The Jewish hand behind Internet
Google, Facebook, Wikipedia,
Yahoo!, MySpace, eBay...
By Freedom Research, June 2009
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In the following document we will give an insight into the Jewish
penetration of the Internet and also show the level of cooperation
between leading Jewish Internet entrepreneurs and the racist Jewish
Apartheid state of Israel.
The Jews - contrary to the "liberal" views they officially say
they profess - in their suppressive
acts practically
demonstrate that they always seek to dominate the information flow,
they don´t tolerate any dissent. It is just as when Israel says
"Shalom" while Israel´s military at the very same time
pounds its Arab neighbour states with bombs and missiles.
The Arabs have learnt the hard way the falsehood of these Jewish
statements, it is now time for the rest of the non-Jewish world to
get this right, and to see that the freedom of information on the Net
is seriously threatened.
This document will not cover the entire field. Also, as it is
timebound to an an anlysis that is from a 2009 perspective - things
will change. Companies will change names, new actors will appear. But
still this piece of work is unique and will give a guide into the
mechanisms behind the Net, mechanisms that will continue to act even
in the future. And as many of these Jewish entrepreneurs are
rather young and the Internet seems to be here to stay, we will hear
from them for a long time onward.
WARNING: Please note that the contents of some of
the sites with revealing Jewish material we have linked to below, may
be altered by the Jews in the future. Perhaps even information
contrary to this document and Radio Islam will replace
the original material we had linked to. This has happened before and
for our part just illustrates the level of Jewish
dishonesty.
Sections
Some Jewish "profiles"
behind information on the Internet
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Google´s Jew Sergey Brin
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Facebook´s Jew
Mark Zuckerberg
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Google
(which in 2006 acquired YouTube)
Founders Brin and Page are
Jewish
The Jewish site
SomethingJewish.co.uk writes in a review by
Marcus J. Freed of the book
"Richistan", 05/09/2007 on
"the
Jewish boys from Google":
The global economy is vastly different to 40 years ago
and today’s new billionaires include the Jewish boys from
Google, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, along with thousands of other
‘instapreneurs’.
Larry Page - who shares the title of Google President even has an
Israeli family connection.
B´nai B´rith Magazine, paper of one of the
mightiest Jewish organizations, writes in their article
"The
Searchmasters", spring 2006, on
"...Larry Page, whose mother
Gloria is Jewish". The Magazine continues:
Larry's maternal grandfather, however, followed a much
different path. He was an early settler in Israel, making aliyah
in the spartan desert town of Arad.
Sergei Brin and Larry Page
-"the Jewish boys from Google"
The Jewish entourage in
Google
The Jew
Craig Silverstein was the first employee hired by
Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
"I am generic East European
Jewish", Silverstein described himself in a recent
interview.
Silverstein was instrumental in developing the company's search engine, and was
Director of Technology at Google for many years.
The Jewish woman
Susan Wojcicki was the one who gave Google
office space to start the business. Susan Wojcicki has since become
Vice President of Product Management at Google overseeing AdSense, Google Book Search and Google Video.
In 2014 she has attained the highly influential position as the CEO of YouTube.
This while here likewise Jewish younger sister
Anne
Wojcicki, a biotechnology specialist, in May 2007 during
"a
traditional Jewish wedding" ceremony (according to Israeli paper
Ha´aretz, May 29, 2008) married the Google President
Sergey Brin. Keeping everything neatly within the tribe.
SomethingJewish.co.uk writes 24/05/2007:
Jewgle wedding
By: Leslie Bunder
The world's wealthiest Jewish bachelor is no more. Sergey Brin,
co-founder of search giant Google and worth over $16bn got hitched
to his long-time love Anne Wojcicki earlier this month in the
Bahamas, but so secret was the wedding, that it has only recently
been confirmed.
According to a report in the San Jose Mercury News, the wedding
took place under a chuppah with both Brin and Wojcicki confirming
their commitment to the Jewish faith, though no rabbi is said to
have officiated at the ceremony.
Wojcicki, is the sister of Susan Wojcicki who gave Google
office space to start the business.
In 2001, Brin's mother Eugenia commented she hoped he would
find a Jewish bride. "I hope he would keep that in mind," she
said.
Wojcicki, who has a background in biotechnology, has been
active in Jewish projects and currently sits on the board of
Reboot, a venture that engages Jews to explore their culture.
Recently, Wojcicki launched a biotech company 23andMe which has
seen Google itself invest several million dollars into it.
Justin Rosenstein was a top engineer at Google serving
three years as Google´s Product Manager for Page Creator.
Rosenstein was one of the first employees that Facebook´s Jewish
boss
Mark Zuckerberg poached from Google as
Facebook
began its rise in 2007. In 2008 Rosenstein left Facebook with
Facebook´s likewise Jewish co-founder,
Dustin Moskovitz,
to form a new company.
Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz
(left) and
Justin Rosenstein (right)
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Sheryl Sandberg
Another Jewish profile who has been important in the shaping of
Google is
Sheryl Sandberg.
Sheryl Sandberg was Google Vice President of Global Online
Sales & Operations, a position from where she built and managed
the online sales channels for advertising and publishing and
operations for consumer products globally. Sandberg was behind
Google´s AdWords, and sat in the board of Google´s
philantropic arm
Google.org.
Before Google, Sandberg worked for the Jew
Lawrence
Summers, first when he was Chief Economist of the World Bank,
then as his Chief of Staff when
Summers was Treasury
Secretrary in the
Clinton Administration.
The Jewish Chronicle (December 4, 2008) ran an article on
the book
"Jewish Wisdom for Business Success" - a book by
Rabbi Levi Brackman and Jewish journalist
Sam Jaffe -
where they argue that the Torah and ancient rabbinic texts are not
simply guides for holy living, they can also provide helpful career
advice.
The Jewish Chronicle writes:
Their book combines tips on good business practice
gleaned from the Bible, Midrash and Kabbalah with examples of
success stories such as Andy Klein, who quit corporate law to
start a brewery and ended up with an investment bank, or Sheryl
Sandberg, who rose to become vice president for global sales for
Google. And while there are role models to emulate, there also
ones to avoid: Pharaoh the gas ruach (man of coarse spirit) or
Korah, the ba’al ga’avah, the arrogant egotist.
Sheryl Sandberg
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As Vice President of Google´s Global Sales Sandberg was
behind the AdWords project which links paid advertisements to search
results, a gadget that allowed Google to turn their search engine
into
"extremely profitable business", as Rabbi Levi Brackman
and journalist Sam Jaffe write in their book
"Jewish
Wisdom for Business Success", p. 2. They have the case of Sheryl
Sandberg in the first chapter in their book as an example of Jewish
business sucess. In the same p. 2 of their book:
Early in 2008, she left Google to become the
second-in-command of Facebook, the emerging social-networking
company.
Sheryl Sandberg - Jewish "second-in-command of Facebook" - is
presently Chief Operating Officer at
Facebook.
As COO, Sandberg is responsible for helping Facebook scale its
operations and expand its presence globally. Sandberg manages sales,
marketing, business development, human resources, public policy,
privacy and communications and reports directly to Facebook’s
Jewish CEO
Mark Zuckerberg.
Sheryl Sandberg is well connected to the Jewish community and the
"philantropy" business, a favourite Jewish pastime where they can
take a small part of their enormous wealth gained from the
"goyim"
and put it in small projects completely after their taste, to
show how humane, generous and an openminded they are. Sandberg was
thus with
Daniel Sokatch, CEO of the Jewish Community
Federation of San Francisco, on a joint venture "addressing global
poverty and social justice issues through philanthropy", December 10,
2008.
She also sponsors Jewish activities at for instance the
Joshman
Family Jewish Community Center, a center that not so surprisingly
also has an
"Israel connection", as their website says. The
Joshman Center writes on this
"Israel connection":
Our mission is to strengthen relationships between
American Jews and the Israeli émigré community and
to build a deeper connection to Israel.
See:
http://www.paloaltojcc.org/index.php?src=gendocs&ref=Rambam's%20Ladder%20Award%20Dinner%20and%20Auction%202009&category=Special%20Events&submenu=Special_Events
Sandberg was included in Fortune's 50 Most Powerful Women of
2007.
She is married to former
Yahoo! music head
David Goldberg with whom she has two children.
More Google Jews - Elliot
Schrage, Ethan Beard, and the Rubins
Elliot Schrage
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The Jew
Elliot Schrage was since 2005 Google´s Vice
President of Communications and Public Affairs, the man who ran
Google´s PR. He had this important position until May 2008 when
he left for
Facebook to work under the same
role.
At Google, he broadened the company’s messaging from a focus
on only product PR to include all aspects of corporate, financial,
policy, philanthropic and internal communications. Before Google
Shrage served as a Senior Fellow at the
Council on Foreign
Relations, the Zionist infested "public policy think tank".
Schrage together with the Jewish US Holocaust Museum
launched the Darfur tool to Google Earth (see article
U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum and Google Join in Online Darfur Mapping
Initiative http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/darfur_mapping.html):
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum today joined
with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) to unveil an unprecedented online
mapping initiative aimed at furthering awareness and action in the
Darfur region of Sudan. Crisis in Darfur, enables more than 200
million Google Earth™ mapping service users worldwide to
visualize and better understand the genocide currently unfolding
in Darfur. The Museum has assembled content—photographs, data
and eyewitness testimony—from a number of sources that are
brought together for the first time in Google Earth. This
information will appear as a Global Awareness layer in Google
Earth starting today.
Google Earth’s Elliot Schrage, Vice President, Global
Communications and Public Affairs, joined Museum Director Sara J.
Bloomfield and Darfurian Daowd Salih at the launch.
Crisis in Darfur is the first project of the Museum’s
Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative that will over time include
information on potential genocides allowing citizens, governments
and institutions to access information on atrocities in their
nascent stages and respond.
"Educating today’s generation about the atrocities of the
past and present can be enhanced by technologies such as Google
Earth," says Bloomfield. "When it comes to responding to genocide,
the world’s record is terrible. We hope this important
initiative with Google will make it that much harder for the world
to ignore those who need us the most."
"At Google, we believe technology can be a catalyst for
education and action," said Elliot Schrage, Google Vice President,
Global Communications and Public Affairs. "Crisis in Darfur will
enable Google Earth users to visualize and learn about the
destruction in Darfur as never before and join the Museum’s
efforts in responding to this continuing international
catastrophe."
Of course spreading the knowledge of Israel´s genocidal
destruction of Palestinian infrastructure in Gaza in the 2009 assault
is not part of this education.
Scott Rubin, Communications Director, Google |
Andy Rubin, Former Leader of the Android Division
at Google |
Ethan Beard
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Another actor is
Ethan Beard who was Google´s Director
of Social Media. He has since left for
Facebook
to become Director of Facebook's Business Development and then
Facebook's Director of Platform marketing. There are indications that
he is Jewish.
Manber - Google´s Israeli
Vice President of Engineering
Google's Vice President of Engineering,
Udi Manber, is
Israeli and a graduate from the Israel´s Technion Institute in
Haifa.
He has a long record of top jobs in Internet related
positions.
Manber became the chief scientist at Yahoo! in 1998.
In 2002, he joined
Amazon.com, where he became "chief algorithms
officer" and a Vice President. He was later appointed CEO of the
Amazon subsidiary company A9.com, where he led the company's A9
search engine work. (Please see an
article on Amazon´s support for Israel.)
In 2006, Manber was hired by Google as one of Google´s Vice
Presidents of Engineering. In December 2007, he announced
Knol, Google's new project to create a knowledge
repository. As of October 2010 Manber is also responsible for all the search
products at Google, thus we now have an Israeli Jew in a center position in the
information hub of the world.
Manber as a senior Google operative, interacts with the
Judeo-Zionist community.
Here is an advertisment which discloses how Google´s Manber
will sit with a Rabbi and discuss Talmud and the Web (
http://www.oakland.com/google-s-talmud-the-web-jewish-culture-and-the-power-of-associative-thinking-e394931):
Thu Sep 18, 2008
Contemporary Jewish Museum presents
Google’s Talmud: The Web, Jewish
Culture, and the Power of Associative Thinking
Location
The Contemporary Jewish Museum
736 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
district: Downtown/Financial District
Location Date and Time
Thu Sep 18, 2008 (7:00 PM - 8:30 PM)
Description
One of the hallmarks of Jewish culture and scholarship is an
emphasis on commentary and “associative thinking,” a
method essential to the creation of the Talmud and thousands of
years of Biblical commentary. Udi Manber, Google’s Vice
President for Engineering and best-selling technology critic
Howard Rheingold will join Rabbi Lawrence Kushner in a panel
discussion exploring the connections between art, technology, and
Jewish culture, as seen through the new social, intellectual, and
spiritual implications of the idea of “search.” This
will be followed by a discussion with Dan Schifrin, the
Museum’s director of public programs and writer in
residence.
Advertisement for the event was also made in the
Jewish
Weekly:
http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/35726/calendar/
Udi Manber, Google´s Israeli
Vice President of Engineering
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Google's Jewish activist mole Jared Cohen
“Google ... in reality they are doing
things the CIA cannot do."
The Jew
Jared Cohen is the present connector between the
Zionist-infiltrated U.S. State Department and Google. Cohen had the
strategic position as a member of the U.S. Secretary of State's
Policy Planning Staff under both
Condoleezza Rice and later
Hillary Clinton before turning his attention to Google in
2010. At Google this Zionist mole has the position as the Director
of Google Ideas, a Google-run think tank aiming to "apply technology
solutions to solve the world’s problems".At the U.S. State Department Cohen had been specifically
involved in Iran and Middle East affairs. Even in the Wikipedia's
entry on Cohen this is presented as a common fact:
He played an instrumental role in helping shape
counter-radicalization strategies and advised on US policy
towards Iran and the Middle East. Beginning in April 2009, Cohen
led specific delegations focused on connecting technology
executives with local stakeholders in Iraq, Russia, Mexico,
Congo, and Syria.
In the midst of the June 2009 protests in Iran, Cohen sought
to support the insurgents.
Along with many other influential Zionist Jews
Cohen also
has been acitive at the CFR - The Council on Foreign Relations.
The Jew Jared Cohen, Google, Stratfor, Mossad.
Since joining Google
Jared Cohen has left a trail of
evidence of his agenda and activism.
Wikileak's
Julian Assange writes on Cohen - a person he
describes as
"a kind of Generation Y Kissinger figure" - in
the article
"Google and the NSA: Who’s holding the ‘shit-bag’ now?" (
Wikileaks,
August 27, 2013):
It was revealed last week, thanks to Edward Snowden, that
Google and other US tech companies received millions of dollars
from the NSA for their compliance with the PRISM mass
surveillance system.
So just how close is Google to the US securitocracy?
[...]
Jared Cohen was the co-writer of Eric Schmidt’s book, and his
role as the bridge between Google and the State Department
speaks volumes about how the US securitocracy works. Cohen used
to work directly for the State Department and was a close
advisor to both Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. But since
2010 he has been Director of Google Ideas, its in-house
‘think/do’ tank.
Documents
published last year by WikiLeaks obtained from the US
intelligence contractor Stratfor, show that in 2011 Jared Cohen,
then (as he is now) Director of Google Ideas, was off running
secret missions to the edge of Iran in Azerbaijan. In these
internal emails, Fred Burton, Stratfor’s Vice President for
Intelligence and a former State Department official,
describes Google as follows:
Google is getting WH [White House] and State Dept
support and air cover. In reality they are doing things
the CIA cannot do…[Cohen] is going to get himself
kidnapped or killed. Might be the best thing to happen
to expose Google’s covert role in foaming up-risings, to
be blunt. The US Gov’t can then disavow knowledge and
Google is left holding the shit-bag.
In further internal communication, Burton subsequently
clarifies his sources on Cohen’s activities as Marty Lev,
Google’s director of security and safety and... Eric Schmidt.
WikiLeaks cables also reveal that previously Cohen, when
working for the State Department, was in Afghanistan trying to
convince the four major Afghan mobile phone companies to move
their antennas onto US military bases. In Lebanon he covertly
worked to establish, on behalf of the State Department, an
anti-Hezbollah Shia think tank. And in London? He was offering
Bollywood film executives funds to insert anti-extremist content
into Bollywood films and promising to connect them to related
networks in Hollywood. That is the Director of Google Ideas.
Cohen is effectively Google’s director of regime change.
That Google was taking NSA money in exchange for handing over
people’s data comes as no surprise. When Google encountered the
big bad world, Google itself got big and bad.
The article
"StratforLeaks: Google Ideas Director Involved in ‘Regime Change’"
(
Al Akhbar news site, March 14, 2012) goes into greater
detail on Stratfor and Cohen and what they call the
"The Cohen
Conspiracy". (Note that the boss and founder of Strafor by the
way is another Jew, the Hungarian born
George Friedman).
See also the article
"Wikileaks: Google caught in spy games on execs and ‘regime
change’" (
Mondoweiss, March 21, 2012) which also
deals with the issue.
The article
"WikiLeaks claims Google director helped the NSA spy on
Afghanistan" (
RT News, May 28, 2014) deals more with
Cohen's connection to U.S Government's NSA spying agency and
Afghanistan:
According to WikiLeaks, there may be much more to the story.
Also last week, the anti-secrecy group tweeted that Jared Cohen
— the 32-year-old current director of Google Ideas and a former
US State Department advisor — has a history that connects him to
a program that may have put Afghan signals intelligence, or
SIGINT, into the hands of US investigators. [...] “Google
Idea's director Jared Cohen was tasked with getting Afghan
telcos to move towers to US bases when at DoS,” WikiLeaks
tweeted.
It should also be noted that
Jared Cohen has a friendly and
personal relation with the boss of Twitter,
Jack Dorsey, a
connection Cohen used for his operations against the government of
Iran. The article
"Google to open 'Google Ideas' global technology think tank"
in
Fortune (August 15, 2010) tells the story (underlines
below added by
Radio Islam):
Cohen who has traveled widely in the Middle East, was tracking
developments on the ground by following the English and
translated Farsi postings of Iranian dissidents and opposition
candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi on Twitter. Their protests about
fraud in President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election, and the
violent government crackdown that followed it, were flying to
the outside world in 140-character-or-less bursts of comment.
Cohen read that the microblogging service was about to shut
down its operations for maintenance. Although the shutdown would
be routine and brief (and in the middle of the night in U.S.
time zones), the prospect chilled the dissidents’ leaders.
Because the government was blocking cell phone texting, Twitter
had become a lifeline. The protests were reaching a crescendo:
What might happen if Twitter went silent in the middle of a
turbulent day?
So Cohen emailed his friend Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s
co-founder and chairman. Dorsey had been part of a Silicon
Valley delegation that Cohen had led to the Middle East
earlier that spring to explore prospects for rebuilding Iraq. In
a series of emails, Cohen asked Dorsey if the company was
aware of the suddenly prominent role that it was playing on the
international stage.
The rest—more or less—is history. Twitter agreed to
postpone its upgrade for a few hours, and the pipeline of free
expression continued uninterrupted in Iran. The Iranian
government accused the Obama administration of meddling in its
internal affairs, but a spokesman said Cohen’s call was
“completely consistent with our national policy. . . . We are
proponents of freedom of expression.” By the end of the year,
CNN was including Cohen’s call to Twitter on a list of the Top
10 Internet moments of the decade, along with the launch of
Facebook and the introduction of the iPhone.
Jared Cohen and friends
Google’s Jason Spero - friend of ADL boss Greenblatt
Jason Spero is Google's Jewish Vice President of Performance & Programmatic
and the Global Business Lead for Search, Display, Shopping, Analytics and
DoubleClick offerings.
He comes from well-connected circles, his mother is professor
Joan E. Spero, who
has been a United States Ambassador to the UN. One of
Jason Spero's study
buddies is none else than the present
ADL
chief
Jonathan Greenblatt, as admitted by the latter in a
forum on "anti-Semitism" held by the Council on Foreign Relations in 2019:
GREENBLATT:
[...] So number one, Silicon Valley—so if only, Joan, I knew
somebody at Google who could help me with this. Full disclosure, I went to
business school with Joan’s son, who’s an executive at Google. (Laughter.)
(See
full transcript)
It should be noted that in the same forum
Greenblatt revealed
his censorship cooperation beteween ADL and Google and other Internet
platforms:
So we work with Google on using AI to try to interrupt
cyberhate before it happens. We work with YouTube to have—to get
them to change their algorithms, so it lessens the likelihood
that a young person’s going to run into some of these
anti-Semitic conspiratorial videos. We work with Facebook on
trying to use a redirect method, so when you search for
Holocaust as a hoax, you get directed to, like, Yad Vashem page.
