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How Pro-Israel Fanatics Have Teamed up with Right-Wing Operatives to Crush
Free Speech on Campus
By Max Blumenthal [1], Julia Carmel [2] / AlterNet [3]
October 11, 2015
This is part four of a four-part investigation. Read parts one [4], two [5]
and three [6].
At a Texas Retreat convened last June by long-time neoconservative agitator
David Horowitz [5], a baby-faced operative named Charlie Kirk outlined an
"undercover, underground plan" to "control student funding," "censor
professors" and "get rid of free speech zones." His plan focused on
channeling right-wing money into a full-bore attack on the grassroots
movement to boycott, sanction, and divest from Israel as a means to pressure
the country into respecting Palestinian human rights, known as BDS. The BDS
movement has spread across US campuses and European capitals since it was
devised by Palestinian civil society groups in 2005.
Described [7] by the National Journal as "the future of the conservative
movement," the 21-year-old Kirk is rapidly emerging as one the most
influential right-wing campus organizers. Speaking before an audience of
hundreds of conservative activists in a hotel ballroom in Dallas, Kirk laid
out a strikingly authoritarian vision to systematically eradicate
progressive political culture from American universities.
"What we're doing in states like California, Massachusetts and New York, is
we're starting...a rather undercover, underground operation that is designed
for one purpose only," Kirk explained. "And that is to run -- and win --
Student Government Association races the same way we look at Congressional
campaigns. If we can successfully retake the student governments...on these
really, really far left campuses such as UC-Irvine, UCLA, and we run the
student government association races with the same money, time, energy and
resources [as] we do a Congressional campaign, then we can start to see...an
effective, neutralizing factor on these campuses. You can control student
funding, you can censor professors, you can get rid of free speech zones,
you can then balance the curriculum, you then can use your student
government post as a bully pulpit."
Kirk pointed to BDS as a key target of his surreptitious takeover plan. "Who
here has heard of BDS?" Kirk asked his audience, prompting a chorus of
groans. "Every BDS resolution is passed because of student
governments...They use student government associations to push this radical
agenda on to these campuses.The only vulnerability there is, the only
opening, is student government associations races and elections, and we're
investing a lot of time and energy and money in it. And you'd be amazed. If
you spend $5,000 on a [student government] race, you can win. You could
retake a whole college or university -- we did it at Arizona State
University."
(Video of Kirk's appearance was mysteriously removed from David Horowitz
Freedom Center's Vimeo account. The authors of this article had previously
downloaded the video, which has been re-uploaded here [8].)
While Kirk is not active within the Israel lobby, he has participated in
Horowitz's "Jew Hatred on Campus" campaign alongside the young zealots being
prepared for future leadership roles. Last March, he appeared on a panel at
Horowitz's West Coast Retreat beside Daniel Mael and Chloe Valdary, two of
the lobby's most extensively groomed figures. Presenting himself as a
seasoned operator, Kirk alluded to a project that he was working on with the
David Horowitz Freedom Center to wage a slash-and-burn campaign against
left-wing college activists online through social media.
(Less than a day after the video of this panel at Horowitz's West Coast
Retreat appeared on the David Horowitz Freedom Center's Vimeo page, and just
hours after Valdary promoted it on Facebook, the video was inexplicably
removed. We were unable to download it at the time.)
According to the National Journal, Kirk has raised $1 million from
right-wing donors "enthralled by his conservative promise." And he has
already pledged to spend a chunk of it to defeat BDS on campus through his
"underground" plan. His funding will inevitably bolster the growing nexus
between campus pro-Israel activism and the College Republicans. Whether or
not Kirk is playing a role in the malicious blacklisting website Canary
Mission, his participation in Horowitz's "Jew Hatred" initiative and stated
interest in defeating BDS on campus highlight the growing bond between the
conservative movement and the Israel lobby.
If there is any single figure responsible for fusing the Israel lobby with
the Republican Party, it is Sheldon Adelson. The 82-year-old casino baron,
who is the single biggest contributor of political funds to Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is also one of the largest individual
contributors to the Republican Party, giving him enormous potential
influence over its presidential primary campaign. In 2012, Adelson shelled
out [9] $150 million to defeat President Obama, dumping dark money into
Republican Super PAC's while funding a negative ad blitz. Over three years
later, after Obama managed the historic passage of the Iran nuclear deal,
Adelson and his allies are turning their attention to American campuses
where Palestine solidarity activism is a thriving movement.
