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Zionist Personalities We Should Know About / Meet the pro-Israhell mega-don...
Last post by yankeedoodle - February 19, 2024, 10:32:40 PMFollowing the money: How pro-Israel megadonors are working to stop politicians who might uphold Palestinian rights
https://israelpalestinenews.org/these-are-the-jewish-megadonors-helping-fund-bidens-republican-congress-members-reelection-campaigns/
These two articles give us a peek into how some uber-wealthy Americans spend big bucks, betting on political candidates with whom they may have nothing in common...except Israel.
THESE ARE THE JEWISH MEGADONORS HELPING FUND BIDEN'S – AND REPUBLICAN CONGRESS MEMBERS' – REELECTION CAMPAIGNS
by Ben Samuels, reposted from Ha'aretz, February 9, 2024
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2024-02-09/ty-article-magazine/.premium/these-are-the-jewish-megadonors-helping-fund-bidens-reelection-campaign/0000018d-8463-d424-abad-9f7ba6d30000
U.S. President Joe Biden's reelection bid has some tough sledding ahead if the majority of polls that have emerged in recent months are to be believed. His fundraising efforts tell another story, though, with his reelection campaign already raking in significant donations – many coming from longtime Jewish Democratic megadonors.
An analysis of campaign finance disclosures showing contributions to Biden's campaign and pro-Biden PACs and super PACs for 2023 illustrates a deep groundswell of support from Jewish-Democratic benefactors. They make up a significant portion of the president's fundraising as he begins his reelection bid in earnest.
The donors in question – many of whom are in the finance industry, with others connected to Hollywood and Silicon Valley – vary in their prioritization of Israel as a campaign issue, as well as their respective involvements in local Jewish communities and philanthropies.
Their steadfast and deep-pocketed support for Biden, however, indicate how the Democratic Party has generations-deep support within the American-Jewish community.
Polls have continuously shown that Jewish voters vastly prefer Biden over Donald Trump, with Israel rarely being among voters' top priorities. Despite this, American Jews are among the few groups who have stuck with Biden amid plummeting poll numbers (many of which stem from his approach to Israel, which centrist Democrats deem a threshold issue).
Haim Saban is perhaps the key pro-Israel megadonor for Biden, significantly overlapping between both the president's reelection bid and AIPAC's United Democracy Project super PAC. He has given over $936,000 to Biden, after donating $1 million to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's super PAC. (While federal political action committees have strict limits on the amounts they can contribute, a super PAC is allowed to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money to campaign independently for candidates for federal office.)
Saban has long been one of the most important donors and fundraisers for the Democrats, generating millions of dollars for the party over the years. He has also made significant financial investments in pro-Israel organizations such as AIPAC and Friends of the Israel Defense Forces.
He also collaborated with late Republican megadonor Sheldon Adelson on the Israeli American Council, which was founded to organize Israeli expats living in the United States. He told The New Yorker in 2010 that he was "a one-issue guy, and my issue is Israel."
Joining Saban as an overlapping megadonor is casino magnate Neil Bluhm. He has already given more than $1.4 million this cycle to the Biden super PAC, on top of $200,000 to United Democracy Project. His daughter Leslie, a social entrepreneur who sits on the AmeriCorps board of directors following an appointment from Biden in 2021, has given over $554,000.
California leaning
On the other end of the Democratic Party's pro-Israel political spectrum, J Street's political action committee has already contributed more than $1.4 million. J Street PAC's donations, made over the course of 40 separate contributions in 2023, were largely buoyed by $500,000 contributions from career diplomat Jon Greenwald and radiation oncologist Patricia Gordon (both J Street board members).
Billionaire philanthropist George Soros – one of J Street's previous key political contributors and longtime Democratic megadonor, who has steadily become synonymous with Republican attacks that have too often masqueraded as antisemitic dog whistles – has given Biden $758,000.
Left-wing pro-Israel donations go beyond J Street, though. Michael Sonnenfeldt – co-founder of the Israel Policy Forum, and a massive donor to Israel-related causes like Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Institute for National Security Studies – has given more than $200,000.
Many of Biden's key Jewish donors are based in California, both in the Los Angeles entertainment and business sector, and Silicon Valley.
Film producer Jeffrey Katzenberg, renowned as one of the most prolific Democratic fundraisers, has given nearly $2.9 million, while his DreamWorks Pictures co-founder Steven Spielberg has given more than $936,000. (The "Schindler's List" director also said his USC Shoah Foundation would launch a new project aimed at collecting and acquiring testimonies from survivors and witnesses of the Oct. 7 attack.) His wife, Kate Capshaw, donated the same sum.
Entertainment executive Casey Wasserman, who gave the Biden super PAC more than $936,000, also spoke out in support of Israel following Oct. 7, invoking the terror attack on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics during an International Olympic Committee session in his role as chairman of the 2028 Olympics in LA.
Billionaire investor Peter Lowy donated the same figure. A major benefactor to Jewish causes like the American Jewish University and the Jewish Journal, he is the son of Frank Lowy – who fought in Israel's 1948 War of Independence, before becoming one of Australia's richest businessmen and chairing Israel's Institute for National Securities Studies. Lowy Sr. moved to Israel at the end of 2018.
Ellen Bronfman Hauptman, a private investment firm co-chair whose Canadian-American father Charles is one of the most significant Jewish and pro-Israel philanthropists, is another LA-based scion megadonor who donated the same figure.
Attorney Martha Karsh, who is one of LA's most noted philanthropists (including backing a nationally recognized social services initiative at LA's Wilshire Boulevard Temple), has given Biden more than $556,000.
Further north in California, Eli Reinhard – a San Jose land developer who is one of Silicon Valley's most prolific contributors to Jewish philanthropies, as well as Jewish and Mideast-centric programs at Stanford University and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy think tank – has given nearly $927,000.
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last September to discuss artificial intelligence, gave Biden $506,000. Alex Karp, the Palantir co-founder who recently flew the data-analysis software giant's board to Tel Aviv in a show of solidarity, has given more than $366,000.
Sheryl Sandberg, the former Meta executive who has been among the most outspoken public figures attempting to draw attention to Hamas' use of sexual violence during the Oct. 7 attack, donated more than $500,000 to the Future Forward pro-Biden super PAC, as did her husband Tom Bernthal.
Other key donors have been longtime supporters of Democratic candidates and causes, though their Jewish connections are not perhaps as obvious as those previously mentioned.
Biden enjoys significant support from the finance world, particularly among Jewish megadonors in the northeast.
Jim Simons – who grew up in the heavily Jewish Brookline, Massachusetts, before becoming one of the most successful Wall Street investors of all time – has given more than $3.6 million, alongside his wife Marilyn. Their daughter, educator and philanthropist Liz Simons, and her investor husband Mark Heising, have given Biden $800,000.
Simons' longtime colleague Henry Laufer and his wife Marsha, an institutional Democratic donor and power player, have given more than $865,000. Hedge fund manager Stephen Mandel and his wife Susan, who have largely given to education causes as well as the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, gave Biden $832,000.
Another anti-Trump megadonor worth noting is Seth Klarman, the hedge fund manager and Times Of Israel co-founder who strayed from the Republican Party following Trump's ascendance. Klarman has given Biden more than $409,000.
Deborah Simon, daughter of late shopping mall magnate and philanthropist Mel Simon, has also donated at least $1 million in support of Biden. The Indiana-based Simon has long been a supporter of Jewish causes and charities, specifically the U.S. Holocaust Museum and the Anti-Defamation League. The co-chair of NFL club Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Avram Glazer – whose family has been deeply involved in Jewish philanthropic causes across the United States – also donated more than $888,000.
Some of Biden's most important and long-standing donations, meanwhile, came from the finance world. Jonathan Lavine, co-managing partner of Bain Capital (the Mitt Romney-founded investment firm), and his wife Jeannie have cited "bedrock Jewish values" in their prolific Jewish philanthropic efforts. They have contributed over $832,000.
Joshua Bekenstein (Lavine's co-chair) and his wife Anita have donated over $819,000 – part of the Massachusetts couple's long history of giving to the Democratic Party, accompanied by their charitable contributions via a donor-advised fund with the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston.
Venture capitalist Bob Goodman and his wife Jayne Lipman – a board member for American Jewish World Service and benefactor to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee – have contributed $677,000.
Robert Stavis, Goodman's colleague at Bessemer Venture Partners, is treasurer of the ADL's board and active in the Westchester Jewish Community Services alongside his wife, Amy. They have contributed over $654,000.
In Chicago, hedge fund manager Michael Sacks and his philanthropist wife Cari have given Biden more than $613,000. They also give to a wide array of Jewish organizations, like synagogue Am Shalom, Birthright Israel Foundation and the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center.
