Target Israel: George Soros-Funded Groups Leading BDS War on Jewish State
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TEL AVIV — Financing tied to billionaire activist George Soros is a common yet largely under-reported theme among organizations that lead or support the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign attempting to delegitimize the Jewish state.
In January, Israel released a list of 20 BDS-supporting organizations whose members will be banned from entering Israel due to their BDS activism, prominently featuring six American groups. At least four of the six BDS-promoting U.S. groups receive funding tied to Soros. Scores of other U.S. organizations that support the BDS movement are financed by Soros.
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a central proponent of anti-Israel BDS activism on college campuses and in churches, boasting a mission that exclaims active support for “boycott and divestment campaigns that target companies complicit in the occupation.”
AFSC has been financed by Soros’s Open Society Foundations as well as the Soros-funded Tides Foundation.
Tides is a central funding hub that distributes donor funds to far-left organizations. Indeed, Tides is one of the nation’s biggest funders of progressive organizations.
AFSC helped lead the campaign demanding divestment from Hewlett Packard and Sodastream due to the companies’ Israel branches.
AFSC works hand in hand with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), which is notorious for its anti-Israel crusade on college campuses, where the group peddles the BDS movement. AFSC and SJP are both featured on Israel’s list of six banned U.S.-based BDS-promoting organizations.
Students for Justice in Palestine, in turn, receives legal help for its work from an organization called Palestine Legal. Palestine Legal was created for the express purpose of “stand[ing] for justice in Palestine” and defending BDS.
Palestine Legal’s website advertises that it is a “fiscally sponsored project of the Tides Center.” The Tides Center is a subsidiary entity of the Soros-funded Tides Foundation.
Students for Justice in Palestine, meanwhile, regularly partners with the BDS-supporting, radical Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), another group banned in Israel over its BDS activities. JVP does not disclose most of its donors, but it has reportedly been funded by the Soros-financed Tides Foundation.
Also banned from entering Israel over BDS activism is the radical CODEPINK organization, which has been financed by the Soros-funded Tides Foundation and is well known for its disruptive protest antics.
Soros, BDS and ‘Challenging Israel’
Aside from organizations whose principal mission centers on BDS, scores of other major Soros-financed organizations form the nexus of so-called progressive groups that support BDS in the U.S.
Hacked emails from Soros’s Open Society Foundations revealed an objective aimed at “challenging Israel’s racist and anti-democratic policies in the international arena” and “influencing EU-Israel bilateral negotiations.”
The heavily Soros-financed American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has been leading the legal opposition to proposed state and federal anti-BDS legislation. Numerous prominent Democrats, including Senators Kirsten Gillibrand, Bernie Sanders and Dianne Feinstein, have cited ACLU arguments to justify their public opposition to pro-Israel, anti-BDS bills.
Soros’s Open Society donated $50 million to the ACLU.
The Soros-funded MoveOn.org, a far-left political action committee, has called on its large following to oppose anti-BDS legislation. Besides direct funding from Soros’s Open Society Foundations, MoveOn.org is also financed by the Soros-funded Tides Foundation. Another significant MoveOn.org donor is the Soros-funded Ploughshares Fund.
On Friday, the Women’s March released a document for the first time outlining the anti-Trump group’s policy platform and broad goals. The document explicitly cites an agenda that includes opposing anti-BDS legislation.
Soros reportedly gave some $246 million to partners of the Women’s March. Indeed, as Breitbart News reported, many of the March “partners” are financed by Soros, including: Sierra Club, Amnesty International, MoveOn.org, NAACP, Green For All, Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights Watch, MoveOn.org, NARAL Pro-Choice, People for the American Way and Planned Parenthood.
Meanwhile, the Soros-funded Black Lives Matter has also participated in pro-BDS activism. When it released its wide-ranging, socialist-style platform in 2016, Black Lives Matter officially endorsed BDS and pledged to “fight the expanding number of anti-BDS bills being passed in states around the country.”
During the latest gubernatorial race in Florida, Democratic candidate Andrew Gillum came under fire for his deep ties to Dream Defenders, a radical group that is active in promoting BDS. Breitbart News reported that Dream Defenders organized a flash mob in Israel to officially endorse the BDS movement against the Jewish state. Dream Defenders founder Phillip Agnew is a graduate of the youth training program at the George Soros-financed People for the American Way, a program led at the time of Agnew’s attendance by Gillum himself.
