A major payment processor is cutting ties with a “progressive” and “anti-capitalist” organization linked to a Palestinian terror group, the Washington Examiner reported Wednesday.
Stripe will no longer handle donations to the Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ), an anti-Israel organization that has been condemned by public officials for ties to the terror group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), according to the Examiner. Stripe is the second company to drop support of the AFGJ after software developer Salsa Labs cut ties in February. (RELATED: US Charity Linked To Palestinian Terrorism Received Thousands In Taxpayer COVID-19 Funding)
“We are pleased to see financial institutions take appropriate action against those who fund terror and will continue to contact and inform other financial institutions that may not realize they are assisting terror funding when they do business with AFGJ,” Marc Greendorfer, President of Zachor Legal Institute, said to the Examiner.
The Alliance for Global Justice was rightly stripped of its ability to process credit card donations because an unholy alliance with a known terrorist organization. For Stripe to allow them to again process transactions is concerning and unacceptable.https://t.co/nV1azDIEc3
— Congressman Mike Lawler (@RepMikeLawler) July 17, 2023
Stripe stopped handling donations for the AFGJ following reports that the organization is linked to pro-terror groups and individuals, including Collectif Palestine Vaincra, a member of the terror organization Samidoun, according to the Examiner. AFGJ backs Samidoun, which has shared employees with the PFLP, a terror group responsible for a number of plane hijackings, bombings and support campaigns for convicted terrorists, according to Zachor.
The AFGJ sponsors the anti-Israel media website Popular Resistance, Black Lives Matter-Oklahoma City and the Action Bail Fund, which supports “radical dissent.”
Pro-Israel groups and Republicans in Congress, including New York Rep. and House Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik and Washington Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, had pressured Stripe to explain why it was doing business with the organization.
“Stripe should be completely transparent on why it is choosing to do business with AFGJ or any group with suspected ties to Palestinian terror organizations threatening genocide against the Jewish people,” McMorris Rodgers told the Examiner in July.
Donations to AFGJ are still processed by PayPal, according to the group’s donation page.
Stripe and the AFGJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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