Amy Goldman Fowler, "the world's premier vegetable gardener" and billionaire heiress to late real-estate investor Sol Goldman, gave Biden $450,000. Daniel Tishman, who runs the New York construction behemoth named after his family, has given Biden more than $381,000.
There are dozens more Jewish megadonors who have given Biden at least $100,000, further illustrating the deep support the president will enjoy from the Jewish community ahead of what is sure to be a bruising national election campaign.
UBER-WEALTHY REPUBLICANS ARE FUNDING DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES IN A VERY BIG WAY – TO UNSEAT PRO-PALESTINE CONGRESS MEMBERS.
by Alexander Sammon, reposted from Slate https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/ilhan-omar-jamaal-bowman-rashida-tlaib-aipac-israel-lobby-democratic-primary-megadonors.html
The presidential field is basically set, but before the Trump vs. Biden rematch begins in earnest, there are still a bunch of highly contentious primaries for the House and Senate left to be decided. On the Democratic side, none will draw more attention and money than the campaign to knock the Squad—the famed young, progressive legislators of color—out of Congress. And now, thanks to the most recent round of fundraising reports filed to the Federal Election Commission, we know exactly who's funding that campaign.
Surprise! It's Republican billionaires and megadonors.
Let's back up: During the 2022 midterms, one of the super PACs affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobbying group—called the United Democracy Project—spent more than any other outside group during the Democratic primaries. Yes, it was spending on Democrats. But it boosted only conservative Democrats who were in races against progressive legislators, in part because progressives are, as a whole, willing to criticize Israel, and sometimes even question unconditional military aid to Benjamin Netanyahu's government.
AIPAC's most successful sally in 2022 was kicking Andy Levin—not only one of the most prominent Jewish members of the House, but also a former synagogue president—out of his House seat in Michigan, in favor of a more conservative, non-Jewish representative in Haley Stevens. (Levin had dared to indicate support for a two-state solution, introducing a bill that would have prevented U.S. aid from being used to fund Israeli settlements in the West Bank and that recognized East Jerusalem as "occupied territory," among other provisions.)
And all of that was before Israel's devastating war in Gaza began.
Now, AIPAC has made it a clear goal to defeat every progressive Democrat it can in 2024. At the end of January, Federal Election Commission filings revealed that the United Democracy Project super PAC already had $40 million on hand by the end of 2023, nearly double the $26 million it spent on the 2022 midterms. Those numbers will likely skyrocket further.
Massive though it is, the dollar figure is actually less notable than who donated it. Of the top 10 biggest donors to the Democrats-only super PAC during the past six months, boosters of Donald Trump abound. GOP megadonor Bernie Marcus, former CEO of the Home Depot, kicked in $1 million. An LLC affiliated with Bob Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots (who gave $1 million to Trump's inauguration) chipped in $500,000. Paul Singer, another billionaire financier—and Nikki Haley megadonor, and Rudy Giuliani fundraiser—also kicked in $1 million. (Singer is perhaps best known as the luxury vacation sponsor of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.)
Singer and Marcus also sponsored AIPAC's guerrilla campaign to overrun the Democratic primary process back in 2022; some of the even more generous donors in this cycle are new to the project. The top individual United Democracy Project donor during the past six months was Jan Koum, billionaire founder of WhatsApp. He donated $5 million to UDP over the final half of 2023; during that very same period, he also gave $5 million to the super PAC of Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley.
Behind Koum was financier Jonathon Jacobson, who contributed $2.5 million. Jacobson has a long history of political giving; since 2008, the top beneficiaries of his largesse, other than the $1 million he gave UDP Project in 2022, have been Republican super PACs, Republican candidates including Scott Brown and Lindsey Graham, and Republican fundraising committees, including Mitch McConnell's National Republican Senatorial Committee. David Zalik, who gave $2 million, is a Haley, Giuliani, and Mitt Romney donor as well...(more https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/ilhan-omar-jamaal-bowman-rashida-tlaib-aipac-israel-lobby-democratic-primary-megadonors.html )
https://israelpalestinenews.org/these-are-the-jewish-megadonors-helping-fund-bidens-republican-congress-members-reelection-campaigns/
These two articles give us a peek into how some uber-wealthy Americans spend big bucks, betting on political candidates with whom they may have nothing in common...except Israel.
THESE ARE THE JEWISH MEGADONORS HELPING FUND BIDEN'S – AND REPUBLICAN CONGRESS MEMBERS' – REELECTION CAMPAIGNS
by Ben Samuels, reposted from Ha'aretz, February 9, 2024
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2024-02-09/ty-article-magazine/.premium/these-are-the-jewish-megadonors-helping-fund-bidens-reelection-campaign/0000018d-8463-d424-abad-9f7ba6d30000
U.S. President Joe Biden's reelection bid has some tough sledding ahead if the majority of polls that have emerged in recent months are to be believed. His fundraising efforts tell another story, though, with his reelection campaign already raking in significant donations – many coming from longtime Jewish Democratic megadonors.
An analysis of campaign finance disclosures showing contributions to Biden's campaign and pro-Biden PACs and super PACs for 2023 illustrates a deep groundswell of support from Jewish-Democratic benefactors. They make up a significant portion of the president's fundraising as he begins his reelection bid in earnest.
The donors in question – many of whom are in the finance industry, with others connected to Hollywood and Silicon Valley – vary in their prioritization of Israel as a campaign issue, as well as their respective involvements in local Jewish communities and philanthropies.
Their steadfast and deep-pocketed support for Biden, however, indicate how the Democratic Party has generations-deep support within the American-Jewish community.
Polls have continuously shown that Jewish voters vastly prefer Biden over Donald Trump, with Israel rarely being among voters' top priorities. Despite this, American Jews are among the few groups who have stuck with Biden amid plummeting poll numbers (many of which stem from his approach to Israel, which centrist Democrats deem a threshold issue).
Haim Saban is perhaps the key pro-Israel megadonor for Biden, significantly overlapping between both the president's reelection bid and AIPAC's United Democracy Project super PAC. He has given over $936,000 to Biden, after donating $1 million to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's super PAC. (While federal political action committees have strict limits on the amounts they can contribute, a super PAC is allowed to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money to campaign independently for candidates for federal office.)
Saban has long been one of the most important donors and fundraisers for the Democrats, generating millions of dollars for the party over the years. He has also made significant financial investments in pro-Israel organizations such as AIPAC and Friends of the Israel Defense Forces.
He also collaborated with late Republican megadonor Sheldon Adelson on the Israeli American Council, which was founded to organize Israeli expats living in the United States. He told The New Yorker in 2010 that he was "a one-issue guy, and my issue is Israel."
Joining Saban as an overlapping megadonor is casino magnate Neil Bluhm. He has already given more than $1.4 million this cycle to the Biden super PAC, on top of $200,000 to United Democracy Project. His daughter Leslie, a social entrepreneur who sits on the AmeriCorps board of directors following an appointment from Biden in 2021, has given over $554,000.
California leaning
On the other end of the Democratic Party's pro-Israel political spectrum, J Street's political action committee has already contributed more than $1.4 million. J Street PAC's donations, made over the course of 40 separate contributions in 2023, were largely buoyed by $500,000 contributions from career diplomat Jon Greenwald and radiation oncologist Patricia Gordon (both J Street board members).
Billionaire philanthropist George Soros – one of J Street's previous key political contributors and longtime Democratic megadonor, who has steadily become synonymous with Republican attacks that have too often masqueraded as antisemitic dog whistles – has given Biden $758,000.
Left-wing pro-Israel donations go beyond J Street, though. Michael Sonnenfeldt – co-founder of the Israel Policy Forum, and a massive donor to Israel-related causes like Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Institute for National Security Studies – has given more than $200,000.
Many of Biden's key Jewish donors are based in California, both in the Los Angeles entertainment and business sector, and Silicon Valley.
Film producer Jeffrey Katzenberg, renowned as one of the most prolific Democratic fundraisers, has given nearly $2.9 million, while his DreamWorks Pictures co-founder Steven Spielberg has given more than $936,000. (The "Schindler's List" director also said his USC Shoah Foundation would launch a new project aimed at collecting and acquiring testimonies from survivors and witnesses of the Oct. 7 attack.) His wife, Kate Capshaw, donated the same sum.
Entertainment executive Casey Wasserman, who gave the Biden super PAC more than $936,000, also spoke out in support of Israel following Oct. 7, invoking the terror attack on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics during an International Olympic Committee session in his role as chairman of the 2028 Olympics in LA.
Billionaire investor Peter Lowy donated the same figure. A major benefactor to Jewish causes like the American Jewish University and the Jewish Journal, he is the son of Frank Lowy – who fought in Israel's 1948 War of Independence, before becoming one of Australia's richest businessmen and chairing Israel's Institute for National Securities Studies. Lowy Sr. moved to Israel at the end of 2018.
