On 24 July we wrote to the Charity Commissioner inquiring about the legality of a donation to a high school in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Please use this as a template for your own letter.
Dear Commissioners,
Israeli-occupied West Bank: legality of donation to high school
We are writing to you on behalf of WILPF UK (the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in the UK) about a news item that appeared in The Guardian newspaper of 18 July.
It seems that the Kasner Charitable Trust (KCT), using UK Toremet (another charity), has donated more than £5 million to Bnei Akiva Yeshiva high school in Susya in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, from where a Palestinian village was evicted in 1986.
You will know that the international community considers Israeli settlements such as Susya to be illegal under international law. The logical outcome is that this money transfer should surely invalidate the charitable status of both these entities.
We note that your spokesperson is quoted as saying that a charity operating in the occupied West Bank is not doing so against UK charitable law.
We would appreciate hearing from you urgently to clarify this statement.
Yours in peace
