in this is for palestine, ramala, gaza, this is for the child that is searching for renaissance, this is not just a war over stolen land, why do you think little boys are throwing stones at tanks and we'll never really know how many people are dead, they drop bombs on innocent girls while they sleep in the bed, israel is a terror state, terrorists that terrorize, test my television, how many more resolutions have to of be violated, how many more children have to be annihilated, this is not a war, it is systematic. genocide, but whatever they try,

palestine will never die. hello, i'm chris a williamson and you're watching palestine declassified. we're the only weekly tv show that's dedicated to investigating and exposing the israeli regime's global war against solidarity with the illegally occupied people of palestine. in this week. will be digging 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 unstuck thanks to a boycot by ordinary shopfloor workers, as latifer 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 of 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 trans transparently pro israel, his relationship with the zionist entity is nothing new. alongside executive director alan mandoza, 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. the patrons include the israeli president and prime minister. the henry jackson society in fact shares with the west bank illegal

settlement and the israeli military, former israeli ambassador to the un, doray gold and israel lobbyist 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 was once the israeli prime minister spokesperson, the israeli minister of defenses media of advisor and the head of strategic war games in the israeli military's operations directorate. while in occupied palestine, muri 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 desire. entity. of

joining me in the studio as usual, is our resident expert david miller. david's an academic and a former professor at bristol university and is 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 in 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 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 dors i with his partner deby. welcome to the show. david, this term astroturfing, 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 actual. being faked

by big money and usually by corporations, but in this case we're talking about imperial interests, aren't we? douglas is kind of this of uh affable chap from a posch school. the post university yeah who goes to talk about how misunderstood israel is and you could see it a way you could see him as a kind of posh astroterfer for for for israeli interests you that's what they they've got lots of these people haven't they who retail a zionist 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 so yeah yeah right okay well jason mean do you think murray was punching above his wait with with this attempt, then it's interesting that david talks about the privilege background that that murry had 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 he's since that time talked about it being in a city sync school, so he has that very privileged perspective from up high in which she looks down on on born 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 prefer not 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 that he comes out with in terms of identity excuse me um from somebody who hasn't got a sociological background. "he's very much fixated on obviously right-wing philosophy, um, so it's not a critical thinking background at all, so in relation to punching above the weight 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 their 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 that, well the henry jackson society uh created around about 2005 is the the leading islamophobic think tank in the uk, there are others like the policy exchange for example, but jackson societies much more focused on islam-related stuff than than even the policy exchanges, i mean it's funded, this is one of the key things we find early on when we looked its funders uh his top funders are almost all uh from from. and his 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 an 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 uh, and it's supposed to operate at an elite level to push government in more and more islamophobic ways directions, and that's been very successful, yes indeed, well jason, mean what 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, his links to talk tv, his

links to fox news etc. it's he seems to be the classic type douglas mary 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, murdock himself has you been very very supportive of sort of zinanist 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 your pardon technion the technion organization that that sp's well the technion is a is an israeli university, it's one of a handful of israel universities, each one of them has a charity in the uk to raise funds for them them, so and so the bengur university or tel aviv university, even of

course there's a there's a an university called ariel which is in illegal settlement, yeah uh and there there's an organization in the uk raises funds for that as well. and all of cour all of them of course have some involvement in the settlements, obviously ariel is a directly in a settlement, but all the other universities are the they have they are engaged with the the idf, engaged with the settlement. and so each one of these organizations there's reason to to to raise questions about boycott in relation to it, the technique in itself the the the charity in this 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 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, where's the charity commission on all this, i mean have they have they said anything of the investigated, have they called them to account for for some of this, which is the curious charary, i don't think there's any investigation on the technion yet, but there is there is investigation on several other charities, uk torremit for example, there's a one called the association for the wellbeing of. soldiers which we dealt with in 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 uh investigated very many muslim charities for doing not very much at all and and they haven't done this this way how receptive do you think they've been to well? they're not recepted because of course there are there are prominent scientists 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 jason, mean what does it say do you think about public perception that the workers um initially refused to to staff morri's 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 labor 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 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 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 um disciplined for for taking a stand you support of palestinian and and criticing criticizing you know the zionist entity etc. although professor david miller's successful employment tribunal case hopefully will put paid to some of that discrimination that we've seen people being subjected to in the past, we covered that in in last week show, but we're going to just pause there now for moment to watch our second report, i mean this one's about bench appear. a prominent zenist based in the united states who co-founded the daily wire, a right-wing

