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Israeli fifth column in Virginia funnels resources to Israel

[email protected] April 20, 2020 analysis, Commonwealth of Virginia, Eric Cantor, Haim Saban, israel lobby, J.B. Pritzker, VIAB, Virginia Israel Advisory Authority

By Philip Giraldi: The Virginia Israel Advisory Board is little more than a mechanism set up to carry out licensed robbery of Virginia state resources being run by a cabal of local Jewish Americans and Israelis to benefit their co-religionists in Israel. The VIAB is actually part of the Virginia state government. It is funded by the Commonwealth of Virginia and is able to access funds from other government agencies to support Israeli businesses. It is staffed by Israelis and Jewish Americans drawn from what has been described as the ‘Israel advocacy ecosystem.’ Many of the Israeli companies are located on land stolen from Palestinians in the West Bank; they are illegal under international law…

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Election of 3 Israel critics to Congress is historic, but many new Dems are committed to Israel

[email protected] November 7, 2018 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, BDS, Brian Fitzpatrick, Denver Riggleman., Ilhan Omar, J.B. Pritzker, Max Rose, Mikie Sherrill, Rashida Tlaib, Tom Malinowski

The good news: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib are Israel-criticizing congressional newcomers. The bad news: other Dem midterm winners join the army of Israel supporters – having vowed to keep America’s commitment to Israel “as fixed and as permanent as the sky” and “make sure that we are supporting Israel into the next generation.” In addition, some key leadership positions will be filled by pro-Israel Jews. Norman Finkelstein sees this as a sign of “a growing divide between US Jews and Israeli Jews.”

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