Emmanuel Debono

These are the organizations Macklemore has chosen to help fund through his “Free Palestine” tour. No one should really be surprised. Start with the Palestinian Youth Movement. Mohammed Nabulsi, a PYM organizer and master of ceremonies at its 2024 Detroit conference, explicitly urged BDS activists to support the PFLP, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in a 2015 article. He named all three. On the first anniversary of October 7, PYM published an article describing the attack as “a prison break.” It portrayed the attackers as returning to their ancestors’ land and credited October 7 with strengthening its movement and the Western left. There is also a French court record. In November 2019, the Nantes Administrative Court of Appeal upheld the refusal of a naturalization application involving a former PYM secretary. The judgment cited French security-service notes describing the association as affiliated with the PFLP, and found that the applicant had provided nothing to contradict that assessment. legifrance.gouv.fr/ceta/id/C… The same movement has been organizing young people in Britain. At its May 2026 summer school, footage published by PYM showed participants chanting slogans translated by the press as “We will crush Zionism.” A classroom presentation featured Ghassan Kanafani, the writer and former PFLP spokesperson. Then look at the “humanitarian” organizations. Middle East Children’s Alliance openly acknowledges funding the Union of Health Work Committees for medical supplies. The Network Contagion Research Institute has documented grants and alleged PFLP connections involving several MECA recipients. Medical Aid for Palestinians previously funded Health Work Committees. According to a Charity Commission response published by UK Lawyers for Israel, that funding ended in May 2021 following Israeli allegations. Anera’s own November 2021 announcement states that it coordinated the selection of participants in a Gaza assistance program with the Ministry of Social Development. NGO Monitor identifies the Gaza ministry as Hamas-controlled and headed by senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad. What independent safeguards prevented Hamas from influencing who received assistance? In January 2026, South Carolina’s attorney general requested financial and organizational records from HEAL Palestine over concerns about possible connections to terrorist-linked groups. That request was not a finding of wrongdoing. It was a reason to demand transparency. And UNRWA USA raises money for an agency whose own UN investigators found that nine employees may have participated in October 7. Their employment was terminated.