So there are different ways they can tweak their algorithms and
adjust their products, so they think not only about free
speech—not only protect the user’s right to free speech but
protect the user’s right to not be harassed or hated.
(See full transcript)
Jason Spero
Google’s Jewish guru of
giving
In the article
"Google’s guru of giving" (
http://www.financialexpress.com/news/googles-guru-of-giving/265113/0), January 24, 2008,
The Financial Express details
Larry Brilliant. Dr Brilliant led the Internet giant’s
philanthropic arm
Google.org, where he ruled over a and
40-strong team:
As well as adopting the informal company motto,
“Don’t be evil”, the internet search firm’s
co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, decided to commit Google
to engage in serious philanthropy. Innovative as ever, they
created a new sort of philanthropic entity, a division of the
company that could pursue its mission through both for-profit
investing and making charitable grants. This, they hoped, would
one day “eclipse Google itself in overall world impact by
ambitiously applying innovation and significant resources to the
largest of the world’s problems.”
It would be funded with 1% of the firm’s equity, annual
profits and employees’ time.
In February 2006, after a lengthy search, Dr Brilliant was
appointed to run Google.org. Media reports focused on the old
hippy’s colourful past, not least his spell as a doctor with
the Grateful Dead, a legendary 1960s rock band. What attracted his
new employers was his unique record of success both in running
Silicon Valley tech firms and in implementing large-scale
solutions to big social problems.
[...]
Though he has taken nearly two years to produce a strategy for
Google.org, Dr Brilliant has not been taking things easy. He may
have added a taste for Hindu meditation to his Detroit Jewish
roots (he once shared a guru with Apple’s boss, Steve Jobs),
but he is a driven man, travelling widely and seeking advice from
hundreds of people, pushing himself harder than friends say is
wise for a sexagenarian. When he arrived at Google.org he found
extraordinarily high expectations, a blank sheet of paper to fill
with a strategy, and “microscopic attention” from
outside on what it was doing.
During his time as Google´s philantropic boss Brilliant
combined his work with his dedication for Jews and Judaism. For
instance Brilliant, as Executive Director of
Google.org,
appeared as a speaker at the Jewish Community Federation in San
Fransisco´s Business Leadership Council Breakfast meeting.
February 28, 2007. According to the organization´s homepage
(
http://www.sfjcf.org/aboutjcf/press/2007/brilliant.asp):
Larry Brilliant, Executive Director of Google.org, will
share his vision for “Healing a Broken World” with
attendees at the second annual Business Leadership Council
Breakfast on Wednesday, February 28, 2007.
[...]
Dr. Larry Brilliant is the Executive Director of Google.org, the
umbrella organization which includes the Google Foundation as well
as partnerships with and contributions to for-profit and nonprofit
entities.
[...]
Sponsored by AT&T and Levisohn Venture Partners, this special
BLC event is open to all donors who contribute $1,000 or more to
the 2007 San Francisco-based Jewish Community Federation’s
Annual Campaign. Donors under the age of 40 who contribute $500
are also welcome.
The Jewish Community Federation is the central organization for
fundraising, planning, outreach and leadership development for
Jewish communities in San Francisco, the Peninsula, and Marin and
Sonoma counties. In fiscal year 2006, the Federation’s annual
campaign allocated $18.3 million to some 60 agencies providing
social services, educational and cultural programs in the Bay
Area, in the U.S., Israel and elsewhere in the world. In fiscal
year 2006, the Federation’s Endowment Fund, with assets
exceeding $1.8 billion, provided more than $203 million for a
variety of grants, seed projects and emergency needs. For more
information, call 415.777.0411 or visit www.sfjcf.org.
So here we can see how the Google boss fraternises with an
organization that is interrelated to the Zionist state.
In April 2009 Larry Brilliant, after 3 years at Google, said he
was parting ways with the Internet giant, leaving
Google.org
to join a new organisation set up by former
eBay
President and Jew,
Jeff Skoll. But Dr Brilliant also said he
would remain as an
advisor to Google.
Some more names...
As has been noted in
more detail below, the
Jewish small sister of Facebook boss
Mark Zuckerberg,
Arielle
Zuckerberg,
in 2012 recruited as a Google
employee as Google acquired the social media marketing platform
company Wildfire, where
Arielle works (see article
"Google
Acquires Mark Zuckerberg’s Sister",
webpronews.com, July
31, 2012).
The Israeli Jewess
Shimrit Ben-Yair is a Product Manager
at Google+, Google's social networking service and the main
competitor to Zuckerberg's Facebook. Ben-Yair met with war criminal
and Israeli President
Shimon Peres at the Google Headquarters
in 2012 and in
her
posting on that event revealed her Zionist leanings and
sentiments:
I had the great honor of meeting Israeli President Shimon Peres
yesterday! He visited Google and saw some cool demos: the latest
in Google Earth, Translate, Google+ and of course our self
driving cars.
Many of you know how passionate President Peres is about
promoting peace in the middle east, but I was surprised to learn
how tech savvy he is! Not only did he thoroughly enjoy the
demos, but he was also asking really great questions about the
underlying technology and algorithms. At 88 years old, he is
truly inspiring.
Google’s Israel
connections
Here follows a most revealing article on how Google´s Sergey
Brin, Facebook´s Mark Zuckerberg and Yahoo´s President
Susan Decker, are invited by the Israeli leadership to Israel, during
Israel´s 60th anniversary celebrations:
Facebook, Google founders to attend
Jerusalem conference in May
By Guy Grimland, Ha´aretz Correspondent
Ha´aretz 01/04/2008
Co-founder of internet giant Google, Sergey Brin, will join
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and Yahoo president Susan Decker
at a presidential panel on technology to be held at the Jerusalem
International Convention Center May 13-15.
The convention, which was formed at the initiative of President
Shimon Peres, will also be attended by a number of Israeli
political, religious and financial leaders, as well as academics
and cultural figures.
The panel will discuss issues facing technology in today's age
and the future, in particular in regard to how it will affect
Israel and the Jewish world.
Former UK prime minister Tony Blair will also take part in the
conference, as will French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner,
former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former prime
minister of the Czech Republic Vaclev Havel, Nobel Prize Laureate
Eli Wiesel, and Georgia President Michael Saakashvili
The
Israel News Agency also writes (
http://www.israelnewsagency.com/israel60thbirthdaypresidentsconferenceshimonperesanniversaryjerusalemolmertfacingtomorrow48050708.html):
In attendance, in addition to many national presidents
and heads of state will be dignitaries from the worlds of business
and academia. Among them are Sergey Brin, founder of Google and
Susan Decker of Yahoo. Dr. Miriam and Sheldon Adelson will be
serving as the honorary chairpersons for the Israel 60th Birthday
Presidential Conference which has enthusiastically attracted the
attention of Jewish leaders and others worldwide.
And
B' nai B' rith Magazine (
http://bnaibrith.org/magazines/2008FallBBM/future-concerns-mariaschin.cfm)
are also happy with the representation:
I was particularly impressed with the large numbers of
young people in attendance, representing Israeli universities and
aliyah organizations like MASA. At the conclusion of the panel
discussion moderated by Israeli entrepreneur Yossi Vardi and
featuring, among others, Brin, the co-founder of Google; Susan
Decker of Yahoo; and Rupert Murdoch, several dozen young adults
crowded on stage to meet the speakers—and more than one
business card was exchanged.
Google´s Sergey Brin at Western
Wall, Jerusalem
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We write more on the Zionists attending this conference in our
section on
Yahoo!.
In March 2012 the Israeli President
Shimon Peres
- the arch-Zionist and the man behind the
Qana No 1 massacre in Lebanon - visited the Google headquarters in Silicon
Valley, USA, where he was gladly greeted by Google's Jewish boss
Sergey Brin.
The pics below are from one of Google's Israeli-Jewish employees and can be accessed through the following link:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/102600774742322762226/posts/5o5uBKzZYGp
Israeli site
YNet News writes
in an
article 8th March 2012:
Peres receives 3D tour
of his life at Google
Google
founder provides president with virtual tour of important milestones
in his life during his visit to Silicon Valley. Peres asks Brin to
'deepen cooperation with Israel's R&D centers'
By Yair Altman
President Shimon Peres met with Google founder Sergey Brin on Thursday, during a tour of
Google Headquarters in California. Peres is on a four-day trip through
Silicon Valley, where he will promote Israel's hi-tech industry.
During his visit, Peres received a virtual tour of his childhood
neighborhood in Poland with the help of Google Earth's 3D satellite
software.
The virtual tour, which was displayed on five 3D
screens, began in Peres' place of birth – Vishneva (known today as
Belarus). Brin continued the tour with a virtual glimpse of the
moon, where the two were able to look at a computerized model of the
"Apollo 11" spacecraft.
A statement by the President's Office said that during the tour,
Peres requested to look over Israel and Jerusalem, the Western Wall
and the Church of Mary Magdalene, all in 3D.
Following the tour, Brin and Peres held a meeting in which Brin
showed Peres some other technological developments.
Peres reportedly asked his host to expand the cooperation with
Israel's R&D centers.
Throughout his four-day visit to Silicone Valley, President Peres
also met with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday, who helped
him launch a personal page on Facebook.
In addition,
Peres also answered questions from the site's users and launched a
YouTube video clip meant to promote his Facebook page.
See also a revealing YouTube clip of the event:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vlSdcUnZSI
In 2009
Chad Hurley,
CEO of YouTube
(acquired by Google in 2006) officially visited Israel.
The Jewish
Telegraphic Agency (
December 8, 2009) revealed that
"Peres inaugurated his channel Tuesday afternoon alongside YouTube founder Chad Hurley, who made a
special trip to Israel for the event" (our underline).
The Israeli Globes' article
"YouTube CEO and founder Chad Hurley visits Israel" (published 7 December 2009)
also describes how under that trip CEO
"Hurley is meeting users and will attend the launch of President Peres's personal YouTube channel"
and Hurley is quoted saying that
"Israel has an important role to play in the development of YouTube".
See also the video from the Jewish site WeJew.com and their clip (taken from Israel National News)
"in honour of Chad Hurley"
on his meeting with Israeli Jews discussing YouTube at the offices
of Google Israel:
YouTube
Founder in Israel
In 2012 Google Executive Chairman
Eric Schmidt
was an honoured guest and speaker at
Shimon Peres' Israel Presidential
Conference (see
The Jewish Press, June 20th, 2012).
Shimon Peres and Google Executive Chairman
Eric Schmidt
Google´s business
cooperation with Israel
Ha´aretz online edition 15/05/2008, writes:
Google co-founder lauds Israeli
innovation in tech, environment
By Lior Kodner, Haaretz Correspondent and Haaretz Service
Google co-founder Sergey Brin on Thursday lauded Israeli
innovations in technology and environmental efforts, saying Israel
"takes our climate challenges very seriously."
Brin, visiting as a delegate to President Shimon Peres'
Presidential Conference, told Haaretz that these challenges have
"great geopolitcal ramifications on this country, in addition to
environmental ones."
He noted that Israel's leading efforts in the field of
sustainable energy, saying: "Obviously in Israel they need to
innovate with water and things like that. I was really intrigued
to see drip irrigation. I just realized that came out of
Israel."
Brin gave particular attention to Israel's work in
environmentally friendly transportation.
A prototype of the world's first fully electric car was
demonstrated for the first time on Sunday in Tel Aviv, by Israeli
entrepreneur Shai Agassi.
Developers hope the car will revolutionize transportation in
the country and serve as a pilot for the rest of the world. If all
goes as planned, Israel will be the first country to have electric
cars on its highways in large numbers in the next few years.
Brin also spoke about new projects ongoing at Google, including
the "huge range of efforts" being made on mobile technology and
the patience needed in the field.
"I think it takes a while to devlop the technology, to
devlop,
to educate advertisers about it," he said. "We have to
bootstrap everything. our search based targeted ads took a number
of yearsand people are expecting overnight that you work a
miracle. It is a combination of technology, advertising networks,
abd user expectations. All those things have to come together and
that takes time," he said.
During his visit, Brin toured Jewish sites, including the
Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin, attending the World Economic Forum
in Davos, announced the establishment of an R&D center in Israel.
Ha´aretz 30/01/2006 writes:
Google founder plans R&D center in
Israel
By Guy Rolnik
DAVOS, Switzerland – Google “is in the process of
establishing an R&D center in Israel,” Sergey Brin, a
founder of the Internet search titan, told Haaretz during the
World Economic Forum here. Brin and co-founder Larry Page were
among the more visible participants at the economic conference.
Both have a solid connection with Israeli entrepreneurs in the
Internet field.
A Google executive told Haaretz that the company had recently
recruited a large number of academics, engineers, mathematicians,
statisticians and economists for additional development of the
company’s search engine algorithm and its smart ad systems on
the Net. There is still a shortage of quality personnel for
developing analytic tools and predicting the massive volume of
information accumulated on the search engine.
[...]
Last summer, Google decided to establish a local marketing and
sales branch in Israel to bolster its advertising revenues in the
Israel market. Google hired Meir Brand to head its Israel office,
choosing a former Microsoft executive just as it had done in
China.
[...]
Ha´aretz interview with Sergey Brin in Israel, May 29,
2008:
[...]
This is Brin's third visit to Israel. The first time was with his
parents, when he was still a teenager, and the second was in
September 2003, when Google was still a relatively small,
privately owned company. Last week, however, Brin arrived here as
the head of one of the largest and most influential companies in
the world.
How has Israel changed since your previous visits?
"It's pretty impressive just to see how the tech industry has
continued to grow. The development, kind of just looking at the
city of Tel Aviv. I mean, there are a bunch of buildings. Maybe
I'm crazy, but I feel like there are lots of buildings that
weren't here when I was here last. And I've just seen some of the
companies and their state of development, the levels developed
here - it's just incredible."
[...]
Did your family ever consider immigrating to Israel?
"Boy, I need to ask them that. In fact, my great-grandmother
lived in the U.S. for a period of time, so we did have some ties
to the U.S. I think my dad actually had a colleague who had moved
to the U.S., who had given him greater certainty [with respect
to] the job market. And those were the big factors. But I can
ask. My parents are here with me - I mean, not in the office, but
in Israel."
In hindsight, considering what you see now in the U.S. and
Israel, if your parents had come here, do you think we would have
Google today?
[Laughs] "Look, I've been very lucky in my life, and
I'm sure there've been lots of random circumstances that have
contributed to that, so I probably would not be the first to
change it. But looking at the kinds of innovation and development
that I see here now, I certainly think it's possible to enjoy
great success coming to Israel."
The article
"Google Acquires Israeli Security Startup" (
The Jewish
Press, February 16th, 2014) tells the story of how Google now
incorporates
Israeli experts into its computer login security and
authentication processes. A fact that is highly interesting in the
light of Israel's customary use of Jews around the world to take
the role of
"sayanim" to aid the Jewish state's covert operations and
surveillance programmes.
Google Acquires Israeli Security Startup
By: JTA
Published: February 16th, 2014
Google has acquired the Israeli internet security startup
SlickLogin.
The Israeli company made the announcement Sunday on the
homepage of its website, signed by CEO Or Zelig, CTO Eran
Galili, and VP R&D Ori Kabeli.
“Today we’re announcing that the SlickLogin team is joining
Google, a company that shares our core beliefs that logging in
should be easy instead of frustrating, and authentication should
be effective without getting in the way,” the announcement said.
The company was established last summer to simplify computer
login security, the Israeli business daily Globes reported. The
company has not yet brought a product to market, and has no
clients.
SlickLogin is working on technology that would verify a user
using low-frequency sound sent through the computer’s speakers
that would be picked up by the user’s smart phone, which would
confirm the user’s identity
Google acquired the Israeli app Waze in June for nearly $1
billion.
Google´s cooperation with
Jewish censors
Below are some articles illustrating how Google assists Jewish
Internet censorship. The articles show that Google follows dictats
from ADL and the Zionist Organization of America, that Google
"robots" censor pro-Palestinian bloggers, and that sites like
Radio Islam
are censored.
- ADL Praises Google for Responding to
Concerns About Rankings of Hate Sites
includes letter from Google Jew Sergey Brin and
Google´s explantion for the word "Jew"
- How the Zionist Organization of
America shapes Google´s policies
ZOA complains about "anti-Semitism" ...and Google adjusts
promptly
- ZOA Convinces Google to Change the
Earth
the Zionist Organization of America changes the way we view the
World through Google Earth
- Google´s war on
pro-Palestinian bloggers
Google´s "robots" unmasked, Is Google ethnic cleansing the
Internet?
- Uruknet
cut off from Google News again! - external link
information on how an Iraq war information site is being censored
by Google
-
Don't see Evil - Google’s boycott campaign against war photography and
alternative media - external link
By Dan Sanchez."Founder Sergey Brin’s work at Stanford
University on what would later become Google received funding and even
oversight from the CIA and the Pentagon through a program created to seed
and incubate technology research that could later prove useful for
information warfare."
- Harassment by The
YouTube Team — An open message to Sergey Brin
By Anthony Lawson
-
Who Runs
the Internet?
Revealing video on ADL censorship of Google and YouTube,
compiled by
Know More News.
-
Jewish ADL
(Anti-Defamation League) works with Google, YouTube and Facebook
to use A.I. Algorithms to censor "Anti-Semitic Conspiracy
Theories"
ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt revealed in a
February 26 2019 panel hosted by the Council on Foreign
Relations:
"So we work with Google on using AI to try to interrupt
cyberhate before it happens. We work with YouTube to have—to get
them to change their algorithms, so it lessens the likelihood
that a young person’s going to run into some of these
anti-Semitic conspiratorial videos. We work with Facebook on
trying to use a redirect method, so when you search for
Holocaust as a hoax, you get directed to, like, Yad Vashem page.
So there are different ways they can tweak their algorithms and
adjust their products, so they think not only about free
speech—not only protect the user’s right to free speech but
protect the user’s right to not be harassed or hated."
(See full transcript)
- Jew Gotta’ Friend At
Google - what is "hate speech"?
Google News stops indexing what it calls "hate spech"
- "Google This"! - on
Google´s Israel rush
by Philip Jones, Rense.com
- Google Fascists?
looking into the worrying implications of Google's near monopoly
of web search engines
- Censorship of the
Internet - study reveals Google censorship of Radio
Islam´s sites
by Germar Rudolf
Here we will give attention to one extra article to show how the
Zionist organization
ADL cooperates with Google. In 2007 a conference
was held in Israel with ADL, the International Network Against
Cyberhate, and Google´s Israel Director
Meir Brand.
Ha´aretz, 12/11/2007, writes:
Organizers of the conference representing the
Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish group that counters
anti-Semitism, brought examples of anti-Jewish hate material
freely available on the Internet, and participants called for more
action to stop it.
[...]
He [Meir Brand] said Google removes results from its
search index only when required to by law, for example, when
copyright infringement is an issue. In Germany and Austria, he
said, Google removes Nazi content, which is against the law there.
Recognizing the problem, however, Google has instituted a
warning system for hate entries, taking viewers to a page warning
that some of the search results may be offensive, and noting that
opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect Google's views.
Just as a small reminder ADL:s Director
Abraham Foxman was
one of many top Jewish dignitaries in Israel celebrating
Israel´s 60th Anniversary back in 2008.
Appendix
Excerpts from the article "Sergey Brin: the Google
revolutionary", by Mark Malseed, The Jewish Chronicle,
April 6, 2007 [the complete article can be read
here]:
"This intensity emerges during weekly strategy meetings,
where he and Page — who share the title of Google president
— command the last word on approving new products, reviewing
new hires and funding long-term research.
Brin also holds sway over the unscientific but all-important
realms of people, policy and politics."
"Brin’s Jewish sensibility is, likewise, grounded
in his family’s experience of life in the Soviet Union, and
their eventual emigration to the United States. “I do
somewhat feel like a minority,” he says. “Being Jewish,
especially in Russia, is one aspect of that. Then, being an
immigrant in the US. And then, since I was significantly ahead in
maths in school, being the youngest one in a class. I never felt
like a part of the majority. So I think that is part of the Jewish
heritage in a way.”"
"As a young boy, though, he had only a vague awareness
of why his family wanted to leave their native Russia. He picked
up the ugly details of the antisemitism they faced bit by bit
years later, he says. Nevertheless, he sensed, early on, all of
the things that he wasn't - he wasn't Russian; he wasn't welcome
in his own country; he wasn't going to get a fair shake in
advancing through its schools. Further complicating his
understanding of his Jewish identity was the fact that, under the
atheist Soviet regime, there were few religious or cultural models
of what being Jewish was. The negatives were all he
had."
