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When university donors have a pro-Israel agenda

[email protected] March 21, 2022 academic freedom, campus watch, canary mission, israel studies, jewish studies, StandWithUs, university of washington

Jewish & Israel studies at colleges around the US owe almost the totality of their existence to Jewish donors, who then use ‘soft power’ to shape pro-Israel programs. Now they’re starting to use ‘hard power’ – Recently, after a donor who gave $5 million to endow an Israel chair at the University of Washington complained about the chair’s criticism of Israel, UW stripped the professor of her chair and the money is being transferred to an Israel advocacy organization…

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Pro-Israel groups reportedly break law, media & Congress look the other way

Alison Weir September 11, 2020 ADL, brad sherman, Chris Smith, Christians United for Israel, CUFI, David Brog, Doug Lamborn, Eliot Engel, Hasbara Fellowships, Israel Allies Caucus, Israel Allies Foundation, Jewish Council of Public Affairs, Jewish Federations of North America, juan vargas, StandWithUs, Steve Chabot

Documents obtained from the Israeli government show U.S. pro-Israel organizations secretly used Israeli money to influence US policies. Such behavior is illegal under US law. Yet, mainstream US media so far are ignoring the information, and Congress shows no interest in investigating this evidence of foreign tampering. A bipartisan Congressional caucus with 80 members is connected to one of the groups…

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American Zionists choose lies over children

Kathryn Shihadah January 23, 2020 analysis, Betty McCollum, blame the victim, child imprisonment, child soldier, child torture, defense of children international, dehumanization, Elor Azaria, Gadna, h.r.2407, human rights violation, human shield, IDF, israel defense forces, israel lobby, Mark Mellman, military camp, nation-state law, Netanyahu, NGO Monitor, no way to treat a child, nurit peled-elhanan, racism, StandWithUs, yaakov fadida, zionism, Zionist Organization of America, ZOA

A bill before Congress seeks merely to stop US aid dollars from subsidizing the incarceration and torture of Palestinian children. Pro-Israel organizations would rather believe outrageous fallacies than stand up for these kids’ rights.

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Leaked: Pro-Israel Lobby Groups Secretly Admit BDS Is Effective

[email protected] December 14, 2018 ali abunimaj, BDS, cultural boycott, StandWithUs, zionism

Ali Abunimah discusses a leaked report from Creative Community for Peace (CCFP), a front for Israel government-backed lobby group StandWithUs, which admits the cultural boycott is “constantly growing” and “innovative”.

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NYT: A New Wave of Democrats Tests the Party’s Blanket Support for Israel

[email protected] October 8, 2018 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ammar Campa-Najjar, Andrew Gillum, chuck schumer, Dima Khalidi, Duncan Hunter, Gene Green, Ilhan Omar, Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, Leslie Cockburn, Palestine Legal, political candidates, Rashida Tlaib, Republican Jewish Coalition, Ron DeSantis, Ron Halber, Scott Wallace, StandWithUs

New York Times reports that a cluster of activist Democrats — most of them young, most of them cruising toward House seats this fall — has dared to breach what has been an almost inviolable orthodoxy in both political parties, strong support for Israel, raising the specter of a crack in the Democratic Party that Republicans could use to attract Jewish supporters.

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