Girl Scouts ‘regret any hurt caused’ by regional council trying to stop troop’s pro-Palestinian fundraiser [Video]

Girl Scouts USA (GSUSA) offered an apologetic statement over a brewing controversy surrounding a troop being told it could not sell homemade bracelets for a pro-Palestinian fundraiser. 

The children of Girl Scout Troop 149 in St. Louis, Missouri, decided last month to make beaded bracelets to raise money for the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund instead of selling the traditional cookies. The Palestinian troop leader told NBC News the group didn’t have “the energy to put into a cookie season as we were grieving.” 

However, the troop was told by the Girl Scouts regional council for eastern Missouri that it couldn’t hold the fundraiser under the organization’s auspices, saying it was “political and partisan.” The branch even allegedly issued a legal threat against the troop if it continued using the Girl Scouts logo on its promotional material. Troop 149 decided to disband entirely as a result. 

GSUSA CEO Bonnie Barczykowski addressed the controversy after receiving …