Ellen Bronfman Hauptman, a private investment firm co-chair whose Canadian-American father Charles is one of the most significant Jewish and pro-Israel philanthropists, is another LA-based scion megadonor who donated the same figure.
Attorney Martha Karsh, who is one of LA's most noted philanthropists (including backing a nationally recognized social services initiative at LA's Wilshire Boulevard Temple), has given Biden more than $556,000.
Further north in California, Eli Reinhard – a San Jose land developer who is one of Silicon Valley's most prolific contributors to Jewish philanthropies, as well as Jewish and Mideast-centric programs at Stanford University and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy think tank – has given nearly $927,000.
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last September to discuss artificial intelligence, gave Biden $506,000. Alex Karp, the Palantir co-founder who recently flew the data-analysis software giant's board to Tel Aviv in a show of solidarity, has given more than $366,000.
Sheryl Sandberg, the former Meta executive who has been among the most outspoken public figures attempting to draw attention to Hamas' use of sexual violence during the Oct. 7 attack, donated more than $500,000 to the Future Forward pro-Biden super PAC, as did her husband Tom Bernthal.
Other key donors have been longtime supporters of Democratic candidates and causes, though their Jewish connections are not perhaps as obvious as those previously mentioned.
Biden enjoys significant support from the finance world, particularly among Jewish megadonors in the northeast.
Jim Simons – who grew up in the heavily Jewish Brookline, Massachusetts, before becoming one of the most successful Wall Street investors of all time – has given more than $3.6 million, alongside his wife Marilyn. Their daughter, educator and philanthropist Liz Simons, and her investor husband Mark Heising, have given Biden $800,000.
Simons' longtime colleague Henry Laufer and his wife Marsha, an institutional Democratic donor and power player, have given more than $865,000. Hedge fund manager Stephen Mandel and his wife Susan, who have largely given to education causes as well as the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, gave Biden $832,000.
Another anti-Trump megadonor worth noting is Seth Klarman, the hedge fund manager and Times Of Israel co-founder who strayed from the Republican Party following Trump's ascendance. Klarman has given Biden more than $409,000.
Deborah Simon, daughter of late shopping mall magnate and philanthropist Mel Simon, has also donated at least $1 million in support of Biden. The Indiana-based Simon has long been a supporter of Jewish causes and charities, specifically the U.S. Holocaust Museum and the Anti-Defamation League. The co-chair of NFL club Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Avram Glazer – whose family has been deeply involved in Jewish philanthropic causes across the United States – also donated more than $888,000.
Some of Biden's most important and long-standing donations, meanwhile, came from the finance world. Jonathan Lavine, co-managing partner of Bain Capital (the Mitt Romney-founded investment firm), and his wife Jeannie have cited "bedrock Jewish values" in their prolific Jewish philanthropic efforts. They have contributed over $832,000.
Joshua Bekenstein (Lavine's co-chair) and his wife Anita have donated over $819,000 – part of the Massachusetts couple's long history of giving to the Democratic Party, accompanied by their charitable contributions via a donor-advised fund with the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston.
Venture capitalist Bob Goodman and his wife Jayne Lipman – a board member for American Jewish World Service and benefactor to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee – have contributed $677,000.
Robert Stavis, Goodman's colleague at Bessemer Venture Partners, is treasurer of the ADL's board and active in the Westchester Jewish Community Services alongside his wife, Amy. They have contributed over $654,000.
In Chicago, hedge fund manager Michael Sacks and his philanthropist wife Cari have given Biden more than $613,000. They also give to a wide array of Jewish organizations, like synagogue Am Shalom, Birthright Israel Foundation and the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center.
Amy Goldman Fowler, "the world's premier vegetable gardener" and billionaire heiress to late real-estate investor Sol Goldman, gave Biden $450,000. Daniel Tishman, who runs the New York construction behemoth named after his family, has given Biden more than $381,000.
There are dozens more Jewish megadonors who have given Biden at least $100,000, further illustrating the deep support the president will enjoy from the Jewish community ahead of what is sure to be a bruising national election campaign.
UBER-WEALTHY REPUBLICANS ARE FUNDING DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES IN A VERY BIG WAY – TO UNSEAT PRO-PALESTINE CONGRESS MEMBERS.
by Alexander Sammon, reposted from Slate https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/ilhan-omar-jamaal-bowman-rashida-tlaib-aipac-israel-lobby-democratic-primary-megadonors.html
The presidential field is basically set, but before the Trump vs. Biden rematch begins in earnest, there are still a bunch of highly contentious primaries for the House and Senate left to be decided. On the Democratic side, none will draw more attention and money than the campaign to knock the Squad—the famed young, progressive legislators of color—out of Congress. And now, thanks to the most recent round of fundraising reports filed to the Federal Election Commission, we know exactly who's funding that campaign.
Surprise! It's Republican billionaires and megadonors.
Let's back up: During the 2022 midterms, one of the super PACs affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobbying group—called the United Democracy Project—spent more than any other outside group during the Democratic primaries. Yes, it was spending on Democrats. But it boosted only conservative Democrats who were in races against progressive legislators, in part because progressives are, as a whole, willing to criticize Israel, and sometimes even question unconditional military aid to Benjamin Netanyahu's government.
AIPAC's most successful sally in 2022 was kicking Andy Levin—not only one of the most prominent Jewish members of the House, but also a former synagogue president—out of his House seat in Michigan, in favor of a more conservative, non-Jewish representative in Haley Stevens. (Levin had dared to indicate support for a two-state solution, introducing a bill that would have prevented U.S. aid from being used to fund Israeli settlements in the West Bank and that recognized East Jerusalem as "occupied territory," among other provisions.)
And all of that was before Israel's devastating war in Gaza began.
Now, AIPAC has made it a clear goal to defeat every progressive Democrat it can in 2024. At the end of January, Federal Election Commission filings revealed that the United Democracy Project super PAC already had $40 million on hand by the end of 2023, nearly double the $26 million it spent on the 2022 midterms. Those numbers will likely skyrocket further.
Massive though it is, the dollar figure is actually less notable than who donated it. Of the top 10 biggest donors to the Democrats-only super PAC during the past six months, boosters of Donald Trump abound. GOP megadonor Bernie Marcus, former CEO of the Home Depot, kicked in $1 million. An LLC affiliated with Bob Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots (who gave $1 million to Trump's inauguration) chipped in $500,000. Paul Singer, another billionaire financier—and Nikki Haley megadonor, and Rudy Giuliani fundraiser—also kicked in $1 million. (Singer is perhaps best known as the luxury vacation sponsor of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.)
Singer and Marcus also sponsored AIPAC's guerrilla campaign to overrun the Democratic primary process back in 2022; some of the even more generous donors in this cycle are new to the project. The top individual United Democracy Project donor during the past six months was Jan Koum, billionaire founder of WhatsApp. He donated $5 million to UDP over the final half of 2023; during that very same period, he also gave $5 million to the super PAC of Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley.
Behind Koum was financier Jonathon Jacobson, who contributed $2.5 million. Jacobson has a long history of political giving; since 2008, the top beneficiaries of his largesse, other than the $1 million he gave UDP Project in 2022, have been Republican super PACs, Republican candidates including Scott Brown and Lindsey Graham, and Republican fundraising committees, including Mitch McConnell's National Republican Senatorial Committee. David Zalik, who gave $2 million, is a Haley, Giuliani, and Mitt Romney donor as well...(more https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/ilhan-omar-jamaal-bowman-rashida-tlaib-aipac-israel-lobby-democratic-primary-megadonors.html )
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Zionist Personalities We Should Know About / Re: Bari Weiss - jew bitch wor...
Last post by yankeedoodle - February 19, 2024, 08:37:29 PM"Anti-cancel-culture" Bari Weiss has a history of working to cancel voices she dislikes
https://israelpalestinenews.org/anti-cancel-culture-bari-weiss-has-a-history-of-working-to-cancel-voices-she-dislikes/
Weiss has positioned herself as a leader in the anti-cancel, anti-censorship movement. In reality, she has a history of working to cancel people and suppress information...
Weiss made her debut in journalism on an Israeli newspaper while living in Israel on a program whose goal is to train young Jewish Americans to bring societal change in the U.S. This is to be accomplished, its website states, by "seeding the community with a cadre of outstanding young lay leaders..."
"Upon returning from Israel, Fellows are warmly welcomed into the Alumni Network, a group of more than 400 who are eligible to receive financial awards, personal development stipends, ongoing communal learning, networking opportunities, and countless other resources."
