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Natasha Hausdorff is an international lawyer specialising in international law, foreign affairs & national security. She is Legal Director of UKLFI Charitable Trust and a sought-after commentator on the law of armed conflict, the International Criminal Court and international humanitarian law. She has addressed governments, legislators, international organisations and media audiences around the world on legal issues relating to Israel and international law.
 
Natasha Hausdorff is an international lawyer specialising in international law, foreign affairs & national security. She is Legal Director of UKLFI Charitable Trust and a sought-after commentator on the law of armed conflict, the International Criminal Court and international humanitarian law. She has addressed governments, legislators, international organisations and media audiences around the world on legal issues relating to Israel and international law.
 
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After Ed Sheeran Tour Ouster, Macklemore Pledges $1 Million to Gaza Aid Groups With Terror Ties, Watchdog Says.
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By Debbie Weiss. September 17, 2026.
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An internal 2022 Hamas document cited by NGO Monitor described a senior Gaza employee of MAP as “affiliated with the Hamas movement” and working in “the positive,” terminology the watchdog said was used for Hamas’ Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. The document also said he had “allegiance” to Hamas rule.
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The watchdog also said MAP was funded by the Abdel Shafi Community Health Association, which it described as founded and directed by senior members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist group, while previous Gaza partners included the Hamas-run Health Ministry and an organization funded by Interpal, a charity designated by the US Treasury over alleged support for Hamas.
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A separate 2021 Hamas intelligence document cited by NGO Monitor said a former employee of Anera, a US-based humanitarian organization operating in Gaza, “used to work as an intelligence source” for a unit of the Hamas-run Interior Ministry. Other Hamas records, however, described Anera itself as “not cooperating” with the ministry and said it had resisted Hamas financial and administrative inspections.
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The Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF), a US-based nonprofit that provides medical care to Palestinian children, also appears repeatedly in internal Hamas records. One document cited by NGO Monitor lists PCRF as a donor to a Gaza rehabilitation association whose board included two members identified as Hamas-affiliated, while others show the group operating under Hamas restrictions governing foreign medical delegations.
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PCRF also has ties to the Holy Land Foundation, a US charity later convicted of providing material support to Hamas. The two groups jointly staged a 1996 fundraising tour, with 40% of the proceeds going to PCRF. After Holy Land was designated a Hamas fundraising organization and its assets frozen, it sought Treasury approval in 2004 to transfer $50,000 to PCRF.
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MAP has rejected allegations of Hamas ties, while Anera says it maintains a strict “no-contact” policy with Hamas.
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NGO Monitor founder and president Gerald Steinberg accused Macklemore of “blatant antisemitism under the thin facade of antizionism” and said his plan to donate to “terror-tied NGOs adds another dimension to this travesty.”
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Some of the groups Macklemore pledged to “are well known as sources of propaganda that demonize Israel,” he said, with “links to the heinous Hamas terror regime.”
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“Macklemore’s attempt at virtue signaling does nothing to build peace, rather the opposite,” he told The Algemeiner. 
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UNRWA itself has faced repeated allegations of Hamas infiltration. A UN investigation concluded in 2024 that nine staff members “may have been involved” in Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel and terminated their employment. In June, UNRWA fired 70 Gaza employees after accusations that they were affiliated with Hamas.
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Israeli forces have on multiple occasions reported finding weapons, Hamas command facilities, and a 700-meter tunnel used by Hamas military intelligence beneath UNRWA’s Gaza headquarters...
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[https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/09/17/after-ed-sheeran-tour-ouster-macklemore-pledges-1-million-gaza-aid-groups-terror-ties-watchdog-says/ Algemeiner]
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NGO Monitor
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@NGOmonitor:
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Macklemore and @edsheeran pledged millions to Palestinian orgs and challenged Robert Kraft to match the funding. But where is the money going?
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3 of the 6 orgs @macklemore pledged to (MAP, Anera, and PCRF) appear in internal Hamas documents analyzed by NGO Monitor.
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Sep. 17, 2026.
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The left lobs yet another ‘Big Lie’ on Israel — and the fallout keeps getting worse.
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By Post Editorial Board.
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Published Sep. 18, 2026, 8:58 p.m. ET
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The left’s Big Lies about Israel keep growing bigger — as do the ugly consequences.
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The latest: Rep. Gregory Meeks’ bid to place a “hold” on a $2.8 billion sale of US bombs to the Jewish state.
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“The Trump administration’s proposed sale of 40,000 2,000-pound bombs . . . raises grave, unresolved concerns about how these munitions could be used in densely populated areas of Gaza and Lebanon,” huffed Meeks; it’s empty virtue-signaling, since he can’t actually stop the sale.
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How bad have the lies about Israel gotten?
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These are weapons needed to destroy underground tunnels and bunkers; withholding them helps sustain Hamas and Hezbollah, though Meeks claims he backs Israel’s right to defend itself from the terrorists.
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Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) likewise opposed the sale, claiming preposterously that “US weapons are being used to perpetrate a genocide.”
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It’s all nonsense: Israel has never — never — used bombs indiscriminately or where it believed major civilian casualties were likely, let alone to “perpetrate a genocide.”
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And there’s no legitimate fear it ever would.
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These charges fit with a slew of whoppers in a new film, “NAZA” (an acronym for the Hebrew words for “collateral damage”), that the Israel Defense Forces used AI to identify targets in Gaza and carried out strikes knowing they’d mostly kill civilians.
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Contrary to the vicious smears, the IDF never leaves targeting decisions to AI, nor would it proceed with a strike if it expected a high civilian-casualty rate.
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What makes these lies especially heinous is that the precise opposite is true: Israel goes to lengths to avoid civilian casualties. [https://nypost.com/2024/03/20/opinion/joe-biden-and-world-media-are-relying-on-bogus-hamas-stats-to-smear-israels-conduct-of-gaza-war/].
