on the issue of gaza that really tipped the balance in the favor of george ball, of gallaway, whom, as i say, is not a man known for minsing his words, about you, all right, thanks lot sid joining us from uh, rochdale uk, and with that it brings us to an end here on this edition of the world news, sticker on, there's plenty more to come here on press tv, see you soon.

hello, i'm chris williamson and you're watching palestine declassified. we're the only weekly tv show that's dedicated to investigate. and exposing the israeli regime's global war against solidarity with the illegally occupied people of palestine. in this week's show we'll be diggin into the activities of the right-wing polemicist douglas murray who's an apologist for the gaza genocide and closely linked to the islamophobic henry jackson society think tank. murray was intending to raise funds for zinist soldiers perpetrating the gaza in genocide until his plans came un stuck thanks to a boycot by ordinary shopfloor workers as latif abu chakra will explain in. this

report. veteran islamophobe douglas murray failed in his attempt to publicly raise money for israeli soldiers in london. following his time embedded with the israeli occupation forces in ghazza, mari returned to london, hoping he could contribute to the genocide effort. the event that douglas murray was supposed to hold hit a stumbling block when workers refused to show up, even though they offered three times their usual wage. the apollo theater also refused to hold the event due to public outcry, while murray has recently become more transparently pro israel, his relationship with the zionist entity is nothing new. alongside executive director alan mendoza, douglas murray served as a director of the henry jackson society for many years. mendoza is also simultaneously the president of the jnf, the biggest settlement building body in palestine. include the israeli president and

prime minister. the henry jackson society in fact shares funders with the west bank illegal settlement and the israeli military. former israeli ambassador to the un, dory gold and israel lobbist natan sharansky are both patrons of the henry jackson society. at least two former employees of the henry jackson society have taken jobs at the israeli ministry of foreign affairs. senior investigator at the henry jackson society, ur salalanyan, was once the israeli prime minister spokesperson, the israeli minister of defenses media advisor and the head of strategic war games in the israeli militaries operations directorate. while in occupied palestine, murray spent time with president isaac and was gifted map of occupied palestine by israeli military personnel. he all but took up arms himself. in the war on

ghazza, this advocate for genocide will certainly find it hard to find support outside of the zionist entity. joining me in the studio as usual, is our resident expert david miller. david is academic and a former professor at bristol university, and he's now a non-resident senior research fellow at the center of islam and global affairs at istanbul zaham university. he's also a co-director of the lobby and watch dog spinwatch and is a leading british scholarly critic of israel. our guest contributor today is jason kridland who joins us. via skype. jason has an academic background in politics, sociology and economics. he's been a campaigning independent journalist now for over decade and in 2012 he founded the news website dores i with his partner deby. welcome to the show. david, this term astroterfing, lot of people will be a bit confused to think about that, what what it actually means and maybe you could explain that and just say, whether or not, douglas murray is actually applying it, so astrootfig means fake. grassroots, so it's a term which

is supposed to indicate that that uh grassroots campaigning is actually been faked by big money and usually by corporations, but in this case we're talking about. imperial interests are we? now douglas muri is kind of this uh affable chap from a posch school and a posch university, who goes to talk about how misunderstood israel is, and you could see in a way you could see him as a kind of posh astater for for for for israely interest that's what they they've got lots of these people haven't they who retail aasist talking points and appear to be independent journalists but which are actually of course pursuing the interest of the zionists so... so it would be applicable then in that case, you think, i think so, yeah, yeah, right, okay, well, jason, mean, do you think murray was punching above his weight with with with this attempt then? well, i think it's interesting that david talks about the privilege background that that murray have because obviously he went to eton and oxford,

but he actually did start off in a in a comprehensive school, which is his parents took him out of after a short period of time, and he's he's since that time talked about it being a in a city sync school. so he has that very privileged um perspective from up high in which he looks down on on people and i suspect it's probably because he got the scholarship eatton that he's able now to to say and do some of the things that he's he's saying yeah in terms of punching against above his weight um obviously as galetarians we we prefer not to to to label people in such terms perhaps but in terms of a skill set it does seem very strange that some of the things terms out with in terms of identity, excuse me, from somebody who hasn't got a sociological background, he's very much fixated on obviously right-wing philosophy, so it's not a critical thinking background at all, so in relation to punching above the way if we're going to use that term, you wouldn't

