Reef BrelandHostBenjamin Netanyahu stated at the 2019 Genesis Prizes, an Israeli government-backed ceremony that honors prominent individuals, such as Kraft, that have advanced Jewish or Israeli interests with a $1 million prize, as if he needs it.
The 85-year-old American businessman and owner of the New England Patriots NFL franchise has dedicated his entire life to advancing designers' cause.
Kraft married his wife in Israel in 1962 and has made well over 100 trips to the country since, including leading dozens of PR missions there, bringing a host of celebrities and sports stars with him.
Kraft not only maintains a close personal relationship with Netanyahu, he is very likely funding his political rise.
His name appears on the Netanyahu Millionaires document, a leaked handwritten list penned penned by the Prime Minister himself, detailing his wealthiest patrons and those he could most steadfastly rely on to bankroll his political career.
When it comes to American politics, Kraft is no less influential, using his monetary power to push the Israeli agenda in Washington.
In addition to directly funding Donald Trump, It spent vast amounts, vast sums, bankrolling virtually every group constituting the U.S.-Israel lobby, including the American Friends of the Israel Museum, the American Friends of the Yitzhak Rabin Center, AIPAC, the ADL, the Committee for Accuracy in the Middle East Reporting and Analysis, or CAMRA, the Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces, the Israel Project, the Jewish Agency for Israel, the Jewish National Fund, and Stand With Us.
He also partially created the Foundation to Come Back Anti-Semitism, an extremely well-funded group that purports to be an anti-racist nonprofit fighting prejudice across the country.
A kind of closer expression, however, it becomes clear that the FCAS is simply another pro-Israel group using the language of anti-racism to crush grassroots opposition to Israeli actions abroad.
Firstly, many of its key figures are former Israeli officials or lobbyists.
For example, the organization's director of partnerships and strategy, Clara Schwartz, previously served as a secretary to multiple Israeli ambassadors to the United States.
Meanwhile, Maya Bukidabi, FCAS chief philanthropy officer, is formerly director of AIPAC, the principal Israeli lobbying institution in the United States.
Secondly, the FCAS equates anti-Zionism as the same bracket as supporting for or denial of the Holocaust, one of the many reasons why its in-house anti-Semitism tracker notes a mass spike in incidents in recent years.
It's difficult to overstate how well-funded and polished this operation is.
In one December 2020 free pledge alone, Kraft donated $100 million to the organization.
Today, Kraft's Gillette Stadium, which was to host the Sharon McLemore concert, which until he personally intervened, is home to an enormous command center where vast numbers of staff track anti-Israel, pro-Palestine sentiment across the world and on social media.
Critics have dubbed the institution as a massive Zionist surveillance and propaganda center inside Gillette Stadium.
Benjamin Netanyahu stated at the 2019 Genesis Prizes, an Israeli government-backed ceremony that honors prominent individuals, such as Kraft, that have advanced Jewish or Israeli interests with a $1 million prize, as if he needs it.
The 85-year-old American businessman and owner of the New England Patriots NFL franchise has dedicated his entire life to advancing designers' cause.
Kraft married his wife in Israel in 1962 and has made well over 100 trips to the country since, including leading dozens of PR missions there, bringing a host of celebrities and sports stars with him.
Kraft not only maintains a close personal relationship with Netanyahu, he is very likely funding his political rise.
His name appears on the Netanyahu Millionaires document, a leaked handwritten list penned penned by the Prime Minister himself, detailing his wealthiest patrons and those he could most steadfastly rely on to bankroll his political career.
When it comes to American politics, Kraft is no less influential, using his monetary power to push the Israeli agenda in Washington.
In addition to directly funding Donald Trump, It spent vast amounts, vast sums, bankrolling virtually every group constituting the U.S.-Israel lobby, including the American Friends of the Israel Museum, the American Friends of the Yitzhak Rabin Center, AIPAC, the ADL, the Committee for Accuracy in the Middle East Reporting and Analysis, or CAMRA, the Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces, the Israel Project, the Jewish Agency for Israel, the Jewish National Fund, and Stand With Us.
He also partially created the Foundation to Come Back Anti-Semitism, an extremely well-funded group that purports to be an anti-racist nonprofit fighting prejudice across the country.
A kind of closer expression, however, it becomes clear that the FCAS is simply another pro-Israel group using the language of anti-racism to crush grassroots opposition to Israeli actions abroad.
Firstly, many of its key figures are former Israeli officials or lobbyists.
For example, the organization's director of partnerships and strategy, Clara Schwartz, previously served as a secretary to multiple Israeli ambassadors to the United States.
Meanwhile, Maya Bukidabi, FCAS chief philanthropy officer, is formerly director of AIPAC, the principal Israeli lobbying institution in the United States.
Secondly, the FCAS equates anti-Zionism as the same bracket as supporting for or denial of the Holocaust, one of the many reasons why its in-house anti-Semitism tracker notes a mass spike in incidents in recent years.
It's difficult to overstate how well-funded and polished this operation is.
In one December 2020 free pledge alone, Kraft donated $100 million to the organization.
Today, Kraft's Gillette Stadium, which was to host the Sharon McLemore concert, which until he personally intervened, is home to an enormous command center where vast numbers of staff track anti-Israel, pro-Palestine sentiment across the world and on social media.
Critics have dubbed the institution as a massive Zionist surveillance and propaganda center inside Gillette Stadium.
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