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Even as Hamas tries to maximize them by using them as human shields.
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Urban warfare expert John Spencer, who’s studied the war in Gaza, reports that Jerusalem has “implemented more civilian harm mitigation measures than any military in history.” [https://nypost.com/2025/04/05/opinion/the-lies-behind-the-gaza-casualty-figures/].
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That includes not just calling off strikes and diverting missiles mid-flight rather than skirt the rules of war, but also informing civilians in advance of an attack by phone and leaflets, using pinpoint targeting and more.
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And it doesn’t just avoid casualties; IDF soldiers have actually risked their lives to protect civilians — from Hamas.
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The military has also opted for ground attacks rather than airstrikes to avoid civilian casualties, even though it knew it would lose its own soldiers by doing so.
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Of course, the charge of genocide goes way beyond lies like those in “NAZA.”
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Along with Jayapal, countless lefties — Mayor Zohran Mamdani, AOC, Brad Lander, Rashida Tlaib and on and on — fling the term with abandon.
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Never mind that Israel could have wiped out Gaza’s population if it wanted to, nor that it’s provided food and medicine to the strip instead.
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Or that Gaza’s population has grown 50% in the past 20 years, and didn’t shrink even at the height of the “genocide.”
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Adolf Hitler defined the “Big Lie” as a fabrication so wild that people would believe it, not realizing anyone would “distort the truth so infamously.”
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He pretended Jews used the technique; in reality it was central to the Nazis’ anti-Jewish propaganda.
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How telling that it’s now deployed on a global scale against Israel.
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[https://nypost.com/2026/09/18/opinion/the-left-lobs-yet-another-big-lie-on-israel-and-the-fallout-keeps-getting-worse/ NYPost]
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Michigan Mayor Sued Over Alleged Discrimination Against Jews, Christians.
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By Corey Walker. September 18, 2026.
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Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud speaks at a press conference in Dearborn, Michigan.
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Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud speaks at a press conference in Dearborn, Michigan. Photo: Screenshot
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Abdullah Hammoud, the mayor of Dearborn, Michigan is facing a federal civil-rights lawsuit accusing his administration of using taxpayer-funded city resources to promote Islam while refusing comparable recognition to Christian and Jewish holidays and retaliating against a journalist who challenged the disparity.
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The lawsuit, filed Thursday by Dearborn resident and Federalist senior legal correspondent Margot Cleveland, paints a picture of a city government that, according to the complaint, was willing to spend public money celebrating Ramadan but repeatedly brushed aside requests for equal treatment of other faiths. The American Freedom Law Center, which represents Cleveland, alleges that Dearborn’s conduct violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the US Constitution, including protections involving religious freedom, free speech, and equal protection.
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[https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/09/18/michigan-mayor-sued-alleged-discrimination-against-jews-christians/Algemeiner]
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Bid to disqualify Balad chairman: Dispute emerges within State Attorney’s Office.
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Senior officials support disqualifying Balad chairman Sami Abu Shehadeh, while the Deputy State Attorney has reservations and the AG awaits his response.
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Israel National News. Sep 18, 2026
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...an article published by Abu Shehadeh on October 8, 2023 - one day after the Hamas attack, while fighting was still ongoing inside Israel. The article appeared on Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, a website owned by former Knesset member Azmi Bishara, who fled to Qatar after being accused of passing intelligence to Hezbollah during the 2006 Second Lebanon War.
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In the piece, Abu Shehadeh described the Hamas attack as "an important historic event from a military, political, and strategic perspective."
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[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433340 INN]
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US Representative: 'Ben Gvir in the Cabinet is an existential threat'.
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Brad Sherman, one of Israel’s most prominent supporters in Congress, warns of a collapse in public support for Israel in the United States.
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Israel National News.
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Published: Sep 19, 2026, 10:32 PM (GMT+3)
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[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433398 INN]
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Last Selichot prayers before Yom Kippur.
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Crowds gather at the Western Wall ahead of Selichot prayers, recited the day before Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year.
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Israel National News.
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Sep 19, 2026, 11:12 PM
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[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433402 INN]
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Iran says it has conveyed conditions to re-engage in talks, end war with US.
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The conditions include ending the war on all fronts, unfreezing Iranian funds, and ending the US naval blockade, Iran's Security Chief Mohsen Rezaei said.
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September 19, 2026
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[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-909123 JPost]
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Live Updates: Two IDF soldiers lightly injured in southern Lebanon, prompting retaliation strikes on Hezbollah
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Turkey revokes operating license of Iran's Mellat Bank • Report: Pentagon's US-Iran war fatality accounting may be inaccurate • Iran reconstructing nuclear test-linked Taleghan 2 site.
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[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/2026-09-19/live-updates-909093 JPost]
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Gaza journalist Motaz Azaiza says he filmed hostage abuse on October 7 but hid footage.
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Motaz Azaiza also criticized Hamas’s leadership over its months-long refusal to agree to a deal.
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By Eli Leon. September 19, 2026.
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Gazan photographer and journalist Motaz Azaiza said he filmed Israeli hostages being beaten by a Gazan mob on October 7, 2023, but chose not to publish the footage because he feared it could put the Palestinians involved at risk.
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“I saw the vehicle of the Al-Qassam Brigades, and there were Israeli captives there,” Azaiza recalled. “People got out, watched, beat them, hit them, and I followed them and filmed. But I did not publish those videos. Why? Because I did not want to ruin the lives of the people who were filmed.
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[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-909113 JPost]
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Houthis fire ballistic missile at Riyadh
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Israel National News.
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Sep 20, 2026, 12:05 AM
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[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433404 INN]
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