"For more than three decades, the program has been empowering cadres of individuals who have shaped the American Jewish landscape and beyond" through such actions as "write for top-tier publications," "ignite social movements," and "publish books..."
Weiss has been an exemplary alum
By Alison Weir, excerpted from "As Twitter censorship is revealed, will Palestine remain canceled?" https://israelpalestinenews.org/as-twitter-censorship-is-revealed-will-palestine-remain-canceled/[/i
JournalistBari Weiss has a long history as a devoted Israel partisan who has in the past worked to suppress information.
Vanity Fair reports: "She is an ardent Zionist, and has come to believe that much of the anti-Zionist talk on the left is tantamount to anti-Semitism." When Andrew Sullivan described her as a "Zionist fanatic of near-unhinged proportions," Bari responded: "happily plead guilty as charged."
When considering Bari Weiss, it's necessary to examine how her philosophical stance has outwardly seemed contradictory, but, underneath, her actions appear to be based on a single, fundamental motivation. Also, as we will see, her actions sometimes parallel the strategies of an Israel-based program she attended whose goal is to bring change in the U.S.
In recent years, Weiss has endeavored to position herself as a leader in the growing anti-cancel, anti-censorship movement.
While Weiss has now joined those focused on defending individuals who've been unfairly "cancelled," this is a relatively new theme for her. In the past Weiss was the one doing the cancelling (and this sometimes continues).
Her targets have often been Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims, but many others of diverse races, religions and ethnicities have also been attacked. The common denominator has been support for Palestinian human rights.
Journalist Glenn Greenwald observed of Weiss in 2017: "Her relatively short career as a writer and activist has been overwhelmingly devoted to one issue: a defense of the Israeli government and a corresponding smear campaign against its critics."
Below are some examples of Weiss' actions:
• After going to Israel to live for a year, she attended Columbia University, where she tried to cancel a group of professors. The Guardian reports that Weiss "led a campaign that accused a group of professors of bias against Jewish students, and even assisted in a documentary on that theme. Columbia conducted a lengthy and costly investigation on these charges and found the allegations baseless." More on this here.
• During that time she also worked to take down Lisa Anderson, dean of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs and a renowned Middle East scholar.
• Weiss was involved in an attempt to ruin the academic career of a rising Palestinian-American professor, Nadia Abu El-Haj, "for the crime of writing a book questioning the archeological claims of the Israeli government."
• She attacked a pro-Palestinian African-American Congressman as being allegedly antisemitic, despite abundant evidence that he was not.
• She called Tulsi Gabbard, a military veteran who often opposes militarism, an "Assad toady" who is a "mother load of bad ideas."
• In 2019 she praised an over the top column condemning a campus invitation to Jewish-American cartoonist Eli Valley that compared his work to Nazi propaganda. Valley is known for satirizing Israel's occupation of Palestine and its ruthless attacks on Gaza.
• She authored a book that disparaged non-Zionist Jewish Americans as "antisemitic." Journalist Philip Weiss described it as "'cancel culture' on steroids." He noted that her weapons are "censorship and suppression."
• She "smeared anti-Zionists with the kind of attacks she calls McCarthyism when used on her, for instance saying they're as dangerous as white nationalists." – Mondoweiss
• She used her position at the New York Times to systematically bar "any op-ed or letter to the editor contrary to the orthodoxy of the pro-Israel establishment she represents."
Weiss' world emphasizes Israel
In Weiss's Israel-centric world view, fundamental facts are largely ignored or misrepresented.
Following are some examples: that Israel was established through a war of ethnic cleansing against the majority inhabitants of the land that zionists desired for a Jewish state; that Palestinians, both Muslims and Christians, are living in the virtual prisons that Gaza and the West Bank have become; that many of them are refugee families whose lands and homes were stolen by Israel in 1948 and 1967; that it is Israel that is the prime purveyor of violence in the "conflict" and is the party that most often initiates it.
In Weiss's often hyperbolic, inaccurate assertions, Palestinians who fight back are "terrorists," and those who support them are "antisemites." Yet, despite her fervent identification with Israel, she positions herself as a moderate and voices support for a "two-state solution."
This position may sound reasonable, fair, and Palestinian-friendly. However, many informed analysts now consider this long-discussed compromise an impossibility due to Israel's continual settlement expansion on Palestinian land. In addition, an examination of this alleged "two-state solution" reveals that it would consist of one state, Israel, on approximately 90 percent (or more) of the land, and a second, barely viable state, Palestine, on the remainder – possibly consisting of several non-contiguous areas.
Which lives matter?
For Weiss, it appears, Israeli lives matter, while Palestinian lives often do not. A May 8th tweet by Weiss is indicative of her outlook.
In it, Weiss refers to "weeks of terror attacks in Israel during which 15 people were murdered." She ignores the many more Palestinians killed during the same time and before.
Let's look at the facts:
- 18 Israelis tragically died during May 5 through March 24. During that time 26 Palestinians also tragically died, including a one-year-old.
- If we extend the range back to March 1, it turns out that 35 Palestinians had been killed, and 18 Israelis.
- If we extend the range back to the beginning of the year, it turns out that 48 Palestinians had been killed and 19 Israelis.*
If we look at those killed in the previous year, we find that 279 Palestinians had been killed and 13 Israelis.
- In the days following Weiss' tweet, Israeli forces killed over 100 Palestinians, including an American journalist and a number of children and toddlers. Weiss did not tweet about these deaths. One Israeli was also killed, an invading soldier.
Commitment to Israel seems central to Weiss' identity, and she has spent considerable time there. Her first extended stay was living for a gap year in Israel after high school, studying at a feminist yeshiva and at Israel's Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It appears that this was in 2002-2003.
During that time Israeli forces were brutally putting down a major Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation called the Second Intifada. In 2002 and 2003 the Israeli military killed 1,621 Palestinians, 342 of them children, while Palestinian resistance fighters killed 185 Israelis, 66 of them children.
During the time, Israeli forces killed 23-year-old American peace activist Rachel Corrie, killed British UN official Iain Hook, shot 21-year-old British photographer Tom Hurndal in the head as he was trying to help Palestinian girls under Israeli fire (he died after an 11 month coma), and attacked 24-year-old American peace activist Brian Avery, shattering his face (he survived but has undergone years of surgery to put his face back together).
Internet searches failed to turn up any mentions by Weiss of any of these deaths in her many articles and speeches about Israel, despite the fact that the incidents were covered by Israeli media and there was significant dissent in Israel while she was presumably there.
Israel-trained 'cadres' influence change in the U.S.
By her own admission, Weiss got involved in journalism through her pro-Israel activism during college (described above). She indicates that her later decision to move from the Wall Street Journal to the New York Times was to expand her reach on Israel.
Weiss made her debut in journalism on an Israeli newspaper following her graduation from Columbia. She was living in Israel on a Dorot Fellowship, an extraordinary program whose goal is to train young Jewish Americans in Israel to bring societal change in the U.S. This is to be accomplished, according to its website, by "seeding the community with a cadre of outstanding young lay leaders."
The program, a project of the $91million Dorot Foundation, "provides the tools, mentorship, financial resources, time, and space for self-exploration that allows individuals to achieve their potential as agents of social change." Among other things, Fellows "return to their communities with a sophisticated understanding of the socio-political reality in Israel."
"Upon returning from Israel, the website states, "Fellows are warmly welcomed into the DFI Alumni Network, a group of more than 400 who are eligible to receive financial awards, personal development stipends, ongoing communal learning, networking opportunities, and countless other resources."
Dorot boasts: "For more than three decades, the Dorot Fellowship has been empowering cadres of individuals who have shaped the American Jewish landscape and beyond" through such actions as "write for top-tier publications," "ignite social movements," and "publish books."
Weiss has been an exemplary Dorot alum.
Among other things, she's held top positions at the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, published a book on "How to Fight Antisemitism" (the launch party was covered in detail by New York magazine and featured such luminaries as the publisher of the New York Times, the chair of ViacomCBS, and an MSNBC anchor), been interviewed on major TV and Internet programs, become a prominent influencer in a new social movement, received diverse awards, and was listed number seven in the Jerusalem Post's "50 most influential Jews of 2019″ (well ahead of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who tied for 15).
Not everyone, however, is impressed with Weiss. While Weiss's recent articles on cancel culture are often valid, her claims frequently come across as overstated and hypocritical to those familiar with her history.
Glenn Greenwald describes her as "a writer who thrives on cheap, easy, and superficial 'controversy,' who sees herself as a brave intellectual dissident as she is continually celebrated by and gets promoted within the most mainstream media circles."
Political commentator Krystal Ball notes:
Weiss' selective opposition to cancel culture position, while presumably often sincere, may have an additional motivation. Like the original neocons before her (leftists who became 'conservatives' when the left began to support Palestinian rights), Weiss' new persona may have as much to do with her Israel agenda as with devotion to free speech – particularly since she advocates for a country that has long practiced official censorship.