employ anybody other than mechanic to mend your car or or engineers to create your bridges, so you'd kind of hope that you'd have different people if they're going to give the perspective. on society um in place other than douglas murray, yes indeed. well, david, tell us about this henry jackson society, i mentioned it in in the in the introduction there, just gives a bit background about it. well, the head society uh created about 2005 is the the leading islamophobic think tank in the uk, there are others like the policy exchange for example, but jackson society is much more focused on islam-related stuff than than even the policy exchanges, i mean it's funded. is one of the key things we found early on when we looked its funders uh this top funders are almost all uh from from z family foundations who also fund as we saw in the film there illegal settlements the idf sometimes jewish supremacist groups so i mean this is an organization which is set up to push

islamophobia and to push the government in particular to go further and further with islamophobic policies like for example the government's counter terrorism policy prevent uh to target especially uh muslims and not to to look anywhere else for extremism, especially not in the british jewish community in relation to to their support or sections of support for zionism, there's a number of members of parliament as well, isn't there involved? oh yes, this is an elite organization, it's not it's not on the streets, english defense league pushing islamophobia, it's in the corridors of power, it has mps, members of the house of lords on its advisory board, including labor mps of course, and it's supposed to operate. level to push government in more and more islamophobic ways directions and that's been very successful, yes indeed. well jason, mean what do you think of douglas murray's relationship then with the with the murdock empire? it's not, it's not surprising is it chris? you look at the background of of

rupert murdock in relation to the news of the world and the sun is links to talk tv, his links to fox news etc. it's he seems to... the classic type douglas murray to to fit the glove of the type of person that that murdop likes to propel into positions that have audience, yes of course, i mean and and we know that you know murdock himself has you been very very supportive of uh sort of zionist entity and and organizations supporting zinanism, but david, i mean um what do we um uh uh know about um this uh organization technician or technion i big you pardon technion the technion organization that that sponsored mouri's tog well the technion is a is an israeli university, it's one of a handful of israeli universities, each one of them has a charity in the uk to

raise funds for them them so and so the benger university or tel aviv university, even of course there's a there's a an university called... directly in a settlement, but all the other universities are the they have they are engaged with the the idf, engaged with the settlements and so each one of these organizations, there's reason to to to raise questions about boycot in relation to it, the technique in itself, the the the charity in this this country, i mean there's a real difficulty here and all these charities which are operating legally in this country supporting effectively what's going on in gaza, now the technion specifically in relation to... to this question of the idf, it's supposed to be a university charity, it's supposed to be supporting learning, and actually we see with

the the douglas mary case, it's engaged in directly supporting the idf, an indication that the problem of charities in this countries goes much further than just those charities which directly support the idf to a whole range of other charities, and where's the charity commission on all this, i mean have they have they said anything, have they investigated, have they have called them to account for for for some of this, which is the curious on charity, i don't think there's any investigation on the technion yet. "there is there is investigation on several other charities, uk tauramit for example, uh, there's a one called the association for the wellbeing of israel soldiers, which we dealt within a previous program, there's an investigation in relation to that, uh, i suspect suspect there will be many more investigations because we are finding more and more charities, just the other week we find another 25 or so charities support directly supporting the idf, so there's a a real question here about why the charity commission doesn't deal with these things, i mean it has previously investigated very many muslim ch'. for doing not very much at all and and they haven't done less how receptive do you think they've been to well they're not

receptive because of course there there are prominent science at the top of the charity commission lord showcross was there for some considerable time and that's the problem with almost all elite organizations like that you have prominent science there you can block this kind of thing yeah well well jason mean what does it say do you think about public perception that the workers um initially refused to to staff morrie event at that at that first venue where he had to uh beat a retreat from as it were, yeah, i mean obviously has um shadows of your experiences in 2019, chris, when we're trying to organize a book launch in brighton at the labour party conference, and it was shut down by people who obviously trying to to prevent the voices that were challenging the way in which anti-semitism was being politicized, but in this instance obviously it's it's it's a different scenario in that... "in this instance, it's it's challenging the genocide, it's challenging designist voices that are

