Tracking Financial Complicity in Israeli War Crimes and Genocide: Instances of Aiding and Abetting in the Canadian Charitable Sector

Utilizing tax return data gathered through Access to Information requests, this article probes the Canadian charitable sector for evidence of financial complicity in the aiding and abetting of Israeli war criminality and genocide. The evidence suggests that of the overall charitable donations heading from Canada to Israel, a significant percentage is bankrolling Israeli intermediaries directly involved in illegal settlement and military-related activities, in contravention of Canadian and international legal frameworks. Troublingly, an exhaustive probe of the potential Canadian charitable sector complicity was not possible, due to substantial deficiencies in reporting requirements. The overall lack of regulatory enforcement surrounding donations heading to Israel—in the light of credible unresolved accusations of anti-Muslim bias levied against the Canadian charitable regulator, specifically as it pertains to over-enforcement—raises troubling questions surrounding complicity in Israeli war criminality/genocide.