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Culture War Roundup for the week of February 27, 2023

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Awesome post. I had done some research but was too lazy to make a detailed post. Can you edit yours to include some of this information?

  • Between 75% and 97% of NSGP funding goes to Jewish groups. source 1 source 2 source 3

  • The group who “found” the extremism threat is Thomas Kaplan’s Counter Extremism Project. Kaplan is a big funder in getting us into war with Iran, funds the most prominent Jewish org 92nd street Y, and he funds (quite racist) ultra orthodox groups.

  • The threat originally came from Crew 319’s Telegram channel. Here Crew 319 talks about how he is just one person (2:30 in?) and has 20 subscribers on telegram.

  • Kaplan’s UANI lobbies to prevent medical goods from going to Iran through a name and shame strategy. Salon says he “is betting on war with Iran”

  • Kaplan has used his power to get academics fired for criticizing Israel’s war crimes in Palestine

  • “Kaplan, 47, regularly hobnobs with some of the most powerful Jewish philanthropists in New York. He and his wife, Daphna Recanati, a member of one of Israel’s wealthiest and best-known families, also support major scholarship programs for arts education at the Y and have given millions to other charitable causes in Israel and the United States. Separately, Kaplan—who wrote a 788-page Oxford dissertation on Malaysia’s geopolitical positioning during the Cold War before, in 1994, opening a firm that prospected silver mines with financial backing from George and Paul Soros”

  • The earliest chatter on the day of hate, after the ADL, was Lakewood-aligned orthodox groups and rabbis

  • In Florida, shortly before the day of hate, a man named Barry Nockowitz walked to a bus station and grabbed a four-year-old child and threw them against a wall. When the police came, he said he was “tired of the anti-semitism” and that he was looking for another child to attack. Barry was actually born Baruch Nockowitz, and he’s a Chabad-aligned Orthodox Jew. Baruch has a YouTube page still up, and on that page he posted a video of a black community leader speaking to a rabbi and talking how Jews and blacks ought to come together to fight a common enemy. Baruch almost certainly heard about the Day of Hate, and it’s likely his assault on the child was motivated by anti-gentile stochastic terrorism.

Some more info: we can be sure Kaplan is the primary funder of CEP because the advisor of his fund sits as the head, as well as a few other employees, and he is the only publicly-known funder. Ultra orthodox groups in NJ are no strangers to massive hoaxes and fraud. A few years ago they were caught doing welfare fraud in the millions and received no jail time, and the famous “cars for kids” commercial fraud is from Lakewood NJ.

very late edit for posterity and neuroticism: The CEP had a huge write up on this which, in addition to the news talking about “telegram channels investigated by the CEP”, make me 100% certain they were chiefly involved. However, I only saved passages from their article, because why would I have to save an archive if I can just google the passage? Welp, the original page that I read was deleted. The original article contained: “The event has been promoted in online channels by the Goyim Defense League (GDL), National Socialist Movement (NSM), Crew 319, and Clockwork Crew […] Crew 319 and Clockwork Crew are known to operate in Iowa (Des Moines) and Southern California, respectively.” This now brings up zero results from the CEP, which sucks because their original article was all about how they were the ones who started the investigation. In fact, it was linked to by the ADL.

Kaplan has used his power to get academics fired for criticizing Israel’s war crimes in Palestine

Framed like that it seems like you assume that Israel's war crimes in Palestine are settled fact. I don't think this is the case.

Do you think Ken Roth, the director of Human Rights Watch, might have some valid criticisms about Israel illegally taking over Palestinian land? Because that’s the academic who was cancelled by the ironically extremist funder of the Counter Extremism Project.

Do you think Ken Roth, the director of Human Rights Watch, might have some valid criticisms

No. The same as I discard wholesale the ADL accusations of antisemitism. Their job is to generate noise and false positives and take money. All kinds of professional activists - I feel nothing but contempt for them.

And taking land does not fit the definition of a war crime to begin with. It is the whole point of conquest.

Between 75% and 97% of NSGP funding goes to Jewish groups. source 1 source 2 source 3

I am not sure why you are using the present tense when your citations are a decade old.

Regardless, this states that, from 1994-2020, "[i]n 14 of the 21 years between 1994 and 2019 in which fatal terrorist attacks occurred, the majority of deaths resulted from right-wing attacks. In eight of these years, right-wing attackers caused all of the fatalities, and in three more—including 2018 and 2019—they were responsible for more than 90 percent of annual fatalities.11 Moreover, "All of the religious attacks and plots in the CSIS data set were committed by terrorists who ascribed to a Salafi-jihadist ideology." Similar trends are in the data here. It is fair to expect that Jewish organizations are vastly overrepresented in those targeted by people like that, so, since the grants are meant for "nonprofit organizations that are at high risk of terrorist attack," perhaps the grant numbers are not inappropriate.

