A British charity that sponsored events accused of promoting hatred and violence against Jews and Israel has lost its government funding. The Department for International Development (Dfid) said that it no longer supported War on Want, which helped underwrite “Israeli Apartheid Week” in February. According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, it had obtained secret recordings of events, backed by War on Want, where anti-Semitic comments and demands for the destruction of Israel were expressed. One speaker, Max Blumenthal, the son of a close adviser to Bill and Hillary Clinton, praised a massacre by Hamas as sending an “incredible message” and said that taking up arms should be “normal” for Palestinians. He compared Israel to the terrorist group Islamic State, describing it as “the Jewish State of Israel and the Levant, Jsil”. At another rally – sponsored by War on Want – a speaker said that British government policy was created by “Zionist and neo-con lobbies”. A Dfid spokesman told the newspaper that it has ceased funding of the charity, said to amount to £260,000 in the past year, apart from a small project in Northern Ireland. An article posted on War on Want’s website on February 1, said the charity was “proud to be