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Author of New York Times hit piece on Israel works for group funded by Qatar, which also funds Hamas

Mar 31, 2019 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Jihad propaganda presented as straight news by one of America’s most powerful and influential news outlets. The establishment media makes it clearer by the day how much it has departed from being an actual news source. The establishment media is an assemblage of propaganda outfits for the Leftist agenda and the Left’s Islamic allies. Meanwhile, the social media giants are working assiduously to shut down all dissenting voices.

“Author of NYT Anti-Israel Piece Works for Group Funded by Qatar,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, March 29, 2019:

The author of this Sunday’s New York Times magazine cover story about the campaign to boycott, divest, and sanction the state of Israel works for an organization whose major donor, Qatar, is also the largest state funder of the terrorist group Hamas. Other significant donors to the author’s organization, the International Crisis Group, are leading supporters of the anti-Semitic boycott movement the author describes in his piece.

The publication of the article, “How the Battle Over Israel and Anti-Semitism Is Fracturing American Politics,” represents another salvo in the New York Times‘ continuing promotion of anti-Israel writers and views.

The author, Nathan Thrall, is tied to a large network of BDS supporters that are funded into the millions by the Qatari government, which has long been engaged in efforts to spy on the American Jewish community and pro-Israel officials. Qatar’s foreign influence operations in Washington, D.C., have flown mostly under the radar, but are part of a larger proxy battle being waged by wealthy Middle Eastern governments eager to peddle influence in powerful D.C. circles.

Thrall, who the Times presents as a disinterested expert, serves as director of the Arab-Israeli Project at the International Crisis Group, or ICG, a left-leaning advocacy organization that has received around $4 million from the Qatari government in the just the last year. Qatar’s donations represent around 23 percent of ICG’s total budget. Qatar is not mentioned in Thrall’s 11,500-word piece.

ICG also has raised $1 million in the past several years from the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, a prolific and open funder of the BDS movement in the United States.

Another significant portion of ICG’s funding—more than $5 million in the last three years—comes from the Open Society Foundations, run by liberal billionaire George Soros. Open Society funds dozens of Palestinian organizations that are prominent members of the BDS movement.

ICG’s president is former Obama administration official Robert Malley, another Israel critic who was fired from President Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential election team after he met with the Hamas terror organization. He joined the Obama administration in 2014.

Thrall has been affiliated with ICG during the bulk of his career, which dates to 2010 with bylines at the BBC, the Guardian, the Washington Post, and CNN.

In his writing, Thrall has gone to great lengths to portray Israel as an aggressor in its conflict with Palestinian terrorists….

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  1. Indiana Tom says

    Mar 31, 2019 at 5:04 pm

    Actually, I consider Liberal Journalists and the Liberal News Media who are members of The Ministry of Truth to be a bigger threat than the Jihadis.

    • James Lincoln says

      Mar 31, 2019 at 7:14 pm

      Indiana Tom,

      They certainly enable, aid, and abet…

    • mortimer says

      Mar 31, 2019 at 9:23 pm

      Yes, Indiana, the ‘presstitutes’ are prostituting themselves to the highest bidders: billionaire activists and foreign governments hostile to the US and Israel.

      However, without the mega-funding they get, they would not be heard.

      On the other hand, the counterjihad is NOT funded by governments, though it should be. There is virtually no COUNTERJIHAD IDEOLOGY being promoted by governments.

      I don’t consider the ‘Islam-is-peaceful’ canard to be effective propaganda against jihadism. Anyone who studies Islam sees very soon that it is an egregious falsehood and an entirely spurious claim.

      The ‘presstitutes’ are promoting that egregious false claim paid by foreign governments and billionaire activists.

    • Manuele Lui says

      Apr 1, 2019 at 4:04 am

      For you information they are off the same mold. They accommodate each other & purpose in the name of MONEY.

      • Charles says

        Apr 1, 2019 at 6:20 pm

        Manuele Lui, Yes, money is the name of the game. In the case of the New York Times it is owned by the Sulzberger family, multi-billionaire members of the same old Ruling Class.
        They all, except Trump and allies, are behind the Jihadi movement and its oppression of the proletarians.

