Why is Michael Bloomberg Funding BDS and Attacks on Israel?

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Michael Bloomberg has become infamous for funding political activism undermining the Bill of Rights in the United States, but interestingly enough he’s also funding anti-Israel campaigns inside Israel, as Ronn Torossian reveals.

Bloomberg donated to the New Israel Fund which is, despite its name, a virulently anti-Israel organization that feeds money to “Destroy Israel” type groups.

For example, Alma Biblash, the Executive Director of the Human Rights Defenders Fund (HRDF) an organization to which the NIF authorized grants worth $332,625 from 2011-2013, has called Israel “racist,” and “murderous,” and described the country as a “temporary Jewish apartheid state.” Ms. Biblash supports Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns and promotes the Palestinian ‘right of return,’ meaning the elimination of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people.

Another recipient of NIF money was the Coalition of Women for Peace, which demands a boycott of all things Israeli, and has established a well-oiled database called “Who Profits” that targets Israeli businesses. NIF’s financial records indicate that it granted $109,615 to Breaking the Silence, which tours campuses accusing Israel of war crimes; $255,477 to B’Tselem, which provides cameras to groups that harass Israeli soldiers hoping to videotape the reaction and harm Israel’s image worldwide; and $209,161 to Adalah, which works to get Israel prosecuted in foreign jurisdictions and erase Israel’s Jewish identity. These three groups are among many NIF grantees that operate at the front line of anti-Israel agitation.

In July 2014, 10 NIF grantees launched a campaign to convince the UN Human Rights Council that Israel must be brought to justice for war crimes and targeting of civilians

While Ronn doesn’t believe that Bloomberg knows where his money is going, he’s a savvy businessman and I have trouble believing that he doesn’t understand what the NIF’s politics are. Yes out front the New Israel Fund talks about helping disadvantaged groups, but even the briefest look beyond its own publicity material at a site like NGO Monitor shows exactly what it really does.

  • pupsncats

    Bloomberg, Soros and other wealthy Jews use their money to fund so many organizations and entities that exist to bring about another Holocaust that one wonders if they are sane or simply evil.

    • kertitor

      Both. I wonder, who will be the target of the first Jewish suicide bomber. I vote Soros as main target

    • rensenbregar

      They are more “British” than “Jewish” and I will explain this theory of mine at a later date.

  • Sara

    True, he’s too smart to play the “I don’t know where the money is going” card, but he also flew El Al when the FAA banned flights to Israel. Mixed messages.

    • Lee

      No mixed messages. The funding outweighs any other “good” message.

  • http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/ Edward Cline

    So, Israel must be brought to justice for “war crimes and targeting civilians”? And, Hamas and Hezbollah and ISIS shouldn’t be? Not that Israel is guilty of the charges. But, one really must wonder about the epistemology of the NIF’s minions, but not too much, because it’s obviously based in Whacky Land and not reality.

  • Hard Little Machine

    The NIF is the closest thing to money laundering for Hamas you can legitimately get in the US.

  • reyol

    He’s a social engineer. Since he knows better than most of us how to acquire and manage billions of dollars, it follows that he is a superior type of human being and should be put in charge of our lives. Like confused puppies, we just don’t understand what’s good for us.

  • Lastango

    My best guess is that Bloomberg’s aim is to strengthen his relationships with Leftists who also donate to or sympathize with the NIF. Bloomberg participates in order to have something in common with them. The front provided by NIF gives him the plausible deniability he needs.

    The fact that this is utterly amoral and self-serving would never trouble Bloomberg.

  • herb benty

    Atheists of the world NEED Jews murdered, Israel destroyed, Christians eliminated. You don’t think they fear God? They sure do! Jews, Christians are the most persecuted peoples on earth- Islam the oppressors of course. And Islam doesn’t exist if the Judeo-Christian Faith is True, so THEY have a lot of reasons to hate Jews and Christians. God said this would happen, then the END comes.

  • rensenbregar

    Michael Bloomberg probably partially funded all these campaigns against his friends Christine Quinn, John Liu, Gabreilla Rosa, and all the politicians who have been arrested representing Northeast and Southeast Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx. He allowed the police to harrass and imprison members of the LGBT community, Asian, and African American communities into psychiatric hospitals illegally. This nanny-state capitalist upper east side Bostonian needs to be put in check by another Billionaire Queen!

  • Warren Raymond

    Bloombugger is heavily invested with the Arabs. Me thinks he does this as a fig leaf to show them his loyalties. In any case, a repugnant individual. Only Soros is worse.

  • Judy Silver-Shapiro

    He is more LOYAL to SON-OF-ISLAM obama and so-called ‘progressive’ entities and ‘Leftists’ then to the SECURITY and SAFETY of the SOVEREIGN ISRAEL-The JEWISH HOMELAND and her JEWISH citizens.

  • UncleVladdi

    Re: “Why is Michael Bloomberg Funding BDS and Attacks on Israel?”

    UM – BECAUSE BLOOMTURD CONVERTED TO ISLAM A FEW YEARS BACK?