The Archewell Foundation charity, founded by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, gave two $27,960 (£21,100) grants to a Milwaukee Muslim advocacy organisation whose found called for the “liberation of Palestine” and called Israel an “apartheid state”, it has been revealed.
The Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition thanked the couple’s charity on its website after it received the first donation in 2023, NewsNation reported last week.
“With your support, in 2023, we took swift and impactful action in response to the war on Gaza. Our efforts, alongside other Wisconsin-based organisations, aimed to raise awareness and demand human rights for Palestinians,” the message read. A second grant was then given in 2024.
Palestinian-American Janan Najeeb, the founder and executive director of the Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition, wrote an opinion piece that year that stated: “Israel’s 75-year occupation of Palestine and the genocide in Gaza are a grave injustice.