Washington – A week after a man killed a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington in 2009, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano cited the murder as proof that nonprofit institutions were at risk of attack and could be helped by federal security grants.
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In an event announcing $1.7 billion in Department of Homeland Security grants, Napolitano noted that 63 percent of nonprofit grant recipients were “affiliated with Jewish organizations.”
The following year, according to the Jewish Federations of North America, that number grew. In 2010, 94 percent of the department’s nonprofit security funding went to Jewish groups that are, in the words of the Department of Homeland Security, “at high risk of terrorist attack.” That included $222,000 for Jewish nonprofits in Missouri.
Last month, the Nonprofit Security Grant Program awarded three St. Louis Jewish organizations $195,000 in grants to guard against such an attack, according to the Missouri Department of Public Safety. They were the only nonprofits in St. Louis to receive funding from the program, which awarded more than 80 percent of its $20 million budget in 2011 to Jewish nonprofits around the country.
While the article starts of with a story about the attack on a guard at the Holocaust museum, that’s really an unrelated issue. The grant program is to provide security for nonprofits that are at risk for terrorist attack, specifically. There aren’t too many organizations at risk for terrorist attacks in the US besides Jewish ones. Further, it’s disgusting that Jewish organizations would oppose funding for security for Jewish organizations, as the full article goes on to explain.
Wow, they must be bored in St. Louis. First of all, the grants were announced months ago. This isn’t news at all. Second, Reb Yid covered the reasons why the institutions deserved the funding.
Halevai that Jewish nonprofits wouldn’t be at risk, but until then, they will continue to apply for funding.
One final point is that the grants are competitive in nature. I have some experience in this area. The government awards the grants based on the ability to demonstrate risk. If other institutions would demonstrate a higher level of risk, then they would be awarded the grants.
The Gentiles will accuse us of controlling the federal government again.