The American Muslim defense organization, CAIR, published a new account of Islamophobia in America, Islamophobia in the Mainstream. It reports that wealthy US foundations gave $105-million between 2017-2019 to hate groups with an Islamophobic agenda. It examined the 50 largest US foundations and focussed on 35 which gave the funds to 26 organizations. Among the […]
Jewish Foundations Support Islamophobia at Home, Settler Triumphalism Abroad
Most Jewish foundations support the equivalent of Bubbeh’s chicken soup: Israel, synagogues, youth groups, Jewish education, Jewish studies programs, etc. But over the past ten years or so, as the ideological battle within Israel has intensified with a rightward nationalist drift, a number of foundations have led a drive toward the increasing politicization of Jewish […]
Glenn Beck at ZOA Dinner: ’18 Months to Save World, I Know How to Do It’
Mort Klein and ZOA provide endless enjoyment for anyone with an acute political satiric sense. Take their latest fundraising gala last night covered by Haaretz. There was so much to delight in, I hardly know where to start. Why don’t we begin with the Bar Ilan University professor, who boasted that his Orthodox institution was the only remaining […]
Israeli Settler MK to Huckabee: ‘We’re Connected to This Land No Less Than Your Indians’
Mike Huckabee and Israel’s radical settler movement are almost always fodder for a good laugh. I thank Ofer Neiman for providing one in the form of an Arutz Sheva article, in which settler MK Nissim Zeev brags about his friendship with Mike Huckabee, who he brought to Israel and hosted last week. Among the other […]
