The American Multimillionaire Marxists Funding Pro-Palestinian Rage
https://www.thefp.com/p/american-marxists-funding-pro-palestinian-rageThe pro-Palestinian protests over the last month, where tens of thousands in the U.S. have chanted for the end of Israel, are not merely a story of organic rage.
They are also funded in large part by an uber-wealthy American-born tech entrepreneur: Neville Roy Singham, and his wife Jodie Evans.
Since 2017, Singham has been the main funder of The People’s Forum, which has co-organized at least four protests after 1,400 innocent Israelis were slaughtered by Hamas on October 7. One rally, in Times Square, happened on October 8 before Israel had even counted its dead.
[snip]
But Singham is more than just a Marxist with deep pockets. He is also a China sympathizer who lives in Shanghai and has close ties to at least four propaganda news sites that boost the Chinese Communist Party’s image abroad, the Times reported.
——-
Good read to understand who’s driving, and who benefits from divisions in the US political landscape.
= new reply since forum marked as read
https://www.thefp.com/p/american-marxists-funding-pro-palestinian-rage
Thank You~
...is she "right" or is she just "right of you"?
It feels like you've got a line somewhere on the political spectrum that differentiates left from right. Where is that? I don't mean at the edges where I think we can all agree that Steve Bannon is right and Rachel Maddow is left.
What about that fuzzy center? And in that center, is there any room for political fluidity...not the expedient kind like changing your story depending on the audience, but the kind where one's political conscience includes ideas that may lean both left and right depending on the specific topic?
Your comment made me do a little more digging into Bari Weiss. I don't agree with everything she's written, but I do agree with some. She was disastrously wrong in her comments re: the Kavanaugh appointment and while she ended up in the unsupportive camp - her rationale missed the mark by a long shot. She was right about supporting the Women's March in DC while at the same time questioning their decision to choose two (out of four) keynote speakers with long, vocal track records supporting Louis Farrakhan, one of the most vocal anti-semites with a following.
I thought the vanity fair article was interesting (might be behind a paywall..sorry). She's certainly got her quirks, in both directions.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/04/bari-weiss-the-new-york-times-provocateur
As to the article including a quote from Rubio...ok...I'll give ya that one. But I figured his opinion was offset by the reporting from the NYT, far from a right wing rag (although I don't always agree with the either).
So, IMHO, we're going to agree to disagree on this one. You can see some bright line in the spectrum that no ideas can't cross...I'll keep thinking there's a porous center that has merit on a topic by topic basis.
But - just be clear, I'll eat glass before I vote for a republican. Hopefully we agree on that.
though that article does mention her pushing of the stupid "Intellectual Dark Web" idea, in which she claims that there are these "intellectuals" who were getting cancelled by the "regular" web, but producing great stuff unseen by the mainstream.
The thing is, since then, it's become fairly clear she's endorsing them. And they're a bunch of posers complaining about "wokeness" and "cancel culture".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bari_Weiss
In 2020, she resigned from the New York Times, and shouted loudly that she was a free-speech martyr, which only convinced the right:
The Financial Times has described Weiss as a "self-styled free speech martyr".[61] In 2021, Weiss compared her own professional travails to Galileo Galilei, an Italian scientist who was threatened with being burnt at the stake if he did not renounce his scientific views.[61]
On October 27, 2020, Weiss appeared on the American talk show The View to discuss cancel culture, which she called "wrong and deeply un-American"; she continued, "I believe that no one should be hung or have their reputation destroyed or lose their job because of a mistake or liking a bad tweet."[62][63]
Weiss was one of the "journalists" Musk turned to when he exposed the internal Twitter emails trying to paint it as biased against those poor misunderstood right-wingers:
...
In December 2022, The Free Press published information about the Twitter Files after Twitter CEO Elon Musk provided Weiss with access to records of Twitter's internal communications.[11][18] The information Weiss discussed included blacklisting of accounts and suppression of trending topics.[6][19] Bari Weiss, Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger shared the inaugural Dao Prize for Excellence In Investigative Journalism, awarded by the National Journalism Center, for their Twitter Files coverage.[20]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Press_(media_company)
Any publication giving Douglas Murray space is deeply suspect - he's a deeply offensive right wing arsehole. Currently suggesting every Palestinian should be chucked out of Gaza:
Link to tweet
And claiming that the First Minister of Scotland, Humza Yousaf, has "infiltrated" the British political system (he was born in Scotland, his parents were from Pakistan) and is really the "First Minister of Gaza" (his wife's father is from there).
Link to tweet
Prasad? Won fame comparing Covid responses to fascism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinay_Prasad
The Free Press article, as well as Rubio, quoted Republican Mike Gallagher.
As I said earlier, I’m good with agreeing to disagree.
And I don’t disagree that she’s got baggage but it’s not like I’m trying to nominate her for the Ruth Bader Ginsberg Liberal of the Year award.
Without trying to do a point by point response, I think the tweet from Jake Wallace Simons is interesting. I don’t know anything about him but his comment about British liberal Jews looking toward the left and finding sparse little support is equally applicable to American liberal Jews. The groups we have been “there for”, some for generations, are in large part silent. Not all groups and not all individuals in those groups…but enough so that it’s felt.
So we’re back to where we started. You have one opinion. I have another. And I’m good with agreeing to disagree. I sense you want me to change my mind about my sourcing on the OP. If that’s the case…stand down. Not going to happen.
Word.
No one's killing the messenger.. the report stands.
Good job, Cincy!
