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KMC
20m ago
What I'm confused about: why is this a story at all?
It's meant to harass and intimidate him, to mark him as a target for leftists, specifically antifa, and to chill others who may want to express right wing opinions.
What is a random reader expected to do? Unless you happen to employ him, seemingly nothing.
It's not the random reader that this is intended for, it is for the radical reader. For the radical reader it means that the enemy has a name, a face, a place of work and a home. He has family and friends.
The point of anonymity and pseudonymity it to protect your real assets from retaliation, and that's how and why it is being used today just as much as it was for the Federalist Papers, and forever before then.
The_Nybbler
Does not have a yacht
24m ago
Yes, but the lower courts could just ignore that. Maybe in another 10 years the Supreme Court will finally take a case and issue a wishy-washy decision that the lower courts could then ignore again.
yunyun333
25m ago
i don't think the jews were worse than arabs, at least in their intentions. certainly, if the arabs had won, the end result for jews would have been worse than expulsion. but expulsion was still a Bad Thing, although there's nothing to be done about it now.
coffee_enjoyer
☕️
27m ago
nothing in the article makes likely a FARA violation
Seeking guidance from Israel in the context of a chat whose express purpose is actively changing politics in favor of Israel is more probably a FARA violation than not, because the very act of seeking guidance implies acting under the direction of a foreign principal. So, theoretically, we would just need to confirm that more than intending a FARA violation, they actually received the guidance and acted on it in some capacity.
There’s also
Members of the group also worked with the Israeli government to screen a roughly 40-minute film
Sitt wrote on Nov. 10 that the Israeli government “arranged for us” to screen the film in Gotham Hall
This is a semi-private chat. What are they doing privately when we know they at least aspired to commit FARA crimes?
RegularlyExpressed
40m ago
I am generally agree with the many posters above (below?) that misplaced maternal instinct is the reason for most of the extant female support for Palestine,
I think the coverage of the war by the liberal media/NGO complex plays at least as much of a role as maternal extinct. If the NYT, CNN etc started actually showing clips of Hamas stealing aid and shooting at their own emaciated civilians you'd probably see fewer women attributing the images of starving Gazan children to supposed Israeli malevolence.
2rafa
58m ago
Otherwise, no one would ever have to register for FARA (“I want to help Paraguay.
Almost nobody does, and indeed it’s telling that despite hundreds of ethnic and national diaspora interest activist groups in the US almost none of them violate FARA or even think about it.
You highlight public relations counsel, but a public relations counsel would be, for example, an American advising the Israeli government without reporting this interest, which the article doesn’t allege these billionaires did (it alleges the communication was the other way around).
are specifically asking them how to conduct pro-Israel advocacy.
That depends entirely on what the ‘guidance’ was, but again, nothing in the article guarantees or even makes likely a FARA violation. If a Russian-American attends a free lecture at the Russian consulate (delivered by a state university employee) on “Russophobia” and then becomes a pro-Russia activist, completely unpaid and without being under any direct instruction of the Russian government or any Russian agent, that isn’t a FARA violation according to most understandings of that law.
I don't know the full extent of what Israel's intelligence services do for the west because they obviously don't advertise it. We know that they're one of the largest and best-funded intelligence services in the world. Whatever it is they do with that money, Joe Biden clearly thinks the USA is getting their money's worth.
Since all of this stuff is top-secret one of the only things I can point to is a joke from an old British TV show. Yes, Minister and its sequel series Yes, Prime Minister were infamous for portraying the government of Britain so accurately that the actual government thought the show's writers had a spy on the inside feeding them stories. Yes, Prime Minister once did a joke about the British Foreign Office hiding strategic intelligence from the PM, and the Israeli ambassador passing that same intelligence to the PM in a secret meeting.
That's just a script from an old TV show, of course. But it's not like Mossad is going to come out and explain what they do for the governments of the west in exchange for all that money. All we can say is that whatever it is they do, the governments of the west are apparently satisfied with their performance.
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