EXCLUSIVE: State Dept official ‘failed to do his homework’ before working with terror-tied charity, senior US official says
A senior Trump administration official told JNS that he is concerned about the U.S. State Department’s decision to work with a charity with ties to terrorism, after the department denied to JNS that the organization in question, World Vision, which is based in the United Kingdom, has troubling associations.JNS reported that Foggy Bottom was working with World Vision as part of what it called a “historic” $2 billion distribution of global health foreign assistance. It made the announcement despite an Israeli court convicting World Vision’s Gaza operations manager of funneling up to $50 million to Hamas in 2022.The Senate Finance Committee probed World Vision in 2019 and found that the Christian charity transferred $125,000 to Islamic Relief Agency, which the U.S. Treasury Department sanctions for terror ties, in 2014 as a sub-grantee for a U.S. Agency for International Development-backed humanitarian project in Sudan. The Senate panel called World Vision’s vetting…
A senior Trump administration official has criticized the U.S. State Department for collaborating with World Vision, a UK-based charity, on a $2 billion global health foreign assistance initiative, despite the organization's alleged ties to terrorism. The official, close to the White House Office of Management and Budget, specifically blamed Jeremy Lewin, acting U.S. undersecretary of state, stating, "Jeremy Lewin failed to do his homework, yet again." This criticism follows an Israeli court's 2022 conviction of World Vision's Gaza operations manager for funneling up to $50 million to Hamas, and a 2019 Senate Finance Committee probe that found World Vision transferred $125,000 to the U.S. Treasury-sanctioned Islamic Relief Agency.
- The State Department denies any implication that the Trump administration is permitting the diversion of U.S. foreign assistance to terror-tied organizations, asserting confidence in its vetting process.
- World Vision suspended its Gaza operations in 2016 and dissolved its Israel branch in September 2024, though it denies any wrongdoing.
- Lewin's planned move to the National Security Council has been delayed, reportedly due to criticism from conservative activist Laura Loomer.
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