Al Jazeera
documentary on Jewish Lobby in the USA has now been partly released
Newsletter published on November 6, 2018
(1) Al Jazeera
documentary on Jewish Lobby in the USA has now been partly released
(2) The Film The
Israel Lobby Doesn't Want You To See - Moon of Alabama
(3) Watch the film
the Israel lobby didn’t want you to see - The Electronic Intifada
(1) Al Jazeera
documentary on Jewish Lobby in the USA has now been partly released
The Al Jazeera documentary on the Jewish Lobby in the USA has
now been partly released. Episodes 1 & 2 (out of 4) are available.
The videos can be downloaded from dailymotion.com
I had to buy Videoduke, to download them.
But you may be able to get them for free. There are some tips
at https://www.keepdownloading.com/how-to-download-dailymotion-videos-44.html
Download episode
1 here:
The Lobby – USA,
episode 1: https://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x6wisw0
Download episode
2 here:
The Lobby – USA,
episode 2: https://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x6wiuqj
(2) The Film The
Israel Lobby Doesn't Want You To See - Moon of Alabama
November 02, 2018
The Film The Israel Lobby Doesn't Want You To See
Today The Electronic Intifada published the first two parts
of "The Lobby – USA", a four-part
undercover investigation by Al Jazeera into Israel’s covert influence campaigns
in the United States.
The planned broadcast of the film was prevented by Qatar,
which owns Al Jazeera, on behalf of Israel.
From EI's description:
To get unprecedented access to the Israel lobby’s inner
workings, undercover reporter “Tony” posed as a pro-Israel volunteer in
Washington.
The resulting film exposes the efforts of Israel and its
lobbyists to spy on, smear and intimidate US citizens who support Palestinian
human rights, especially BDS – the boycott, divestment and sanctions
movement.
It shows that Israel’s semi-covert black-ops government
agency, the Ministry of Strategic Affairs, is operating this effort in collusion
with an extensive network of US-based organizations.
These include the Israel on Campus Coalition, The Israel
Project and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
It is amazing that Israel gets away with such spying and
intelligence operations against U.S. citizens and within the United States.
Israel and its lobby did a lot to suppress the movie and its
wider distribution. That can only mean that it is good and deserves a large
viewership.
Watch it here.
Posted by b on November 2, 2018 at 03:28 PM
(3) Watch the film
the Israel lobby didn’t want you to see - The Electronic Intifada
Watch the film the Israel lobby didn’t want you to see
The Electronic Intifada 2 November 2018
The Electronic Intifada has obtained a complete copy of The
Lobby – USA, a four-part undercover investigation by Al Jazeera into Israel’s
covert influence campaign in the United States.
It is today publishing the first two episodes. The
Paris-based Orient XXI has published the same episodes with French
subtitles.
The film was made by Al Jazeera during 2016 and was completed
in October 2017.
But it was censored after Qatar, the gas-rich Gulf emirate
that funds Al Jazeera, came under intense Israel lobby pressure not to air the
film.
Although Al Jazeera’s director-general claimed last month
that there were outstanding legal issues with the film, his assertions have been
flatly contradicted by his own journalists.
In March, The Electronic Intifada was the first to report on
any of the film’s specific content. We followed this in August by publishing the
first extract of the film, and shortly after Max Blumenthal at the Grayzone
Project released others.
Since then, The Electronic Intifada has released three other
extracts, and several other journalists have watched the entire film and written
about it – including Alain Gresh and Antony Loewenstein.
Now The Electronic Intifada can reveal for the first time
that it has obtained all four parts of the film.
You can watch the first two parts in the video embeds above
and below.
To get unprecedented access to the Israel lobby’s inner
workings, undercover reporter “Tony” posed as a pro-Israel volunteer in
Washington.
The resulting film exposes the efforts of Israel and its
lobbyists to spy on, smear and intimidate US citizens who support Palestinian
human rights, especially BDS – the boycott, divestment and sanctions
movement.
It shows that Israel’s semi-covert black-ops government
agency, the Ministry of Strategic Affairs, is operating this effort in collusion
with an extensive network of US-based organizations.
These include the Israel on Campus Coalition, The Israel
Project and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Censored by Qatar
The film was suppressed after the government of Qatar came
under intense pressure not to release it – ironically from the very same lobby
whose influence and antics the film exposes.
Clayton Swisher, Al Jazeera’s head of investigations,
revealed in an article for The Forward in March that Al Jazeera had sent more
than 70 letters to individuals and organizations who appear in or are discussed
in the film, providing them with an opportunity to respond.
Only three did so. Instead, pro-Israel groups have endeavored
to suppress the film that exposes the lobby’s activities.
In April, Al Jazeera’s management was forced to deny a claim
by the hard-right Zionist Organization of America that the film had been
canceled altogether.
In June, The Electronic Intifada learned that a high level
source in Doha had said the film’s indefinite delay was due to “national
security” concerns of the Qatari government.