"For many Soviet Jews, exit visas never came. But, in
May 1979, the Brins were granted papers to leave the USSR. "We
hoped it would happen," Genia says, "but we were completely
surprised by how quickly it did." The timing was fortuitous - they
were among the last Jews allowed to leave until the Gorbachev era.
Sergey Brin, who turned six that summer, remembers what followed
as simply unsettling" - literally so. "We were in different places
from day to day," he says. The journey was a blur. First Vienna,
where the family was met by representatives of the Hebrew
Immigrant Aid Society, which helped thousands of Eastern European
Jews establish new lives in the West. Then, on to the suburbs of
Paris, where Michael's "unofficial" Jewish PhD adviser, Anatole
Katok, had arranged a temporary research position for
him."
"One thing the Brins shared with thousands of other
families emigrating to the West from the Soviet Union was the
discovery that, suddenly, they were free to be Jews. "Russian Jews
lacked the vocabulary to even articulate what they were feeling,"
says Lenny Gusel, the founder of a San Francisco-based network of
Russian-Jewish immigrants. "They were considered Jews back home.
Here, they were considered Russians. Many longed just to
assimilate as Americans." Gusel's group, which he calls the
"79ers", after the peak year of immigration in the 1970s, and its
New York cousin, RJeneration, have attracted hundreds of 20- and
30-something immigrants who grapple with their Jewish identity.
"Sergey is the absolute emblem of our group, the number one
Russian-Jewish immigrant success story," he says.
The Brins were no different from their fellow immigrants in
that being Jewish was an ethnic, not a religious, experience. "We
felt our Jewishness in different ways, not by keeping kosher or
going to synagogue. It is genetic," explains Sergey's father
Michael. "We were not very religious. My wife doesn't eat on Yom
Kippur; I do." Genia interjects: "We always have a Passover
dinner. We have a Seder. I have the recipe for gefilte fish from
my grandmother." Religious or not, on arriving in the suburbs of
Washington, the Brins were adopted by a synagogue, Mishkan Torah
of Greenbelt, Maryland, which helped them acquire furnishings for
their home. "We didn't need that much, but we saw how much the
community helped other families," Genia says. Sergey attended
Hebrew school at Mishkan Torah for almost three years but hated
the language instruction - and everything else, too. "He was
teased there by other kids and he begged us not to send him any
more," his other remembers. "Eventually, it worked." the
Conservative congregation turned out to be too religious for the
Brins and they drifted.
When a three-week trip to Israel awakened 11- year-old Sergey's
interest in all things Jewish, the family inquired at another
synagogue about restarting studies to prepare for a barmitzvah.
But the rabbi said it would take more than a year to catch up and
Sergey abandoned the pursuit. If there was one Jewish value the
Brin family upheld without reservation, Michael says, it was
scholarship."
Sergey Brin
|
"What came next is Google legend. In the spring of 1995,
Sergey met an opinionated computer- science student from the
University of Michigan named Larry Page. They argued over the
course of two days, each finding the other cocky and obnoxious.
They also formed an instant bond, relishing the intellectual
combat. Like Sergey, Larry is the son of high-powered intellects
steeped in computer science. The two young graduate students also
share a Jewish background.
Larry's maternal grandfather made aliyah, and his mother was
raised Jewish. Larry, however, brought up in the mould of his
father, a computer-science professor whose religion was
technology, does not readily identify as a Jew. He, too, never had
a barmitzvah. Larry and Sergey soon began working on ways to
harness information on the web, spending so much time together
that they took on a joint identity, LarryandSergey"."
"Their venture quickly bore fruit. After viewing a quick
demo, Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim (himself a
Jewish immigrant from Germany) wrote a $100,000 cheque to "Google,
Inc"."
"They are without a doubt two of the most eligible
bachelors on Google Earth, but both are reported to be in serious
relationships - Sergey is reportedly engaged to Anne Wojcicki, a
healthcare investor and the sister of Google executive Susan
Wojcicki, who owned the garage where Google got started. In a 2001
interview, Genia said she hoped Sergey would find "somebody
exciting who could be really interesting to him... [who]
had a sense of humour that could match his". As one might expect,
she also prefers that Sergey marry a Jewish girl. "I hope that he
would keep it in mind," she confided."
"The Ten Commandments it is not, but Google does operate
with a moral code of sorts. "Don't be evil" is the maxim supposed
to guide behaviour at all levels of the company. When pressed for
clarification, Google chief executive officer Eric Schmidt has
famously said: "Evil is whatever Sergey says is evil." One
malevolent practice, in Google's view, is tampering with or
otherwise censoring the list of results produced by a Google
search. An early test of the Google founders' commitment to
providing unfiltered information struck very close to home. The
antisemitic website Jew Watch appeared prominently in Google
results for searches on the term "Jew", prompting Jewish groups to
demand that Google remove the site from the top of its listings.
Google refused. Sergey said at the time: "I certainly am very
offended by the site, but the objectivity of our rankings is one
of our very important principles." As a compromise, Google
displays a warning at the top of questionable pages."
"Viewed against the backdrop of Sergey's distaste for
authority, the decision to cave in to China's totalitarian
leadership seems out of character. Sergey's public comments on the
matter have evolved to reflect this contradiction. While defending
the decision at first, he later acknowledged that Google had
"compromised" its principles. "Perhaps now the principled approach
makes more sense," he has said, but adding: "It's not where we
chose to go right now." Does a company founded by two Jews, no
matter how assimilated, necessarily retain some defining Jewish
characteristics? The Google masterminds' penchant for pushing
boundaries - without asking permission - might as well be called
chutzpah.
However you label it, it is an attitude that runs deeply
through Google and may help explain why the company is embroiled
in lawsuits over many of its new projects: the aggressive scanning
of library books it does not own; display of copyrighted material;
and copyright issues connected to its acquisition of YouTube, the
online video site whose popularity rests in part on the
availability of pirated television and movie clips. Google's first
employee and several other early hires were Jewish and, when the
initial winter-holiday season rolled around, a menorah rather than
a Christmas tree graced the lobby. Google's former chef, Charlie
Ayers, cooked up latkes, brisket, tzimmes and matzah-ball soup for
Chanucah meals and turned the Passover Seder into a Google
tradition.
To some, Google's emphasis on academic achievement - hiring
only the best and the brightest and employing hundreds of PhDs -
could be considered Jewish. So, perhaps, could "Don't be evil".
With its hint of tikkun olam, the Kabbalistic concept of
"repairing the world", it reflects the company's commitment to
aggressive philanthropy."
"Nevertheless, he and his parents do support a few
charities. "There are people who helped me and my family out. I do
feel responsible to those organisations," he says. One of them is
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, the group that helped the Brins come
to the United States. Genia serves on its board and heads its
project to create a digital record of Jewish-immigrant archives.
Has Sergey been a target of antisemitism since he left the Soviet
Union? "I've experienced it," he says. "Usually, it is fairly
subtle. People arp on about all the media companies being run by
Jewish executives, with the implication of a conspiracy... I think
I'm fortunate that it doesn't really affect me personally, but
there are hints of it all around. That's why I think it is worth
noting.""
"Several years ago, Sergey and Larry visited a school
for gifted maths students near Tel Aviv. When they took to the
stage, the audience roared, as if they were rock stars. Every
student there, many of them, like Sergey, immigrants, from the
former Soviet Union, knew of Google. Sergey began, to the crowd's
delight, with a few words in Russian, which he still speaks at
home with his parents. "I have standard Russian-Jewish parents,"
he then continued in English. "My dad is a maths professor. They
have a certain attitude about studies. And I think I can relate
that here, because I was told that your school recently got seven
out of the top 10 places in a maths competition throughout all
Israel."
The students applauded their achievement and the recognition
from Sergey, unaware that he was setting up a joke. "What I have
to say," he continued, "is in the words of my father: ‘What
about the other three?'" The students laughed. They knew where he
was coming from. That Sergey has parlayed his skills into
unimaginable business success does not mean those "standard
Russian-Jewish parents" are ready to let him off the academic
hook."
Facebook
"He met Mark Zuckerberg in 2002 after they had
joined the same fraternity which primarily
concentrated on activities within the Jewish
community.
'We ate Shabbat dinner together,' Hasit said.
'Every year we raised money for charities in Israel.
Mark was one of the members of the fraternity, like
many other Jewish students at Harvard.'
Hasit, who wears a skullcap, says the
25-year-old Zuckerberg feels an affinity with Judaism.
'He fasts on Yom Kippur,' Hasit says of Zuckerberg.
'Sometimes he would come to the Hillel House, a Jewish
organization that ran various activities.' "
- The Jew Ariel Hasit, who
now has joined the Israeli Defense Forces, on his
personal experience of the Jewish Facebook founder and
CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, Ha´aretz,
10/05/2009.
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Jewish founder and CEO
The popular social networking site Facebook, launched in February
2004, has a 100% Jewish founder and CEO,
Mark Zuckerberg.
Jews readily boast about this fact. The Jewish etnocentrist site
Jew or Not Jew: Choosing the Chosen People, see logo below,
have a special entry for Zuckerberg (as they have for Google´s
Sergey Brin and
Larry Page), where Zuckerberg gets
their
"Jew Score" total of 12 (4 + 4 + 4).
See:
http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=369
.
The site, which should be reagarded as some case of internal
Jewish humour, explains the meaning of this score:
About the Jew Score
We evaluate how Jewish a person is based on three factors. How
Jewish they are internally, how Jewish they are externally and how
much we want that person to be a Jew in the first place.
In practice, the I Score tends to refer to birth history
with some adjustments for how we imagine they see/saw themselves.
The O Score is for how Jewish they look and act. The K
Score stands for Kvell (pride) and is subject to the whims of
the creators of this website.
The Jew Score refers to our opinion only and is affected by but
not definitive of one's actual Jewishness.
The site of the
World Jewish Digest, as another example,
also counts Mark Zuckerberg as one of their examples of Jewish
influentials in their list
"10
to watch in 2008 - WJS´s shortlist to Jewish standouts". Zuckerberg,
"born into a well-to-do Jewish-American family in
Dobbs Ferry, N.Y", gets the rankning place of 3 in their list of
10 influential Jews.
"How
Mark Zuckerberg embraces his Judaism", article from The Times of
Israel, 3 Ocober 2017 (click to enlarge).
Mark Zuckerberg, in the picture to the right with a Jewish
kippah/yarmulke on his head.
Zuckerberg´s Jewish
entourage at Facebook
The New York Times, May 13, 2009, reported:
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz noted that “Facebook
was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, a Jewish former Harvard University
student.”
Mr. Schnitt [a Facebook spokesman] told ABC that while
some employees of the social-networking service came from families
marked by the Holocaust, that was not influencing their
decision:
Many of us at Facebook have direct personal connection
to the Holocaust, through parents who were forced to flee
Europe or relatives who could not escape. We believe in
Facebook’s mission that giving people tools to make the
world more open is a better way to combat ignorance or
deception than censorship, though we recognize that others,
including those at the company, disagree.
So here we learn from the Facebook spokesman Mr.
Schnitt
that
"many of us at Facebook have direct personal connection to
the Holocaust", which of course means nothing else than that they
are Jewish.
So who are these Jewish actors?
To begin with, in the absolute beginning, when Zuckerberg decided
to spread his new Facebook project to other schools than Harvard, he
enlisted help from his Jewish friend
Dustin Moskovitz.
Moskovitz then became the Vice President of Engineering of
Facebook.
Dustin Moskovitz
|
The Brazilian Jew
Eduardo Saverin
was also one of the co-founders of Facebook where he held the role of
Chief Financial Officer and business manager.
Zuckerberg and his "best friend" Saverin were both members of the Jewish college fraternity
group
Alpha Epsilon Pi at Harvard. In the fraternity's mission statement one reads:
Alpha Epsilon Pi, the Global Jewish Fraternity, was founded to
provide opportunities for Jewish men seeking the best possible
college and fraternity experience. We have maintained the
integrity of our purpose by strengthening our ties to the Jewish
community and serving as a link between high school and career.
Mark Zuckerberg (right circle) with his Jewish brothers in
Harvard's Alpha Epsilon Pi Jewish fraternity,
and Facebook
co-founder Eduardo Saverin (left circle).
Alpha Epsilon Pi has a long history of Israel support, presently
having a project called
Israel Amplified. According to AEPi's own
FAQ:
The Israel Amplified conference has been designed to maximize
time and energy spent on developing your own personal
relationship with Israel to bring a conversation about Israel
into your chapter and the Greek system. [...] Some of the
sessions will be led by Israel education experts [...] The
Israel Amplified team has worked very hard to bring you the best
and most effective Israel education conference designed
especially for student leaders in the Greek system.
Alpha Epsilon Pi also aids the Israeli military and the Zionist
political machinery as the fraternity gives so-called
"philantropical" support to the
Friends of the Israel Defense
Forces and the
Jewish National Fund.
Alpha Epsilon Pi is also
official
partner to B’nai B'rith, the Jewish masonic order which in turn
runs the
ADL (Anti-Defamation League).
It should be noted that the President of Harvard University at the time
was none other than
Larry Summers, the Jewish top political
activist who we write more about in our profiles of Jewish Internet
entrepreneurs
Sheryl Sandberg and
Marne Levine below.
When the two non-Jewish
Winklevoss twin-brothers tried to
file complaint to President Summers against their co-student Mark
Zuckerberg for stealing their concept of a Facebook-like online
social network (a famous scene in the movie
"The Social Network"),
they were vehemently dismissed by Summers, unwilling to move against
his Jewish tribal-fellow Zuckerberg. Summers has since then in the
media even called the two non-Jewish twins
"assholes", see
for instance
"Larry Summers calls Winklevoss twins 'A**holes'" (
CNN Money,
July 20, 2011), as a gesture of the famed Jewish "refined cultural
etiquette" and "tolerance".
Larry Summers, Jewish President of Harvard University
at the time of the establishment of Zuckerberg's Facebook.
The Jewish gang behind Facebook got their first funding from another Jew, German-born
technology entrepreneur
Peter Thiel, one of the founders of
PayPal.
We here recommend reading an
article
from the The Guardian (14 Jan, 2008) on the people behind
Facebook which has more information on Thiel.
The Guardian
concludes that:
"... the real face behind Facebook is the 40-year-old
Silicon Valley venture capitalist and futurist philosopher Peter
Thiel."
Peter Thiel
|
As a typical Jewish etnocentrist Thiel prefers to deal with other
Jews. His business partner with whom he who founded PayPal is the
Ukrainan-born now-American Jew
Max Rafael Levchin.
David Sacks
|
George Zachary
|
Other Jews Thiel is interacting with are
David Sacks,
PayPal's former chief operating officer, and
George Zachary,
"a friend of Max and Peter's" and partner of the Jew
Ed
Skoll from
eBay.
Below follows an excerpt from
"Once You're Lucky, Twice You're
Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0", by
Sarah Lacy, (see:
http://www.metroactive.com/metro/06.11.08/cover-supermen-0824.html)
on Thiel´s
"PayPal mafia":
The PayPal mafia even had Hollywood success. Jeff Skoll
was one of the first eBay executives who became friends with the
PayPal crew when eBay bought the company in 2002. He started up
Participant Productions on a lark, and it has been one of the most
profitable productions companies in Hollywood. Among its first
four films were Syriana, Good Night, and Good Luck, North Country,
and An Inconvenient Truth. Skoll's success convinced Max and Peter
to start dabbling in Hollywood, bankrolling the 2006 indie flick
Thank You for Smoking, along with David Sacks, PayPal's former
chief operating officer.
While Sacks continued to play the Hollywood game, he also
launched a new social networking site for families, called
Geni.com. It allows people to fill out their family trees and link
them to the family trees of spouses and in-laws. Anyone on the
tree can add to the tree, the idea being that over time you
discover people you're related to that you didn't know. It's a
bold idea, one of the first Web 2.0 start-ups aimed squarely at
families. Peter Thiel, naturally, backed it early on. And in
Geni's first venture capital round with Charles River Ventures, it
got nosebleed $100 million valuation. The CRV partner who wrote
the check was George Zachary, Skoll's early partner in Participant
Productions and a friend of Max and Peter's. By 2006, the PayPal
mafia was an incestuous world where, for now, everyone seemed to
be making lots of money.
Thiel makes up one fourth of the Board members of Facebook. Thus
apart from providing the money, he really has a lot of influence -
just as
The Guardian had noted.
Thiel - "the real face behind
Facebook" - is a Zionist
What
The Guardian failed to tell is that Thiel also has an
Israel agenda.
The Israeli-based Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies writes
(
http://www.adelsoninstitute.org.il/OnAgenda.aspx?id=62&from=a):
On Tuesday, May 12, 2009, The Adelson Institute hosted
Richard Perle, former assistant to the Secretary of Defense and
Chairman of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee during the
Reagan administration, and Peter Thiel, Co-Founder of PayPal and
President of Clarium Capital Management. The topic of discussion
was: “The first 100 days of the Obama administration".
Perle briefed the Adleson Institue's staff and faculty and said
that the outcome of Obama's new approach towards adversaries will
be tested in a few months time.
Thiel, who participated in Perle's briefing, said that there is
an incredible gap between Israel's reality and its potential.
People talk about China, India and Brazil as emerging market
countries, he added, while Israel is underrated. According to
Thiel, all it takes is a short visit to Israel in order to
appreciate the incredible talent, intensity and drive of the
Israelis.
It should here be reminded that
Richard Perle that Thiel
met in a briefing, is the infamous Neo-con from the Bush era who was
one of the main Jewish architects behind the Iraq invasion and war in
2003.
Facebook sponsor Peter Thiel reveals his Israel agenda in a video
speech he made for the Adelson Institute and which can be seen
through the following link:
http://www.adelsoninstitute.org.il/MediaViewer.aspx?id=57
The Adelson Institute gives the following description of
Thiel´s video message:
Israel is Truly the Country of the Future, May 17,
2009
There is an incredible gap between Israel's reality and its
potential, says Peter Thiel, Co-Founder of PayPal and President of
Clarium Capital Management. Thiel, a guest of the Adelson
Institute for Strategic studies, participated in Richard Perle's
briefing at the Adelson Institute. People talk about China, India
and Brazil as emerging market countries, says Thiel, while Israel
is underrated. All it takes is a short visit in order to
appreciate the incredible talent, intensity and drive of the
Israelis.
In the video Peter Thiel - economic sponsor and Facebook Board
member - hails the Jewish state of Israel. Here follows a transcript
of some of his statements in the video:
"I believe that Israel is a truly extraordinary
place."
"... an incredible potential..."
"Just visiting here [in Israel] for a few
days one is always struck by the incredible talent and intensity
and drive of the people."
"I think that if Israel is able to resolve some of these
issues, that surround it over the next few years, it will probably
be the best place in the world."
"I believe the future is not in cheap labour or cheap
capital or in real estate. I believe the future is in technology
and in that sense perhaps Israel is truly the country of the
future."
The Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Shalem Center
in Jerusalem is a 100 % Zionist institution.
We here reproduce the
Mission Statement of the institute
Thiel cooperates with:
The Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Shalem
Center in Jerusalem is an academic and research institute founded
by its chairman, Natan Sharansky, in 2007. The Adelson Institute
for Strategic Studies develops, articulates and builds support for
the strategic principles needed to address the challenges
currently facing Israel and the West. Israel, as the only
democracy in this region surrounded by totalitarian governments,
is on the cutting edge of the challenges and dangers confronting
Western civilization everywhere.
As part of this overall effort, the Adelson Institute for
Strategic Studies seeks to explore how the advancement of freedom,
democracy, and human rights can be marshaled as an effective
measure to secure and strengthen international stability and
security. The Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies also seeks
to examine international law in light of the new forms of
asymmetric warfare and terror; the establishment of credible
deterrence against guerilla and terror organizations and the
states that sponsor them; the appropriate response to weapons of
mass destruction; and the strengthening of Israel's relations with
its strategic allies.
Natan Sharansky, founder and chairman of the institute, is
a racist Russian Jew and Israeli politician (former deputy Prime
Minister) famous for his "tough" stance on the Palestinians.
Palestinian resistance to Zionist domination is branded as
"terrorism". Sharansky writes in Jan. 15, 2009 (
Bloomberg.com)
on the ongoing Israeli slaughter in Gaza:
Terrorism is a cancer that can’t be cured through
“proportional” treatments. It requires invasive surgery.
