Taylor Force

American money ear-marked for PA security used to pay families of terrorists from Jenin - report

The US had all but ceased providing funds for the PA after implementing the 2017 Taylor Force Act, which blocked all funding for the PA general budget.

 Jenin residents protest against arrests made by PA security forces, July 17.
 US SECRETARY of State Antony Blinken meets with Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas at PA headquarters in Ramallah.

US seeks to financially assist the PA so it can control Gaza after war - WSJ

 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Palestine Authority head Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah last month.

There can be no partnering with the PA - opinion

 THE KNESSET plenum in session: When Israeli leaders are entrusted with power by the nation’s citizens, they must make sure they don’t practice the tyranny of the majority, says the writer.

Israel advances bill to compensate victims of Palestinian terror


Victims of Palestinian terror sue Biden admin for funding 'Pay for Slay'

Much of US financial aid to the PA was halted by the Taylor Force Act in order to prevent funds from being used for "Pay for Slay."

 Emergency workers inspect the wreckage of a bus after a suspected suicide bomb attack in Jerusalem June 11, 2003

‘80 years after Holocaust, there is a price for Jewish blood’ - Shurat Hadin head

“80 years after the Holocaust, there is a price for Jewish blood,” Shurat Hadin director Nitsana Darshan-Leitner said Monday at the Jerusalem Post Conference in New York.

 Shurat Hadin director Nitsana Darshan-Leitner.

US District Court in DC awards judgment to families of terrorism victims

The plaintiffs include the family of the late Taylor Force, a Hamas terror victim. The awards were for $171,403,803 in compensatory damages.

Taylor Force, 29, was killed by a Palestinian terrorist who went on a stabbing rampage in Jaffa on March 8, 2016

Taylor Force Martyr Payment Prevention Act introduced, aimed at foreign banks

The bipartisan Taylor Force Martyr Payment Prevention Act will give the Treasury Department "additional authority to designate foreign banks as institutions of primary money-laundering concern."

 HAMAS SUPPORTERS attend a protest to support Al-Aqsa mosque, in Gaza, last month.

Gantz meeting Abbas defied Israeli law - opinion

Gantz's 'confidence-building measures' gave the PA complete confidence that they can continue financing Jew-killing despite US and Israeli law.

 PA PRIME Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh attends a cabinet meeting.

The Sisyphean attempt to curb Palestinian ‘martyrdom’ - opinion

With internal American and Israeli politics being as divided as they are, it’s going to take a lot more than a congressional bill to keep would-be “martyrs” at bay.

 A knife used in a stabbing in Jerusalem's Old City that injured two Border Policemen on November 17, 2021.

Taylor Force Act addition targets banks in effort to block pay for slay

A group of 13 Senate Republicans, spearheaded by Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), on Monday introduced a bill “aimed at eliminating Palestinian ‘martyr payments.’”

Republican Senator Tom Cotton from Arkansas,

Taylor Force Act addition seeks to block 'pay for slay'

“Such flouting of anti-terrorism financial regulations is only possible through the maintenance or use of correspondent accounts at United States banks.”

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee nomination hearing for Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX), on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 5, 2020

Biden needs to uphold US law on pay-for-slay

The Biden administration claims it can restore funding to the PA without violating the Taylor Force Act.

WORKERS CLOSE the aid distribution centers of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in Rafah in February, protesting against the reduction in food aid.

5 things to know about US funding to Palestinians and terror payments

State Department spokesman Ned Price assured that the funding was “absolutely consistent with relevant US law.”

A Palestinian health worker leaves a health center run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), at al-Fari'ah refugee camp, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank April 8, 2021.

Letters to the Editor April 5, 2021: (Taylor) Forcing the issue

Readers of the Jerusalem Post have their say

Letters