There are indications that Weiss has received special treatment at Twitter according to a recent report. According to Twitter employees, Weiss "was given access to Twitter's employee systems, added to its Slack, and given a company laptop."
https://israelpalestinenews.org/anti-cancel-culture-bari-weiss-has-a-history-of-working-to-cancel-voices-she-dislikes/
Weiss has positioned herself as a leader in the anti-cancel, anti-censorship movement. In reality, she has a history of working to cancel people and suppress information...
Weiss made her debut in journalism on an Israeli newspaper while living in Israel on a program whose goal is to train young Jewish Americans to bring societal change in the U.S. This is to be accomplished, its website states, by "seeding the community with a cadre of outstanding young lay leaders..."
"Upon returning from Israel, Fellows are warmly welcomed into the Alumni Network, a group of more than 400 who are eligible to receive financial awards, personal development stipends, ongoing communal learning, networking opportunities, and countless other resources."
"For more than three decades, the program has been empowering cadres of individuals who have shaped the American Jewish landscape and beyond" through such actions as "write for top-tier publications," "ignite social movements," and "publish books..."
Weiss has been an exemplary alum
By Alison Weir, excerpted from "As Twitter censorship is revealed, will Palestine remain canceled?" https://israelpalestinenews.org/as-twitter-censorship-is-revealed-will-palestine-remain-canceled/[/i
JournalistBari Weiss has a long history as a devoted Israel partisan who has in the past worked to suppress information.
Vanity Fair reports: "She is an ardent Zionist, and has come to believe that much of the anti-Zionist talk on the left is tantamount to anti-Semitism." When Andrew Sullivan described her as a "Zionist fanatic of near-unhinged proportions," Bari responded: "happily plead guilty as charged."
When considering Bari Weiss, it's necessary to examine how her philosophical stance has outwardly seemed contradictory, but, underneath, her actions appear to be based on a single, fundamental motivation. Also, as we will see, her actions sometimes parallel the strategies of an Israel-based program she attended whose goal is to bring change in the U.S.
In recent years, Weiss has endeavored to position herself as a leader in the growing anti-cancel, anti-censorship movement.
While Weiss has now joined those focused on defending individuals who've been unfairly "cancelled," this is a relatively new theme for her. In the past Weiss was the one doing the cancelling (and this sometimes continues).
Her targets have often been Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims, but many others of diverse races, religions and ethnicities have also been attacked. The common denominator has been support for Palestinian human rights.
Journalist Glenn Greenwald observed of Weiss in 2017: "Her relatively short career as a writer and activist has been overwhelmingly devoted to one issue: a defense of the Israeli government and a corresponding smear campaign against its critics."
Below are some examples of Weiss' actions:
• After going to Israel to live for a year, she attended Columbia University, where she tried to cancel a group of professors. The Guardian reports that Weiss "led a campaign that accused a group of professors of bias against Jewish students, and even assisted in a documentary on that theme. Columbia conducted a lengthy and costly investigation on these charges and found the allegations baseless." More on this here.
• During that time she also worked to take down Lisa Anderson, dean of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs and a renowned Middle East scholar.
• Weiss was involved in an attempt to ruin the academic career of a rising Palestinian-American professor, Nadia Abu El-Haj, "for the crime of writing a book questioning the archeological claims of the Israeli government."
• She attacked a pro-Palestinian African-American Congressman as being allegedly antisemitic, despite abundant evidence that he was not.
• She called Tulsi Gabbard, a military veteran who often opposes militarism, an "Assad toady" who is a "mother load of bad ideas."
• In 2019 she praised an over the top column condemning a campus invitation to Jewish-American cartoonist Eli Valley that compared his work to Nazi propaganda. Valley is known for satirizing Israel's occupation of Palestine and its ruthless attacks on Gaza.
• She authored a book that disparaged non-Zionist Jewish Americans as "antisemitic." Journalist Philip Weiss described it as "'cancel culture' on steroids." He noted that her weapons are "censorship and suppression."
• She "smeared anti-Zionists with the kind of attacks she calls McCarthyism when used on her, for instance saying they're as dangerous as white nationalists." – Mondoweiss
• She used her position at the New York Times to systematically bar "any op-ed or letter to the editor contrary to the orthodoxy of the pro-Israel establishment she represents."
Weiss' world emphasizes Israel
In Weiss's Israel-centric world view, fundamental facts are largely ignored or misrepresented.
Following are some examples: that Israel was established through a war of ethnic cleansing against the majority inhabitants of the land that zionists desired for a Jewish state; that Palestinians, both Muslims and Christians, are living in the virtual prisons that Gaza and the West Bank have become; that many of them are refugee families whose lands and homes were stolen by Israel in 1948 and 1967; that it is Israel that is the prime purveyor of violence in the "conflict" and is the party that most often initiates it.
In Weiss's often hyperbolic, inaccurate assertions, Palestinians who fight back are "terrorists," and those who support them are "antisemites." Yet, despite her fervent identification with Israel, she positions herself as a moderate and voices support for a "two-state solution."
This position may sound reasonable, fair, and Palestinian-friendly. However, many informed analysts now consider this long-discussed compromise an impossibility due to Israel's continual settlement expansion on Palestinian land. In addition, an examination of this alleged "two-state solution" reveals that it would consist of one state, Israel, on approximately 90 percent (or more) of the land, and a second, barely viable state, Palestine, on the remainder – possibly consisting of several non-contiguous areas.
Which lives matter?
For Weiss, it appears, Israeli lives matter, while Palestinian lives often do not. A May 8th tweet by Weiss is indicative of her outlook.
In it, Weiss refers to "weeks of terror attacks in Israel during which 15 people were murdered." She ignores the many more Palestinians killed during the same time and before.
Let's look at the facts:
- 18 Israelis tragically died during May 5 through March 24. During that time 26 Palestinians also tragically died, including a one-year-old.
- If we extend the range back to March 1, it turns out that 35 Palestinians had been killed, and 18 Israelis.
- If we extend the range back to the beginning of the year, it turns out that 48 Palestinians had been killed and 19 Israelis.*
If we look at those killed in the previous year, we find that 279 Palestinians had been killed and 13 Israelis.
- In the days following Weiss' tweet, Israeli forces killed over 100 Palestinians, including an American journalist and a number of children and toddlers. Weiss did not tweet about these deaths. One Israeli was also killed, an invading soldier.
Commitment to Israel seems central to Weiss' identity, and she has spent considerable time there. Her first extended stay was living for a gap year in Israel after high school, studying at a feminist yeshiva and at Israel's Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It appears that this was in 2002-2003.
During that time Israeli forces were brutally putting down a major Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation called the Second Intifada. In 2002 and 2003 the Israeli military killed 1,621 Palestinians, 342 of them children, while Palestinian resistance fighters killed 185 Israelis, 66 of them children.
During the time, Israeli forces killed 23-year-old American peace activist Rachel Corrie, killed British UN official Iain Hook, shot 21-year-old British photographer Tom Hurndal in the head as he was trying to help Palestinian girls under Israeli fire (he died after an 11 month coma), and attacked 24-year-old American peace activist Brian Avery, shattering his face (he survived but has undergone years of surgery to put his face back together).
Internet searches failed to turn up any mentions by Weiss of any of these deaths in her many articles and speeches about Israel, despite the fact that the incidents were covered by Israeli media and there was significant dissent in Israel while she was presumably there.
Israel-trained 'cadres' influence change in the U.S.
By her own admission, Weiss got involved in journalism through her pro-Israel activism during college (described above). She indicates that her later decision to move from the Wall Street Journal to the New York Times was to expand her reach on Israel.
Weiss made her debut in journalism on an Israeli newspaper following her graduation from Columbia. She was living in Israel on a Dorot Fellowship, an extraordinary program whose goal is to train young Jewish Americans in Israel to bring societal change in the U.S. This is to be accomplished, according to its website, by "seeding the community with a cadre of outstanding young lay leaders."
The program, a project of the $91million Dorot Foundation, "provides the tools, mentorship, financial resources, time, and space for self-exploration that allows individuals to achieve their potential as agents of social change." Among other things, Fellows "return to their communities with a sophisticated understanding of the socio-political reality in Israel."
"Upon returning from Israel, the website states, "Fellows are warmly welcomed into the DFI Alumni Network, a group of more than 400 who are eligible to receive financial awards, personal development stipends, ongoing communal learning, networking opportunities, and countless other resources."
Dorot boasts: "For more than three decades, the Dorot Fellowship has been empowering cadres of individuals who have shaped the American Jewish landscape and beyond" through such actions as "write for top-tier publications," "ignite social movements," and "publish books."