        • Indiana Tom says

          Apr 1, 2019 at 8:35 pm

          They are Jewish and the Muslims would love to get their hands on them as well. Sulzberger family must have a death wish.

  2. Mac-101 says

    Mar 31, 2019 at 5:18 pm

    All people of authority or able to sway the public views need to be investigated for takin Oil Tick, Bankster/Soros or Chi-Com money. We have been sold out and our Republic has but a few years left before the complete collapse due to this unholy alliance made in Hell!

  3. Brigitte from Germany says

    Mar 31, 2019 at 5:26 pm

    http://chng.it/zRFXYmN2BH

    never give up. And sign and share this important petition about that
    bad woman Rashida Tlaib please.
    Thanks a lot.

    • CRUSADER says

      Mar 31, 2019 at 7:30 pm

      Is there also a petition against the bad woman Angela Merkel ?

  4. Elizabeth Baklaich says

    Mar 31, 2019 at 5:29 pm

    I have a growing concern that as this Islamification progresses we will see the term anti-semantism used to further the claim numbers of “Islamaphobic” attacks; after all the Arabs are semetic… (Which is really twisted as they can attack the Jewish people then use the attack to further their own victim status)
    I think we are going to have to start getting more specific, we need to call it Jew Hatred.
    We also need to call Soros out as a Nazi, he might have been born Jewish, but his actions during the Holocaust and WW2 speak volumes.

    • Mac-101 says

      Mar 31, 2019 at 6:18 pm

      Amen Sista.

  5. WPM says

    Mar 31, 2019 at 6:21 pm

    Soros is a terrible human being ,I am not defending him but he was a teenage boy during WW11 was about between the ages of 11 to16 whose father hid him with a Christian family who were loyal to the Nazis. The great damage he did in this world came after World War Two.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 31, 2019 at 6:56 pm

      This is true, WPM. I have pointed out the same myself.

  6. gravenimage says

    Mar 31, 2019 at 6:48 pm

    Author of New York Times hit piece on Israel works for group funded by Qatar, which also funds Hamas
    ……………………….

    This is disgusting but scarcely surprising, given the NYT’s appalling history. Kudos to the Washington Free Beacon for exposing this.

    And while I seldom make much of people’s names for what I hope are obvious reasons, I have to say that Nathan Thrall could not be more aptly named.

    • CRUSADER says

      Mar 31, 2019 at 7:45 pm

      https://www.fozmuseum.com

      Friends of Zion is a fascinating museum in Jerusalem….

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 31, 2019 at 8:17 pm

        Thanks for the link.

  7. Jack Holan says

    Mar 31, 2019 at 7:00 pm

    Just as CanaryMission.org maintains a database of threatening, Anti-Semitic &Anti-Israel Individualsls at Universities both students, Professors & Organizations it’s time we mirror this organization with one that follows these types of Journalists, and politicians their associations and finances.

  8. CRUSADER says

    Mar 31, 2019 at 7:37 pm

    What’s this about Rockefeller funds going to BDS / anti-Israel ?

  9. CRUSADER says

    Mar 31, 2019 at 7:43 pm

    Intensified archeological activity in the Holy Land in the first decades of the 20th century prompted the need for a dignified venue to store and exhibit the finds. American philanthropist, John D. Rockefeller, donated $2 million for building, equipping and maintaining a museum, and the British mandatory government also provided a subsidy. Rockefeller stipulated that the museum bearing his name be an archeological, not a natural science museum, and that the museum’s exhibits should shed light on the part played by the peoples of the Holy Land in world history. The building was to be located opposite the northeast corner of Jerusalem’s Old City walls. After 1948, when the area came under Jordanian rule, the museum was administered briefly by an international council, but, recognizing its tremendous value, the Jordanian government soon nationalized it. Since 1968, the Rockefeller Museum has been an integral part of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

    History of the Rockefeller Museum

    In the twilight of the Ottoman Empire, at the end of the nineteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century, British, American, French, and German archaeological expeditions began exploring the ancient sites of the Holy Land. Despite the difficult conditions, poor roads, and the distance from their homelands, these pioneers embarked on the first excavations with great enthusiasm and energy.

