights groups that appear intended to shut down or limit humanitarian
TZAC Files Notice of Voluntary Dismissal in Case Against Oxfam GB
Use of the U.S. False Claims Act (FCA) to attack nonprofit organizations’ programs in Palestine took a setback in late December 2019 when the Zionist Advocacy Center’s (TZAC) FCA case against Oxfam Great Britain was