Report Reveals a CA Nonprofit That Designs K-12 Teaching Materials Has Ties to Foreign Terrorists

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A new report released by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) revealed a tie between foreign terrorist organizations and curriculum for American students, ages kindergarten through 12th grade.

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NCRI found that the California-based nonprofit Middle Eastern Children’s Alliance (MECA), which designs K-12 school curriculum material, has personal and monetary ties to designated foreign terrorist organizations.

Specifically, the nonprofit group has “injected more than $30 million in aid to projects in Lebanon, Gaza, and the WB since 1988 under the ostensible mission of ‘protecting the health, lives and rights of children in the Middle East” the report reads.

“Our investigation of MECA has yielded evidence suggesting fiscal and personnel ties to entities associated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which was designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the US government in 1997” the report states.

The report continues: “In addition to its ties to PFLP fronts based in the Gaza Strip, MECA has as of late begun facilitating fundraising for a network of extremist anti-government actors based in the United States.”

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Figures such as Maya Angelou, Maxine Waters, Noam Chomsky, and the first Arab-American U.S. Senator, Democrat James Abourezk, are among the founding advisors of MECA.

As for personal ties, the report notes “the veteran director of its Gaza programming is associated with a PFLP-linked entity, and facilitated a meeting between MECA’s founder and PFLP terrorist Leila Khaled.” The director, Dr. Mona Al-Farra, previously served as deputy director of the Union of Healthcare Worker Committees (UHWC), which was “recognized as early as 1993 by USAID as a PFLP front organization.”

A 2024 NCRI report exposed MECA has “penetrated the US public education system via its development of radical curriculum materials through the Teach Palestine project that are being taught in K-12 classrooms nationwide.”

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