Dream Defenders’ January 2015 delegation and flash mob in Israel to officially endorse BDS was also led by Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of the Soros-funded Black Lives Matter, and Charlene Carruthers, national director of the Black Youth Project 100. The Black Youth Project is financed by Soros’s Open Society Foundations.
In Israel, one group that has faced controversy over its BDS stance is the New Israel Fund (NIF), which finances scores of organizations critical of Israeli policy. Hacked emails document Soros’ Open Society Foundations provided the NIF with at least $837,500 from 2002 to 2015. Breitbart News further found that NIF’s 2015 annual report lists the Soros-funded Tides Foundation as a donor.
On its website, NIF explains that it “does oppose the global (or general) BDS movement,” but supports groups “that lawfully discourage the purchase of goods or use of services from settlements.” In other words, NIF supports BDS activities that target Israeli settlements.
Soros: ‘The main stumbling block is Israel’
In his few public comments on the matter, Soros himself has made clear he is not a supporter of the Jewish state.
The billionaire set the tone for his personal Israel views when he told the New Yorker’s Connie Bruck as part of a 1995 profile: “I don’t deny the Jews their right to a national existence — but I don’t want to be part of it.”
In February 2011, Soros penned a rare oped in the Washington Post in which the billionaire activist advocated support for the so-called Arab Spring in which scores of Muslim Brotherhood-allied groups stood to gain, including in Egypt with the downfall of the pro-U.S. regime of Hosni Mubarak. Soros singled out Israel as “the main stumbling block” against the insurgencies across the Middle East.
He wrote:
The main stumbling block is Israel. In reality, Israel has as much to gain from the spread of democracy in the Middle East as the United States has. But Israel is unlikely to recognize its own best interests because the change is too sudden and carries too many risks.
Soros celebrated that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the bipartisan pro-Israel group, “is no longer monolithic or the sole representative of the Jewish community.”
Indeed, AIPAC’s role in the political arena has been challenged by the Soros-funded J Street, which has taken controversial lines critical of Israeli policy and supports the Obama-led international nuclear accord with Iran that is strongly opposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
Aaron Klein is Breitbart’s Jerusalem bureau chief and senior investigative reporter. He is a New York Times bestselling author and hosts the popular weekend talk radio program, “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio.” Follow him on Twitter @AaronKleinShow. Follow him on Facebook.
GEORGE S OROS AND THE CLINTON GLOBALIST AGENDA FOR BANKSTERS AND WIDEOPEN BORDERS
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NEW YORK — Demand Justice, an organization founded by former members of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and associated with a “social welfare organization” financed by billionaire activist George S oros, is raising money for an eventual court fight against what the group describes as President Trump’s proposed “racist, unnecessary wall.”
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“Obama would declare himself president for life with S oros really running the show, as he did for the entire Obama presidency.”
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“Hillary was always small potatoes, a placeholder as it were. Her health was always suspect. And do you think the plotters would have let a doofus like Tim Kaine take office in the event that Hillary became disabled?”
GLOBALIST BARACK OBAMA AND NANCY PELOSI’S CONSPRICY TO SABOTAGE HOMELAND SECURITY AND KEEP AMERICA FLOODED WITH DEM VOTING ILLEGALS
"Along with Obama, Pelosi and Schumer are responsible for incalculable damage done to this country over the eight years of that administration." PATRICIA McCARTHY
“One of the most disgusting things to come out of the Obama administration was "Operation Fast and Furious," where members of the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) allowed illegal gun sales to go through – commonly referred to as "gun walking" – in order to track buyers and sellers they believed were connected to the Mexican drug cartels. Nearly 2,000 firearms were sold and were eventually found throughout the United States and Mexico. Two of them were used to kill Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.” BETH BAUMANN
Bill
And Hillary Tour Underwhelms In Ticket Sales, Attendance
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Bill
And Hillary Tour Underwhelms In Ticket Sales, Attendance
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/12/01/bill-hillary-tour-underwhelms-ticket-sales-attendance/
Bill
and Hillary Clinton have taken their show on the road. Ticket sales for “An
Evening with the Clintons” are not what they once might have been, according to
all reports. With stops deliberately booked in what are assumed to be
Clinton-friendly cities, the aging power couple seems to be having trouble
filling seats.
