{"id":77485,"date":"2026-08-16T14:56:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T19:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/16\/anti-israel-nonprofit-under-federal-investigation-over-financial-dealings-report\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T14:56:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T19:56:06","slug":"anti-israel-nonprofit-under-federal-investigation-over-financial-dealings-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/16\/anti-israel-nonprofit-under-federal-investigation-over-financial-dealings-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Israel nonprofit under federal investigation over financial dealings: report"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Department of Homeland Security is investigating a nonprofit with connections to New York City<\/a> Mayor Zohran Mamdani for potentially providing donor funds to a sanctioned Palestinian group, the New York Post reported Friday.<\/p>\n

The report says federal authorities are probing the U.K.-based organization known only as PFF, which has a roughly $100 million war chest used to support anti-Israel causes. It also may have contributed donor funds to Al-Haq, a Palestinian group sanctioned by the U.S., the Post reported.<\/a><\/p>\n

“A new fund set up by Arabs across the US, UK, and Australia has been built to take on Israel,” one source familiar with the operation told the Post.<\/p>\n

One source who spoke to the Post described one Bassema Yousef as the “lynchpin” for the PFF’s fundraising. Born in New York, Yousef is a longtime ally of Mamdani<\/a> and a prolific Democratic donor, though she now lives in London, according to the Post.<\/p>\n

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Her social media presence shows multiple anti-Israel rants, claiming Israel is committing “war crimes with U.S. tax dollars,” among other things.<\/p>\n

Sources told the Post that Yousef established the PFF with backing from two wealthy donors: Austin, Texas-based investing executive Basil Qunibi and Palestinian-Australian motorsports magnate Yasser Shahin.<\/p>\n

Corporate filings in the U.K. confirm Shahin’s role in supporting the PFF<\/a>, the Post reported. The IRS also confirmed the PFF has a nonprofit arm based in Delaware.<\/p>\n

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Sources with direct knowledge of the PFF’s operations told the Post the organization’s executives work to finance anti-Israel messages<\/a> and defend pro-Palestinian activists.<\/p>\n

“PFF is a strategic foundation that is large, well-funded, and institutional in quality,” the foundation says on its website. “We partner with organisations that we believe have an ability to consistently deliver results that align with our strategic objectives.”<\/p>\n

“PFF and its partners are unequivocally committed to justice, peace, inclusion and non-violence,” the nonprofit said.<\/p>\n

The DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital<\/a>. The DHS declined to comment in a statement to the Post.<\/p>\n

“HSI does not comment on the existence or status of specific investigations, nor on investigative methods, intelligence sources, or potential enforcement actions,” a DHS spokesperson told The Post, referring to the Homeland Security Investigations unit.<\/p>\n

The Post went on to note that the reported DHS investigation does not indicate any criminal wrongdoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Department of Homeland Security is investigating a nonprofit with connections to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani for potentially providing donor funds to a sanctioned Palestinian group, the New York Post reported Friday. The report says federal authorities are probing the U.K.-based organization known only as PFF, which has a roughly $100 million war … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}