conservative news website. another astroturfed design islamophobe who has been pushed in the same circles as douglas murray is ben shapero. long before his recent fore into rap music, benchapero penned an article about the palestinians titled 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, benchapera was funded by robert schillman, a tech billionaire on the board of israeli. military charity, the friends of the iof. shapero and the co-founder of the daily wire, jeremy

bouring, both helped israel lobbyist dennis prager set up the youtube channel prager university, where they worked on the israeli unit 8200 military intelligence veteran maurissa straight. in the early days of the daily wire, shapera 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 netanyahu as a speaker. today, the chief operating officer the daily wire is john lewis. 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 israeli intelligence dovdevan unit veteran idolman. ben shapiro is another

astroturfed racist in the same vein as douglas murray dispatched to wage psychological warfare to aid designist. entity and its genocidal war against palestinians and the people of the region. david and talking about ben shapiro there, i mean, what did he actually say about the activist rachel cory who was was killed by azines thug few years ago, made some offensive comments didn't he about that? he said that she was one of the greatest idiots the time, and uh, of course rachel cory is a iconic figure, i mean there's that famous video for her as young child talking about wanting to make the world. her and then of course she was murdered by the designs, we did a show on her, yes some months ago now, mean it's just f and beyond compare, this is a non-violent activist who was who was essentially murdered by the ziners for nothing, and that that's the kind of that's the level of the debate that we get from someone like benchapiro, no indeed, i think it was subsequently asked if he if he stood by those words and um he kind of double down

i believe you know yes i mean it's it's fail he's quite a revolting character but anyway jason mean tell us about rachel corey's case will you and and why it's been deemed so offensive, but bencharo's words have been deemed so offensive? almost you makes you choke if emotion when you talk about rachel corey, i mean as david said she was um somebody who was basically passively standing up against the the israeli regime um to keep her 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 the buldoza didn't see her um it was the parents then appealed to fortually was the only place that they could go to was the israeli courts arguing that a full extensive

investigation wasn't never took place and the decisions were very quickly made about who was responsible because the israely state of court found in favor of the israeli state, so we've never had a full investigation, we've the parents appealed it and again the supreme 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 happen. because there should have been as a clear investigation that found out exactly who was responsible and why? well david - this character bench piro's position at the the david horrowit's 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 horovit center is one of the key. islamophobic think tanks uh in the us, part the what's been called the islamophobic network, of course largely funded by cionists 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 the show um a little while ago, the association for the well-being of israel's soldiers and these send millions of dollars every year to directly to to uh 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 palestine and there's there needs to be the effective action taken against these kinds of organizations it's a 5013c non-profit and it should be closed down there

should be no space in us public culture for such an organization indeed well jason mean do you find propaganda? like shapiro and murry 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 utilize the different outputs that that exist. also we tend to live in a society and unfortunately now post acid certainly where the level of critical thinking, the level of understanding operates within a very much consumerist society and als 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 or 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 as opposed to alternative voices, they are the ones that obviously your consciousness um so it 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 to 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 conservatives or you vote for stars labor that doesn't really give you picture either um so i would say the potential is there for us 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

simplistic answer, they are offering an emotive answer as opposed to much more complicated answer that the left provide given that you do need complicated no indeed although just in terms of the influence on young people uh that's so the got a lot of resources that you that 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 parts, so it's maybe not cutting through maybe as much as they perhaps were doing in the past, do you think? well 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 propel their narrative forward, unfortunately, it it just just it's demonstrations where young people, especially

from urban areas, yeah um are are congregating, um, but we need to give them so much more empowerment and so much more space, indeed. well, david, i mean, what step do you think should be taken to hold the venue accountable that that did eventually host murry's event? well, so the venue was - john's wood synagogue so and that's obviously a place of worship for jewish people uh 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 epithetic zionist from its website although of course there are number of z organizations which are registered to the same address uh as the but it also means of course that this is a charity and it's

vulnerable to complaints to the charity commission, the united synagogues charity and st. john's wood synagog itself is a charity vulnerable to complaints in the charity commission about putting on and platforming racists and that's what we should be doing with all these organizations and they these organizations should be given the opportunity to say we have seen the error of our ways, longer sign up desanism and genocide and we will remove ourselves and resign from the sonist 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 and briefly cuz we're almost after, why do you think these propagandists get so much mainstream support? um, their backgrounds, they come from similar backgrounds in terms the public school networks. in terms of the top universities, so it's it's very much, 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 tufton street, which is basically a street full of right-wing think tanks, yeah, um, the the very wealthy 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 indeed and of course and and the zin 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 residence expert. professor david miller. palestine de classified will be back next week with more forensic investigations and analysis. in the meantime, please share today's program on your social media platforms to help us continue growing our

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