"You no longer have to worry about financing"
In June, the Israel lobby's top right-wing activists convened [10] at
Adelson's Venetian Luxury Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. The
organizations they represented included CAMERA, Christians United for Israel
(CUFI), Daniel Pipes' Middle East Forum, the virulently Islamophobic Clarion
Fund, and the Washington Free Beacon, a neoconservative online journal whose
defamatory and frequently baseless articles attacking [11] college students
involved in Palestine solidarity activism have also served as blueprints for
Canary Mission's dossiers. In all, fifty right-wing pro-Israel groups were
represented at Adelson's resort, regaling a coterie of twenty ultra-Zionist
donors with their plans for crushing BDS on campus. As a fee for entering
the gathering, each wealthy backer was required to pledge at least $1
million in donations over the next two years.
Pro-Israel lobbyists emerged from the gathering with a whopping $50 million
in pledges for anti-BDS efforts. "You work together and we will raise you
the money," one of the major donors, Adam Milstein, assured [12] his new
beneficiaries after the meeting in Las Vegas. "You no longer have to worry
about financing and fundraising. You just need to be united."
An Israeli-American real estate baron convicted [13] of tax evasion, Tuvia
"Adam" Milstein was exposed [14] in 2014 for funneling donations to UCLA
student government candidates who personally pledged "to make sure that UCLA
will maintains [sic] its allegiance to Israel." He colluded further with
UCLA Hillel -- the base of the major pro-Israel organizations on campus --
to develop "an ongoing strategy to delegitimize and discredit" any student
organizations that support divestment.
While Adelson and Milstein typically support outfits operating on the
right-wing of the political spectrum, one of the Democratic Party's most
powerful individual donors, Israeli-American tycoon Haim Saban, seemed eager
to throw his financial weight behind their initiative. A Beverly Hills-based
billionaire who earned much of his fortune by selling the Fox Family
franchise to Walt Disney, Saban is so determined to control the narrative
around Israel-Palestine that he previously considered purchasing the Los
Angeles Times and transforming it into a pro-Israel propaganda organ. Last
year, Saban and Adelson openly mulled [15] buying the New York Times, in
order to shift the Times' editorial line closer to the Israeli government's
rightist agenda.
"I'm a one issue guy and my issue is Israel," Saban said.
To advance his single-minded goal, Saban has made himself one of the most
significant individual contributors to the Democratic Party. His generous
donations to Obama's presidential campaigns secured an appointment [16] as
special US representative to the 2012 United Nations General Assembly for
his wife, former pop singer and Playboy "Disco Queens"
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/6457/morphed [17] model
Cheryl Saban. A frequent White House guest during Bill Clinton's presidency,
Saban has been an aggressive supporter of Hillary Clinton and mega-donor to
the Clinton Foundation. His millions have funded [18] the construction of
the Democratic National Committee headquarters and the Saban Center for
Middle East Policy at Washington's Brookings Institute.
This year, as Saban mobilized to back Hillary Clinton's second bid for the
White House, he was forced to turn his attention to a more urgent concern:
The BDS campaign that hadstripped [19] his Israeli Partner corporation of
the right to use the brand of French-based Orange telecommunications. Seated
beside Adelson's on stage at the casino baron's Las Vegas anti-BDS
conference, Saban openly panicked about BDS, warning of "an anti-Semitic
tsunami coming at us."
Saban called for an initiative to punish corporations that refused to work
inside Israel or the territories it occupies through military force: "Any
company that chooses to boycott business in Israel is going to look at this
case, and once we're done they're going to think twice whether they want to
take on Israel or not," Saban declared. "Trust me, this is just the
beginning."
Saban's expressions of panic elicited a letter [20] from Hillary Clinton in
which she promised to "make countering BDS a priority." Next to her
signature was a handwritten note of assurance from Clinton: "Looking forward
to working with you on this."
This October, however, Saban suddenly withdrew his support from the anti-BDS
campaign headed by Adelson. "He didn't like that Adelson was pushing the
group towards funding right-wing groups that are only speaking in a
right-wing echo chamber - and not towards pushing a message that would
actually change hearts and minds," a pro-Israel lobbyist told [21]Nathan
Guttman of the Forward.
