Jared Kushner.
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Jared Kushner is leading the White House effort to achieve peace in the Middle East, but he's apparently also funding one of the biggest obstacles to reaching that goal: Israeli settlements.

ProPublica reported Wednesday that Kushner's charity, the Kusher Companies Charitable Fund, donated $18,000 to a group that funds West Bank settlements — while he's spent the year working on the Middle Eastern peace process. Israel's settlements in the West Bank are an integral source of the region's conflict because they are built on land included in the Palestinian territories that has been militarily occupied by Israel.

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Kelly O'Meara Morales

Kelly O'Meara Morales is a staff writer at The Week. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and studied Middle Eastern history and nonfiction writing amongst other esoteric subjects. When not compulsively checking Twitter, he writes and records music, subsists on tacos, and watches basketball.