    In 1919, one year after the end of the First World War, the British Mandate in Palestine and Transjordan began. The British, with their renowned tradition of excavating and handling archaeological finds, devoted much effort to cultivating archaeology in the land and in 1920 established the Mandatory Department of Antiquities. The department was responsible for supervising all archaeological activity in Palestine and for protecting the ancient sites.

    A few years later, in 1925, James Henry Breasted, founder and director of the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, visited Palestine. Upon arriving in Jerusalem he was surprised by the city’s lack of a proper archaeological museum. Encouraged by Lord Plumer, the British High Commissioner, Breasted approached American philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, Jr. for a donation that would help realize the construction of such a museum in Jerusalem. Rockefeller agreed to contribute toward the project the sum of two million dollars – at that time an astonishing amount. A short while later, a site was chosen for the building – Kerem el-Sheik – a hill located just outside the northeastern corner of the Old City walls.

    The design of the museum was assigned to Austen St. Barbe Harrison, the chief architect of the Mandatory Department of Public Works, who planned a magnificent structure, integrating in it eastern and western architectural elements. The cornerstone of the new museum was laid on June 19, 1930. Although its official name was “The Palestine Archaeological Museum,” from the very outset, the building was most commonly known as the “Rockefeller Museum” after its benefactor’s name. On January 13, 1938 the museum opened its doors to the public.

    In May 1948, shortly before the termination of the British Mandate in Palestine, the High Commissioner founded an international board of trustees, consisting of twelve members representing scholarly institutions around the world, to be responsible for the museum’s management. This board continued to function until 1966, when the museum was nationalized by King Hussein of Jordan. Just a few months later, at the close of the Six Day War in the summer of 1967, the Rockefeller Museum was transferred to Israeli hands. The management of the building and its contents was entrusted to two institutions: The Israel Museum, Jerusalem and the Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums (later renamed Israel Antiquities Authority). The former was put in charge of the exhibition halls and the latter was given responsibility for the remaining wings (storerooms, archive, library). In recent years much effort has been devoted to updating existing wall panels, to adding additional ones in English, Hebrew, and Arabic, and to the preparation of temporary exhibitions on a variety of topics.

    https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-rockefeller-archaeological-museum

  10. Northern Virginiastan says

    Mar 31, 2019 at 8:05 pm

    Jamal Khasoggi was also an agent for Qatar

  11. Spiro says

    Mar 31, 2019 at 8:26 pm

    They sell their souls for 30 pieces of silver

  12. sidney penny says

    Apr 1, 2019 at 12:11 am

    “The establishment media is an assemblage of propaganda outfits for the Leftist agenda and the Left’s Islamic allies”

    So well put Mr Spencer.

  13. Kay says

    Apr 1, 2019 at 1:01 am

    And I thought the press was simply neglecting their duty to inform the citizens. It turns out they’ve been bought and paid for by special interests.

  14. J D.S says

    Apr 1, 2019 at 9:57 am

    There are hardly any REAL news outfits left out there we have no real news as we have known “NEWS” in the past. What we have now is exactly what has been mentioned already in today’s posts…PROPAGANDIST RAGS
    If one wants real, not FAKE, news then one has to dig for it….Jihad Watch is one that we can depend on and they are a few others but every day need outfits have caved…..What to do? Break them do not buy it watch!
    CNN has recently lost 50% of their viewers..Remember they and other outfits like them survive on advertisements and the “written word” survives on sales. For a time there is Freedom of Speech but we don’t have to listen or read.

  15. Andria Spindel says

    Apr 8, 2019 at 3:14 pm

    With all that is exposed, are we making any progress against the Islamo-leftist-fascists?

  16. Jehuda Ewert says

    Apr 17, 2019 at 11:57 am

    Quatar… in France their TV channel A Jazeera is unfiltered in arab in every cable TV.They had as news (like “how awful” reported that they estimate since 2014 16000 people leaving Islam each year (I don’t think they blow this number up, but try to keep in down). CNN refused to broadcast that. There’s apparently hope.

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