Here follows another article on Peter Thiel and Israel from
[vc]cafe (
http://www.vccafe.com/2008/01/02/peter-thiel-gambles-on-the-next-internet-hit-israels-hooja/):
Peter Thiel gambles on the next
internet hit – Israel’s Hooja
Peter Thiel knows a thing or two about consumer internet. After
all, he’s a PayPal cofounder, one of Facebook’s board
members and its first investor ($500,000) way before its $15
billion valuation, giving him a hefty return of a billion. Thiel
is known as a savvy investor with a ‘golden touch’ that
tends to invest small amounts early on taking a
‘hands-off’ approach with management (learn more about
his investment strategy in Thiel’s recent WSJ profile).
Apart from Facebook, Thiel invested in some of the
internet’s biggest brand names early on, including: Yelp,
Slide, LinkedIn and Friendster.These days, Peter Thiel is managing
the hedge fund Clarium Capital, which manages $2 billion under
management and he’s also a partner in the Founders Fund, that
recently raised $220 million for its second fund. Now, for the
first time, Thiel is betting an Israeli tech startup, to be the
next winner.
Globes reports that Thiel, along with a group of private
investors, raised $1.5 million for Hooja, an Israel-based startup
founded in April of 2006 by Naama Moran, a former Greylock
Partners associate. Hooja is still operating in stealth mode
(landing page only) but its known to be developing a unique search
technology that enables content providers to search for personal
and social information in the deep web, including social networks.
One of Hooja’s investors describes the technology as
’social search’ – basically providing higher
ranking to information that a user’s friends are likely to
click on.
The Jewish-Russian billionaire and Internet investor
Yuri
Milner, has since 2009 invested in Facebook, along with investments in
Twitter to name another famous social media company - see the article
"Yuri Milner, The Man Behind the Facebook Deal" from the
Jewish
Russian Telegraph site.
Milner who has worked in a company formely run by incarcerated Jewish
oligarch
Mikhail Khodorkovsky is a close business
associate with the Jewish-Russian businessman
Gregory
(Moiseevich) Finger, and the
oligarch
Alisher Usmanov. The latter an Uzbek-born
"Muslim", Russia's richest man in 2011, and married - not so
surprisingly - to a Jewess by the name of
Irina Viner.
Milner is a staunch Zionist and attended
Shimon Peres' Israeli Presidential
Conference in 2012 (see
The Jewish Press, June 20th, 2012).
Yuri
Milner Jewish-Russian Facebook investor
Other Board
members
The other Board members of Facebook apart from Thiel are Mark
Zuckerberg himself, the Jewish venture capitalist
Jim Breyer,
and finally
Marc Andreessen.
Jim Breyer also sits in the Board of Directors of Dell, Walmart
and Marvel.
Jim Breyer
|
Marc Andreessen
is the founder of Netscape (non-Jewish?),
but a man who works closely with the Jew
Ben Horowitz with
whom he founded Opsware. Andreessen has also invested in the
Israeli
Israel Seed Partners thus becoming a partner of and
cooperating with
Jonathan Medved, one of Israel's leading
venture capitalists. So Andreesen - Jew or not - is well entangled in
the Jewish-Israeli Internet establishment.
Ben Horowitz
|
In our
section on Google we detailed
Sheryl Sandberg, a Jewish woman who was Google´s Vice
President of Global Online Sales & Operations.
As
Rabbi Levi Brackman and journalist
Sam Jaffe
write in their book
"Jewish
Wisdom for Business Success", p. 2:
Early in 2008, she left Google to become the
second-in-command of Facebook, the emerging social-networking
company.
The Jewish "second-in-command of Facebook" Sheryl Sandberg is
presently Chief Operating Officer. As COO, Sandberg is responsible
for helping Facebook scale its operations and expand its presence
globally. Sandberg in this position manages sales, marketing,
business development, human resources, public policy, privacy and
communications and reports directly to Facebook’s CEO Mark
Zuckerberg.
It can here be repeated that Sandberg is married to another Jew,
David Goldberg,
former music head at
Yahoo!.
The Jew
David Fischer - son of Israel's Bank of Israel Governor
Stanley Fischer - is the VP of Advertising and Global
Operations at Facebook and oversees sales, advertiser marketing, and customer
operations throughout the world.
David Fischer joined Facebook after over seven years at Google,
where he was VP of Global Online Sales and Operations and was responsible for
Google’s online sales channel, which represented the majority of Google’s
customers worldwide. In that role, he helped build Google’s online advertising
network into the largest in the world.
For more on
Sheryl Sandberg,
David
Fischer and Facebook's cooperation with Israel, see
important addendum just below under the headline "Facebook and
Israel".
Elliot Schrage
|
Another recruit from Google is the Jew
Elliot Schrage, now
Vice President of Communications, Public Policy and Platform
Marketing at Facebook. In this position he is responsible for
developing and coordinating key messages about products, corporate
business and partnerships. He also oversees the company’s public
policy strategy worldwide. At Google Schrage was Vice President of
Communications and Public Affairs and in our special section on
Google we documented how he worked to promote
propaganda together with the Jewish "US Holocaust Memorial".
Donald E. Graham, from the Jewish media
family Meyer-Graham behind Newsweek and The Washington Post, is also on the
Board of Directors of Facebook.
Another Jew who has had positions of influence in Facebook was
Justin Rosenstein,
a top engineer who was one of the
first employees Facebook poached from Google, where he was a Product
Manager, as Facebook began its rise in 2007.
At Facebook Rosenstein lead the technical team that created the now ubiquitous
"Like" button.
Both
Dusty Moskovitz.and
Rosenstein have since left Facebook
(2008) to jointly start Internet ventures of their own, but they still retain
shares in the company; Moskovitz with a Facebook stake of 7.6% valued at $6.5
billion and Rosenstein with a stake 0.2% valued at $170 million (as of 2011).
Ethan Beard is head of Platform at Facebook. Earlier he was
Director of Business Development. Prior to joining Facebook, he was a
Director of Social Media at
Google.
Randi Zuckerberg, Jewish sister of
Mark Zuckerberg, was
Marketing Director of Facebook,
quitting in 2011.
For info on Mark's
little sister
Arielle and Israel, see note below.
In 2010 Jewish woman
Marne Levine became Facebook´s first Vice
President of Global Public Policy, to oversee and coordinate Facebook´s
interactions with governments and NGOs and build out the company´s policy teams
in Asia, the Americas and Europe.
Mrs Levine has direct connections to the
political center of the US as
she before her Facebook appointment was Chief of Staff at the White House's
National Economic Council, where she worked with coordinating the development of
domestic and international economic policy for
President Obama
under the Jewish director
Lawrence Summers. Levine formerly
also served as Chief of Staff for Summers when he was President of Harvard
University (similar to Facebook' Jewish Chief Operating Officer
Sheryl
Sandberg´s history who also served as a Chief of Staff to Summers when
he was the Secretary of the Treasury during the
Clinton
Administration).
Marne Levine began her career at the United States Department of Treasury under
the Clinton régime, where she served in the Office of Legislative Affairs and
Public Liaison.
Noteworthy Jewess Levine also has personal connection into the
CIA as
the father of her husband - the venture capitalist
Philip Deutch
- is non other than the former director of Central Intelligence from 1994 to
1996,
John Deutch (see
link).
The Jew
Sam Lessin is since 2010 Director of Product at
Facebook, where he heads the Identity Product Group, which leads work on
Timeline, privacy, etc.
Facebook and
Israel
The Jewish state sees the importance in Internet Jews such as
Mark Zuckerberg. In 2008 the Israeli paper
Ha´aretz
reported:
Facebook, Google founders to attend
Jerusalem conference in May
By Guy Grimland, Ha´aretz Correspondent
Ha´aretz 01/04/2008
Co-founder of internet giant Google, Sergey Brin, will join
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and Yahoo president Susan Decker
at a presidential panel on technology to be held at the Jerusalem
International Convention Center May 13-15.
The convention, which was formed at the initiative of President
Shimon Peres, will also be attended by a number of Israeli
political, religious and financial leaders, as well as academics
and cultural figures.
The panel will discuss issues facing technology in today's age
and the future, in particular in regard to how it will affect
Israel and the Jewish world.
Former UK prime minister Tony Blair will also take part in the
conference, as will French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner,
former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former prime
minister of the Czech Republic Vaclev Havel, Nobel Prize Laureate
Eli Wiesel, and Georgia President Michael Saakashvili
Here we see how the young Jewish entrepreneur Zuckerberg, with
fellow Internet-Jew
Sergey Brin, is invited down to the Jewish
state to participate in the celebrations of Israel´s 60th
anniversary (which was the reason the meeting was held) and to meet
with the top Zionist echelons.
(It should here be noted that
Shimon Peres is a war
criminal. In 1996 he was responsible, as the leader if the Jewish
state, of Israel´s massacre of over 100 Lebanese civilians in
Qana.)
On March 11th, 2008, Nick O'Neill posted
an
interview with Mark Zuckerberg where they touched on the subject
of "anti-Semitism" and Internet:
Recently Shimon Peres suggested that Israelis and Jews
worldwide use Facebook to fight anti-semitism in addition to
inviting Mark Zuckerberg to Israel. I asked him about his thoughts
on Facebook as a tool to fight anti-semitism and if Facebook would
take proactive measures to fight against it. Mark believes that
Facebook need to focus on building useful communication tools and
that the users can use these tools to connect and generate more
worldly perspectives. As such Facebook does not need to be
proactive about it. When asked about whether he will visit Israel
next year, he said maybe.
In March 2012 the Israeli President
Shimon Peres
- the arch-Zionist and the man behind the
Qana No 1 massacre in Lebanon visited the
Facebook headquarters in the US where he was happily greeted by Facebook´s Jewish boss
Mark Zuckerberg. There Zuckerberg helped the elderly
Zionist chief create a personal Facebook page - and Peres thereafter
added Zuckerberg as his first Facebook "friend"!
Israeli paper
Ha'aretz March 6, 2012 writes under the headline
"Peres, Mark Zuckerberg launch president's international Facebook page":
President Shimon Peres and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg launched
the president's international Facebook page on Tuesday, with Zuckerberg
to first to press 'like' to the page.
The festivities began at 7 P.M. Israel time (9 A.M. P.S.T.), with a live
press conference with web surfers from around the world. Peres and
Zuckerberg then launched the page officially at 8 P.M. Israel time (10 A.M.
P.S.T.).
See also the article
"Israeli President Shimon
Peres Applauds Hollywood's Influence on Youth".
Jewess Sheryl Sandberg is a key connector between Israel
and Facebook. The Israeli news site
YNetNews.com writes on the latest steps of cooperation
(underlines below added by Radio Islam) in order to
"foster a relationship between the Israeli government and
Facebook heads":
Israel to promote itself on Facebook
By Yitzhak Benhorin
YNetNews, 04.02.2011
Deputy foreign minister meets
networking site's managers to discuss plans for online PR
WASHINGTON – The government intends to turn the
social network Facebook into the main platform for Israeli online
public relations, investing a lot of resources on creating an
efficient strategy to utilize the 600 million-large' network.
Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon
visited the California offices of the network on Friday, and met
with company heads including Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg
and VP of Advertising and Global Operations David Fischer, who is
the son of Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer.
The Foreign Ministry is set on turning the
famous social network into the main platform for Israeli online
public relations both in English and in Arabic. Officials in
Jerusalem have expressed their belief that Facebook is a friendly
platform for communication with young people around the world,
allowing for distribution of messages through video clips and games.
Israeli embassies around the world have already
begun to manage Facebook pages, but now the Foreign Ministry intends
to make more efficient use of the network to improve Israel's image.
Ayalon's meetings are intended to foster a
relationship between the Israeli government and Facebook heads.
Ayalon has also invited Facebook managers to visit Israel in order
to meet with internet entrepreneurs and participate in the
Presidential Conference expected to take place in Jerusalem next
June.
The deputy foreign minister displayed before
them Israel's high-tech abilities, noting that Intel Company is the
biggest private employer in Israel, with more than 7,000 employees.
Following Facebook's slow response in closing
the internet page calling for a "third Intifada" and a violent
protest against Israel, Facebook managers
clarified that in the future they intend to deactivate any pages
preaching violence. They also stated Facebook plans to open a
marketing center in Israel.
[...]
It is all becoming
a family
event with
David Fischer, Facebook's Jewish VP of Advertising and
Global Operations being non-else than the
son of the Bank of Israel
Governor
Stanley Fischer!
See also the YouTube
clip from March 6, 2012
"President of Israel Peres speaks with Facebook's
Sheryl Sandberg on Internet technology".
In the introduction fellow Jew
David Fischer sees it as "a real pleasure" "to
welcome one of the great leaders of our times, President of Israel, Shimon
Peres". Fischer continous his hymn to the Zionist war criminal:
"But what is most impressive [...] is that he is a man always looking forward, a
man with boundless energy, inspired many passions [...]."
(Click on photo below to go to clip):
Israeli President Shimon Peres and
Facebook's David Fischer and
Sheryl Sandberg
In 2012 Mark Zuckerberg's little sister Arielle
Zuckerberg went to Israel where she met Israeli war
criminal Shimon Peres. The Jewish Daily Forward
(August 1, 2012) writes in the article
"Shimon Peres Meets Zuckerberg's Little Sister":
Arielle Zuckerberg (that’s Mark’s little sister) was all smiles
today when she met with Israeli President Shimon Peres for a photo
op. The younger Zuckerberg sister (big sis Randi is a reality TV
show producer) was on a break from her job with a social media
marketing firm for a trip with Taglit-Birthright.
Peres, for his part, seemed pretty pleased, too.
“I greatly respect the Zuckerberg family not only for their
creativity but also for the strong tradition which is firmly in
their hearts,” he said. “I am proud of Arielle, all her friends who
have come with her to Israel and all the participants who take part
in Taglit-Birthright.”
Arielle Zuckerberg with Israeli President Shimon Peres
According to
Wikipedia
"Taglit-Birthright Israel [...] is a not-for-profit
educational organization that sponsors free ten-day heritage trips
to Israel for Jewish young adults. Its stated goals are to diminish
the division between Israel and Jewish communities around the world
and to strengthen participants' personal Jewish identity and
connection to Jewish history and culture."
The organization is closely connected to the Israeli military.
Wikipedia writes: "A major feature of the tours is a 5 to 10 day
mifgash (Hebrew for encounter) with Israeli peers, usually
soldiers serving in the Israel Defense Forces, who join the tour.
The stated purpose for the mifgash is for the participants and the
soldiers to get to know each other and to better understand each
other's world view and Jewish identity."
It should here be noted that the social media marketing platform
company Wildfire, where Arielle works, in 2012 was
acquired by Google (see article "Google
Acquires Mark Zuckerberg’s Sister", webpronews.com, July
31, 2012).
Facebook acquires Jewish run WhatsApp
Jan Koum, Ukrainian Jew co-founder and CEO of
WhatsApp
In the spring of 2014 Facebook bought the influential internet
messaging service WhatsApp, a messaging platform for smartphone
users, one of its founders and present CEO being the Ukrainian Jew
Jan Koum.
Koum's amicable relations with the top Zionist echelons of Israel
was quickly revealed as Koum on March 6, 2014 met with none other
than the Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu
on the latters visit to California.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets
with WhatsApp's Jan Koum, California, on March
6, 2014
Jan Koum has a background of being a security and infrastructure
engineer for
Yahoo, an interesting position
from a
sayanim perspective.
Mark Zuckerberg (left) with fellow Jewish
Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz
(center)
First Facebook user has joined
the IDF
A quite telling detail is that the first real user of Facebook,
apart from the co-founders, is a Jew,
Arie Hasit (who carries
the Facebook URL
id 7). Hasit studied with Zuckerberg in
Harvard and later on did what the Jews call
Aliyah to Israel,
that is he settled in occupied Palestine in accordance to the Jewish
Law of Return. Hasit has since joined the Israel Defense
Forces Spokespersons Unit, a propaganda/desinformation unit of the
IDF.
The Israeli paper
Ha´aretz ran a piece on Hasit and
Facebook 10/05/2009 (underlines below added by
Radio
Islam):
Facebook founder's roommate recounts
creation of Internet giant
By Guy Grimland, Ha´aretz Correspondent
Five years ago, hardly anybody had heard of Facebook. Today, it
seems that there is nobody in Israel or the world over who is not
familiar with the social networking Web site, which recently
crossed the 200 million user threshold. Facebook is estimated to
be worth $15 billion after Microsoft bought 1.6 percent stock in
the company for $240 million.
Arie Hasit, 26, witnessed the birth of Facebook. He shared the
same apartment as Mark Zuckerberg, the site's founder, joined the
same college fraternity, and witnessed first-hand the company's
initial climb from a dormitory start-up to a dominant
mega-monstrosity on the Web.
Hasit grew up in Philadelphia. Since he was young, he dreamed
of immigrating to Israel, which he did two years ago. Today he is
serving in the Israel Defense Forces Spokespersons Unit. He chose
to enlist for a year-and-a-half rather than the six months which
are required of new immigrants in his age bracket. Israel is not
foreign to him.
"Every summer I was in Jewish summer camp in the U.S. From time
to time I would visit Israel."
After completing high school at age 18, he enrolled at Harvard
University, where he studied the history of the Land of Israel. "I
thought this would make it easier for me after I would get to
Israel," Hasit said. "My parents actually thought I should learned
computers so that I would work in high-tech when I got here."
Hasit focused his studies on the hip-hop genre in Israel, a
subject which would become the topic of his thesis. He met Mark
Zuckerberg in 2002 after they had joined the same fraternity which
primarily concentrated on activities within the Jewish
community.
"We ate Shabbat dinner together," Hasit said. "Every year we
raised money for charities in Israel. Mark was one of the members
of the fraternity, like many other Jewish students at
Harvard."
Hasit, who wears a skullcap, says the 25-year-old Zuckerberg
feels an affinity with Judaism. "He fasts on Yom Kippur," Hasit
says of Zuckerberg. "Sometimes he would come to the Hillel House,
a Jewish organization that ran various activities."
Hasit and Zuckerberg struck up a friendship, though they were
not the closest of friends. They later lived together in the
college dorms.
"Mark just happened to live in the apartment where I lived in
the dorms," Hasit said. "He was in one room while I was in the
other. This was a large apartment, we were seven students crammed
into five bedrooms. We saw each other every day for a number of
hours. When Mark moved into the dorms I was already in my third
year while he was in his second year."
Hasit says that Zuckerberg decided one day to build a Web site
that would serve as a utility for students at Harvard. "He built
the site for fun," Hasit says. "We had books called Face Books,
which included the names and pictures of everyone who lived in the
student dorms. At first, he built a site and placed two pictures,
or pictures of two males and two females. Visitors to the site had
to choose who was 'hotter' and according to the votes there would
be a ranking."
"He only ranked people who received the most votes for being
good looking, not everybody," Hasit said. "There were about 1,000
people in all. Within four, five hours the site became so popular
that at one point it became impossible to surf the Web on
Harvard's Internet server. This was on a Sunday in October
2003."
"The next day, the head of the university denied Zuckerberg
access to the Internet. People complained that Mark used their
pictures without permission. He apologized and ultimately the
university decided not to expel him even though there were columns
in the campus newspaper that argued that what he did was
completely improper."
Zuckerberg's stunt came at a time when students were appealing
to the university to develop a Web site that would include the
pictures and contact details of students in dorms. Now they feared
that the Zuckerberg episode would compel the administration to
shelve the idea.
"Mark heard these pleas and decided that if the university
won't do something about it, he will, and he would build a site
that would be even better than what the university had planned,"
Hasit said. "Before founding Facebook, he built the site Course
Match which allowed students to find out who among those living in
the same dorm are taking what courses, so that they could form
study groups."
Zuckerberg started developing Facebook from his modest dorm
room. Every visitor who registered at the site received a serial
number. The first, second, and third user who registered took up
dummy pages. The fourth user was Zuckerberg himself.
The fifth user is Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook who
also served as the company's spokesperson. Dustin Moskovitz, the
third part of the site's founding triumvirate, occupies the sixth
user spot. Moskovitz led the technical staff at Facebook before
quitting the company to found a start-up in 2008.
Hasit's is the seventh registered user, which in practice makes
him the fourth real user to log into Facebook. "Often people ask
me how I became the fourth user. Sometimes I tell them."
"Mark came to me on the day he built Facebook, and he said to
me, 'Arie, I built this site. I want you to sign up.' And that is
how I signed up to Facebook. I put a favorite quote of mine in the
profile. I specified my favorite books, which courses I take at
Harvard. I uploaded one picture to the profile. There was no Wall.
There was no News Feed. There weren't too many things in Facebook,
which only began its lifespan on the Web.
