18 Jul 2025
The UK Charity Commission is under fire for approving the transfer of nearly $7.7 million from two UK charities to a school in the illegal Israeli settlement of Susya.
The UK’s Charity Commission is facing criticism for approving the transfer of approximately $7.67 million to a school located in an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank.
According to documents reviewed by The Guardian, two UK charities, the Kasner Charitable Trust (KCT) and the conduit organization UK Toremet, channeled the funds to the Bnei Akiva Yeshiva high school in Susya, a settlement established south of al-Khalil on occupied Palestinian land.
The influx of donations led to a significant increase in the school’s budget, which, in turn, contributed to a rise in student enrollment, staff employment, and the growth of the settlement’s population.
Dror Etkes, an Israeli settlement expert, noted that the school is "the largest single source of employment in the settlement, and constitutes one of the main elements of the entire settlement’s existence.”
Susya was founded around 1983 near the historic Palestinian village of Khirbet Susiya. In 1986, Israeli authorities declared the village’s central residential area an archaeological site and forcibly expelled its Palestinian residents, according to Amnesty International.
Former Conservative Party chair Sayeeda Warsi condemned the revelations, calling it "appalling that any British national should be engaged in funding illegal settlements on occupied land – and it’s even more disturbing that this is being subsidised by all of us taxpayers."
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The UK Charity Commission is under fire for approving the transfer of nearly $7.7 million from two UK charities to a school in the illegal Israeli settlement of Susya.
The UK’s Charity Commission is facing criticism for approving the transfer of approximately $7.67 million to a school located in an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank.
According to documents reviewed by The Guardian, two UK charities, the Kasner Charitable Trust (KCT) and the conduit organization UK Toremet, channeled the funds to the Bnei Akiva Yeshiva high school in Susya, a settlement established south of al-Khalil on occupied Palestinian land.
The influx of donations led to a significant increase in the school’s budget, which, in turn, contributed to a rise in student enrollment, staff employment, and the growth of the settlement’s population.
Dror Etkes, an Israeli settlement expert, noted that the school is "the largest single source of employment in the settlement, and constitutes one of the main elements of the entire settlement’s existence.”
Susya was founded around 1983 near the historic Palestinian village of Khirbet Susiya. In 1986, Israeli authorities declared the village’s central residential area an archaeological site and forcibly expelled its Palestinian residents, according to Amnesty International.
Former Conservative Party chair Sayeeda Warsi condemned the revelations, calling it "appalling that any British national should be engaged in funding illegal settlements on occupied land – and it’s even more disturbing that this is being subsidised by all of us taxpayers."
UK charities fund Israeli settlement expansion in occupied West Bank
The UK Charity Commission is under fire for approving the transfer of nearly $7.7 million from two UK charities to a school in the illegal Israeli settlement of Susya.
english.almayadeen.net