propelling this vile narrative, um, and and i think ultimately uh, you've got to applaud people who who very much are willing to say, i'm not prepared to do this, i'm prepared to stand up for my morality and my principles, over and above the the three times the hourly income that you're prepared to pay me in order to turn up at my job, i think, ultimately we should celebrate that and we should continue celebrating that across society when people uniting communities to stand up repression and i say disgusting voices yeah particularly when people have been disciplined for for taking a stand you know in support of palestinian and and critic criticizing the zionist entity etc although professor david miller's successful employment tribunal case hopefully we put paid to some of that discrimination that we've seen people being subjected to in the past we could. that in in last week's show, but we're going to just pause there now for moment to watch our second report, i mean

this one's about bencha piro, a prominent zinis based in the united states who co-founded the daily wire, a right-wing conservative news website. another astroturfed design islamophobe who's been pushed in the same circles as douglas murray is ben shapero, long before his recent fora into rap music, benchapero pend an article about the palestinian. led transfer is not a dirty word, it has now been deleted from the internet, but palestine declassified still has access to it. the genocidal peace reads in the following way: if you believe that israel has a right to exist, then you must allow israel to transfer the palestinians and israeli arabs from judea, samaria, gaza, and israel proper. time to stop being squeamish, transfer is not genocide. before founding his current venture, the daily wire, benchapero was funded by robert schillman, a tech

billionaire on the board of israeli military charities, the friends of the iof. shapero and the co-founder of the daily wire, jeremy boring, both helped israel, dennis prager, set up the youtube channel prager university, where they worked on the israeli unit 8200 military intelligence veteran maurissa strait. in the early days of the daily wire, shapero... got millions of dollars of funding from fracking billionaires, the wilks brothers. the wilks brothers also fund the liberty council, which has a stand with israel campaign where they host. yahoo! as a speaker. today, the chief operating officer the daily wire is john lewis. he is a former intelligence analyst in the us marine core. the daily wire also employed former us military intelligence officer, wesley schmitt in customer service analytics. also, the daily wire is funded by cape technologies,

whose ceo is israely intelligence. van unit veteran idol. ben shapero is another. turfed racist in the same vein as douglas murray dispatched to wage psychological warfare to aid the zinus entity and its genocidal war against palestinians and the people of the region. david i mean talking about ben shapiro there i mean what did he actually say about the activist rachel corry who was was killed by a zinist thug few years ago made some offensive comments didn't he about that he said that she was one of the greatest idiots of the time and uh of course rachel kory's a iconic figure, i mean is that famous video for her as young child talking about wanting to make the world better, and then of course she was murdered by the designs, we did a show on her, yes some months ago now, i mean it's just foul and beyond compare, this is a non-violent activist who was who was essentially murdered by designers for nothing, and that that's the kind of that's

the level of the debate that we get from someone like bencha, no indeed, i think it was subsequently asked if he if he stood by those words and uh "he kind of doubled down, i believe, you know, yes, i mean it's it's fil, he's quite a revolting character, but anyway, jason, i mean tell us about rachel corry's case, will you, and and why it's been deemed so offensive, you ben's words have been deemed so offensive, almost you know, makes you you choke, i remember motion when you talk about rachel cory, i mean asas said, she was um, somebody who was basically passively..." 'standing up against the the israeli regime um to keep it cut a long story short in effect she was she was run over by bulldozer um and the the israeli state claimed that the israeli driver of the bordozer didn't see her um it was their parents then appealed to unfortunately it was

the only place that they could go to was the israeli courts arguing a full extensive inv'. investigation wasn't never took place and the decisions were very quickly made about who was responsible because the israeli state effectively blamed rachel for the outcome, and when it went to the supreme court and they found in favor of the israeli state and then they appealed it, the parents appealed it, and again the supreme court found in favor of the israeli state, so we've never had a full investigation, we've never been able to identify exactly what happened, and it's... led to people being suggest, offering suggestions as to what took place from both sides, which never have happened, because there should have been as a clear investigation that found out exactly who was responsible and why? david - this character bench piro's position at the the david horrowittz freedom center was funded by a

director of the charity that funds the israeli military, just say a word to will you about this - organization, the so-called friends of the idf. well, let's remember that the david horivit center is one of the key islamophobic thing tanks in the us, part of the what's been called the islamophobic network, of course, largely funded by zionists and unsurprisingly, they these the people who fund this organization are also fund the friends of the israel defense forces, which of course uh is the us equivalent of the organization we looked at on this show a little while ago, the association for the well-being of israel soldier. yeah, yeah, and they send millions of dollars every year to directly to to the so-called israel defense forces and and that that's that's part of the whole the whole problem with this is that embedded in us culture like there is in uk culture, there's a massive support for genocide in in palestine and there's there needs to be

