BRITISH FUNDS TO PA SUSPENDED DUE TO TERROR VICTIM KAY WILSON’S ACTIVISM:

Six years after she was viciously stabbed and her friend killed in a terror attack near the Jerusalem Forest, Kay Wilson has succeeded in convincing the British government to halt the transfer of funds to the Palestinian Authority, claiming the Palestinians use the money to finance terrorism. Wilson managed to garner the support of more than 3 million British citizens who signed a petition demanding their government stop sending money to the PA. Last March 2016, outside the UN in Geneva, Wilson called out, "Shame on the UN for failing to hold the Palestinian Authority to account, and shame on the UN that pathologically demonizes Israel!” Wilson accused the UN of "whitewashing an immoral terror.” "The funds of European and American taxpayers are funding the PA, which is rewarding killers in custody by paying them a monthly salary,” she said. After this speech and several lectures in various British circles, Wilson managed to collect the signatures from the British public. Last month, her efforts paid off: The British Parliament decided – for the first time in decades – to suspend its annual transfer of 25 million pounds to the Palestinian Authority. The minister of international development was convinced that some of the money is indeed used to fund terrorists and pay the salaries of high-security prisoners sitting in Israeli prisons.

Wilson, 52, is a Jewish-Israeli tour guide. On a fair winter day in December 2010, Wilson took her friend Kristine Luken, a tourist, on a guided tour near Beit Shemesh. It was there that they encountered the terrorists. "I was gagged, tied up and held hostage for half an hour. Then I was stabbed 13 times with a machete while I watched my American Christian friend, Kristine Luken being hacked to death before my eyes, because her executioners thought she was Jewish too,” Wilson testified before the UN Human Rights Committee in March 2016. Wilson’s Star of David necklace and blue Israeli ID card gave away her identity. She "saw death” before her eyes and in that moment decided to play dead, which saved her. The terrorists returned to confirm the killing and only when they were convinced that the two women were dead, they left. Although Wilson had severe injuries – suffering 30 fractures in her body, as well as six broken ribs; she survived because the knife missed her heart by 4 millimeters. Wilson managed to walk a kilometer before she found people and called for help. Wilson used a small pocketknife to fight the terrorists. This helped the Shin Bet convict them on the basis of DNA samples, and they were sentenced to life imprisonment. In the first years after the attack, Wilson struggled to return to her job as a tour guide due to the mental and physical trauma caused by the attack. General Security Service agents described Wilson as one of the most courageous survivors Israel has known in recent years. Wilson blamed social media and the PA’s educational institutions for their incitement against Jews. (Kehila News)