Pro-Israel money is flowing disproportionately into the coffers of
right-wing groups that are not only determined to obstruct Palestine
solidarity efforts, but which are organizing on firmly partisan lines. The
initiative devised at Adelson's casino last June is a prime example: Its
first administrative hire was David Brog [22], the Executive Director of the
Christians United For Israel organization that supports the Israeli
settlement enterprise and whose almost evangelical Republican membership
advances the End Times as the solution to the Israel-Palestine crisis. And
the national student network he would preside over was named the "Campus
Maccabees."
"With strength, determination, and unity, the Campus Maccabees will unite
the best pro-Israel organizations, reverse the rising tide of anti-Semitism
on our campuses, and succeed in the battle against the hate groups that seek
Israel's destruction," Adelson proclaimed in a press release [23], embracing
David Horowitz's directive to paint Students for Justice in Palestine as a
"hate group."
For those familiar with Jewish history, the name of Adelson's newfangled
initiative contains striking resonances. The Maccabees were first and second
century BCE religious zealots who slaughtered, forcibly converted and
circumcised fellow Jews who attempted to assimilate into the Seleucid
Empire's Hellenistic culture. Once the Maccabees secured power through
disproportionate force, retaking the Temple and smashing the empire's idols,
they imposed a draconian theocratic order on their subjects. Mythologized
[24] in the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, the Maccabees became heroes of the
early Zionists who colonized historic Palestine.
The inauguration of the Campus Maccabees offers a massive cash infusion to
the expansion of the movement of which Canary Mission appears to be a pilot
project. With unprecedented resources, these hardline elements are expanding
their campaign beyond fighting BDS in order to castigate [25] liberal
pro-Israel groups that supported Obama's Iran deal such as J Street.
As the bipartisan consensus that once underlined pro-Israel organizing
becomes a relic of the past, some campus activists are beginning to worry
that the Israel lobby has crossed the line. "The pro-Israel community is
increasingly being perceived as right-wing fanatics," complained [26] Justin
Hayet, a star of the Crossing the Line propaganda film series produced by
the Aish-affiliated Jerusalem U [27]. "If we let that stigma perpetuate,
fighting BDS on campus will become increasingly challenging."
Max Blumenthal is a senior writer for AlterNet, and the award-winning author
of Goliath [28] and Republican Gomorrah [29]. Find him on Twitter at
@MaxBlumenthal [30].
Julia Carmel is a freelance writer. You can find her on Twitter at
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How Pro-Israel Fanatics Have Teamed up with Right-Wing Operatives to Crush
Free Speech on Campus
By Max Blumenthal [1], Julia Carmel [2] / AlterNet [3]
October 11, 2015
This is part four of a four-part investigation. Read parts one [4], two [5]
and three [6].
At a Texas Retreat convened last June by long-time neoconservative agitator
David Horowitz [5], a baby-faced operative named Charlie Kirk outlined an
"undercover, underground plan" to "control student funding," "censor
professors" and "get rid of free speech zones." His plan focused on
channeling right-wing money into a full-bore attack on the grassroots
movement to boycott, sanction, and divest from Israel as a means to pressure
the country into respecting Palestinian human rights, known as BDS. The BDS
movement has spread across US campuses and European capitals since it was
devised by Palestinian civil society groups in 2005.
Described [7] by the National Journal as "the future of the conservative
movement," the 21-year-old Kirk is rapidly emerging as one the most
influential right-wing campus organizers. Speaking before an audience of
hundreds of conservative activists in a hotel ballroom in Dallas, Kirk laid
out a strikingly authoritarian vision to systematically eradicate
progressive political culture from American universities.
"What we're doing in states like California, Massachusetts and New York, is
we're starting...a rather undercover, underground operation that is designed
for one purpose only," Kirk explained. "And that is to run -- and win --
Student Government Association races the same way we look at Congressional
campaigns. If we can successfully retake the student governments...on these
really, really far left campuses such as UC-Irvine, UCLA, and we run the
student government association races with the same money, time, energy and
resources [as] we do a Congressional campaign, then we can start to see...an
effective, neutralizing factor on these campuses. You can control student
funding, you can censor professors, you can get rid of free speech zones,
you can then balance the curriculum, you then can use your student
government post as a bully pulpit."
Kirk pointed to BDS as a key target of his surreptitious takeover plan. "Who
here has heard of BDS?" Kirk asked his audience, prompting a chorus of
groans. "Every BDS resolution is passed because of student
governments...They use student government associations to push this radical
agenda on to these campuses.The only vulnerability there is, the only
opening, is student government associations races and elections, and we're
investing a lot of time and energy and money in it. And you'd be amazed. If
you spend $5,000 on a [student government] race, you can win. You could
retake a whole college or university -- we did it at Arizona State
University."
