{"id":695563,"date":"2026-05-26T20:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/695563\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T20:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:08:09","slug":"harry-styles-concert-site-linked-to-charity-tied-to-hamas-affiliated-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/695563\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Styles\u2019 concert site linked to charity tied to Hamas-affiliated groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ticket purchasing site for a concert tour by popstar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-896752\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Styles<\/a> titled &#8220;Together, Together&#8221; includes a donation link to a charity with ties to organizations that donate money indirectly to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-897254\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hamas<\/a> terrorists in the Gaza Strip, and posted messages supporting the October 7 massacre, investigations found this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The ticket site gives concertgoers the option to donate either USD 1 or GBP 1, depending on location, to a partner organization called Choose Love.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Choose Love confirmed the partnership on their official Instagram page, saying they are &#8220;beyond excited&#8221; about it.<\/p>\n<p>Choose Love refers to &#8216;ongoing genocide&#8217; in Gaza on fundraising site<\/p>\n<p>Choose Love, on their official website, refers to the situation in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-897271\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gaza<\/a> as an &#8220;ongoing genocide&#8221; that Palestinians are still experiencing, The Jerusalem Post found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;Gaza is facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis &#8211; families are struggling to survive amid destruction, severe shortages of medical care, food, and clean water, and a collapsed healthcare system,&#8221; its fundraising page for Gaza reads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;This page is funding partners working in Palestine and in neighboring countries that Palestinians have fled to. At the heart of Choose Love\u2019s approach is a commitment to center, resource, and amplify the voices of Palestinian-led organizations across Palestine as much as possible. Our partners know where your money is most urgently needed, they know how to keep people alive and which projects to invest in as they look to the future and help Palestinians survive and rebuild,&#8221; the website says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;We won\u2019t stop calling on governments to facilitate a permanent ceasefire that truly protects civilians, never blocks humanitarian access and enables the return of Palestinians to their homes,&#8221; it adds.<\/p>\n<p>Choose Love has official partnership with Hamas-linked Palestine Children&#8217;s Relief Fund<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The organization&#8217;s official page also refers to a partner organization, the Palestine Children&#8217;s Relief Fund (PCRF).<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;One of our partners, PCRF, is on the ground, providing urgent medical aid, food, and life-saving treatment to those in desperate need, including orphans and amputees,&#8221; it says.<\/p>\n<p>PCRF has repeatedly been linked with Hamas, and senior members of the organization have expressed praise for Hamas terrorists and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-895838\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 7 massacre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">PCRF board member Ashraf Abu Issa shared a video on October 7, which called the &#8220;liberation of Palestine&#8221; a possibility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Then-PCRF chairman Khaled Abughazaleh led a delegation that met with officials from the Hamas-run Health Ministry in the strip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Additionally, the founder and former president of PCRF, Steve Sosebee, condemned what he called the &#8220;genocide&#8221; in Gaza in several interviews and social media posts in October 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">According to NGO Monitor, the PCRF partners with Islamic Relief Palestine (IRPAL), which is an affiliate of Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW).<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Israel banned IRW in 2014 due to its funneling of funds to Hamas terrorists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">IRPAL also works with the Al-Falah Society, which is one of \u201cHamas\u2019s charitable societies,\u201d according to the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">IRPAL also works with the Gaza Zakat Committee (GZC), which is also known as the Islamic Zakat Society (IZS). IZS is run and managed by Hamas preacher Hazem Al-Sirraj, according to NGO Monitor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">PCRF also partners with Taawon (Welfare Association), which is funded by the Islamic Development Bank, which, in turn, funds Hamas hundreds of millions of dollars, NGO Monitor said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">PCRF has also run joint programs with several Hamas ministries to distribute goods in the Gaza Strip, NGO Monitor noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ticket purchasing site for a concert tour by popstar Harry Styles titled &#8220;Together, Together&#8221; includes a donation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,1946,8766,13191,23481,2619,253772,253771,23156,11588,30499,114384,42227,267],"class_list":["post-695563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-fundraising","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-harry-styles","tag-israel-hamas-war","tag-meir-amit-intelligence-and-terrorism-information-center","tag-ngo-monitor","tag-palestine","tag-spotlight","tag-terrorism","tag-terrorist","tag-the-october-7-massacre","tag-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}