"Initially Zuckerberg asked a small group of people to sign up
to Facebook. At a certain point he told us to start inviting
friends, and that is what we did on the first and second day which
the site went up on the Web. We could only invite students
enrolled at Harvard. In fact, if you did not have a Harvard e-mail
address you could not sign into Facebook. At first, dozens of
Harvard students registered. The numbers then reached the
hundreds, and by the fourth day it had already reached the
thousands. People were very enthusiastic about the site. It
enabled them to know who took what courses and to meet new people.
It conquered Harvard. In less than a week, some 4,000 students
signed up for Facebook."
Hasit recalls how Zuckerberg spent hours in front of the
computer. "He studied computers and psychology," Hasit said.
"Despite the fact that he developed Facebook, he continued his
studies as per usual. His grades were okay. He was even in a
relationship with a girlfriend. During Facebook's initial days,
the walls in his room were filled with graphs and charts which
showed how many people joined on a daily basis, who used what
application, and who has the most friends."
"After a few weeks, he decided to open up Facebook to another
university. He had two friends, one at Stanford and the other at
Dartmouth, whom he asked to promote the site there. He also asked
for help from his ex-girlfriend who was a student at
Dartmouth."
Facebook quickly attracted a following in other leading
universities. "Every user specified which university he belonged
to, and that was how he kept in touch with other students at the
university in which he studied, but all the networks were under
one Web site."
"The graphs and charts in his room became graphs and charts
which included statistics from all the universities. At one point
he received requests from students at other universities who were
not in Facebook to open the site to them as well.
Summary
So we now know that the
Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of
Facebook, "
feels an affinity with Judaism" and has
"raised
money for charities in Israel".
In Facebook´s early history Zuckerberg was assisted by the
Jew
Dustin Moskovitz and got funding from Jewish businessman
Peter Thiel, the latter a man with open Zionist views and in
contact with the Zionist establishment. Thiel then joined the Board
of Facebook and is presently - according to
The Guardian -
"the real face behind Facebook".
Other top namnes are co-Board member
Jim Breyer and the
Jewess
Sheryl Sandberg, the "second-in-command of
Facebook".
And one of Zuckerberg´s friends from Harvard - his roommate
and Facebook´s first real user - has since moved to Israel and
joined the Israel Defense Forces Spokespersons Unit. This also
reveals the mindset of people in Zuckerberg´s proximity.
Knowing this one is not surprised thet the arch-Zionist
Shimon
Peres invited Zuckerberg to Israel in 2008.
We here give links to more information on Facebook, Zuckerberg and
Jewish-Israeli censorship:
Wikipedia
What is
Wikipedia?
Wikipedia is an Internet encyclopedia that anyone can edit and add
information.
Wikipedia claims its articles are based on a
"neutral point of
view" but as it is human beings writing the articles, of course
the contents quickly have been mixed up with politics. For instance
organization like CIA have tried to affect the entries (see BBC:s
"Wikipedia
'shows CIA page edits' "), and big companies try to control
the information on themselves. And Israel and its army of
"cyber-soldier" Jews from all over the world are now doing the
same...
The Wikipedia project has ended into control of student research
on the Internet.
The situation is now that the majority of subjects Googled will
show Wikipedia as the top - or one of the firts top results - and
thus Wikipedia will get the majority of the hits.
And as shown in our section on
Google this
Internet search-engine is well in the hands of Zionist Jews and also
cooperates openly with Zionist organizations such as ADL and the
Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) to control the searches and
censoring information and certain sites.
This means that apart from Wikipedia other sites may be censored
when Googling any given subject.
Larry Sanger
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Wikipedia´s Jewish
founders
- Wales and
Sanger
From all the available information it appears Wikipedia was
started by two Jews, one a programmer, and the other an 'Adult Site'
operator.
The origins are in a project called Nupedia launched in March 2000
by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.
The Jew
Jimmy Wales (actually
James Wales,
or
also known as "Jimbo"), with riches from his time as an options
trader, became an Internet entrepreneur and decided to create a free,
online encyclopedia. He recruited the Jew
Larry Sanger, who
was finishing a Ph.D. in philosophy at the Ohio State University -
whom Wales knew from their joint participation in online mailing
lists and Usenet discussion groups - to become the paid editor in
chief. Wales’s company Bomis, an Internet search portal and a
vendor of online “erotic images” (featuring the Bomis Babe
Report), picked up the tab initially.
The Jewish computer programmer
Ben Kovitz is the one who
suggested to Larry Sanger, Nupedia's editor-in-chief, to transfer the
online encyclopedia to a wiki support. Larry and Jimmy Wales accepted
and from that time, Wikipedia took over Nupedia and became a huge
success.
Larry Sanger, one of the two recognized cofounders, is
openly Jewish. In their rabblings of what different famous Jews are
doing
The Jewish Chronicle mentions Sanger in an
article
"Larry Sanger... creates a new Wikipedia",
The
Jewish Chronicle, 26 October 2006, p. 10.
Wales is presently in charge. Sanger left in
2002
, and is a professor/lecturer at
Ohio State.
Jimmy Wales, in image to right with the Jewish kippah/yarmulke
on hos head,
during av visit to the Wailing Wall in Jewish-occupied Jerusalem, Israel.
Jimmy Wales
History
Jimmy Wales is the
de facto leader of Wikipedia and as thus
wields a lot of influence.
Time Magazine named him in its 2006
list of the world's most influential people.
Short history: Wales who was born in Huntsville, Alabama, went to
the exclusive Randolph prep school, and onto the University of
Alabama. Wales graduated and became a
Futures
Trader in Chicago. Next he opened Bomis, an 'Adult Content'
website, which was followed by Nupedia, which morphed into
Wikipedia.
Wales is the darling of the Jewish crowd at Harvard, being a
fellow at the
Berkman
Center for Internet and Society, at the Harvard Law School.
What is
Bomis.Com?
Basically 'Bomis' is an adult site, started by Wales.
The website featured user-generated webrings and that, according
to
The Atlantic Monthly (September 2006),
"found itself
positioned as the Playboy of the Internet". For a time the
company sold erotic photographs, and Wales described the site as a
"guy-oriented search engine".
Jimmy Wales with Bomis
babes
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a Bomis babe - financing
Wikipedia
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Jewish employees
Names like
Jeremy Rosenfeld (a Bomis employee),
Benjamin
Kovitz,
Seth Cohen, dot the landscape of technical
staff.
Wales´ editing
interventions
It should here be noted that although Wikipedia states that it
professes a
"neutral point of view" the on-line dictionary has
even seen
direct interventions from its owner Jimmy Wales over
its contents.
The Herald Sun reports June 30, 2009, in the
article
"Wikipedia
edits helped free David Rohde":
THE New York Times worked with Wikipedia to keep news of
the kidnapping of one of its reporters in Afghanistan off the
online user-edited encyclopedia.
New York Times reporter David Rohde, who was kidnapped by the
Taliban in November, escaped from his captors along with his
translator this month.
A number of news organisations, including Agence France-Presse,
at the request of the New York Times, agreed not to report the
kidnapping out of concerns for their safety.
Keeping the news off Wikipedia was another matter, the Times
said.
It said that on at least a dozen occasions, user-editors posted
news of the abduction on a Wikipedia page about Mr Rohde, only to
have it erased.
Several times the page was frozen, preventing further editing,
it said.
"The sanitising was a team effort, led by Jimmy Wales,
co-founder of Wikipedia, along with Wikipedia administrators and
people at the Times,'' the newspaper said.
"We were really helped by the fact that it hadn't appeared in a
place we would regard as a reliable source,'' Mr Wales told the
Times.
"I would have had a really hard time with it if it had.''
The Times said that two days after the November 10 kidnapping,
Michael Moss, an investigative reporter at the Times and friend of
Mr Rohde, altered Mr Rohde's Wikipedia entry to emphasise that his
work could be seen as sympathetic to Muslims, like his reporting
on Guantanamo and his coverage of the Srebrenica massacre of
Bosnian Muslims.
It said that the next day, an unidentified user, citing an
Afghan news agency report, edited the entry on Mr Rohde and
mentioned the kidnapping.
Mr Moss deleted the mention, and the user promptly restored it,
adding a note protesting the removal, the Times said.
It said the Times eventually reached out to Wales and Wikipedia
put an indefinite block and then a temporary freeze on changes to
the page.
"We had no idea who it was,'' Mr Wales said of the unidentified
user making the edits.
He said there was no indication the user had ill-intent.
The Times said Mr Wales himself unfroze the page after the June
19 escape by Mr Rohde and his interpreter, Tahir Ludin.
Interesting here is to see that people should be kept in the dark
of the "security deterioration" and the
realites of what is
happening in occupied Afghanistan. Instead Wikipedia will help in
sanitising the image.
Wales´ Israel connections
"I'm a strong supporter of Israel"
Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales at the Israeli Presidential Conference in Jerusalem on
Oct. 22, 2009
together with the Jewish war criminal Shimon Peres.
Note writing in Hebrew behind Wales.
Above - Jimmy Wales on the stage - Israeli Presidential Conference 2011.
Wales has also run the annual 3-day Wikipedia meeting, the so-called
Wikimania
event, in Haifa in Israel. Please read for instance
The Jewish Chronicle article
dated August 5, 2011:
"Wikimania hits Israel as conference opens"
Read also the article from the
Wikimedia blog
dated August 3, 2011:
"Shalom from Wikimania 2011!"
Wikipedia's
Jimmy Wales and Israeli war
criminal and President
Shimon Peres
together with Israeli-Jewish
bloggers in Israel, 2011.
The
Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) openly writes, in the article
"Jimmy Wales Talks Wikipedia and Neutrality in
Israel" (May 18, 2015):
Wales was in Israel — he’s been here more than 10 times, he says — to accept
the Dan David Prize, an international award of $1 million given yearly at
Tel Aviv University. Wales was chosen for spearheading what the prize
committee called the “information revolution.”
[...]
While Wikipedia strives for objectivity on Israel, Wales is unabashedly
pro. The annual Wikimania conference, hosted by the nonprofit that runs
Wikipedia, was held in the northern Israeli city of Haifa in 2011, and Wales
appeared at the Israeli Presidential Conference that year.
[...]
"I'm a strong supporter of Israel, so I don't listen to those critics,"
Wales told JTA.Wales said he backs Israel for "all of the standard reasons — the support
for freedom of speech is very important to me, the rights of women, proper
democracy. You can support all those things while still having criticism of
actions and policies that aren't good."
So here we have it black on white; Wikipedia's boss
Jimmy Wales
who has been more than 10 times(!) to Israel,
is
"unabashedly pro"-Israel, "
he backs Israel". He even
states himself:
"I'm a strong supporter of Israel"!
Wikimedia Director Sue Gardner in Israel 2009
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Wikipedia chief Gardner goes to
Israel - gets advice
Israeli paper
Ha´aretz reports 04/05/2009 on how
Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation
which runs Wikipedia, has participated at a meeting in Israel - a
Wikipedia Academy 2009 Conference -
organized by
Wikimedia´s Israeli supporters and Tel Aviv University's
Netvision Institute for Internet Studies.
Ha´aretz
writes:
Wikipedia editors: Coverage of Israel
'problematic'
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Wikipedia's coverage of Israel-related issues is "problematic,"
leading Israeli internet researchers claimed Sunday at the
Wikipedia Academy 2009 Conference dealing with the world's largest
encyclopedia. The conference was organized by Wikimedia's
volunteer-based Israel chapter and Tel Aviv University's Netvision
Institute for Internet Studies. However, the Web site's leading
manager said it merely reflected public discourse.
In demonstrating what he defined as problems, Eli Hacohen, the
Institute's director, showed how Hamas is not defined as a
terrorist organization in the first paragraph describing the
organization on the English site of the reader-edited online
encyclopedia, which is the world's fourth most popular Web
site.
Hacohen also documented his attempts to define Iran's
president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as a Holocaust-denier. Each time
he included his remarks on Wikipedia, users and editors removed
the reference - despite Ahmadinejad's frequent and public
Holocaust denials.
On a related entry, Hacohen also noted that Wikipedia defines
David Irving - a known Holocaust denier - as a historian, although
his credentials are recognized by no one but himself. Furthermore,
the Wikipedia entry on January's Operation Cast Lead in Gaza
describes it as an "intense bombardment" by Israel on a civilian
population.
Dror Kamir, a leading Israeli Wikipedia promoter, showed how
Lod is not listed as a city in Israel in Wikipedia's
Arabic-language version.
Also attending the conference, which discussed Wikipedia's role
in academia, was Sue Gardner, the executive director of the
Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia. Gardner told Haaretz
that she is "quite comfortable" with the mistakes on the Web site.
"I know that more or less the same mistakes can be found in the
New York Times," she explained.
Before her address at the conference, she defined Wikipedia as
a "just another mainstream news medium." Wikipedia, Gardner said,
"will never say anything as Wikipedia. It will only quote
relatively well-respected sources, including other media. So it's
natural for Wikipedia to reflect public discourse as it
fluctuates, and news is the first draft of history."
On her first visit to Israel, Gardner explained that her
attitude stemmed from her framework of reference as a journalist
in her native Canada, including a stint as director of the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Web site.
The boss of Wikipedia thus travels down to the land of the chosen
people to be lectured on how Wikipedia can be improved when it
divulges information concerning Israel/Jews.
For a collection of images from this event beteween Wikipedia and
Israel, see this link:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_Academy_Israel_2009
Sue Gardner in Israel 2009, Eli Hacohen
to the right
Wikipedia leading editor also
goes to Israel
David Shankbone, leading editor at Wikipedia, has been
invited by the Israeli Government´s Foreign Ministry to help
polish Israel´s image:
Photo Editing Israel’s Online
Image
By Sharon Udasin, Staff Writer
The Jewish Week, 03/04/2009
[...]
But David Saranga, the media consul for the Consulate General of
Israel in New York, plans to fight back. After launching a
pro-Israel campaign through Twitter.com during the Gaza war and by
bringing Maxim magazine into Israel last year, he says he is
recruiting the best in the business to revamp Israel’s online
image.
In just a few weeks, he will bring six American new media
experts to photograph Israel, with funds from the Consulate and
Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
[...]
However, Saranga says the initiative will, hopefully, knock the
pictures of destruction much further down the lists, behind photos
of ordinary Israeli daily life. And because he has enlisted
Internet authorities like pen-named Wikipedia senior editor David
Shankbone, Saranga thinks that there is a good chance they’ll
stay that way.
Shankbone — whose real name is David Miller — first
visited Israel in December 2007, when Saranga led a group of
journalists on a tour of the country’s high-tech and
environmental developments. All in all Shankbone estimates that he
illustrates over 4,000 Wikipedia articles with his
photography.
“The idea is to create a body of work that not only
Wikipedia can use but that the general public can use,” he
said.
Shankbone is not Jewish, but he said he learned extensively
about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in school. While he
considers himself a supporter of Israel, Shankbone doesn’t
intend to make Wikipedia a Zionist Web site, and he looks at the
Gaza war as a black-and-white situation — Israel had a right
to respond, but its mode of attack was not without fault.
Yet for Shankbone, the purpose of his photo expedition is not
to document the aftermath of the war.
“People want to talk to you about other things than just
missiles,” he said.
Ideally, Shankbone said he’d like to end up at solar power
plants in the Negev Desert or in a southern city like Eilat,
because he spent most of his time up north during the previous
trip.
“I particularly like small towns, because my feeling is
that anyone can come to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem,” Shankbone
said.
While on open-source sites, users can add and remove other
people’s contributions as they see fit, only an administrator
can permanently delete the posts from the storage database,
Wikimedia Commons. In his three years working as a Wikipedia
editor, however, Shankbone said that he has been careful to avoid
inserting his own political positions, and readers have rarely
altered his content. His collection remains the largest Creative
Commons — a Web-based data-sharing platform — photograph
community generated by one person, he said.
[...]
Critic Oboler, however, questions whether “bringing out
people like Shankbone will help directly with the grass-roots,
anti-Israel and often anti-Semitic activity that occurs
online.”
“What it will do is help in the fight for hearts and minds
online,” he said. “This proactive engagement is also
important.”
“It certainly isn’t going to be the silver
bullet,” Shankbone agreed. “It does give Wikipedia the
opportunity or responsibility to present accuracy.”
And while Saranga hopes to change the world’s perception
of Israel in the long term with the support of every American
Israel consulate, he recognizes that, realistically, results will
not be immediate.
“At the end of the day, a single activity won’t
change perceptions; a single activity won’t change the
criticism generated by the Gaza war,” he said. “But what
is important is to create a critical mass of positive activities
that will improve Israel’s image.”
The Jerusalem Post writes on the same story:
Leading Wikipedia editor to visit
Israel
By Herb Keinon
The Jerusalem Post, Dec 8, 2007
In an acknowledgement of the importance that the Internet
encyclopedia Wikipedia has in shaping opinion, the Foreign
Ministry is bringing one of its leading editors, David Shankbone,
to Israel next week.
World According to a communiqué put out by the ministry,
Shankbone has carried out dozens of interviews of US personalities
for Wikipedia, including presidential candidates, religious
leaders, rock stars and journalists. Shankbone will be visiting
within the framework of a delegation of technology writers being
brought to Israel by the Foreign Ministry and the America-Israel
Friendship League.
Explaining the rationale for bringing Shankbone to Israel,
David Saranga, the spokesman at the consulate in New York, said:
"More than once we have faced editors connected to Israel that
appear on Wikipedia in English that do not represent the reality
in Israel. We decided to initiate a visit by Shankbone to describe
Israeli reality as it is."
Wikipedia, according to the Foreign Ministry, is the eighth
largest web site in the world, with some 60 million visitors a
day, or some 14,000 hits a second.
David Shankbone - whose real name is
David Miller -
has himself written on his trip in his private user page in Wikipedia
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:David_Shankbone/Israel):
Israel
I went to Israel to expand Wikipedia's quality photographic
representation and coverage of Israeli-related articles. My
trip was reported on in their press:
- Jerusalem Post
- The official blog of Israel
- Haaretz
I also wrote a series of articles about the trip for
Wikinews. I interviewed their President, Shimon Peres, had
lunch with the President of the Technion and discussed the
philosophy of Wikipedia over dinner with Yossi Vardi. Here is
the first one.
And if you have a chance—check out Solar power in
Israel, which I recently wrote.
Below is a gallery of images I took on the trip.
And here is a nice picture of Shankbone-Miller with
Shimon
Peres:
Wikipedia´s David Shankbone
(Miller) with Israeli war criminal Shimon Peres -
the man behind the
Qana massacre of over 100 Lebanese civilians in 1996
Shankbone´s interview with Peres appeared in the Israeli
paper
Yedioth Aharonoth (here part of the article, reproduced
from the Israeli government site http://www.isrealli.org/ - isRealli
- The New Blog of the State of Israel):
WikiPeres
By Itamar Eichner
Yedioth Aharonoth, 24 December 2007, p.12
A President with Value: Peres is the First Leader to Be
Interviewed for Wikipedia’s News Site
The nation’s president proved again yesterday that despite
his advanced age he has no need to be embarrassed facing
politicians much younger than he. Shimon Peres is the first world
leader to grant an interview to the online encyclopedia
Wikipedia.
The interview with Peres will be published on the Wikipedia
news site, Wikinews and his statements will be integrated into
various articles throughout the encyclopedia.
For over an hour, Peres sat with one of the Wikipedia senior
editors, David Shankbone. Shankbone, who came to Israel with a
delegation of journalists, turned to the Israeli Consul for Media
and Public Affairs in New York, David Saranga, and asked to
schedule an interview with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and
President Peres. To Shankbone’s surprise, it was Peres who
decided to take up the gauntlet and grant an interview to the
popular encyclopedia. Wikipedia is the eighth most-popular website
in the world in terms of daily traffic.
At the outset of the interview, Shankbone told Peres, “We
checked among Internet surfers under age 30 and we found that you
are the most popular and most recognizable leader in the
world.”
Peres used the interview for a bitter attack on Iran. “The
Iranian economy cannot support the atomic program,” he said,
“and the world must decide if it is ready for nuclear weapons
to fall into terrorists’ hands.”
Peres was asked his opinion of the younger generation of
Israelis. “The 14- 15- and 16-year-olds need to participate
in determining the world’s future,” the President
explained. “If it were up to adults, they would want kids to
keep dancing the hora or singing Slavic songs, but youngsters
don’t listen and should not have to. Young women today also
wear more risqué clothing than they did in the past and
there is no problem with that since they look nicer.” Consul
Saranga said last night “It was important for the Foreign
Ministry that part of the interview was dedicated to subjects
other than the conflict [with the Palestinians].”
