Review of censored @claytonswisher documentary on the U.S. Israel lobby: How Israel spies on US citizens - The truths that won’t be heard

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Review of censored @claytonswisher documentary on the U.S. Israel lobby

https://mondediplo.com/2018/09/02israel-lobby


How Israel spies on US citizens

The truths that won’t be heard

A never-shown Al Jazeera documentary on the pro-Israel lobby in the United States reveals possibly illegal Israeli spying on American citizens, and the lobby’s fear of a changing political mood.

"Since the failure of the Oslo accords, Israel has been led by far-right parties that reject any diplomatic solution. There is no question of any discussion of the fate of the Palestinians, the settlements or the tragedy in Gaza"

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‘If you’re a racist, the world should know’

"One of the groups most feared by Palestinian rights activists is Canary Mission, whose funding, members and methods are shrouded in secrecy. A journalist with close links to the lobby said: ‘People who hate it, the people who are being targeted by it, call it a blacklist. You have names here that showup on this database. Students and professors, faculty, speakers, organisations that have ties to terrorism, outright ties to terrorism, or terrorists who have called for the destruction of the Jewish state.’ Canary Mission’s website describes its aim as being to ‘ensure that today’s radicals are not tomorrow’s employees’. Above the biography of each victim is the slogan ‘If you’re a racist, the world should know’.

Kleinfeld managed to talk to Canary Mission’s founder and financial backer, Adam Milstein, chairman of the Israeli-American Council (IAC). Milstein was jailed briefly for tax fraud in 2009, but that didn’t prevent him from carrying on his activities from prison. He explained his philosophy to Kleinfeld: ‘First of all, investigate who they [the pro-Palestine activists] are. What’s their agenda? They’re picking on the Jews because it’s easy, because it’s popular. We need to expose what they really are. And we need to expose the fact that they are anti everything we believe in. And we need to put them on the run. We’re doing it by exposing who they are, what they are, the fact that they are racist, the fact that they are bigots, [that] they’re anti-democracy.’

Students recounted in the documentary exactly what they faced. Summer Awad, who took part in a campaign for Palestinian rights in Knoxville, Tennessee, was harassed on Twitter, and information about her, some of it dating back a decade, was posted online: ‘They are digging and digging. Somebody contacted my employer and asked for me to be fired. If they continue to employ me they will be denounced as antisemitic.’"