Critics of the anti-Israel Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) piled on the group Wednesday after it agreed to pay a Department of Justice (DOJ) settlement over allegations that it fraudulently took COVID-19 relief funds.
The Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit must now pay $677,634 to settle a DOJ lawsuit for hiding information on its political activities when applying for a federal loan, the DOJ said in a Tuesday press release. JVP applied for economic relief under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act despite that it is “primarily engaged in political or lobbying activities,” which made it ineligible, the release states.
“Jewish Voice for Peace contends that any misstatements in this application were inadvertent,” the DOJ said. JVP, which calls itself “the world’s largest Jewish organization standing in solidarity with Palestine,” did not immediately respond…