The interview has since appeared in Wikinews - "the free news
source" - as it was destined to be, and can be read at:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Shimon_Peres_discusses_the_future_of_Israel
Shankbone-Miller to return to
Israel
In his own blog 2008/07/31 Shankbone-Miller writes that he will
return to Israel (
http://blog.shankbone.org/2008/07/31/david-shankbone-to-go-back-to-israel-for-wikimedia/):
David Shankbone to go back to Israel
for Wikimedia
By David Shankbone
Last December I traveled to Israel where I had lunch with
Yitzhak Apeloig, the president of their premiere university, the
Technion, and interviewed their President and Nobel Peace Prize
recipient Shimon Peres (photo, right).
In the next few months I will be returning to the Holy Land for
a week-long photography expedition. From the students of Haifa to
the dolphins of Eilat; from the vineyards of the Galillee to the
Bedouins of The Negev; I will engage in a photographic documentary
of the people and landscape of Israel. The goal is to create a
comprehensive body of images of the country that are licensed as
free content, meaning my work will be available to everyone via
Wikimedia for both commercial and non-commercial uses.
Watch this blog for updates.
In his own blog 2009/03/04 Shankbone writes more on his new Israel
trip, where he will be joined by
"baroness of social media, Tamar
Weinberg, and her photographer husband".
"Consul David Saranga
in the Israeli Foreign Ministry [...]
was instrumental
in putting the trip together" (
http://blog.shankbone.org/2009/03/04/my-israel-trip-covered-in-jewish-week/):
My Israel trip covered in Jewish
Week
By David Shankbone
Sharon Udasin recently wrote in Jewish Week about my upcoming
photography expedition of Israel for the creative commons. Also on
the plane will be the baroness of social media, Tamar Weinberg,
and her photographer husband. The itinerary is not set, but I have
requested an interview for Wikinews. Because the focus is on
photography, most of my writing will take place on this blog where
I hope to document the experience. Consul David Saranga in the
Israeli Foreign Ministry, who has spear-headed his country’s
foray into social media, was instrumental in putting the trip
together.
My goal here will be to document not just the monuments and
public structures that every tourist documents, but also common,
every-day features of life and landscape. Cities like Tel Aviv and
Jerusalem are not crying out for free media (although they can
always use more professional-quality shots). Instead, places like
the Arava Valley, the kiryats and the kibbutzes need coverage.
I want to capture life outside the scope of a rifle. That not
every Israeli is armed, living in rubble or dodging missiles is
lost in a media narrative that filters everything through
conflict. The hope is to obtain shots of the country not typically
obtained by tourists and photojournalists. Small town and rural
Israel holds all the appeal for me.
More tricks to control
information in Wikipedia
But corrupting the very top names of Wikipedia for Israel´s
cause is not enough. Jewish students, paid by
Hasbara
fellowships from the Israeli government, are mobilized to edit
Wikipedia in a pro-Israel manner.
The images and text below are from a
Hasbara newsletter
dated May 2007.
Hasbara is an Israeli institution that gives fellowships to
Jewish students around the world and also aids them in organizing
"Israel Advocacy", i.e. Israel-propaganda.
We also recommend reading the following articles:
Jimmy Wales counting the
bucks
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Yahoo!
Yahoo Jew Terry Semel
Yahoo! in Jewish
hands
The Jew
Terry Semel was CEO of the search engine company
Yahoo! between 2001 and 2007.
During his time as Yahoo! CEO Semel used his position to impress
on his fellow Jews. For instance Semel in the shape of Yahoo-boss
appeared as one of the main speakers at the Jewish Community
Federation in San Fransisco´s meeting, January 25, 2006,
according to the organization´s homepage (
http://www.sfjcf.org/aboutJCF/photos/album/default.asp?album=blcbreakfast-jan2006&page=1):
300 JCF donors gathered at the Julia Morgan Ballroom to
kibbitz and build a Jewish network of business professionals.
Featured speaker Yahoo! CEO Terry Semel gave an engaging, personal
talk, sharing his views on philanthropy and leadership.
Terry Semel speaks at Jewish
Community Federation in San Fransisco
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The Jewish site
Jweekly.com writes on the event:
Yahoo CEO talks of philanthropy,
teamwork at JCF event
Friday, February 17, 2006
By Maureen Earl, correspondent
With more than 420 million users around the world, Yahoo can
claim a high spot on the Internet echelon. But it wasn't always
smooth sailing for the Sunnyvale-based company.
When Yahoo's chairman and CEO, Jewish Brooklyn native Terry
Semel, first arrived at the company in 2001, it had just lost $98
million on revenue of $717 million. Semel was determined to put
Yahoo back in the black.
His strategy worked. Last year Yahoo earned $1.2 billion on
sales of $5.3 billion — and those 420 million users aren't
bad, either.
On Jan. 25 Semel addressed 300 donors to the S.F.-based Jewish
Community Federation who gathered for the JCF's first Business
Leadership Council breakfast.
Semel, once one of the most powerful figures in Hollywood and
now one of the most commanding leaders in Internet technology,
started the keynote address by announcing that he was not a
morning person.
"I prefer to take an hour to reflect and catch up in the
morning," he said.
Soft-spoken but authoritative, Semel discussed the importance
of philanthropy in business. "Business and philanthropy go hand in
hand," he said. "I came from a lower-income family in Brooklyn,
yet by the age of 10 or 12 I'd already been taught the importance
of giving.
"You need to start kids off that young so that it becomes a
habit. To accomplish things you also have to give. At first maybe
with time, then later with money, and eventually even both if you
are able."At the age of 10 it was a dollar from his allowance;
today, Semel no longer thinks on a small scale.
"I now think in terms of hundreds of millions," he said, "but
the same principles apply whether it's a two-person philanthropy
organization or a giant like Yahoo."
Tikkun olam, repairing the world, is how Semel operates both in
philanthropy and business. He recalled how, as an ambitious young
man working as a sales trainee at Warner Bros. in the mid-1960s,
his boss would arrive shouting and yelling at all and sundry.
"There and then I decided I would not do that. How people are
treated is vital."
Semel, who graduated in 1964 with an accounting degree from
Long Island University, went on to become chairman and CEO of
Warner Bros. During his 24-year career there, Semel and his
business partner, Robert Daly, helped shape the company into one
of the world's largest media outlets, generating nearly $11
billion in total revenue from businesses in 50 countries.
In 1999, Semel and Daly pressed their hands into wet concrete
outside Hollywood's legendary Mann's Chinese Theater. With the
executives thus immortalized in Hollywood lore, the ceremony
marked the last day of work for the two at Warner Bros.
In May 2001, after an 18-month hiatus, Semel joined Yahoo as
CEO and chairman immediately after the dot-com collapse in Silicon
Valley.
"I was looking for a challenge. I didn't take the position for
the money," he said.
Whether he was looking for it or not, Semel has netted $403
million by exercising Yahoo options and selling shares. He still
owns shares and options worth more than $230 million.
The credit of Yahoo's success, Semel said, goes to his staff
and their practiced team ability.
"It's always about team. No one wins if it rests on one star
athlete. The superstar ideal will not get you to the Super Bowl,
it's not sustainable. It has to be the team. And we [at
Yahoo] actually like each other — we love the
challenge."
Last year Yahoo added 220 people a month and now employs about
10,000. Daniel Rosensweig, Yahoo's chief operating officer, said,
"Terry's a Brooklynite at heart. He expects a new fight every
day."
One of the biggest challenges Semel faces is adapting the
company to fit its users' ever-changing preferences.
"The big change in technology is that we used to have someone
else program everything for us," he said. "Someone else programmed
television, so you watched what was on when it was on. Internet
has turned the user into programmers — we want what we want,
when we want, and we get it."
On Friday evenings, Semel boards his private jet in Sunnyvale
and returns to his family and home in Bel Air for the weekend.
There he is able to relax for a couple of days knowing that he has
helped grow Yahoo into a company that has the widest global reach
of any Internet site.
Not shabby for a man who, prior to joining Yahoo, had rarely
gone near a computer.
Semel may constantly redirect attention to his team, but he is
very much an individual. "I would not have succeeded had I not
been true to myself. I never wanted to be the guy who looks back
and says 'I wish I'd done this, done that,'" he said.
Summing up Semel´s
pre-Yahoo! career
Prior to Yahoo! - as stated in the article above - Semel worked in
Hollywood where he spent 24 years at Warner Bros. As its chairman and
co-chief executive officer, Semel and his partner built the company
into one of the world’s largest entertainment enterprises. Prior
to Warner Bros., Semel was in charge of Walt Disney's Theatrical
Distribution division and he has also been in charge of CBS’
Theatrical Distribution division.
Terry Semel is a friend of
Arnon Milchan, the Jewish
Hollywood producer with Mossad connections, and was one of the
invited att Milchan´s Israel party 2008, a party co-organized by
the Israeli consulate (
The
Jewish Journal, September 25, 2008).
Other Yahoo!
Jews
The Israeli Jew
Andrei Broder, a graduate from
Israel´s Technion Institute, is Vice President for Search &
Computational Advertising at Yahoo! Research. Broder also serves as
Chief Scientist of Yahoo’s Advertising Technology Group. He
has
previously worked for AltaVista as the Vice President of
research and for IBM Research as a Distinguished Engineer and CTO of
IBM's Institute for Search and Text Analysis.
David Goldberg was Vice President and General Manager of
Music at Yahoo! Inc., since the acquisition of LAUNCH Media, Inc. by
Yahoo! in August 2001. David Goldberg is married to and has kids with
Sheryl Sandberg, the Jewish Internet boss formerly with Google
and presently "second-in-command" in Facebook (see our long entry on
her in our
Google section).
Goldberg left Yahoo! in 2007.
The Israeli engineer
Udi Manber, also a graduate from the
Israeli Technion Institute and who we portray in more depth in our
section on
Google, was
chief scientist
at Yahoo! from 1998 to 2002. Manber then joined Amazon.com where he
became "chief algorithms officer" and a Vice President. He was later
appointed CEO of the Amazon subsidiary company A9.com, where he led
the company's A9 search engine work. In 2006, he was hired by Google
as one of their Vice Presidents of engineering.
It should also be added that the Jew
Dan Rosensweig was the chief operating officer (COO) of Yahoo! Inc.
from 2002 to 2007. He later became CEO at Guitar Hero and then at Chegg.
Andrei Broder
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David Goldberg
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Udi Manber
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Dan Rosensweig
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Yahoo! and
Israel
Semel was in Israel during the festive events 2008, celebrating
Israel´s 60th anniversary. Semel appeared as a speaker on
Shimon Peres’ “President’s Conference” in
Israel May 15, on the topic
"The Revolution of the Internet and
the new media", together with Google´s Jewish co-founder and
President
Sergey Brin. Semel was here to represent his
post-Yahoo! company Windsor Media, where he is chairman and CEO.
Susan Decker, the present President of Yahoo! Inc., also
attended and spoke at the 2008 Israel conference. Decker is the
person that took over the Presidency over Yahoo! directly after
Semel.
The Israeli paper
Ha´aretz writes:
Facebook, Google founders to attend
Jerusalem conference in May
By Guy Grimland, Ha´aretz Correspondent
Ha´aretz 01/04/2008
Co-founder of internet giant Google, Sergey Brin, will join
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and Yahoo president Susan Decker
at a presidential panel on technology to be held at the Jerusalem
International Convention Center May 13-15.
The convention, which was formed at the initiative of President
Shimon Peres, will also be attended by a number of Israeli
political, religious and financial leaders, as well as academics
and cultural figures.
The panel will discuss issues facing technology in today's age
and the future, in particular in regard to how it will affect
Israel and the Jewish world.
Former UK prime minister Tony Blair will also take part in the
conference, as will French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner,
former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former prime
minister of the Czech Republic Vaclev Havel, Nobel Prize Laureate
Eli Wiesel, and Georgia President Michael Saakashvili
Other Zionist participants at the meeting were
Rupert
Murdoch and
Maurice Levy, the latter a powerful French Jew
with enormous might in the advertisement/publicity business
(
Publicis,
Saatchi & Saatchi), and a man very
dedicated to promoting Israel´s image.
The meeting was moderated by Israel´s "technology guru"
Yossi Vardi, whom Yahoo! already had
business dealings with (see below).
The “President’s Conference” figured other speeches
by staunch Zionists such as Israel´s Defense Minister
Ehud
Barak, and "American" agents of Israel such as
Dennis Ross
and
Henry Kissinger.
And the collaboration between
Yahoo! and Israel
deepens
Here follows three
Ha´aretz articles on the
subject.
Yahoo! President Susan Decker takes
interest in Israel
By Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, May 18, 2008
Susan Decker, the president of Yahoo! Incorporated, visited
Jerusalem last week to attend the 2008 Presidential
Conference.
Decker oversees one of the most popular Web sites in the world,
with more than 400 million page views daily. She is the second
highest paid female executive in the United States, with 14,000
people working under her.
Decker suggests that Yahoo! exemplifies the fact that the glass
ceiling she was spared is a thing of the past.
Internet giant Yahoo! to follow rivals
Google, Microsoft to Israel
By Raz Smolsky and Maayan Cohen
Ha´aretz 14/01/2008
Internet giant Yahoo! is coming to Israel, and not only over
the Net. The company is taking its battle for survival against
Google and Microsoft to Israel on two levels. It will open a
research and development center in Haifa, and will also enter the
content side of the business here for the first time through a
cooperation agreement with Walla!, which is partly owned by
Haaretz.
Yahoo! is following Google, which set up R&D centers in Tel
Aviv and Haifa, as well as establishing a marketing center that
also deals in joint content arrangements with Israeli portals.
Microsoft, meanwhile, has set up a sales and marketing branch in
Ra'anana, as well as R&D centers in Tel Aviv and Herzliya.
Yahoo! is now negotiating office space in the Matam high-tech
park in Haifa; and is expected to open its research center within
a few months.
Google kicked off in the Middle East with its Haifa R&D
center in July 2006, despite the Second Lebanon War at the time;
the center was its first in the region and only its fourth outside
of the U.S. Other well-known companies in the Matam industrial
park include Intel, Microsoft, Elbit and Zim.
Yahoo!'s first foray into the Israeli content market is based
on a strategic deal signed with portal Walla!. The goal is to
threaten Google's hegemony in the Israeli search market for the
first time and the real challenge is to compete in search-based
advertising.
Under the long-term deal signed between Yahoo! and Walla!, the
technology and databases will come from Yahoo!, but the search
engine will be branded as Walla! Search, the name of Walla!'s
present engine.
Only six months ago there were reports that Walla! was
negotiating with Google in the search market, but no agreement was
ever reached. Google usually partners with a local search engine
by providing the technology and the advertisements, while the
revenues are split.
The joint Walla!-Yahoo! venture will continue using Walla!'s
AdVantage platform. This will allow Walla! to continue to manage
the advertising itself, and it will receive a higher percentage of
the revenues than in a deal that also included advertising, such
as Google proposed.
According to Walla! CEO Ilan Yeshua: "The search and
advertising in search results sector is one of the fastest growing
in the world, and also in Israel. The agreement with Yahoo! allows
us to offer Walla!'s surfers an excellent search product ... for
the Israeli user. The agreement will help Walla! increase its
market share in the search-based advertising market. The existence
of another strong player in the search and textual advertising
sector will contribute to competitiveness , both in the search
experience and in the range of possibilities available to
advertisers."
Yahoo! and Walla! had previously discussed technological
cooperation in the past, but nothing serious came of it. Walla!'s
previous management, replaced in 2006, was never willing to allow
outsiders to share its advertising revenues.
Israeli Internet advertising was estimated at $90 million in
2007, 10% of the total advertising pie. Of this figure, search
engine advertising took about half, $40-50 million, the large
majority of which went to Google.
Yahoo buys no-sales FoxyTunes for $40m
By Guy Griml
Ha´aretz, February 05, 2008
Yahoo, the Internet giant that Microsoft wants to take over, is
gearing up for its second Israeli investment: FoxyTunes, owned by
entrepreneurs Vitaly and Alex Sirota. The exact amount has not
been announced, but sources close to the situation say the company
will go for between $30 million and $40 million.
The Sirota brothers, new immigrants from Russia, are the big
winners in the deal, along with Yossi Vardi and a group of private
investors from the United States. Initial investment in the
company is estimated at just a few million, and the brothers will
be raking in a total of $15 million.
[...]
"We will become part of Yahoo Entertainment, and they will
distribute the FoxyTunes toolbar to as many people as
possible."
More on Jewish Internet actor
Semel...
Semel is currently on the Board of Directors of Polo Ralph Lauren
Corporation, Emerson College, and the Guggenheim Museum. But he
still continues his favourite pastime, which he describes in a
Hebrew-language interview in the Israeli
The Globe, as:
I’m busy mostly with in searching for interesting
companies in order to purchase and invest in, and I’m certain
that they’ll be heard of in the coming years.
Terry´s daughter
Courtenay Semel is also in the
spotlight. The Jewish site
Jewtastic writes:
Semel Reveals She Was Lohan’s
First Jewish Gay Lover
By Jewtastic Staff
August 18th, 2008
Lindsay Lohan embarked on a secret lesbian affair with aspiring
actress Courtenay Semel before meeting [Jewish] Samantha
Ronson, it has been claimed.
Semel - the daughter of former Yahoo! CEO Terry Semel - insists
she was the Mean Girls star’s first gay love.
But she claims they kept their affair secret because of the
actress’ fear of coming out to the world.
She said: “Everyone thinks Samantha is Lindsay’s
first lesbian love, but we were very passionate until her fear of
being found out drove us apart. At the time she was terrified her
career would be over if she revealed her sexual tendencies. But
then Samantha came on to the scene and I was dropped.”
Terry Semel doing the classic "palms-out"
pose
MySpace
MySpace
is a social networking website with an interactive, user-submitted
network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music,
and videos for teenagers and adults internationally.
Jewish co-founders and
President
The MySpace project was overseen by
Brad Greenspan
(eUniverse's Founder, Chairman, CEO), who managed
Chris
DeWolfe (MySpace's starting CEO),
Josh Berman,
Tom
Anderson (MySpace's starting President), and a team of
programmers and resources provided by eUniverse.
Known Jews in this lot are Anderson, Greenspan and Berman.
As one Jewish
blogger writes:
The website was co-founded by Tom Anderson.
Although Tom’s last name reflects his father’s
Scottish heritage, he and his mother are Jewish and he was
raised in a messianic Jewish household.
Josh Berman, the other Jewish co-founder of MySpace.com, also
served as the company's Chief Operating Officer.
President Tom Anderson (right) and Chris
DeWolfe (left)
Jewish Vice Presidents
including an Israeli paratrooper (reserves)
Another Jew,
Richard Rosenblatt, was former Chairman of
MySpace and thus earned the title the "MySpace guru".
The Jew
Travis Katz is presently the international head of
MySpace and a senior Vice President (2009).
Richard Rosenblatt
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Travis Katz
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Josh Brooks
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Among other names as senior Vice Presidents we have
Shawn
Gold, the Israeli
Nimrod Lev (
former
Israeli paratroopers and military intelligence) and
Josh
Brooks. Whether
Steve Pearman also is Jewish, we
don´t know.
Another Jew - with political insights - is
Jeff Berman who
joined MySpace in 2006 as Senior Vice President of Public Affairs. In
2007, Berman was promoted to General Manager of MySpaceTV
(http://myspacetv.com), where he oversaw the launch of the company's
global video platform. There he cooperated with media Jews
Michael
Eisner,
Marshall Herskovitz and
Edward Zwick. In
2008 Berman was appointed Executive Vice President of Marketing and
Content of MySpace, responsible for spearheading the development and
implementation of marketing initiatives and campaigns for MySpace's
more than 110 million users worldwide. Berman will thus report to
MySpace's CEO and co-founder Chris DeWolfe.
Before joining MySpace, from 2001-2005, Berman served as Chief
Counsel to the Jewish U.S. Senator
Chuck Schumer and Staff
Director of the Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the
Courts.
Jeff Berman, MySpace Jew with political
insights
MySpace, and its parent company eUniverse (now renamed Intermix
Media) was bought in July 2005 for US$ 580 million by arch-Zionist
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.
Murdoch is a fanatic pro-Israeli. In the Jewish magazine
15
Minutes, Issue 26, July 1, 2001, one could read:
[Murdoch] explained at a Museum of Jewish
Heritage dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria that, "I have always
believed in the future of Israel and the goals of the
international Jewish community".
MySpace and
Israel
The Israeli paper
Ha´aretz writes, January 09,
2007:
Hey, Israeli startups - MySpace wants
you
By Lior Haner
Even though most Israeli entrepreneurs say they want to develop
their startups into large companies, most secretly wish for
generous purchase offers from abroad - and may even prefer working
as senior vice presidents in an American corporation.
