by Eli Leon, News Agencies and Israel Hayom Staff
Hat tip: Dr. Jean-Charles Bensoussan
Jewish billionaire George Soros' foundation found to have donated millions to Palestinian and Israeli organizations to delegitimize Israel through U.S. and EU advocacy • Leaked documents show foundation works to conceal its activities in the region.
Hacked documents reveal
Jewish billionaire George Soros's donations to anti-Israel groups
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Hackers leaked hundreds of confidential
reports from Jewish billionaire George Soros' network of philanthropic
organizations to the DC Leaks website over the weekend, revealing some
troubling information. The reports detail the organization's activities
in Israel and the Palestinian Authority and expose the scope of Soros'
donations, as well as the network's efforts to conceal its activities.
According to the leaked data, Soros' Open
Society Foundations focused on both U.S. and EU advocacy to exert
pressure on, and delegitimize, Israel.
"For a variety of reasons, we wanted to
construct a diversified portfolio of grants dealing with Israel and
Palestine, funding both Israeli Jewish and PCI [Palestinian citizens of
Israel] groups as well as building a portfolio of Palestinian grants and
in all cases to maintain a low profile and relative distance --
particularly on the advocacy front," a foundation report noted.
Leaked documents show that since 2001, Soros
transferred a total of $2,688,560 in 14 separate grants to Adalah, a
self-described "independent human rights organization." The organization
has accused Israel of war crimes on multiple occasions in international
arenas.
Since 2003, he donated $1,083,000 in nine
payments to the Nazareth-based I'lam Media Center. I'lam accused Israel
of ethnic cleansing in 2014, and has claimed that the Nakba
(catastrophe, as Palestinians refer to Israel's declaration of
independence) "undermines the moral and ethical foundation of Zionism
and, hence, of the State of Israel."
Like-minded organizations received donations
comparable in size from Soros, sometimes through the New Israel Fund,
another grantee of the billionaire and his Open Society Foundations.
According to a report in the Jewish online
magazine Tablet, a leaked report from the Arab Regional Office, the
Middle-Eastern branch of Soros' organizations, identified a shift in
"political dynamics" in the U.S. following the publication of the
Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer paper "The Israel Lobby" in 2006. The
paper noted, among other things, the lobby's support for the
now-unpopular U.S. invasion of Iraq.
The Arab Regional Office also noted increasing
support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement around the
world as one of the "improved opportunities we may choose to exploit."
The document leak is of particular concern to American
conservatives as Soros is a long-time Democratic donor, who has given
millions over the years to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary
Clinton. Those on the right claim Soros used prior donations to the
then-secretary of state to influence her decision-making.
Eli Leon, News Agencies and Israel Hayom Staff
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=35705&hp=1
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