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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 6063215" data-attributes="member: 48469">Perhaps some spending that a few cats talking here could actually be on board with? [URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14394031/usaid-gaza-rapper-antisemitic-songs-mike-lawler-raffoul-saadeh.html[/URL]February 13, 2025&quot;The beleaguered United States Agency for International Development (USAID) paid $3.3million to an organization headed by a rapper who released antisemitic songs, a Republican lawmaker claimed.New York Rep. Mike Lawler, 38, slammed the agency for providing Tomorrow&#039;s Youth Organization, an NGO that helps Palestinian youth, with <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_72029422CA00001_7200" target="_blank">the multimillion-dollar grant in 2022</a>, he said in a <a href="https://lawler.house.gov/news/email/show.aspx?ID=T4AQ37MVXYNJ4" target="_blank">press release</a>. The Republican called the organization&#039;s executive director, American-born Raffoul Saadeh, a &#039;vicious anti-Israel rapper who advocates for Jew hatred in his music.&#039;&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 6063215, member: 48469"] Perhaps some spending that a few cats talking here could actually be on board with? [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14394031/usaid-gaza-rapper-antisemitic-songs-mike-lawler-raffoul-saadeh.html[/URL] February 13, 2025 "The beleaguered United States Agency for International Development (USAID) paid $3.3million to an organization headed by a rapper who released antisemitic songs, a Republican lawmaker claimed. New York Rep. Mike Lawler, 38, slammed the agency for providing Tomorrow's Youth Organization, an NGO that helps Palestinian youth, with [URL='https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_72029422CA00001_7200']the multimillion-dollar grant in 2022[/URL], he said in a [URL='https://lawler.house.gov/news/email/show.aspx?ID=T4AQ37MVXYNJ4']press release[/URL]. The Republican called the organization's executive director, American-born Raffoul Saadeh, a 'vicious anti-Israel rapper who advocates for Jew hatred in his music.'" [/QUOTE]

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