That may have been the judge’s framing, but it seems off from what I typically expect from mainstream US news.
It's clearly deceptive and exploitative.
I'm sure you'd agree that if I was advertising in the name of kids to raise money for a charity, and it happened to be that the particular charity I was raising money for had determines it should give Hamas money to help those kids, that potential donors would prefer to know where exactly their money was going to.