Israel Thought Their UK Charity Cover Was Safe; It Just Exploded

Israel Thought Their UK Charity Cover Was Safe; It Just Exploded

From Kernow Damo by Damien Willey

April 16, 2026 · 17 min

About this episode

The episode discusses an Israeli NGO's involvement in aiding British citizens to move into illegal settlements in the West Bank, highlighting a scandal uncovered by Declassified UK.

An Israeli NGO has been caught discussing help for Brits moving into illegal West Bank settlements - with a UK charity and Gift Aid angle added in too... Right, so Declassified UK have been doing some of that investigative journalism type stuff again, an alien concept to mainstream media mouthpieces of course, if they haven’t got their talking points served up to them on a plate all they’re left with is passive aggressive bias and a list of things about Israel that they are not allowed to say, but Declassified have now put a particularly grubby scandal on the record seemingly completely ignored by everyone else. An Israeli organisation called Shivat Zion, which publicly presents itself as a helpful support body for Jews moving from Britain and Western Europe to Israel, Aliyah, as Israel calls it, has been filmed discussing help for a British person moving to Efrat in the occupied West Bank, and Efrat is not Israel, Efrat is an illegal Israeli settlement on occupied Palestinian land. So that means the Shivat Zion sales pitch here is not simply about moving house, not just about some dodgy paperwork, and certainly has nothing at all to do with “community fit,” or anything like…

Topics covered

  • Israel
  • UK charity
  • West Bank settlements
  • Declassified UK
  • investigative journalism

Keywords

  • Shivat Zion
  • Aliyah
  • Efrat
  • colonialism
  • Palestinian land

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Israel, UK, West Bank, Britain, Western Europe, Efrat

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