(Video of Kirk's appearance was mysteriously removed from David Horowitz
Freedom Center's Vimeo account. The authors of this article had previously
downloaded the video, which has been re-uploaded here [8].)
While Kirk is not active within the Israel lobby, he has participated in
Horowitz's "Jew Hatred on Campus" campaign alongside the young zealots being
prepared for future leadership roles. Last March, he appeared on a panel at
Horowitz's West Coast Retreat beside Daniel Mael and Chloe Valdary, two of
the lobby's most extensively groomed figures. Presenting himself as a
seasoned operator, Kirk alluded to a project that he was working on with the
David Horowitz Freedom Center to wage a slash-and-burn campaign against
left-wing college activists online through social media.
(Less than a day after the video of this panel at Horowitz's West Coast
Retreat appeared on the David Horowitz Freedom Center's Vimeo page, and just
hours after Valdary promoted it on Facebook, the video was inexplicably
removed. We were unable to download it at the time.)
According to the National Journal, Kirk has raised $1 million from
right-wing donors "enthralled by his conservative promise." And he has
already pledged to spend a chunk of it to defeat BDS on campus through his
"underground" plan. His funding will inevitably bolster the growing nexus
between campus pro-Israel activism and the College Republicans. Whether or
not Kirk is playing a role in the malicious blacklisting website Canary
Mission, his participation in Horowitz's "Jew Hatred" initiative and stated
interest in defeating BDS on campus highlight the growing bond between the
conservative movement and the Israel lobby.
If there is any single figure responsible for fusing the Israel lobby with
the Republican Party, it is Sheldon Adelson. The 82-year-old casino baron,
who is the single biggest contributor of political funds to Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is also one of the largest individual
contributors to the Republican Party, giving him enormous potential
influence over its presidential primary campaign. In 2012, Adelson shelled
out [9] $150 million to defeat President Obama, dumping dark money into
Republican Super PAC's while funding a negative ad blitz. Over three years
later, after Obama managed the historic passage of the Iran nuclear deal,
Adelson and his allies are turning their attention to American campuses
where Palestine solidarity activism is a thriving movement.
"You no longer have to worry about financing"
In June, the Israel lobby's top right-wing activists convened [10] at
Adelson's Venetian Luxury Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. The
organizations they represented included CAMERA, Christians United for Israel
(CUFI), Daniel Pipes' Middle East Forum, the virulently Islamophobic Clarion
Fund, and the Washington Free Beacon, a neoconservative online journal whose
defamatory and frequently baseless articles attacking [11] college students
involved in Palestine solidarity activism have also served as blueprints for
Canary Mission's dossiers. In all, fifty right-wing pro-Israel groups were
represented at Adelson's resort, regaling a coterie of twenty ultra-Zionist
donors with their plans for crushing BDS on campus. As a fee for entering
the gathering, each wealthy backer was required to pledge at least $1
million in donations over the next two years.
Pro-Israel lobbyists emerged from the gathering with a whopping $50 million
in pledges for anti-BDS efforts. "You work together and we will raise you
the money," one of the major donors, Adam Milstein, assured [12] his new
beneficiaries after the meeting in Las Vegas. "You no longer have to worry
about financing and fundraising. You just need to be united."
An Israeli-American real estate baron convicted [13] of tax evasion, Tuvia
"Adam" Milstein was exposed [14] in 2014 for funneling donations to UCLA
student government candidates who personally pledged "to make sure that UCLA
will maintains [sic] its allegiance to Israel." He colluded further with
UCLA Hillel -- the base of the major pro-Israel organizations on campus --
to develop "an ongoing strategy to delegitimize and discredit" any student
organizations that support divestment.
While Adelson and Milstein typically support outfits operating on the
right-wing of the political spectrum, one of the Democratic Party's most
powerful individual donors, Israeli-American tycoon Haim Saban, seemed eager
to throw his financial weight behind their initiative. A Beverly Hills-based
billionaire who earned much of his fortune by selling the Fox Family
franchise to Walt Disney, Saban is so determined to control the narrative
around Israel-Palestine that he previously considered purchasing the Los
Angeles Times and transforming it into a pro-Israel propaganda organ. Last
year, Saban and Adelson openly mulled [15] buying the New York Times, in
order to shift the Times' editorial line closer to the Israeli government's
rightist agenda.
