"The Guardian has uncovered evidence showing how Israel has relaunched a controversial entity as part of a broader public relations campaign to target US college campuses and redefine antisemitism in US law...a hardline and sometimes covert operation"
www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
the "sometimes covert operation" bit refers to:
"The “Concert” remark referred to a sprawling relaunch of a controversial Israeli government program initially known as Kela Shlomo, designed to carry out what Israel called “mass consciousness activities” targeted largely at the US and Europe."
"Haaretz and the New York Times recently revealed that Chikli’s ministry had tapped a public relations firm to secretly pressure American lawmakers...that effort is only one of many such campaigns coordinated by the ministry, which has received limited news coverage."
"For example, Hillel International, a co-founder of the Israel on Campus Coalition network and one of the largest Jewish campus groups in the world, has reported financial and strategic support from Mosaic United, a public benefit corporation backed by Chikli’s ministry."
"Internal documents obtained by the Seventh Eye showed that many of the recipients of Concert funds were American Christian Zionist organizations, such as Christians United for Israel, Proclaiming Justice to the Nations and the Israel Allies Foundation."
"Much of what was previously known about Concert was initially reported by the Forward, a Jewish American outlet, and the Seventh Eye, an independent investigative news site based in Israel."
This is particularly relevant, given the recent controversy over the UCSC encampment's demands that the school cut ties with Hillel International. The CEO of Hillel bragging to the Knesset about getting the president of MIT to suspend their SJP chapter lends context to that demand.
No one's asking for Hillel chapters to be banned (unlike the attacks, some successful, against Palestinian student groups). They asked for the school to withdraw financial and academic support of Hillel International, among other groups.
It is very weird to see people obfuscate this, when I went to Israel on a "counterterrorism" fellowship thru FDD that had the explicit purpose of me going back to my campus and writing op-eds defending GWOT and tying Israel's fight to the US fight on terror. This ain't hidden stuff!
The program would take two students from 20-25 college campuses to Israel for 5 weeks to observe Israeli measures and agencies, then 2 weeks in DC meeting FBI and DOD people. In exchange we were to go back to campus and write op-eds/host events with “experts” on Islamic terrorists for students.
Meh, I think that’s pretty small ball on today’s Internet, and I’m not proud of my youth, but I’m proud to show folks that people are capable of change
Me in 2004: working for George W Bush
Me in 2018: being a leftist bogeyman in a GOP campaign commercial.
Don’t assume every young RWer stays that way. Also, “open borders” is the moral and technically correct answer to migration policy. Don’t let anyone bully you otherwise.
I’m guessing they targeted social media platforms either directly or indirectly too. Reddit in my experience was aggressively censoring pro Palestinian speech in very popular subs.