effective action taken against these kinds of organizations, it's a 5013c non-profit and it it should be closed down, there should be. space in us public culture for such an organization indeed, well jason, i mean do you find propagandists like shapiro and murray actually get lot of traction or indeed any traction with with young people in this country? i think it's quite a complicated discussion this chris, the right as david has pointed out have far more resources, and because they have far more resources they can utilize social media and they can't the different outputs that exist, also we tend to live in a society, unfortunately now certainly where the level of critical thinking, the level of... standing operates within a very much consumerist um society and also operates within society which social media obviously has become very much norm and

therefore the attention spans of people generally not just young people is very much not about being an analytical evaluative but it's about passing through very very quickly different different types of stories so if you're being bombarded by the right voices - to alternative voices, they are the ones that obviously your consciousness. um, so it's it's a difficult question, because ultimately young people as well when they come to to have an opportunity the ballot box or one of the lowest groups turn out, so we don't actually get to see who they vote for, but then of course current climate means that if you vote conservative you vote for labor, that doesn't really give you a... picture either um so i would say the potential is there yes for young people to be captured by certain people have access to multimedia

channels across across the board because of their resources and because also they are offering a simplistic answer, they are offering an emotive answer as opposed to much more complicated answer that the left provide given that you do need. no indeed, although just in terms of the influence on young people uh, that obviously the got a lot of resources that you you've identified that that that they deploy to try to dupe young people i suppose and the population in in general, but just looking at the uh the the turnout at the uh pro- palestinian marches around the country, lot of young people taking part is so it's maybe not cutting through maybe as much as they perhaps were doing in the past, do you think? "we certainly hope that's the case, chris, we certainly hope that's the case, um, but until they're given the the democratic freedoms in order to repel their narrative forward,

unfortunately, it it just just it's demonstrations where young people, especially from urban areas, yeah, um, are are are congregating, um, but we need to give them so much more empowerment, so much more space, indeed, well david, i mean, what step do you think should be taken to hold the..." accountable that that did eventually host murry's event, well so the venue was uh st john's wood cynagogue so and that's obviously a place of worship for jewish people and the st. john's wood synagogue is part of what's called the united synagogue which is the largest synagogue movement of five or six that exists in the uk now until december last year its website the united synagogue had that it was a zionist organization seems to have removed. the epitheit zionist from its website, although of course there are number of zionist organizations which are registered to the same address uh as the organization as itself, so this is a zionist synagogue movement, and so we shouldn't be surprised

that they would host an islamophobe like, but it also means of course that this is a charity and it's vulnerable to complaints to the charity commission, the united synagog's a charity and st. john's wood synagogue itself is a charity, vulnerable to complaint in the charity commission about putting on and platforming racists and that's what we should be doing with all these. organization and they these organizations should be given the opportunity to say, we have seen the error of our ways, we no longer sign up designism and genocide and we will remove ourselves and resign from the zionist movement, then then that that makes it plain that that they're just there to represent you have any complaints have been made about this about this particular one, not as far as i'm aware, no right, right, okay, well um, finally then jason and briefly buse we're almost out, why do you think these propagandists get so much mainstream support? um, their backgrounds, they come from similar backgrounds in terms of the public school networks in terms of the top universities, so it's it's very much in who you know, in terms

of obviously the power of lobbists, they may much again are going more right-wing, pro-capitalist, they have much more money behind them so they get their voices heard, you also got toughton street, which is basically a street full of right-wing think tanks, yeah um "the the very wealthy um owners of of our media are of course generally right-wing and um as i say billionaires and powerful and influential and also advertising, the competition for advertising across the media means that right, the narrative is kept relatively simplistic, yeah uh and as i said before the right-wing voices tend to be more simplistic in that indeed and of course and and the sign is influence on those on those voices too, but unfortunately uh..." we're going to have to leave it there because we are out of time again, so let me thank our guest jason kridland and of course our resident expert professor david miller. palestine declassified, we'll be back next week with

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