"I'm a one issue guy and my issue is Israel," Saban said.
To advance his single-minded goal, Saban has made himself one of the most
significant individual contributors to the Democratic Party. His generous
donations to Obama's presidential campaigns secured an appointment [16] as
special US representative to the 2012 United Nations General Assembly for
his wife, former pop singer and Playboy "Disco Queens"
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/6457/morphed [17] model
Cheryl Saban. A frequent White House guest during Bill Clinton's presidency,
Saban has been an aggressive supporter of Hillary Clinton and mega-donor to
the Clinton Foundation. His millions have funded [18] the construction of
the Democratic National Committee headquarters and the Saban Center for
Middle East Policy at Washington's Brookings Institute.
This year, as Saban mobilized to back Hillary Clinton's second bid for the
White House, he was forced to turn his attention to a more urgent concern:
The BDS campaign that hadstripped [19] his Israeli Partner corporation of
the right to use the brand of French-based Orange telecommunications. Seated
beside Adelson's on stage at the casino baron's Las Vegas anti-BDS
conference, Saban openly panicked about BDS, warning of "an anti-Semitic
tsunami coming at us."
Saban called for an initiative to punish corporations that refused to work
inside Israel or the territories it occupies through military force: "Any
company that chooses to boycott business in Israel is going to look at this
case, and once we're done they're going to think twice whether they want to
take on Israel or not," Saban declared. "Trust me, this is just the
beginning."
Saban's expressions of panic elicited a letter [20] from Hillary Clinton in
which she promised to "make countering BDS a priority." Next to her
signature was a handwritten note of assurance from Clinton: "Looking forward
to working with you on this."
This October, however, Saban suddenly withdrew his support from the anti-BDS
campaign headed by Adelson. "He didn't like that Adelson was pushing the
group towards funding right-wing groups that are only speaking in a
right-wing echo chamber - and not towards pushing a message that would
actually change hearts and minds," a pro-Israel lobbyist told [21]Nathan
Guttman of the Forward.
Pro-Israel money is flowing disproportionately into the coffers of
right-wing groups that are not only determined to obstruct Palestine
solidarity efforts, but which are organizing on firmly partisan lines. The
initiative devised at Adelson's casino last June is a prime example: Its
first administrative hire was David Brog [22], the Executive Director of the
Christians United For Israel organization that supports the Israeli
settlement enterprise and whose almost evangelical Republican membership
advances the End Times as the solution to the Israel-Palestine crisis. And
the national student network he would preside over was named the "Campus
Maccabees."
"With strength, determination, and unity, the Campus Maccabees will unite
the best pro-Israel organizations, reverse the rising tide of anti-Semitism
on our campuses, and succeed in the battle against the hate groups that seek
Israel's destruction," Adelson proclaimed in a press release [23], embracing
David Horowitz's directive to paint Students for Justice in Palestine as a
"hate group."
For those familiar with Jewish history, the name of Adelson's newfangled
initiative contains striking resonances. The Maccabees were first and second
century BCE religious zealots who slaughtered, forcibly converted and
circumcised fellow Jews who attempted to assimilate into the Seleucid
Empire's Hellenistic culture. Once the Maccabees secured power through
disproportionate force, retaking the Temple and smashing the empire's idols,
they imposed a draconian theocratic order on their subjects. Mythologized
[24] in the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, the Maccabees became heroes of the
early Zionists who colonized historic Palestine.
The inauguration of the Campus Maccabees offers a massive cash infusion to
the expansion of the movement of which Canary Mission appears to be a pilot
project. With unprecedented resources, these hardline elements are expanding
their campaign beyond fighting BDS in order to castigate [25] liberal
pro-Israel groups that supported Obama's Iran deal such as J Street.
As the bipartisan consensus that once underlined pro-Israel organizing
becomes a relic of the past, some campus activists are beginning to worry
that the Israel lobby has crossed the line. "The pro-Israel community is
increasingly being perceived as right-wing fanatics," complained [26] Justin
Hayet, a star of the Crossing the Line propaganda film series produced by
the Aish-affiliated Jerusalem U [27]. "If we let that stigma perpetuate,
fighting BDS on campus will become increasingly challenging."
Max Blumenthal is a senior writer for AlterNet, and the award-winning author
of Goliath [28] and Republican Gomorrah [29]. Find him on Twitter at
@MaxBlumenthal [30].
Julia Carmel is a freelance writer. You can find her on Twitter at
@JuliaCarmel_ [31]
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