Both of these wishes were granted to Israeli Internet serial
entrepreneur Nimrod Lev, 35, who founded KSolo in 2005, sold it
last summer to Fox Interactive Media and now works as a senior
vice president at Fox.
Fox Interactive is owned by the media conglomerate News Corp.,
and owns the popular MySpace Internet Web site. Lev is currently
on a personal trip to Israel, and will be speaking at the Israel
Management Center's convention this coming Sunday, January 7,
where participants will choose the 2006 high-tech CEO of the
year.
Haner's current visit is his first to Israel since selling
KSolo and he does not hide his intentions to find more Israeli
Internet entrepreneurs for Fox's acquisitions department. "If
there is a company can benefit FOx's MySpace, I would rather find
it in Israel than elsewhere," explains Lev.
Despite his Israeli background and the fact that there are
other Israelis who could assist companies in penetrating the
American market, Lev insists that due to the cultural gaps and
problems in understanding one another, any company that wants to
succeed overseas needs a local presence.
This week Lev hopes to meet with representatives of several
Israeli companies whose products are in their initial stages, to
form ties between them and Fox. Lev believes that the next big
high-tech field combines the Internet and cellular services, but
he has not revealed which Israeli companies he thinks have the
best potential, or with whom he is meeting. In the meantime, he
has been heaping praises on the more established and familiar
Internet companies, such as Jajah, Oberon Media and Quigo
Technologies.
He also feels the biggest underachieving company in recent
years is Babylon, the interactive dictionary developer, which Lev
says could have been much more successful. During his visit, Lev
will share his experience and relate the story of his ascent to
the upper echelons of the American Internet industry.
Lev started out as an editor at the Israeli Internet portal
Walla in 1996, a job he landed after editing the student newspaper
at Tel Aviv's College of Management.
Firing Cupid's arrow
In 1999 Lev left Walla to join Zion Madmon, the founder of
cupid.co.il, to help promote that company and develop it abroad,
thus beginning his journey to American Internet.
"We established JCupid, which joined forces with JDate,"
recalls Lev. "In 2004, Cupid was sold to Spark Networks, which
operates JDate. That was my first exit and I immediately started
looking for my next project and remained in the United States. The
next thing turned out to be KSolo." KSolo, run by the Israeli
developers of Cupid and headed by Lev in New York, is a site for
karaoke singing and recording.
Lev says that his secret to success is not developing something
that he thinks users want, but something that users need. The
product does not have to be connected to the success of other
sites or the entrepreneur's personal background.
"I was no longer a bachelor when I began matchmaking on the Web
and had no connection to karaoke when I founded KSolo, but it
seemed to me like a necessary product. One does not always have to
invent the wheel. One can take something that works well in the
real world and adapt it for the Internet. This was the case with
the two companies I founded," he says.
"At KSolo, we signed an agreement with all the major copyright
holders of the songs in America and share the revenues with them,"
Lev adds, adding that in the Internet era, content has so far been
considered the main thing.
"One has to understand that in the past two years, the user has
become the focal point," continues Lev, "and it is the users who
control the content."
Lev's path to the Fox deal began like that of many Internet
entrepreneurs, with a fund-raising campaign by private
investors.
"The investors were American," relates Lev. "It is easier to
raise money in the U.S. It depends on the project, but usually
Israelis find it harder to spend money. It is something in their
blood. Israeli market evaluations are lower, because Israelis were
burned more severely by the bursting of the high-tech bubble.
Since the American Internet market was much more advanced, many
companies had already had exits, while in Israel, the industry
collapsed a moment before companies closed deals, and the sting of
the previous experience affects investors' decisions to this
day."
In the summer of 2006, about a year after KSolo went on the
air, Lev received a telephone call from, Tom Andersen, one of
Fox's senior executives, who is also the president of MySpace. He
had discovered a karaoke recording by a KSolo user on the user's
personal site at MySpace.
"The negotiations [with Fox] were quick and very
serious," recalls Lev. "For a few weeks I attended a great many
meetings, at which [Fox representatives] explained to me
exactly what they wanted. They exhibited a level of perseverance
and determination I had not encountered before and did not waste
any time, something critical to startups."
Lev would not disclose how much he received for the company,
but commented that the investors received a good return on their
money. After the sale, Lev was appointed a senior vice president
at Fox, where he continues to be responsible for KSolo's
operations.
The Jewish Vitual Library wrote in their article on
MySpace´s Lev Nimrod´s (
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Nimrod_Lev.html)
connection to the Israeli military:
Ironically enough, it was war-not love-that prepared Lev
for his career and reinforced his belief in promulgating the
Jewish faith via Jewish marriages. Military service is compulsory
in Israel-women serve two years and men three. Lev, however, opted
to serve five: three years as a paratrooper in a combat unit and
then two years in charge of an intelligence unit that focused on
anti-terrorist tactics. Today, he is a captain in the reserves.
"When you walk 60 miles with 40 pounds on you, everything else
looks easy," he says. "I wish that young people didn't have to go
through this. At this age-after high school graduation-they should
be thinking about chasing down dates not about chasing terrorists.
But I know that until we find peace, everyone has to contribute to
Israel's safety. We're defending Israel so Jews all over the world
will have a place to feel safe. This is one of the reasons we need
to do whatever we can to bring Jews together."
Lev Nimrod
The Guardian on how Israel´s Foreign Office tries to
promote Israel via MySpace:
Israel seeks friends through
MySpace
By Bobbie Johnson, technology correspondent
The Guardian, Saturday 24 March 2007
A 58-year-old Jerusalem woman is not a typical MySpace user -
the hugely popular social networking site is inhabited mostly by
people at least 30 years younger.
But the profile she is reading is a profile with a difference:
it represents the entire state of Israel. Officials hope that
running a MySpace page dedicated to Israel will help improve
relations with people from other countries, and increase awareness
and communication with those under 35.
The idea belongs to David Saranga, a diplomat based at the
Israeli consulate in New York. Mr Saranga said research had shown
Israel's image among the young was not good, and that by reaching
out through one of the internet's most popular sites he could
repair some of the damage.
"We saw that we had a problem with the 18 to 35 age group. The
reason is that this group doesn't see Israel as relevant.We have
to talk to them in their language, in platforms they are using,
and the new media is one of the ways to do so," he said.
The page is particularly targeted at young Americans, who make
up a large proportion of MySpace users. Since Mr Saranga set up
the page, "Israel" has gained 963 friends from around the world,
including fictional characters such as TV secret agent Jack Bauer
and Star Wars heroine Princess Leia, as well as, it is claimed,
the Hollywood actors George Clooney and Leonardo Di Caprio.
The pages include pictures of Israeli cities, as well as music
that invites the audience to question the cycle of violence and to
"end this holy war". Among Mr Saranga's other initiatives are a
blog called "isRealli" and an internet TV station.
Shawn Gold of MySpace
Article from
Prison Planet.com on arch-Zionist
Murdoch´s
"cyber trojan horse":
MySpace Is The Trojan Horse Of
Internet Censorship
Media elite's last gasp effort to save
crumbling empire
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones/Prison Planet.com |
March 16 2006
MySpace isn't cool, it isn't hip and it isn't trendy. It
represents a cyber trojan horse and the media elite's last gasp
effort to reclaim control of the Internet and sink it with a
stranglehold of regulation, control and censorship.
Since Rupert Murdoch's $580 Million acquisition of MySpace in
July 2005, it has come from total obscurity to now being the 8th
most visited website in the world, receiving half as many page
hits as Google, despite the fact that on first appearance it looks
like a 5-year-old's picture scrap and scribble book.
MySpace is the new mobile phone. If you don't have a MySpace
account then you belong to some kind of culturally shunned
underclass.
What most of the trendy wendy's remain blissfully unaware of is
the fact that MySpace is Rupert Murdoch's battle axe for shaping a
future Internet environment whereby electronic dissent, whether it
be against corporations or government, will not tolerated and
freedom of e-speech will cease to exist.
MySpace has been caught shutting down blogs critical of itself
and other Murdoch owned companies. They even had the audacity to
censor links to completely different websites when clicking
through for MySpace. When 600 MySpace users complained, MySpace
deleted the blog forum that the complaints were posted on. Taking
their inspiration from Communist China, MySpace regularly uses
blanket censorship to block out words like 'God'.
Earlier this week Rupert Murdoch sounded the death knell for
conventional forms of media in stating that the media elite were
losing their monopoly to the rapid and free spread of new
communication technologies. Murdoch stressed the need to regain
control of these outlets in order to prevent the establishment
media empire from crumbling.
MySpace is Rupert Murdoch's trojan horse for destroying free
speech on the Internet. It is a foundational keystone of the first
wave of the state's backlash to the damage that a free and open
Internet has done to their organs of propaganda. By firstly making
it cool, trendy and culturally elite for millions to flock to
establishment controlled Internet backbones like MySpace, Murdoch
is preparing the groundwork for the day when it will stop being
voluntary and become mandatory to use government and corporate
monopoly controlled Internet hubs.
The end game is a system similar to or worse than China,
whereby no websites even mildly critical of the government will be
authorized.
The Pentagon admitted that they would engage in psychological
warfare and cyber attacks on 'enemy' Internet websites in an
attempt to shut them down. The fact that the NSA surveillance
program spied on 5,000 Americans tells us that the enemy is the
alternative media and that it will be targeted for elimination.
Google has been ordered to turn over information about its users
by a judge to the US government.
The second wave of destroying freedom of speech online will
simply attempt to price people out of using the conventional
Internet and force people over to Internet 2, a state regulated
hub where permission will need to be obtained directly from an FCC
or government bureau to set up a website.
The original Internet will then be turned into a mass
surveillance database and marketing tool. The Nation magazine
reported, "Verizon, Comcast, Bell South and other communications
giants are developing strategies that would track and store
information on our every move in cyberspace in a vast
data-collection and marketing system, the scope of which could
rival the National Security Agency. According to white papers now
being circulated in the cable, telephone and telecommunications
industries, those with the deepest pockets--corporations,
special-interest groups and major advertisers--would get preferred
treatment. Content from these providers would have first priority
on our computer and television screens, while information seen as
undesirable, such as peer-to-peer communications, could be
relegated to a slow lane or simply shut out."
The original Internet will deliberately be subject to crash
upon crash until it becomes a useless carcass of overpriced trash
and its reputation will be defiled by the TV and media barons
cashing in on the perfectly streamlined Internet 2, the free for
all network that just requires you to thumbscan in order to log
on! Those with a security grading below yellow on their national
ID card will unfortunately be refused access. Websites that carry
hate speech (ones that talk about government corruption) will be
censored for the betterment of society.
For the aspiring dictator, the Internet is a dangerous tool
that has been seized by the enemy. We have come a long way since
1969, when the ARPANET was created solely for US government use.
The Internet is freedom's best friend and the bane of control
freaks. Its eradication is one of the short term goals of those
that seek to centralize power and subjugate the world under a
global surveillance panopticon prison.
Rupert Murdoch's MySpace and its ceaseless promotion by the
establishment media as the best thing since sliced bread is part
of this movement. In saying all this we do encourage everyone to
set up a MySpace account, but only if you're going to use it to
bash MySpace, Rupert Murdoch and copy and paste this article right
at the top of the page! See how long it is before your account is
terminated.
Amazon
The gigantic American online retailer Amazon.com with influence on
destribution of not only media products such as books, music, films
but all kinds of products, is firmly under Jewish control.
Jeff
Bezos - who is both founder and present CEO of the company - is
an open Jew and as such an important part of the Jewish media power
network in the world, exerting influence but criminal to criticise.
The official Jewish news site
The Jewish Press brands him
simply as
"Amazon’s Jewish CEO Jeff Bezos". See for instance
the articles
"Four of Top Ten Net Worth Gainers Are Jewish" (
The Jewish
Press, December 23, 2013) and
"Jewish Efforts to Save Washington Post Date Back to 1933" (
The
Jewish Press, August 7, 2013).
Apart from control of Amazon.com and its subsidiarys such as the
British version Amazon.co.uk, Bezos' company also controls Appstore,
LoveFilms (online film streaming) and the Internet Movie Database
(IMDb).
Jeff Bezos is a celebrated man in the Jewish circles, the
Jew-oriented site
Jewish World Review for instance promotes
"The 20 smartest things Jeff Bezos has ever said" (March 12,
2014).
And when a Jewish Rabbi writes a complaint to Amazon on their
services Bezos himself - the top company executive - promptly
answers personally. The fact even highlighted in the article
"How a Rabbi Got Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to Respond to an Email" (
The
Algemeiner, March 10, 2014);
"Bezos replied by saying he
would relay the rabbi’s recommendation and kind words to the Amazon
team."
Even the Executive Vice President & CEO of the Zionist entity
World Jewish Congress writes to Bezos. The WJC article
"Don't sell books that deny the Holocaust, WJC urges Amazon.com"
(
WJC Website, October 17, 2013) tells of Singer writing a
personalized letter directly to Jeff Bezos:
The World Jewish Congress today demanded that Amazon.com remove
from its website books that deny the Holocaust and promote
anti-Semitism and white supremacy.
Already in the early 2000's Amazon's connection to Israel was in
focus. See the
letter to Amazon protesting the connection and the article from
the
David Irving website
"Jerusalem
Post ordered to stop claiming Amazon supports Israel" where
threats from consumers forced Amazon to try to distance itself.
There have since been other sites doing the connection between
Amazon and Israel. The official Zionist site of "The Israel Forever
Foundation" runs the ad
"Support Israel Engagement By Shopping At Amazon" stating:
Now when you shop at Amazon.com, you can contribute to The
Israel Forever Foundation as an expression of your commitment to
the personal connection to our one and only Jewish State!
The tool is the AmazonSmile function whereby (according to Amazon
themselves)
"Amazon
donates 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to
the charitable organization of your choice". Thus The Israel
Forever Foundation according to that logic is a
charitable
organization!
Click to enlarge screensaved ad from "The Israel Forever
Foundation"
Jeff Bezos' tight connection to the Jewish community should be put
in the perspective of the long history of Jews misusing their
influence for Israel's political needs. Our article
"Sayanim - Israel's and Mossad's Jewish helpers abroad" gives
the background. Thus Bezos' position as the top global middleman in
dealing media services and registering who is consuming what, is
very dangerous. Amazon's unique power to register the media
consumption of its customers has been noted by others. The article
"Big Brother is watching you e-read Mein Kampf" (
The Guardian,
9 January 2014) on the Amazon provided Kindle online book reading
service, states:
But the privacy electronic readers are availing themselves of
isn't exactly private. The person opposite you on the tube may
not know you're following der Führer on your Kindle, but Amazon
sure as hell does.
Just take a look at the Kindle terms of use. As you wrestle
with the rantings of Austria's most lethal watercolourist, your
device is providing Amazon with "information related to the
Digital Content on your Kindle and Supported Devices and your
use of it … such as last page read and content archiving". It's
also reporting back on information "including annotations,
bookmarks, notes, highlights, or similar markings", and may be
storing those reports on "servers that are located outside the
country in which you live" [...].
It's not just about Jeff Bezos, of course. Whether you're
exploring fascism on your iPad or your Android phone, Big
Brother is watching. These kind of concerns tend to raise little
more than a shrug around these parts, but you might want to
think twice before downloading your electronic copy of Mao's
Little Red Book of Guerilla Warfare.
Another top figure at Amazon is
David Zapolsky who has
been a Vice President at Amazon.com since 2002 and its General
Counsel & Secretary since 2012. Mr. Zapolsky oversees
Amazon.com's legal, policy compliance and in that respect was
involved in the suppression of US anti-Zionist writer
Michael
Hoffman's groundbreaking work on Jewish racism, the book
"Judaism Discovered: A Study of the Anti-Biblical Religion of
Racism, Self-Worship, Superstition and Deceit". Hoffman
states:
"While I did not anticipate the ban by Amazon," Hoffman
said, "which in the past has had a well-deserved reputation
as a bastion of freedom of the press, fierce opposition to
Judaism Discovered was of course expected. Mr. Zapolsky's
Aug. 3 communication was so partisan it was akin to a
hazmana from a Beit din. It seems that when Judaism is
radically challenged, there are no limits to the tribal
solidarity that coalesces to fight threats to its immunity,
an immunity not enjoyed by Christianity or Islam."
Amazon have since then also suppressed bookreviews by
Hoffman, reviews written on topics deemed sensitive to Zionist
propaganda. Please read more on Zapolsky's and Amazon's
censorship:
"ANOTHER BATTLE WITH AMAZON.com"
Hoffman's New Book on Judaism is banned by Amazon.com
Why Amazon
banned Hoffman’s book on Judaism
David Zapolsky and the banned Amazon book
The Israeli engineer
Udi Manber, a graduate from the
Israeli Technion Institute and who we portray in more depth in our
section on
Google, was chief algorithms officer" and a
Vice President Amazon.com. Manber was later
appointed CEO of the Amazon subsidiary company A9.com, where he led
the company's A9 search engine work. In 2006, he was hired by Google
in 2006 as one of their Vice Presidents of engineering.
Apart from Bezos, Zapolsky and Manber another interesting figure is
Andrew Cecil,
Amazon's Director of Public Policy.
Mr Cecil has had a rough time lately trying to defend Amazon's
tax evading policies in Britain. Watch
BBC News (12 November
2012):
"MPs
condemn Amazon executive over tax payments" where mr Cecil is
having a tough time... and read also:
"Tax row: 'pathetic' Amazon man humiliated by MPs" (
The week
with First Post, 13 November 2012):
Cecil was accused of being "totally evasive" over questions
relating to the value of Amazon's sales in the UK, the pre-tax
profits of the European company and its ownership structure.
MPs slammed a "ridiculous answer" and called him "pathetic".
Committee chairman Margaret Hodge accused Cecil of "pretend
ignorance" and said she would "order" Amazon to send another
person to provide answers to the committee's questions.
The Guardian's Nils Pratley observes that Cecil's performance
should be watched by "anybody who doubts the need for a
root-and-branch review of the taxation of multinational
companies".
Pratley went on: "Cecil was not merely evasive on Monday,
which is par for the course when officials of multinationals are
quizzed on tax, he was ignorant at an extraordinary level,
unable even to tell the MPs how much tax is paid by Amazon's
operation in Luxembourg, the base for its European businesses.
Andrew Cecil, Amazon Director of Public Policy
Before his job at Amazon mr Cecil had been director of Public Policy
at
Yahoo! and Hill and Knowlton, the latter firm as a parenthesis
deeply connected with the
First Iraq War propaganda effort in the early 1990s.
It should be noted that Amazon is also in control of the widely
popular Internet Movie Database (IMDb), indexing films and actors,
directors, producers and also promotes movies through Amazon's
ownership of the UK-based video-on-demand service LoveFilm (since
2014 folded into the Amazon Instant Video service).
In turn the co-founder and original CEO of LoveFilm International
was the South-African born Jewish venture capitalist
Saul
Klein, who also was part of the original executive team at
Skype (acquired by
eBay). In December 2012 the British government
appointed Saul Klein as the special UK
"Tech Envoy to Israel",
following an agreement between UK Prime Ministers
David
Cameron and
Benjamin Netanyahu to build a
UK-Israel partnership in technology.
The UK government announced in the official statement
"Prime
Minister announces Saul Klein as UK Tech Envoy to Israel" (
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-announces-saul-klein-as-uk-tech-envoy-to-israel):
Prime Minister David Cameron today announced the appointment of Saul
Klein as the UK’s tech envoy to Israel. Mr Klein will promote the
growing UK-Israel tech partnership between the two countries,
working with the recently established UK Israel Tech Hub and UK
Israel Tech Council. He will lead UK tech missions to Israel, bring
Israeli start-ups to Britain, and host tech events in both
countries; helping UK tech business to compete and thrive in the
global race.
Mr Klein brings to the role huge experience as a venture capitalist
and successful business executive. He has a track record in
developing successful start ups in both Britain and Israel. He has
been an advisor to the UK Israel Tech Hub since its inception,
supporting its mission to promote economic growth through tech
partnership between the two countries.
[...]
eBay
(which between 2005-2011 also owned Skype)
The Jewish boasting page
www.jewishachievement.com writes
on the Jewish first President of eBay, the Canadian-born
Jeff
Skoll:
Jeff Skoll did not create eBay, non-Jew Pierre Omidyar
did in 1993. For Omidyar, born to French and Iranian parents,
creating an on-line auction Web-site was a Labor Day weekend hobby
project. For its first couple of years, it was simply a free
Web-site Omidyar ran on his own home page along with several other
of his Web page creations. During the first few months, he tried
to recruit Skoll, a Jewish French-Canadian he met through friends,
to become his partner. Skoll turned him down, choosing to remain
at Stanford Business School.
