The Charity Commission is considering a request to remove War on Want’s charitable status over its boycott of Israel.
In a formal complaint to the commission, activist group Jewish Human Rights Watch (JHRW) said the anti-poverty charity should be downgraded because it is carrying out a “demonisation of the state of Israel” which is “a proxy war” against British Jewry.
JHRW launched in February with a protest outside the north London offices of War on Want. The charity was a founding member of the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment movement.
JHRW director Jonathan Neumann said: “War on Want has long ago abandoned any pretence at fighting poverty and now seems obsessed with supporting the BDS with their hate campaign”.
