US government should stop playing footsie with Islamic group with anti-Semitic record

Published November 13, 2020 12:03am ET



The nominally anti-Islamist Trump administration has continued to finance and partner with a group called Islamic Relief Worldwide that is under furious fire in Europe for rampant anti-Semitism and pro-terrorism utterances from its board members.

Even as liberal American news outlets such as the Washington Post continued this month to run gauzy puff pieces about Islamic Relief Worldwide, a recent international firestorm of well-merited negative publicity for the group ought to spur the U.S. government to cut all ties with and support for the organization.

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