Weiss has been an exemplary Dorot alum.
Among other things, she's held top positions at the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, published a book on "How to Fight Antisemitism" (the launch party was covered in detail by New York magazine and featured such luminaries as the publisher of the New York Times, the chair of ViacomCBS, and an MSNBC anchor), been interviewed on major TV and Internet programs, become a prominent influencer in a new social movement, received diverse awards, and was listed number seven in the Jerusalem Post's "50 most influential Jews of 2019″ (well ahead of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who tied for 15).
Not everyone, however, is impressed with Weiss. While Weiss's recent articles on cancel culture are often valid, her claims frequently come across as overstated and hypocritical to those familiar with her history.
Glenn Greenwald describes her as "a writer who thrives on cheap, easy, and superficial 'controversy,' who sees herself as a brave intellectual dissident as she is continually celebrated by and gets promoted within the most mainstream media circles."
Political commentator Krystal Ball notes:
Quote"There is no issue of legitimate inquiry which is more likely to get you 'cancelled' than support for Palestinian rights. That Bari Weiss, an intellectual architect of that regime of censorship, has the audacity to 'self-expel' and cry cancellation is outrageously hypocritical."
Weiss' selective opposition to cancel culture position, while presumably often sincere, may have an additional motivation. Like the original neocons before her (leftists who became 'conservatives' when the left began to support Palestinian rights), Weiss' new persona may have as much to do with her Israel agenda as with devotion to free speech – particularly since she advocates for a country that has long practiced official censorship.
There are indications that Weiss has received special treatment at Twitter according to a recent report. According to Twitter employees, Weiss "was given access to Twitter's employee systems, added to its Slack, and given a company laptop."
QuoteThe level of access to Twitter systems given to Weiss is typically given only to employees, one of the people familiar said, though it doesn't seem she is actually working at the company. Matt Taibbi, the other newsletter writer through whom Musk has released the Twitter files, didn't seem to receive this degree of access, the person added. – Business Insider
[/quote
On the day that Weiss published her first Twitter Files entry – guaranteed to receive voluminous traffic – Weiss launched a new, apparently abundantly-funded anti-censorship media company that features a number of valuable writers in the field.
It appears that Weiss continues to be on a roll. This could have significant consequences.
If Weiss does manage to leap to the front of the anti-cancel movement, as it appears she's attempting, her outsized influence could cause other participants to defer to her on Israel-Palestine and steer them away from opposing the cancellation of Palestinians and of those who support their inalienable rights.
The first test will be what the Twitter Files project decides to investigate, and what it does not.
*Two of these "Israeli" deaths were actually foreign workers.
#53
History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/"Jews"/Cabala / Israhell says everybody's a hu...
Last post by yankeedoodle - February 19, 2024, 07:22:29 PMAn in-depth discussion of Israhell's cynical and criminal and genocidal actions against civilian "human shields." Anybody and everybody can be a human shield, and, thus, they can be killed.
The discussion spends a few minutes discussing the historical context of the concept of human shields before focusing on Israhell.
https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-197-the-human-shields-canard-as-catch-all-colonial-absolution
The discussion spends a few minutes discussing the historical context of the concept of human shields before focusing on Israhell.
https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-197-the-human-shields-canard-as-catch-all-colonial-absolution
#54
History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/"Jews"/Cabala / Kibbutz-raised former Rothschi...
Last post by yankeedoodle - February 19, 2024, 07:01:07 PMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbShgtXD0TA
Antony Lerman went from living on a kibbutz in Israel and serving with the IDF to becoming a formidable critic of the Zionist movement. He has unique insight into anti-Zionism, which he believes is often falsely conflated with anti-Semitism --- a move that allows Israel to suppress Palestinians and critics of Netanyahu's assault on Gaza.
Read Antony's latest article on our website: https://www.declassifieduk.org/weaponising-antisemitism-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving/
#55
Current News / News of an Immediate & Urgent Nature / Lula in Brazil uses the "holoc...
Last post by yankeedoodle - February 19, 2024, 06:38:36 PMLucky Lula! He can't go to Israhell. 
Israel declares Brazil's president persona non grata
West Jerusalem is outraged at Lula da Silva's Holocaust comments, while Brasilia has called the reaction "absurd"
https://www.rt.com/news/592691-israel-brazil-president-persona-non-grata/
The Israeli foreign minister has lashed out at the Brazilian president over the latter's remarks on the war in Gaza and the Holocaust.
According to Reuters, Israel Katz declared that Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula) was unwelcome in Israel after the Brazilian leader likened Israel's actions in Gaza to the genocide of Jews by the Nazis during World War II.
Katz said in a separate post on X (formerly Twitter) that he had summoned Brazil's ambassador and told him "We will not forget nor forgive. It is a serious antisemitic attack. In my name and the name of the citizens of Israel – tell President Lula that he is persona non grata in Israel until he takes it back."
In response, Lula's chief advisor, Celso Amorim, was quoted by the G1 news outlet as saying that declaring the president persona non grata is "absurd."
Over the weekend, Lula described Israel's military action against Hamas militants in Gaza as "genocide" and "slaughter," comparing it to the extermination of millions of Jews by Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime 80 years ago, according to G1. The Brazilian leader made the comments after being asked about the recent suspension of aid by some donors, including the US, Germany and the EU, to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
"What is happening in the Gaza Strip and with the Palestinian people did not exist at any other historical moment. In fact, it did exist: when Hitler decided to kill the Jews," he said, as quoted by G1.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced the Brazilian president's words as "shameful and serious" in a post on Telegram, and said the comments were "crossing a red line."
The Israeli government began an air and ground offensive in Gaza in October following an attack by Hamas on Israel. More than 29,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in Gaza since, according to Palestinian health authorities.
On Sunday, Netanyahu categorically rejected "unilateral recognition" of a Palestinian state, arguing it would be a "massive and unprecedented reward to terrorism." He also called the war in Gaza "the battle of civilization against barbarism," and reiterated his goal of "total victory."
The international community has long been calling for a so-called two-state solution, or the establishment of a separate state for Palestinians alongside Israel.
Lucky ambassador! He gets to leave Israhell.
Brazil recalls ambassador from Israel
The move came amid a row over the Brazilian president's remarks about Gaza
https://www.rt.com/news/592705-brazil-ambassador-israel-lula/
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Monday asked his ambassador to Tel Aviv to return to Brasilia for consultations. The move came after Israel declared Lula "persona non grata" over his comments about Gaza.
The president was quoted by Brazilian media over the weekend as likening Israel's actions in Gaza to a time "when Hitler decided to kill the Jews," referring to the Holocaust during the Second World War.
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz responded by summoning the Brazilian Ambassador Frederico Meyer for a protest – not to the ministry, but to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial. There, Katz called Lula's words "a serious antisemitic attack" and showed Meyer the names of his own relatives killed by the Nazis.
"We will not forget nor forgive," Katz told Meyer, according to his post on X (formerly Twitter). "In my name and the name of the citizens of Israel – tell President Lula that he is persona non grata in Israel until he takes it back."
Lula has stood by his words, however, and ordered Meyer back to Brazil. The Brazilian embassy in Tel Aviv will be run by a charge d'affaires, which is a downgrade in diplomatic relations.
Lula's wife, Rosangela 'Janja' da Silva, defended her husband on Monday, saying his words "referred to the genocidal government and not to the Jewish people."
"I am proud of my husband who, since the beginning of this conflict in the Gaza Strip, has defended peace and especially the right to life of women and children, who are the majority of victims," Janja wrote on X. "I am sure that if President Lula had experienced the Second World War, he would have defended the Jews' right to life in the same way."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described Lula's comments as "crossing a red line." Netanyahu declared war on Hamas after deadly raids by the Palestinian group on October 7 last year, in which an estimated 1,200 Israelis died. Since then, more than 29,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, most of them women and children. Much of the enclave has been reduced to rubble, while several members of Netanyahu's government have openly advocated expelling its two million inhabitants to Egypt.
The International Court of Justice asked Israel last month to refrain from actions that could be considered genocidal, following a complaint by South Africa under the Genocide Convention.
Israel declares Brazil's president persona non grata
West Jerusalem is outraged at Lula da Silva's Holocaust comments, while Brasilia has called the reaction "absurd"
https://www.rt.com/news/592691-israel-brazil-president-persona-non-grata/
The Israeli foreign minister has lashed out at the Brazilian president over the latter's remarks on the war in Gaza and the Holocaust.
According to Reuters, Israel Katz declared that Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula) was unwelcome in Israel after the Brazilian leader likened Israel's actions in Gaza to the genocide of Jews by the Nazis during World War II.