It’s
not exactly a whirlwind tour. The schedule is downright lethargic in the
beginning. The first stop on November 27 was in Toronto, Canada with a stop the
next night in Montreal. The next stop on
the schedule is
Houston on December 4. In light of the passing of former President George H.W.
Bush, that date may be canceled or changed. But, that’s all there is to the
tour until 2019. They start back up in April 2019 in New York City and continue
through May, ending in Las Vegas on May 5. Does anyone else think it’s odd
that a former U.S. president and a former Secretary of State began a
self-promoting tour in Canada? Maybe it’s just me.
The
venue in Toronto only sold 3,300 tickets. Whole sections of the arena were
empty. I checked the website for ticket prices and for
the Houston stop, the cheap seats go for $15.00 and the most expensive ticket
price I could find was $1146.00. That’s a real bargain, especially
compared to the book tour events (it’s not just a book tour, they are events)
scheduled for former First Lady Michelle Obama. The high-end prices for the Michelle tour go for $10,000. That is
what I found and it’s not a stop in Houston but in Dallas at the American
Airlines Center. The Clinton venue in Houston is smaller.
Anyway,
you won’t be surprised to read that a good bit of the Clinton question and
answer conversation centers around her bitterness toward President Trump. He
lives rent-free in her head.
And
the former secretary of state was prepared to mock Trump’s interview with the
Washington Post just hours after it published, shaking her head at Trump
telling the paper “my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else’s brain can
ever tell me.”
You “literally you can’t make
this stuff up,” she said. “A dozen times a day your head is spinning.”< And
near the end of the event, Hillary Clinton returned to Trump's gut, criticizing
him for saying he does not "believe" a recently released dire
government report on climate change. "It just riles me up," she said.
"If you won't listen to people who actually spend time over decades
studying problems, my goodness, your gut is not the answer to everything that
is important in the world, I'm sorry."
The
tour comes at a time when speculation is strong on whether or not Hillary will
actually make another attempt at a presidential run. She joked about standing
for Parliament in Canada when asked about any plans to run but you know she’s
thinking about. I don’t think she ever stops thinking about it. She’s consumed
with anger that Donald Trump won. While the next generation of Democrats is
ready to move up, the Clintons (especially Hillary) refuse to leave the stage.
It’s no wonder ticket sales are slow. Why would anyone pay money to listen to
them when almost any day an interview or quote is available in print or on
television? It’s not like either of them are saying anything new.
Also,
there’s the re-emergence of Monica Lewinsky. She’s been telling her story after
all these years. Don’t expect either Clinton to be asked about that whole
scandal, though. It’s not happening. The former horndog-in-chief
still gets a pass on the difficult questions.
But the kickoff comes at a
tenuous time for the Clintons: Not only is their standing in the Democratic
Party in question after neither was particularly prolific during the midterms,
but the event comes amid a renewed focus on Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica
Lewinsky, a moment in history that has gained more attention recently because
of a multi-part series on the affair on A&E and other retrospectives. The
Lewinsky affair and other allegations against of sexual impropriety Bill
Clinton are also being re-examined in the light of the #MeToo era.
One topic that Hillary is quick
to criticize President Trump on is his relationship with Saudia Arabia. It’s
ironic given the Clinton Foundation’s refusal to state that they will no longer
accept financial donations from
The Kingdom as others have.
“We
have a president who is part of the cover-up as to what happened in that
consulate or embassy when Mr. Khashoggi was murdered,” Clinton said. “And we
have a president and those closest to him who have their own personal
commercial interests.”
But the Clinton Foundation, to
which donations declined dramatically after Clinton’s 2016 defeat, has taken
multi-million dollar contributions from Saudi Arabia in the past and isn’t
ruling out continuing to accept them.
The
Clinton Foundation accepted between
$10 and $25 million from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with donations coming as
late as 2014. A now-defunct group named “Friends of Saudi Arabia,” which was
reportedly co-founded by a Saudi Prince and often worked as a PR front for the
kingdom, also donated between $1 and $5 million.
Implying
corruption about the sitting president in business dealings is probably not the
best idea. She and her husband have a legacy
of corruption. She
should just sit that conversation out.
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