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As Israel wages war against the terrorist group Hamas, the Biden administration has funded $100,000 for 200 Palestinian teenage girls and boys to participate in weekly running and wellness sessions.
Federal funding records show that the U.S. State Department awarded funding in September for a nearly two-year initiative to Free to Run, a Connecticut-based nonprofit that seeks to “increase opportunities for women and girls to participate in public life using sports.” As a tool for empowerment and education, the Washington Examiner reported.
According to federal records, the program is administered in the West Bank.
Lawmakers protested the United States providing federal funding to Gaza and the West Bank after the Hamas-led terror attacks against Israel on October 7 that killed more than 1,200 people and took more hostage, especially with concern that the aid could eventually end up in the hands of terrorists.
Stephanie Case, founder and president of Free to Run, is the head of the refugee protection division at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, an agency that handles Palestinian aid. For years, lawmakers and national security experts have scrutinized the group for its shared ties to Hamas and the employment of teachers who celebrated terrorism against Jews, including after the October 7 attack, the Washington Examiner reported.
The $100,000 the State Department sent to Free to Run is not its first federal grant.
Last September, the State Department pledged $50,400 to the organization “to significantly advance leadership skills through adventure sports (primarily running)” for 100 displaced young women in Iraq, according to federal spending records. In April 2019, Trump's State Department gave the charity $77,300 to “empower and educate 100 females between the ages of 15 and 25 in two counties and across four communities,” records show.
Adam Andrzejewski, CEO of Open The Books, said the latest free-to-run grant shows Congress must go line by line and stop the government's “frivolous and stupid spending.”
“I've signed up for my 10th Chicago Marathon and I definitely understand the benefits of running,” Andrzejewski, an avid outdoorsman, told the Washington Examiner. “However, there is no public purpose behind this six-figure grant that American taxpayers are guaranteed with every dime borrowed against our national debt.”
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