by C J WERLEMAN
The Zionist state has been pumping billions of dollars into US-based groups to portray Muslims as a community of terrorists
Recent revelations that an anti-Muslim hate group allegedly paid thousands of dollars to two employees of a Muslim advocacy organisation to undermine American Muslim activists on behalf of the Israeli government are undoubtedly shocking but represent only the tip of the iceberg in what is now a decades-long effort by the Jewish State to harass, smear and threaten pro-Palestinian activists in the United States.
On December 15, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced it had fired Executive Director Romin Iqbal for collaborating with the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT), which is headed by Steve Emerson, a former journalist and a self-proclaimed expert on Islamic and Middle Eastern terrorist groups. IPT is deemed an anti-Muslim hate group by the Islamophobia Network because of the way it uses “unsubstantiated threats that portray Muslims as dangerous to accrue funding” and that Emerson has a reputation “for fabricating evidence to substantiate his ravings about Muslim extremism.”
Seven days later, another shoe dropped, with CAIR announcing it had discovered a second “spy” within its organisation, one who confessed to having been paid $3,000 per month over 4 years by IPT to “protect the Israeli government” by spying on a mosque in the US and “record prominent Muslim leaders.”
“One of Emerson’s goals, we were told, was protecting the Israeli government by undermining Muslims engaged in political and human rights activism,” said CAIR, while revealing a series of emails between Israeli officials and IPT, including one showing a request for information related to Students for Justice in Palestine, a student advocacy group.
Nihad Awad, CAIR’s national director, said his organisation had accumulated a lot of information on IPT, saying Emerson was “providing assistance to Israeli intelligence” and communicating with the office of then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Let me say that again. The Israeli government was collaborating with an anti-Muslim hate group,” said Awad.
The spying network
More than that, these are the actions of a rogue and adversarial state, not those of a self-proclaimed democratic ally, but we should hardly be surprised, given the nexus between Zionism and the Islamophobia industry is documented in great detail, starting with a Zionist-funded conference in 1979. The conclave brought together US neoconservatives with Likud Party figures to tie Islam to terrorism in mainstream political discourse, with the aim of tying Palestinian aspirations for liberation to “terrorism” in the minds of American voters, as observed by Professor Deepa Kumar in Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire.
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