The NSGP is designed to do what its lobbyists have lobbied for. The lobbyists are overwhelmingly Jewish groups. A sane analysis would not warrant 200mil a year for security enhancement grants when there is <1 terrorist attack at a synagogue per year. Since 2019 there have been three attacks which could conceivably be prevented at a synagogue. Many of the security upgrades are inessential and would have been purchased anyway, like security cameras and gates.

Synagogues are not more likely to face a crime, when looking at newspaper analysis and NIBRS reporting 1 2.

A sane analysis would not warrant 200mil a year for security enhancement grants when there is <1 terrorist attack at a synagogue per year

Since $200 million is a pittance, whether a sane analysis would warrant that spending depends entirely upon the dollar value of the benefits derived from the program, which you do not provide.

Many of the security upgrades are inessential and would have been purchased anyway,

They were both inessential yet nevertheless would have been purchased anyway? That seems unlikely. Surely it is essential things that are purchased anyway.

Between 75% and 97% of NSGP funding goes to Jewish groups. source 1 source 2 source 3

... U.S. Jewish NGOs to Get 97% of Homeland Security's Defense Grant in 2012

Well that saves me some time, thanks. I strongly suspected that but good to see it confirmed.

Greenblatt has the chutzpah to talk about churches getting these funds in his public statements.

What was the threat?

And no, I don't see any reality in which a tweet made by an Islamist with low engagement spirals into this sort of nationwide PR campaign that dovetails with lobbying for millions in Homeland Security grants. That's a hoax full and through. It was obvious to everyone in the DR that there was never such a thing, and as the weeks went by the PR campaign continued even though it was obvious to everyone that such a thing was not happening.

You even have an ambassador from Israel chastising the country for not being more outraged... at nothing. This is a hoax.

Yeah the ‘threat’ that killed 4000 Americans during 9/11.

Yeah the ‘threat’ that killed 4000 Americans during 9/11.

As Scott pointed out loooong ago, this is fewer than the number of Americans who are killed by fridges annually.

9/11 was fake news. Not in the sense that it was fake, but in the sense that it wasn't news. Sure, it's flashy, but 4000 fatalities is, in the grand scheme of things, a nothingburger.

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As Scott pointed out loooong ago, this is fewer than the number of Americans who are killed by fridges annually.

Not even close. About 10 are killed by a fridge falling on them. About 15 per year suffocated back when the doors actually latched; this was considered enough of a problem to ban said latches, and it is very rare now; in the rare cases where it does it almost always turns out to be a very old fridge with a latch.

Is there not significant violence and discord in France, Sweden, and Britain due to small Islamic minority in those places? Riots, honor killings, grooming gangs, bombings, etc? US muslims aren't as bad, but that is mostly, because they are high socio-economic-status immigrants. If we actually had large numbers of muslim peasants who really believed in their religion who were here and allowed to vote it would be a very different situation.

There's still that Building 7 that just collapsed without getting hit by a plane that was kind of fake?

What was the threat? There was no threat. But the ADL worked very hard to convince a lot of people that there was a threat, with Jewish blue check marks tweeting about how they were scared to go outside. That is a hoax, it's not normal or acceptable behavior that should be tolerated.

That is a hoax, it's not normal or acceptable behavior that should be tolerated.

Okay, so what should we all do about it?

For a start we shouldn't reward that behavior with a half a billion dollar slush fund. We should also keep this in mind the next time these same groups ask for special favors because of their alleged persecution.

It was absolutely a hoax. The “Islamist parallel” would be a random Islamist with no following making a tweet where he told his followers to distribute pamphlets about how Christians are evil and/or control the world. Such an irrelevant tweet with no views or engagement is utterly mundane on social media. There are threats with more engagement made every day. I don’t even know if this guy is real or a fed but it’s not even possible to find his content except on his irrelevant telegram channel crew_319.

Remember that the threat was to… distribute fliers about how Jews have an outsize influence on media. 🤔

You’re assenting that there is an organized grift to steal government funding. Why do you suppose that there is not an organized grift to pay less taxes, like Phil Knight? The problem with grift is that it tends to take over other aspects of life, too, even making grifts to cheat God’s Law and not just taxes.

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