Critics of the anti-Israel Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) rallied on Wednesday after the group agreed to pay the Department of Justice (DOJ). Settlement over charges of fraudulently receiving COVID-19 relief funds.
The Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit must pay $677,634 to settle a Justice Department lawsuit alleging it withheld information about its political activities when applying for federal loans, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. . press release. The release states that JVP was ineligible because it applied for economic relief under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, even though it “primarily engages in political activity and lobbying.” There is.
“Jewish Voice for Peace asserts that the misstatements in this application were inadvertent,” the Justice Department said. JVP, call yourself The world’s largest Jewish organization in solidarity with Palestine did not respond to requests for comment.
“Who would have imagined that fraud would be perpetrated by Jewish Voice for Peace, a fraudulent pro-Hamas Palestinian front group?” said Antonin Scalia Law School Professor David Bernstein, one of many professors critic respond to news With X. (Related: President Trump says anti-Israel demonstrators who burn American flags should be sentenced to one year in prison)
New: Left-wing political organization Jewish Voice for Peace @jvplive has agreed to pay more than $677,000 to federal authorities after committing coronavirus grant fraud.
The group lied on its application and claimed it was not involved in any political or lobbying activities.
JVP exists entirely for… pic.twitter.com/VU95P1LWdq
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) January 15, 2025
Since the Israel-Hamas war that began in October 2023, the JVP has destructive Protests have erupted on college campuses across the country and in Washington, D.C., and some people have been arrested. often face criticism defend terrorism against Israel.
Last year, Columbia University suspended the JVP and Students for Justice chapter in Palestine for holding a class “strike” in violation of campus policy. The group sued, but the New York Supreme Court upheld the suspension. last november.
Missouri Republican Rep. Jason Smith, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, called on the Biden administration to revoke JVP’s tax-exempt status in September. letterciting “support for protests that turned violent and illegal encampments on college campuses.”
The $677,634 settlement is twice the amount of pandemic relief funds JVP received through forgivable loans, according to the Department of Justice. If the court had found it liable for the alleged fraud, the organization would have owed three times the amount of the loan.
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