Covert action
As revealed in a clip published by The Electronic Intifada
earlier this week, the film shows Julia Reifkind – then an Israeli embassy
employee – describing her typical work day as “mainly gathering intel, reporting
back to Israel … to report back to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry
of Strategic Affairs.”
She discusses the Israeli government “giving our support” to
front groups “in that behind-the-scenes way.”
Reifkind also admits to using fake Facebook profiles to
infiltrate the circles of Palestine solidarity activists on campus.
The film also reveals that US-based groups coordinate their
efforts directly with the Israeli government, particularly its Ministry of
Strategic Affairs.
Run by a former military intelligence officer, the ministry
is in charge of Israel’s global campaign of covert sabotage targeting the BDS
movement.
The film shows footage of the very same ex-military
intelligence officer, Sima Vaknin-Gil, claiming to have mapped Palestinian
rights activism “globally. Not just the United States, not just campuses, but
campuses and intersectionality and labor unions and churches.”
She promises to use this data for “offense activity” against
Palestine activists.
Jacob Baime, executive director of the Israel on Campus
Coalition, claims in the undercover footage that his organization uses
“corporate level, enterprise-grade social media intelligence software” to gather
lists of Palestine-related student events on campus, “generally within about 30
seconds or less” of them being posted online.
Baime also admits on hidden camera that his group
“coordinates” with the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs.
Baime states that his researchers “issue early warning alerts
to our partners” – including Israeli ministries.
Baime’s colleague Ian Hersh admits in the film to adding
Israel’s “Ministry of Strategic Affairs to our operations and intelligence
brief.”
“Psychological warfare”
Baime describes how his group has used anonymous websites to
target activists.
“With the anti-Israel people, what’s most effective, what
we’ve found at least in the last year, is you do the opposition research, put up
some anonymous website, and then put up targeted Facebook ads,” Baime explains
in part three of the film.
“Canary Mission is a good example,” he states. “It’s
psychological warfare.”
The film names, for the first time, convicted tax evader Adam
Milstein as the multimillionaire funder and mastermind of Canary Mission – an
anonymous smear site targeting student activists.
The Electronic Intifada revealed this in a clip in
August.
Eric Gallagher, then fundraising director for The Israel
Project, is seen in the undercover footage admitting that “Adam Milstein, he’s
the guy who funds” Canary Mission.
Milstein also funds The Israel Project, Gallagher states.
Gallagher says that when he was working for AIPAC,
Washington’s most powerful Israel lobby group, “I was literally emailing back
and forth with [Adam Milstein] while he was in jail.”
Despite not replying to Al Jazeera’s request for comment,
Milstein denied that he and his family foundation “are funders of Canary
Mission” on the same day The Electronic Intifada published the clip.
Since then, Josh Nathan-Kazis of The Forward has identified
several other groups in the US who fund Canary Mission.
Suppressed film
In March, The Electronic Intifada published the first details
of what is in the film.
We reported that it showed Sima Vaknin-Gil claiming to have
leading neoconservative think tank the Foundation for Defense of Democracies
working for her ministry.
The undercover footage shows Vaknin-Gil claiming that “We
have FDD. We have others working on” projects including “data gathering,
information analysis, working on activist organizations, money trail. This is
something that only a country, with its resources, can do the best.”
As noted in part one of the documentary, the existence of the
film and the identity of the undercover reporter became known after footage he
had shot for it was used in Al Jazeera’s The Lobby – about Israel’s covert
influence campaign in the UK – aired in early 2017.
Since then, Israel lobbyists have heavily pressured Qatar to
prevent the US film from airing.
“Foreign agent”
Clayton Swisher, Al Jazeera’s head of investigations, first
confirmed in October 2017 that the network had run an undercover reporter in the
US Israel lobby at the same time as in the UK.
Swisher promised the film would be released “very soon,” but
it never came out.
Multiple Israel lobby sources told Israel’s Haaretz newspaper
in February that they had received assurances from Qatari leaders late last year
that the documentary would not be aired.
Qatar denied this, but the paper stood by its story.
Swisher’s op-ed in The Forward was his first public comment
on the matter since he had announced the documentary.
In it, he refutes Israel lobby allegations about the film and
expresses frustration that Al Jazeera had not aired it, apparently due to
outside pressure.
Several pro-Israel lawmakers in Washington have piled on more
pressure by pushing the Department of Justice to force Al Jazeera to register as
a “foreign agent” under a counterespionage law dating from the 1930s.
The Israel lobby goes to Doha
While the film was delayed, a wave of prominent pro-Israel
figures visited Qatar at the invitation of its ruler, Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al
Thani.
They have included some of the most right-wing and extreme
figures among Israel’s defenders in the US, such as Harvard law professor Alan
Dershowitz and Morton Klein, the head of the Zionist Organization of
America.
Swisher wrote in The Forward that he ran into Dershowitz at a
Doha restaurant during one of these visits, and invited the professor to a
private viewing of the film.
“I have no problem with any of the secret filming,” Swisher
says Dershowitz told him afterwards. “And I can even see this being broadcast on
PBS” – the US public broadcaster.
Yet it appears that Israel lobby efforts to quash the film
were successful – until now.
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