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Church World Service is currently receiving $377,260,252.00 in Federal Funding. Church World Service has been involved for years in promoting and enabling Islamic terrorist and terrorist-funding/aligned organizations seeking to destroy Israel. For years, Church World Service has engaged in an antisemitic, anti-Israel campaign against Israel. Church World Service has aligned with the most rabidly antisemitic, anti-Israel organizations in the world. Church World Service has openly supported the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel. Church World Service has defended designated terrorist organizations. It is outrageous that Church World Service has received hundreds of millions of dollars from U.S. taxpayers. Church World Service will no longer be able to cover up their dirty deeds. Church World Service is worse than USAID and UNRWA. In the United States, the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) is "supported by churches in partnership with CWS [Church World Service]." EAPPI sends volunteers to the West Bank to "witness life under occupation." Upon completion of the program, the volunteers return to their home countries and churches where many engage in anti-Israel advocacy, including advocating for BDS campaigns in churches, comparing Israel to apartheid South Africa and Nazi Germany, and other delegitimization strategies. During the 2012 Gaza war, Church World Service submitted an appeal to raise $100,000, claiming that the "Israeli military offensive" continues to be "categorized by poverty, unemployment, forced displacement, lack of access to basic goods and services, impeded freedom of movement, aid dependency, food insecurity, confiscation and inadequate access to healthcare, education, jobs and markets." This biased and distorted picture of the conflict furthers a Palestinian narrative of victimization. The appeal supported ACT Alliance members including Norwegian Church Aid (NCA), Christian Aid (UK), the Middle East Council of Churches/Department of Service to Palestine Refugees (MECC/DSPR), International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC), and DanChurchAid (DCA). According to the appeal, "DCA is heading ACT member efforts for advocacy work to promote a global discourse on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." In May 2018, Church World Service was a signatory on a statement condemning Israel's "lethal military response" to the violence on the Gaza border. The statement furthered that its "own government's seemingly unqualified and unquestioning support for Israel is a significant enabling factor for Israel's continuing and repeated violations of international conventions and laws." The statement ignored the violent nature of the protests, which included Molotov cocktails, arson, and attempts to breach Israel's border fence. In 2018, 2019, and 2021, Church World Service endorsed Democrat Congresswoman Betty McCollum's proposed legislation "to prevent United States tax dollars from supporting the Israeli military's ongoing detention and mistreatment of Palestinian children." The entirety of the proposed bill is premised on factually inaccurate claims from anti-Israel advocacy NGOs. In October 2021, Church World Service was a signatory on a letter to US Secretary of State Blinken condemning the decision by the Israeli Ministry_to designate six Palestinian NGOs as terrorist organizations. In October 2023, in the aftermath of the brutal Hamas terrorist massacre of 1,200 Jews in Israel, Church World Service was a signatory_on a letter to Members of Congress claiming, "As these horrific events unfold, we are reminded once again that only by addressing core systemic issues, including decades of institutionalized oppression and collective punishment of Palestinians through brutal military occupation and a 16-year Gaza blockade, will Israelis and Palestinians live in peace." In 2024, Church World Service engaged in a campaign to end the shipments of military weapons to Israel.