Katz said in a separate post on X (formerly Twitter) that he had summoned Brazil's ambassador and told him "We will not forget nor forgive. It is a serious antisemitic attack. In my name and the name of the citizens of Israel – tell President Lula that he is persona non grata in Israel until he takes it back."
In response, Lula's chief advisor, Celso Amorim, was quoted by the G1 news outlet as saying that declaring the president persona non grata is "absurd."
Over the weekend, Lula described Israel's military action against Hamas militants in Gaza as "genocide" and "slaughter," comparing it to the extermination of millions of Jews by Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime 80 years ago, according to G1. The Brazilian leader made the comments after being asked about the recent suspension of aid by some donors, including the US, Germany and the EU, to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
"What is happening in the Gaza Strip and with the Palestinian people did not exist at any other historical moment. In fact, it did exist: when Hitler decided to kill the Jews," he said, as quoted by G1.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced the Brazilian president's words as "shameful and serious" in a post on Telegram, and said the comments were "crossing a red line."
The Israeli government began an air and ground offensive in Gaza in October following an attack by Hamas on Israel. More than 29,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in Gaza since, according to Palestinian health authorities.
On Sunday, Netanyahu categorically rejected "unilateral recognition" of a Palestinian state, arguing it would be a "massive and unprecedented reward to terrorism." He also called the war in Gaza "the battle of civilization against barbarism," and reiterated his goal of "total victory."
The international community has long been calling for a so-called two-state solution, or the establishment of a separate state for Palestinians alongside Israel.
Lucky ambassador! He gets to leave Israhell.
Brazil recalls ambassador from Israel
The move came amid a row over the Brazilian president's remarks about Gaza
https://www.rt.com/news/592705-brazil-ambassador-israel-lula/
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Monday asked his ambassador to Tel Aviv to return to Brasilia for consultations. The move came after Israel declared Lula "persona non grata" over his comments about Gaza.
The president was quoted by Brazilian media over the weekend as likening Israel's actions in Gaza to a time "when Hitler decided to kill the Jews," referring to the Holocaust during the Second World War.
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz responded by summoning the Brazilian Ambassador Frederico Meyer for a protest – not to the ministry, but to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial. There, Katz called Lula's words "a serious antisemitic attack" and showed Meyer the names of his own relatives killed by the Nazis.
"We will not forget nor forgive," Katz told Meyer, according to his post on X (formerly Twitter). "In my name and the name of the citizens of Israel – tell President Lula that he is persona non grata in Israel until he takes it back."
Lula has stood by his words, however, and ordered Meyer back to Brazil. The Brazilian embassy in Tel Aviv will be run by a charge d'affaires, which is a downgrade in diplomatic relations.
Lula's wife, Rosangela 'Janja' da Silva, defended her husband on Monday, saying his words "referred to the genocidal government and not to the Jewish people."
"I am proud of my husband who, since the beginning of this conflict in the Gaza Strip, has defended peace and especially the right to life of women and children, who are the majority of victims," Janja wrote on X. "I am sure that if President Lula had experienced the Second World War, he would have defended the Jews' right to life in the same way."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described Lula's comments as "crossing a red line." Netanyahu declared war on Hamas after deadly raids by the Palestinian group on October 7 last year, in which an estimated 1,200 Israelis died. Since then, more than 29,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, most of them women and children. Much of the enclave has been reduced to rubble, while several members of Netanyahu's government have openly advocated expelling its two million inhabitants to Egypt.
The International Court of Justice asked Israel last month to refrain from actions that could be considered genocidal, following a complaint by South Africa under the Genocide Convention.
#56
Current News / News of an Immediate & Urgent Nature / Re: Picture of the Day
Last post by yankeedoodle - February 19, 2024, 05:57:00 PM
Amy Winehouse statue with her Star of David covered up by a Palestinian flag
Amy Winehouse's Star of David covered with Palestinian flag
Camden Market statue of the Jewish star defaced with flag
https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/amy-winehouses-star-of-david-covered-with-palestinian-flag-dqo1imtm
#57
Historical Events / Difference between Crossing th...
Last post by abduLMaria - February 18, 2024, 06:07:39 PMAs far as I can tell,
"Crossing the Rubicon" means passing a point of no return.
It's not necessarily bad, or a sign of impending doom. Just that there's no going back.
The Rubicon being in the general area of Rome, in the time of Rome.
The Maginot Line - that is a French thing.
I have the impression that the French realized that they were probably going to have to fight Germany, and they needed a CLEAR way to measure Germany's hostile intent.
They created a line of reinforced forts, bridges, roads etc. and named after some French dude.
When Germany crossed that, that was an obvious sign of hostile intent, and the signal for France to fight back.
So it was like a Rubicon, with a condition attached, such as "OK this is the part
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Maginot
Of course, Wall Street was also financing WW2 Germany.
http://tarpley.net/online-books/george-bush-the-unauthorized-biography/chapter-2-the-hitler-project/
Separate Note:
Trebitsch Lincoln - the name of the AIPAC 1920's, Hitler's first big political backer.
Who really was Trebitsch Lincoln ?
"Crossing the Rubicon" means passing a point of no return.
It's not necessarily bad, or a sign of impending doom. Just that there's no going back.
The Rubicon being in the general area of Rome, in the time of Rome.
The Maginot Line - that is a French thing.
I have the impression that the French realized that they were probably going to have to fight Germany, and they needed a CLEAR way to measure Germany's hostile intent.
They created a line of reinforced forts, bridges, roads etc. and named after some French dude.
When Germany crossed that, that was an obvious sign of hostile intent, and the signal for France to fight back.
So it was like a Rubicon, with a condition attached, such as "OK this is the part
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Maginot
Of course, Wall Street was also financing WW2 Germany.
http://tarpley.net/online-books/george-bush-the-unauthorized-biography/chapter-2-the-hitler-project/
Separate Note:
Trebitsch Lincoln - the name of the AIPAC 1920's, Hitler's first big political backer.
Who really was Trebitsch Lincoln ?
#58
Current News / News of an Immediate & Urgent Nature / Re: jews in the news for losin...
Last post by yankeedoodle - February 18, 2024, 05:40:43 PMMaybe this guy isn't a jew, but, who knows. Anyway, he's a zionist, so je's just as bad.
Lord Austin suspended by housing association over Hamas tweet
Peer receives death threats as he is hounded out of housing role
https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/lord-austin-suspended-by-housing-association-over-hamas-tweet-v3wktut5
Housing secretary Michael Gove has criticised a housing association for dropping independent peer Ian Austin as their chair after he tweeted calling Hamas a "death cult of Islamist murderers and rapists."
Gove said he was seeking an "urgent meeting and explanation" from the housing association, which receives substantial public funding.
In the now-deleted post, Lord Austin ridiculed Unwra's claim it had been unaware that Hamas was operating underneath its Gaza headquarters. He tweeted: "Everyone, better safe than sorry: before you go to bed, nip down and check you haven't inadvertently got a death cult of Islamist murderers and rapists running their operations downstairs. It's easily done."
Mend, a Muslim campaign group, claimed that the tweet was Islamophobic. Online backlash led to the peer receiving a torrent of abuse, including several death threats made on X, formerly Twitter. Social media users with red triangles in their names – a symbol used to suggest support for Hamas – have also posted a barrage of derogatory and threatening posts aimed at the peer.
Lord Austin then deleted the post. He tweeted: "It was not my intention to offend anyone and I have deleted it.
"As I have written and said many times – including in a national newspaper today – the vast majority of Muslims are just as appalled by racism and terrorism as everyone else."
Mend said that Lord Austin's original tweet contained "humiliating stereotypes" which constitute "harassment towards Muslims". The group mobilised its supporters with an "action alert" and created a "step-by-step" guide to lodge an official complaint against the peer.
The housing association Midland Heart's decision to suspend Austin followed the Mend campaign. The Birmingham-based social landlord tweeted that it had suspended Lord Austin from the board of which he was chair and arranged a meeting "to discuss his removal from the board".
In an email seen by industry publication Inside Housing, Midland Heart chief executive Glenn Harris said Lord Austin's comments were "not endorsed by Midland Hart" and that his post was "not OK" and "offended people".
The Mend campaign appeared to focus on Lord Austin's description of Hamas as "Islamist murderers".
"Islamist" is a term associated with those who advocate for Islamic fundamentalism. The term is regularly used to describe terrorist groups like Hamas and ISIS.
Lord Austin is one of Parliament's most outspoken campaigners against antisemitism. He quit the Labour Party in 2019 after condemning the antisemitism that flourished during Jeremy Corbyn's premiership.
The peer has also spoken out against the anti-Israel marches: "the people organising these marches... are not doing nearly enough to deal with the obscene racism." Speaking on Sky News last week, he said "If the only country you campaign against - the only country you want to see abolished - is the only Jewish one, don't tell me that you're not an antisemite."
