Pro-Israel Group's Money Trail Veers Hard Right in Attacks on American Jews »
Posted By hyperbola 1 month, 4 weeks ago in ReligionStandWithUs - an "organization that ensures that Israel's side of the story is told" - has become increasingly aggressive in challenging the "pro-Israel" credentials of moderate Jewish-American groups....
....investigation into the tax records of the donors to StandWithUs, which professes to be ideologically neutral, found a web of funders who support organizations that have been accused of anti-Muslim propaganda and encouraging a militant Israeli and US foreign policy in the Middle East.
Some of these organizations have tied the origins of Palestinian nationalism to Nazi ideology, and suggested that a vast Muslim conspiracy -- in a similar vein to the anti-Semitic Protocols of the Elders of Zion -- is mobilizing to undermine the US constitution and impose Sharia law.
...MJ Rosenberg, a senior fellow at Media Matters for America, a research center that monitors "conservative misinformation" in the media, told IPS, "These are essentially opponents of the peace process who believe the only way to support Israel is to oppose a diplomatic solution to the conflict."
...The biggest donors to StandWithUs since 2005, according to a search of publicly available tax returns, were foundations controlled by Susan Wexner, who has contributed more than $850,000 to the group.
Wexner's family founded The Limited, which currently operates such well-known brands as Victoria's Secret, Bath & Body Works, Henri Bendel, C. O. Bigelow, The White Barn Candle Company and La Senza.
Wexner also made contributions to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD).
MEMRI describes itself as "bridging the language gap which exists between the West and the Middle East, providing timely translations of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu-Pashtu media, as well as original analysis of political, ideological, intellectual, social, cultural and religious trends in the Middle East."
Critics say the group is a propaganda outlet, and accuse it of mistranslation and overstating the prevalence of anti-Semitism in Middle East media.
"My problem with MEMRI is that it poses as a research institute when it's basically a propaganda operation," wrote the Middle East editor for the Guardian, Brian Whittaker, in an email debate with MEMRI President Yigal Carmon.
"As with all propaganda, that involves a certain amount of dishonesty and deception. The items you translate are chosen largely to suit your political agenda. They are unrepresentative and give an unfair picture of the Arab media as a whole."
The executive director of StandWithUs, Roz Rothstein, responded to IPS, "MEMRI is used by every news publication on the planet. People don't look at MEMRI as right-wing. It's just verbatim Arabic translation. They've never been cited for inaccurate translation."
In 2007, CNN correspondent Atika Shubert and Arabic translators accused MEMRI of mistranslating portions of a Palestinian children's television program.
"Media watchdog MEMRI translates one caller as saying -- quote -- 'We will annihilate the Jews,'" said Shubert. "But, according to several Arabic speakers used by CNN, the caller actually says 'The Jews are killing us.'"
CAMERA, another media watchdog group, has caught criticism for denying reliable reports of settlement expansions, leading the executive director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Donald Wagner, to describe CAMERA as "a well-known source of extremist pro-Israel propaganda that is routinely challenged by Israeli and international human rights and peace organizations for its consistent misrepresentation of the facts in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies is a policy institute "founded shortly after 9/11 by a group of visionary philanthropists and policymakers to support the defense of democratic societies under assault by terrorism and militant Islamism," according to its website.
However, the group has frequently been cited for pushing a hawkish US foreign policy in Iraq and Iran, and The Christian Science Monitor called it one of the "top neocon think tanks."...
...Neoconservatives and other members of the far-right came into direct conflict with J Street in May 2008 when J Street issued a statement calling on Republican presidential candidate John McCain to "renounce John Hagee once and for all."
Many Jews took offense with Hagee's characterization of Hitler as doing God's work by helping to bring Jews to Israel to fulfill Biblical prophesy, and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) found itself in the difficult position of fighting to keep its pro-Israel credentials while not severing its valuable ties to the Christian-Zionist movement and the Christian Right.
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hyperbola1 month, 4 weeks ago
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Amongst other information about corrupt racist "israel-first" oligarchs, this article contains a useful list of companies, products and people that you as an individual should consider boycotting.
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As for our government, it is long past time to put these kinds of organizations out of business as supporters of racist terrorism. -
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Thinker221 month, 4 weeks ago
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> If you are not 105% pro Israel then you are called a Jew hater or compared to Hitler. Anyone who believes that all people are created equal is called anti Semitic.
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These are lies, "Justice"... We both know it, don't we?
If, however, you do not think that your statement above is a series of lies you'll have no troubles to find a couple of statements saying that "anyone who believes that all people are created equal is anti Semitic"...
Please consider that a NO ANSWER to this request will be considered an answer as well meaning "there are no such statements and my claim saying that there were was A LIE."
Normally, I wound expect a person who produced one or more lies to apologize for these lies. As the experience with you, Dionys and several other "pro-Palestinians" here shows it is futile to expect apologies for lies from you.
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Justice4All1 month, 4 weeks ago
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Watch Bill Maher's movie "Religioulus". Watch toward the end where he confronts Jews who are not Zionists. The runs them down and won't even let them speak. Bill is very nasty toward them.
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Zionists are very intolerant of any Jew who is not 100% with them.-
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hyperbola1 month, 3 weeks ago
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Actually racism seems to be produced intrinsically by zionism. A not unexpected consequence of the "ideology" that calling yourself a jew (which pseudo-jewish zionists really are not) and armed with the shriek of "anti-semite", any crime against humanity is legtimate. Even in Israel jews begin to suffer from the racism of extremists engendered by such ideology.
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"Racial Purity" Policies in Israel are a Disgrace
The manifestations of formal racism in Israel have become reminiscent of the black days of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, when the authorities decided that only a Catholic could be a Spaniard.....
http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/10/24/quotraci...
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