Group Removes State Department From Its Website
A non-profit at the center of a controversy regarding its campaign to defeat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has removed the State Department from its website’s list of “partners,” this column has learned.
A snapshot taken by this reporter last month clearly shows the U.S. Department of State, replete with a logo, listed as a “partner” of the OneVoice Movement on the group’s website.
Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine also has a cache image taken in 2014 showing the State Department listed on the same “partner” page.
The State Department logo, however, is missing from the current version of the same page listing OneVoice’s partners.
A OneVoice spokesperson did not immediately return a request seeking comment on the issue.
One Voice is a U.S.-UK non-profit sponsoring V15, a new Israeli political action group leading a get-out-the-vote-organizing drive aimed at replacing Netanyahu’s government with a center-left coalition.
OneVoice’s offices in Tel Aviv are being used as the campaign headquarters for V15′s anti-Netanyahu effort, as this reporter first reported on WorldNetDaily.com.
It was OneVoice that reportedly hired 270 Strategies, a consulting firm whose senior leadership is comprised mostly of former top staffers for President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign. 270 Strategies has been consulting in V15′s campaign.
Uri Wollman, V15′s spokesman, told KleinOnline last month his group is primarily financed by three private donors, including OneVoice founder Daniel Lubetzky.
This past Sunday, Fox News quoted a source revealing that a bipartisan U.S. Senate committee with subpoena powers is investigating the possibility the Obama administration may have aided OneVoice’s efforts to defeat Netanyahu via grants from the State Department.
OneVoice received a State Department grant for $350,000.
OneVoice development and grants officer Christina Taler told the Washington Free Beacon last month that “no government funding” has gone toward the V15 voter Mobilization effort.
However, V15′s complete takeover of OneVoice’s Tel Aviv offices may raise some questions, not only about the grant usage, but about the State Department’s current partnership with OneVoice.
Egyptian Regime Fears For Its Life
The Egyptian president’s call for increased U.S. military aid this week was inspired by recent information that a major Islamic insurgency aims at toppling Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s secular regime.
A senior Egyptian intelligence official said ISIS, in conjunction with other jihadist groups, may be planning an unprecedented surge inside Egypt beginning as soon as next month.
The official said Cairo estimates the Sisi regime may collapse in the face of such an insurgency. He warned that if the moderate Sisi regime is toppled, the Middle East will become far less stable. “This is a very different story from anything that happening in last two to three years,” he said, referring to the planned insurgency.
Follow The Money
The Clinton Foundation has received regular donations from a George Soros-financed, far-left clearinghouse that also supports such groups as MoveOn.org, the former ACORN, and a litany of anti-war organizations, this reporter has found.
In 2008, after years of secrecy, the Clinton Foundation released a selected donor’s list that showed Soros’s Open Society Institute donated between $1 million and $5 million. It was also reported that the Soros Foundation, the European arm of the Open Society, donated to the Clinton charity somewhere from $500,000 to $1 million.
Soros himself expressed interest in a Hillary Clinton presidential candidacy when he donated $25,000 to the Ready for Hillary PAC and was named a co-chairman of the PAC’s national finance committee.
While the Clinton Foundation has not released its full donor list, another Soros-financed group has been a near-annual donor to the Clinton nonprofit.
The organization, the Tides Foundation, is heavily financed by Soros and by his various charities.
Tides functions as a money channel in which major leftist donors provide large sums that are dispersed to hundreds of radical groups.
Tides documentation reviewed by KleinOnline finds the group provided the following donations to various arms of the Clinton Foundation:
- * 2013: $48,500 to the Clinton Foundation
- * 2012: $12,000 to the Clinton Health Access Initiative, a program of the Clinton Foundation and another $3,000 directly to the foundation.
- * 2011: $19,000 to the Clinton Global Initiative, another branch of the Clinton Foundation.
- * 2009: $5,000 to the Clinton Foundation
The Tides Foundation is also a major donor to the progressive advocacy group Media Matters for America, run by longtime Clinton associate David Brock. Tides gave a total of $4.1 million to Media Matters during the fiscal years of 2004-2009, WND found.
Tides provided an additional $110,000 to Brock’s Media Matters Action Network, the group’s affiliated progressive lobby.
Brock is also in charge of American Bridge 21st Century, a pro-Hillary super-PAC.
Tides is one of the biggest financial backers of progressive and radical left groups in the U.S. For example, Tides was a primary funder of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, and the Tides Center’s board chairman is Wade Rathke, ACORN’s founder and chief organizer. Tides also is a primary funder of MoveOn.org, the American Civil Liberties Union, Campaign for America’s Future, the Center for American Progress, the Center for Community Change, the socialist-leaning Democracy Now!, the Marxist-founded Free Press and Marxist-oriented Institute for Policy Studies.
Tides has also been closely linked to Occupy since the anti-Wall Street movement’s inception. The Tides-funded Adbusters magazine is reported to have come up with the Occupy Wall Street idea after Arab Spring protests toppled governments in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia. The Adbusters website serves as a central hub for Occupy’s planning.
The Tides-funded Ruckus Society provided direct-action training to Occupy protesters as well as official training resources, including manuals, to Occupy training groups. Ruckus, which helped spark the 1999 World Trade Organization riots in Seattle, was also listed as a “friend and partner” of the Occupy Days of Action in October.