On Saturday, Michael Gove said the former Labour minister "had spent his career fighting racism".
Read my response to @MidlandHeart attempting to remove @LordIanAustin from their board
Lord Austin suspended by housing association over Hamas tweet
Peer receives death threats as he is hounded out of housing role
https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/lord-austin-suspended-by-housing-association-over-hamas-tweet-v3wktut5
Housing secretary Michael Gove has criticised a housing association for dropping independent peer Ian Austin as their chair after he tweeted calling Hamas a "death cult of Islamist murderers and rapists."
Gove said he was seeking an "urgent meeting and explanation" from the housing association, which receives substantial public funding.
In the now-deleted post, Lord Austin ridiculed Unwra's claim it had been unaware that Hamas was operating underneath its Gaza headquarters. He tweeted: "Everyone, better safe than sorry: before you go to bed, nip down and check you haven't inadvertently got a death cult of Islamist murderers and rapists running their operations downstairs. It's easily done."
Mend, a Muslim campaign group, claimed that the tweet was Islamophobic. Online backlash led to the peer receiving a torrent of abuse, including several death threats made on X, formerly Twitter. Social media users with red triangles in their names – a symbol used to suggest support for Hamas – have also posted a barrage of derogatory and threatening posts aimed at the peer.
Lord Austin then deleted the post. He tweeted: "It was not my intention to offend anyone and I have deleted it.
"As I have written and said many times – including in a national newspaper today – the vast majority of Muslims are just as appalled by racism and terrorism as everyone else."
Mend said that Lord Austin's original tweet contained "humiliating stereotypes" which constitute "harassment towards Muslims". The group mobilised its supporters with an "action alert" and created a "step-by-step" guide to lodge an official complaint against the peer.
The housing association Midland Heart's decision to suspend Austin followed the Mend campaign. The Birmingham-based social landlord tweeted that it had suspended Lord Austin from the board of which he was chair and arranged a meeting "to discuss his removal from the board".
In an email seen by industry publication Inside Housing, Midland Heart chief executive Glenn Harris said Lord Austin's comments were "not endorsed by Midland Hart" and that his post was "not OK" and "offended people".
The Mend campaign appeared to focus on Lord Austin's description of Hamas as "Islamist murderers".
"Islamist" is a term associated with those who advocate for Islamic fundamentalism. The term is regularly used to describe terrorist groups like Hamas and ISIS.
Lord Austin is one of Parliament's most outspoken campaigners against antisemitism. He quit the Labour Party in 2019 after condemning the antisemitism that flourished during Jeremy Corbyn's premiership.
The peer has also spoken out against the anti-Israel marches: "the people organising these marches... are not doing nearly enough to deal with the obscene racism." Speaking on Sky News last week, he said "If the only country you campaign against - the only country you want to see abolished - is the only Jewish one, don't tell me that you're not an antisemite."
On Saturday, Michael Gove said the former Labour minister "had spent his career fighting racism".
Read my response to @MidlandHeart attempting to remove @LordIanAustin from their board
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Lauren Jauregui
https://stopantisemitism.org/as-week/lauren-jauregui/
Lauren Jauregui, the lesser-known member in the girl band sensation Fifth Harmony, has since embarked on her attempt at a solo career. However, amidst her endeavors in the music industry, Jauregui has drawn significant controversy for her vocal expressions of hateful rhetoric towards the Jewish community and propagation of harmful fallacies against the State of Israel in the name of Palestinian advocacy. This divergence into divisive discourse has stirred debate and condemnation as her statements do not aid Palestinians, but certainly targets Jews.
In the wake of the October 7th massacre, Jauregui has denied the atrocities carried out by Hamas; for example:
- On December 3, 2023, the singer claimed there were no beheaded babies and that it was all propaganda.
- The following day, Jauregui denied that Hamas sexually mutilated Israeli women. Instead, she retweeted blood libel that claims Palestinians were actively raped by Israelis.
- On December 11th, 2023, Jauregui once again denied that mass rape carried out by terrorists on October 7th.
Not only has the D-list artist denied the atrocities of October 7th, she has openly defends terrorism; for example:
- On December 3, 2023, Jauregui shared a troubling tweet which claimed, "Palestinians and Hamas have both the moral and legal right to resist the Israeli occupation regime by any means necessary."
- On December 7, 2023, the artist was moved emotionally upon hearing about Israeli soldiers capturing Hamas terrorists for their barbaric crimes committed on October 7th. She described the events as "inhumane" and was upset at the thought that the IDF might "slaughter" the terrorists.
- The following week, she defended the terror chants, "intifada" and "from the river to the sea" on the basis of "racist" tactics used against the Palestinians.
- In a similar thread, she shared, "I don't really care what Zionists think intifada means and you shouldn't either."
- On December 12, 2023, Jauregui ranted that Hamas soldiers were being targeted by a tactic of flooding the terror tunnels with sea water.
- On February 10th, the singer retweeted, "Anyone who says "Hamas started this" is willfully ignorant & complicit in genocide."
The one-time star has shared a plethora of dangerous antisemitic speech that violates the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's (IHRA) definition of antisemitism. In response to a message by former Antisemite of the Week, Marjorie Taylor Green, Jauregui states a century's old trope that suggests Israel "runs this place [America]."
Earlier this year, the singer shared a quiz https://archive.ph/O2kzf , titled, "Zionist or Nazi? Who Said It?" She also retweeted, "...You don't have to be Jewish to be a Zionist. You just have to be a racist, neocolonialist, genocidal maniac w/ total disregard for international law and human life." https://archive.ph/3wSoq She makes the outlandish claim that Zionists are "necrophiliacs" in a troubling rant filled with blood libel. https://archive.ph/vEYd3
In 2021, Lauren Jauregui departed from Columbia Records to establish her own label, Attunement Records. Presently, the company has formed a partnership with the distribution company AWAL.
Lauren Jauregui
https://stopantisemitism.org/as-week/lauren-jauregui/
Lauren Jauregui, the lesser-known member in the girl band sensation Fifth Harmony, has since embarked on her attempt at a solo career. However, amidst her endeavors in the music industry, Jauregui has drawn significant controversy for her vocal expressions of hateful rhetoric towards the Jewish community and propagation of harmful fallacies against the State of Israel in the name of Palestinian advocacy. This divergence into divisive discourse has stirred debate and condemnation as her statements do not aid Palestinians, but certainly targets Jews.
In the wake of the October 7th massacre, Jauregui has denied the atrocities carried out by Hamas; for example:
- On December 3, 2023, the singer claimed there were no beheaded babies and that it was all propaganda.
- The following day, Jauregui denied that Hamas sexually mutilated Israeli women. Instead, she retweeted blood libel that claims Palestinians were actively raped by Israelis.
- On December 11th, 2023, Jauregui once again denied that mass rape carried out by terrorists on October 7th.
Not only has the D-list artist denied the atrocities of October 7th, she has openly defends terrorism; for example:
- On December 3, 2023, Jauregui shared a troubling tweet which claimed, "Palestinians and Hamas have both the moral and legal right to resist the Israeli occupation regime by any means necessary."
- On December 7, 2023, the artist was moved emotionally upon hearing about Israeli soldiers capturing Hamas terrorists for their barbaric crimes committed on October 7th. She described the events as "inhumane" and was upset at the thought that the IDF might "slaughter" the terrorists.
- The following week, she defended the terror chants, "intifada" and "from the river to the sea" on the basis of "racist" tactics used against the Palestinians.
- In a similar thread, she shared, "I don't really care what Zionists think intifada means and you shouldn't either."
- On December 12, 2023, Jauregui ranted that Hamas soldiers were being targeted by a tactic of flooding the terror tunnels with sea water.
- On February 10th, the singer retweeted, "Anyone who says "Hamas started this" is willfully ignorant & complicit in genocide."
The one-time star has shared a plethora of dangerous antisemitic speech that violates the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's (IHRA) definition of antisemitism. In response to a message by former Antisemite of the Week, Marjorie Taylor Green, Jauregui states a century's old trope that suggests Israel "runs this place [America]."
Earlier this year, the singer shared a quiz https://archive.ph/O2kzf , titled, "Zionist or Nazi? Who Said It?" She also retweeted, "...You don't have to be Jewish to be a Zionist. You just have to be a racist, neocolonialist, genocidal maniac w/ total disregard for international law and human life." https://archive.ph/3wSoq She makes the outlandish claim that Zionists are "necrophiliacs" in a troubling rant filled with blood libel. https://archive.ph/vEYd3
In 2021, Lauren Jauregui departed from Columbia Records to establish her own label, Attunement Records. Presently, the company has formed a partnership with the distribution company AWAL.