In early 1996, Omidyar's Internet service provider began
charging him $250 a month to host the site. Omidyar was forced to
start charging a fee, which he passed along to the site's users
based on the sale price of auction items. As the checks started
rolling in Omidyar realized he needed help. Again, he approached
Skoll. This time, after a few months of consulting for eBay, Skoll
signed on as its first full time employee and President.
Jeff Skoll
|
Skoll grew up in Canada and showed early signs of being a
driven entrepreneur. At twelve, he was selling Amway products
door-to-door. After graduating from the University of Toronto with
a 4.0 grade point average, he set up two high tech companies
before moving to Palo Alto to enroll at Stanford Business School.
Compensating for Omidyar's easy going ways and enjoyment of
programming, Skoll was the driven leader who planned the business
and made things happen. He hired key people, established much of
the culture, and constantly pushed to build the business.
The result is the number one auction Web site in the world. It
grossed $3.9 billion in 2004, netted $936 million and was worth
$53 billion by mid 2005, all of which made both Omidyar and Skoll
very wealthy. Skoll has since left eBay and now devotes the bulk
of his time to philanthropic activities, particularly his Skoll
Foundation to which he has donated $250 million. The Foundation
supports social entrepreneurs working to effect lasting positive
social changes worldwide. In 2003, Skoll won recognition from
Business Week magazine as "one of the most innovative
philanthropists of the past decade"
Ed Skoll also interacts with fellow Jewish Internet entrepreneurs.
We have named the Israel-loving financier and Board member of
Facebook,
Peter Thiel, in
our section
on that company.
Thiel togeher with the Ukrainan Jew
Max Rafael Levchin
founded PayPal. The company was then bought by eBay. In an excerpt
from
"Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon
Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0", by Sarah Lacy, (see:
http://www.metroactive.com/metro/06.11.08/cover-supermen-0824.html
), we can see how Skoll
"became friends with the PayPal crew"
of Jews and even entered the movie business:
The PayPal mafia even had Hollywood success. Jeff Skoll
was one of the first eBay executives who became friends with the
PayPal crew when eBay bought the company in 2002. He started up
Participant Productions on a lark, and it has been one of the most
profitable productions companies in Hollywood. Among its first
four films were Syriana, Good Night, and Good Luck, North Country,
and An Inconvenient Truth. Skoll's success convinced Max and Peter
to start dabbling in Hollywood, bankrolling the 2006 indie flick
Thank You for Smoking, along with David Sacks, PayPal's former
chief operating officer.
While Sacks continued to play the Hollywood game, he also
launched a new social networking site for families, called
Geni.com. It allows people to fill out their family trees and link
them to the family trees of spouses and in-laws. Anyone on the
tree can add to the tree, the idea being that over time you
discover people you're related to that you didn't know. It's a
bold idea, one of the first Web 2.0 start-ups aimed squarely at
families. Peter Thiel, naturally, backed it early on. And in
Geni's first venture capital round with Charles River Ventures, it
got nosebleed $100 million valuation. The CRV partner who wrote
the check was George Zachary, Skoll's early partner in Participant
Productions and a friend of Max and Peter's. By 2006, the PayPal
mafia was an incestuous world where, for now, everyone seemed to
be making lots of money.
Just to clarify both
David Sacks, PayPal's former chief
operating officer, and
George Zachary,
"Skoll's early
partner in Participant Productions and a friend of Max and
Peter's", are Jewish.
Another Jew in Skoll´s present entourage is
Larry
Brilliant who we detail more in
our section on
Google where he for 3 years was responsible for Google´s
philanthropic arm
Google.org. In 2009 Brilliant joined a new
organisation set up by
Jeff Skoll. But Dr. Brilliant also said
he would remain as an advisor to Google.
Skoll was President of eBay until 1998 when he became Vice
President, Strategic Planning and Analysis, until back problems
necessitated his departure from full-time employment at the company.
Once eBay's second largest stockholder (behind only Omidyar) he
subsequently cashed out a portion of his company holdings, yielding
him around $2 billion.
Jeff Skoll of eBay
Oracle
Larry Ellison, Jewish co-founder and CEO
of Oracle Corporation |
As quoted from the Jewish article
"Jews as
High Technology Entrepreneurs and Managers" below the computer
technology corporation Oracle is also firmly in Jewish hands under
the Jewish co-founder and CEO
Larry Ellison.
Ellison's Oracle Corporation is presently the second-largest
software maker by revenue, after Microsoft, and amongst many things
the corporation behind the Java technology. This position pays off
well as in 2008 the Associated Press ranked Ellison as the top-paid
chief executive in the world.
Java is present in millions of appliances world wide, something
that should be kept in mind when it comes to the boss Ellison's
pro-Zionist leanings and pro-Israel stance. Having a friend in such
a place must be considered a top asset for Israel.
According to their
own
information:
97% of Enterprise Desktops Run Java
89% of Desktops (or Computers) in the U.S. Run Java
3 Billion Mobile Phones Run Java
"Oracle Software Powers the Internet" - revealing title!
Ellison's "unwavering support for
Israel"
To illustrate the depth of Ellison's Zionist commitment towards the
Jewish state of Israel it should here be told that he was one of the
honoured guests invited by the Israeli Consulate in the U.S. to
celebrate Israel's 65th anniversary in 2013.
Larry Ellison, Oracle CEO, at a the Israeli Consulate's
official party in Los Angeles, celebrating Israel's 65th
Independence Day, April 11, 2013.
Israel's Consul General David Siegel (left) who hosted the
event honored
Larry Ellison with a memorial plaque as a present.
During the event, the Consul General in Los Angeles,
David Siegel,
gave tribute to the Jewish billionaire Larry Ellison for his
"activities and unwavering support for Israel" (see Hebrew
article at the site
IsraeliLifeUSA.com 14th April 2013).
In thanking Allison told his first visit to Israel and how it
changed his life and talked about the importance of the Jewish
state to the free world.
The
webpage of the Israeli consulate also writes about the event
with a similar wording:
In addition to receiving a treat for the palate, guests shared
in the honoring of Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle Corporation,
for his unwavering support of the State of Israel. Upon
accepting the honor from Consul General David Siegel, Larry
Ellison spoke about his life-changing experiences while
traveling in Israel. Mr. Ellison said that he is proud to be
honored on the occasion of Israel's 65th Independence Day
because of the vital importance of the Jewish state to the free
world.
Ellison's Jewish entourage
Among Ellison's staff one finds the Israeli-born Jewess
Safra
Catz who is a board member and since 2011 Oracle's Co-President
and Chief Financial Officer. Safra Catz is promoted in the Jewish
Press, see for instance the article in
Jewish Business News
(Oct 17th, 2013)
"Safra Catz Is Getting Ready To Face Some Shareholder Flak".
In Oracle's Board of Directors one also finds (in 2014) Dr.
Michael J. Boskin, Jewish professor of Economics. Boskin is also
a director of Exxon Mobil Corporation and is also
promoted in the Jewish Press.
Bruce Chizen is
another Jew at Oracle's Board of Directors and who has had the
higly influential post as the CEO and President of Adobe Systems
between 2000-2007. Chizen is an outright fan of Judaism, one can
even read
a
review by him on the book "Judaism For Dummies", where
Chizen states:
Judaism For Dummies is a great way to understand the true
essence of Judaism... a refresher for those of the Jewish faith
and a basic guide for those who are non-Jewish.
Another Jewish board member is
Naomi O. Seligman,
a
former member of the Board of Directors of Sun Microsystems.
The Jew
Jeffrey S. Berg has served as a member of Oracle's
Board of Directors since 1997. Mr Berg has a high position in the
arch-Zionist organization American Jewish Committee (AJC) where he
sits as a member in the
President's Cabinet. The AJC which as Mission Statement has the
task
"to deepen ties between American and Israeli Jews"
promotes itself with the following revealing quote, given from a
trustworthy friend of Israel:
"The American Jewish Committee has become one of the world’s
most influential organizations."
- Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO, News Corporation
So
Jeffrey S. Berg working both in Oracle and in
"one
of the world’s most influential organizations" that strives
"to deepen ties between American and Israeli Jews" can be looked
upon as the "liaison officer" between Ellison and the
Zionist/Israeli military-political establishment.
Jeffrey S. Berg. Please note the Star of David
logo to the left of the background
and the Jewish Menorah
candle to the right.
Ask.com
When downloading Java Oracle since many years promotes the
addition of the
Ask.com toolbar for web searches.
Interestingly this company also has a firm Jewish background and we
have been notified of several cases of censorship in so called "Jew
sensitive" subjects when certain themes/names are searched for
through this so-called search aid. Thus Ellison is promoting not
only his Jewish pals and co-tribesmen but also helping in the Jewish
campaign of narrowing of the available knowledge to non-Jews and
helping in the Jewish censorship of free information on the web.
Ukrainian Jew
Gary Chevsky is one of the chief architects of
Ask Jeeves, Inc. (since transformed into Ask.com). Chevsky has also
been Vice President of Product Development and Operations at
YouSendIt, a company considered the leader in secure digital file
delivery on the Web, an interesting strategic position - again - in
the hands of a Zionist Jew. Gary Chevsky presently sits in the
Internet company Tango as Vice President of Engineering together
with fellow Jews
Uri Raz and
Oded Pelled. Among many
things Israeli Internet entrepreneur Raz, the founder and CEO at
Tango, also founded Teletel, Israel’s first online search engine,
the leading search portal in Israel today.
Gary Chevsky amusing himself
And the Jew
Garrett Gruener was one of the co-founders of
Ask.com back in 1995.
Garrett Gruener
Yossi Vardi - "Israeli
technology guru"
Article from
European Jewish Congress, Thursday, May 22,
2008:
Yossi Vardi: Israel’s ’Mr.
Tech’
By Jennifer L. Schenker
It’s May 15, and Israeli technology guru Yossi Vardi is
moderating a session on the future of the Internet at a conference
in Jerusalem. On stage with the fatherly 65-year-old is a
who’s who of tech and media bigwigs, including Google (GOOG)
co-founder Sergey Brin, Yahoo ! (YHOO) President Susan Decker, and
News Corp. (NWS) Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch.
Vardi (right in the above photo) isn’t the least bit cowed
by their eminence. In his irrepressible manner, he calls out to
the crowd : "How many Israeli entrepreneurs in the audience want
to do business with Yahoo ?" He then tries to get Decker to give
out her personal e-mail address. (She declines.) Vardi settles for
announcing the e-mail of Yahoo’s head of European operations
to the scores of entrepreneurs who have raised their hands.
Undoubtedly the most prominent and connected tech entrepreneur
in Israel, Vardi makes no bones about his objectives. The point of
moderating the tech panel, he says later with a laugh, was to
"shamelessly promote Israel’s high-tech sector." The same
evening, he tries to convince Brin to do more business in Israel
by dragging the Google co-founder and his parents to a dilapidated
warehouse in the suburbs of Tel Aviv to introduce them to 300
Israeli "garage geeks" who tinker there.
Now this goodwill ambassador-long known for his connections in
Silicon Valley-has been tapped by the Israeli government to help
deepen ties with Europe. Vardi was recently named
co-chairman-alongside Mathias Döpfner, the chief executive of
German media company Axel Springer (SPRGN)-of a group called the
EU-Israel Business Dialogue. Its aim is to foster business
relations between Israel and Europe through events such as the
upcoming Israel Innovation Day in Germany on June 16.
Making Deals, Earning
Respect
Although the panel’s work is just getting under way,
Europe’s big tech companies have already been eyeing Israeli
innovation for some time. In March, a France Telecom (FTE)
subsidiary spent $21.4 million for a startup called Orca
Interactive, based in Ra’anana, near Tel Aviv, that develops
Internet TV software and applications. Germany’s Deutsche
Telekom (DT) has opened a research and development laboratory at
Israel’s Ben-Gurion University focused on network security.
And Britain’s BT Group (BT) is "actively scouting for Israeli
technologies to use either ourselves or for our customers," says
Gary Shainberg, BT’s vice-president for technology and
innovation support.
Such deals are welcome news to Vardi, who founded his first
technology startup in 1969 and has gone on to be involved in more
than 60 Israeli tech ventures. He has taken seven companies public
and sold many others-the most famous of which was ICQ, the first
Internet instant-messaging company, which was acquired by AOL
(TWX) for more than $400 million.
But more than his financial success, what has turned the
avuncular Vardi into Israel’s Mr. Tech is relentless
networking, his passionate belief in the cause, and generosity
with his time and money. Known for his love of gadgets and
mischievous sense of humor, Vardi has plowed his gains from ICQ
and other successes back into startups, serving as angel investor
and mentor to scores of young Israelis. He now counts more than 40
companies in his investment portfolio, and spends much of his time
traveling around the world to promote these and other Israeli
companies at business events.
That commitment and kindness has earned Vardi legions of
admirers, including Shimon Peres, the President of Israel, who
calls him Israel’s "best ambassador" to the world of science
and technology. Vardi isn’t in it for the money, Peres
insists. "He is after the science itself. He really and sincerely
wakes up in the morning, opens his eyes, and asks, ’God, what
can I discover of your secrets today ?’ And once he has it,
he will relate it to others."
Groundbreaking
Generosity
There’s another motivation as well, says Vardi, who had a
long civil service career in Israel : what he calls modern day
Zionism. "I belong to the generation that witnessed the creation
of the state," Vardi says. "I still remember the dancing in the
streets on the 29th of November, 1947, so for me, what I am doing,
is a current manifestation of pioneering the building of the state
of Israel."
At times, Vardi may be too much of a soft touch. He says he
hates to read business plans and instead goes with his
gut-sometimes even committing to investments over the phone if he
believes in the entrepreneur making the pitch. "My wife, Thalma,
who keeps me connected to the ground, tells me it doesn’t
make sense that every kid with shining eyes walks away from a
meeting with me with a check," says Vardi. "But I tell her if I
lose the money at least it goes to nice people and allows them to
follow their dreams. Who wants to give money to jerks?"
Thanks in part to his involvement, high tech now represents a
vibrant portion of Israel’s economy (BusinessWeek.com,
5/13/08). But the domestic market is so small that Israeli tech
companies have to grow their businesses quickly in the U.S. and
Europe. Nobody can open doors abroad like Vardi, say entrepreneurs
and executives.
"Yossi is a super-node," says BT’s Shainberg. "He connects
people and companies from around the world to leverage the
world-beating technology innovation in Israel." With the help of
Vardi and the Israeli Trade & Industry Assn., Shainberg is
bringing a group of Israeli tech entrepreneurs to London on June
10-11 to meet with executives from the British phone company and
its partners.
Forging
Relationships
Indeed, Vardi’s web of connections spreads throughout the
Continent. He has, for instance, a long-standing relationship with
German publishing company Hubert Burda Media, acting as an
informal adviser on digital strategies. A few years back, he
helped the company set up a conference called Cool Companies in
the Hot Desert that brought a group of German tech entrepreneurs
to Israel. "Yossi is a connector, a sharer, a giver, a
storyteller," says Stephanie Czerny, Burda’s managing
director in charge of R&D, marketing, and communication.
The success of the event led Vardi and Burda CEO Hubert Burda
(left in the photo) to launch what has quickly become one of
Europe’s most important technology conferences, known as
Digital, Life, Design, or DLD. The annual event now draws 1,000
attendees every January, and this year Vardi brought 150 Israeli
Internet entrepreneurs along with him to the conference to
introduce them to potential investors and business partners.
Vardi thrives on forging those sorts of links. "Yossi has an
amazing capability and will to connect people," says Tal Keinan,
CEO of an Israeli startup called SemantiNet, one of the companies
in Vardi’s portfolio. "This is priceless for a startup."
Keinan found that out firsthand when Vardi invited him to a
private dinner in London in April. Held in the BT Tower, the
exclusive event included senior executives from Apple (AAPL),
Yahoo, Hutchison Europe, and Google, as well as partners from
investment firms such as Accel Partners and Hasso Plattner
Ventures. As if that wasn’t enough, a few days later back in
Israel, Vardi introduced Keinan to Dell (DELL) founder and CEO
Michael Dell.
For all his brokering of deals and relationships, Vardi
isn’t impressed by big names and isn’t in it just for
the money. "It is about building things, about having fun, about
exploring new boundaries, and crossing boundaries," says Uri
Admon, CEO of an Israeli startup called Dyuna, another company in
Vardi’s portfolio. "He is an inspiration to us all."
Schenker is a BusinessWeek correspondent in Paris.
Other Jewish
actors
In August 2007 the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit featured the forum
"Social Networking 3.0". The composition of the panel at this forum
was very illustrative:
Moderator Charlene Li was joined by
Travis Katz, senior
Vice President and General Manager of MySpace International;
Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of Facebook;
Richard
Rosenblatt, CEO of Demand Media and former MySpace Executive;
Gina Bianchini, CEO of Ning; and
Karl Jacob, CEO of
Wallop.
The only non-Jew in this panel was Bianchini, the rest - Katz,
Moskovitz, Rosenblatt and Karl Jacob - were are all from the tribe of
the "chosen people", as they call themselves. This clearly
illustrates the Jewish overrepresentation in this field.
We will here reproduce some
Jewish articles on the subject
of Jews and Internet.
Networking meeting. From the left; Travis
Katz, Dustin Moskovitz, Richard
Rosenblatt,
Gina Bianchini, Karl Jacob.
Richard Rosenblatt
|
Karl Jacob
|
Travis Katz
|
Dustin Moskovitz
|
The Jewish boast-page
www.jewishachievement.com writes
on the subject:
(Note that the passage below that Google´s
Larry Page is a "non-Jew" is utter nonsense, as illustrated by
quotes from
Jewish sources in our section on
Google.)
Jews as High Technology
Entrepreneurs and Managers
Jews have traditionally been seen as prominent in such
industries as finance, merchandising, apparel, textiles,
entertainment, media, and publishing. And in most of them, Jews
were true pioneers. They played leading roles as those industries
emerged on the scene.
Their disproportionate importance to the contemporary world of
24/7 competitive high technology is less well known, but they have
flourished there as well. It plays to their strengths. High
technology demands a solid grounding in the underlying science or
engineering and that typically calls for college, and sometimes a
post graduate education. Demographically, Jews are better educated
than their peers. An earlier chapter pointed out the high levels
of Jewish enrollment at leading public and private
universities.
The National Jewish Population Survey 2000-01 goes further. It
points out that:
"More than half of all Jewish Adults (55%) received a college
degree and a quarter (25%) earned a graduate degree." "The
Comparable figures for the total U.S. population are 29% and 6%."
As a result,
"More than 60% of all employed Jews are in one of the three
highest status job categories: professional or technical (41%),
management and executive (13%) and business and finance (7%)." "In
contrast, 46% of all Americans work in these three high status
areas, 29% in professional or technical jobs, 12% in management
and executive positions and 5% in business and finance."
Jews also tend to be disproportionately entrepreneurial,
working where they will succeed or fail based on their own
efforts. Andrew Grove's decision to stop writing, and instead to
pursue science, illustrates the point. Judgments about writers are
often subjective while those about science are much less so. Grove
wanted to work in a field where he would be judged on his own
performance. He chose chemistry and got his Ph.D. After several
years working with the best and brightest at Fairchild
Semiconductor, he left to become one of the three founders of
Intel.
Technology is a high risk meritocracy. While even the most
talented people sometimes fail, and fortune can obliterate the
most brilliant of plans; technology is not political.
Relationships and initial funding will carry a venture only so
far. Ultimately it must succeed or fail on its own merits in a
volatile, highly competitive arena. Such risky opportunities can
be pursued in hospitable climates, such as the United States, and
in such environments, Jewish entrepreneurs have done well.
They:
- Created the world's largest and most valuable personal
computer company; (Michael Dell, Dell Computers)
- Co-founded the world's most successful search engine;
(Sergy Brin, Google)
- Head the world's largest software company; (Steve Ballmer,
Microsoft)
- Co-founded and head the world's second largest software
company; (Larry Ellison, Oracle)
- Co-founded, led and served as Chairman of the dominant
microprocessor and memory chip company whose products drive
most of today's personal computers; (Andrew Grove, Intel)
- Created the first "killer application" software which
ignited demand for personal computers; (Mitch Kapor, Lotus
123)
- Served as Number 1 or 2 person in three of the world's four
most valuable Internet companies according to a May 2004
Fortune study (Terry Semmel at Yahoo, Jeff Skoll at e-Bay and
Barry Diller at IAC)
- Co-founded and head the communications protocol/chip
company whose technology is the market leader in U.S. cell
phones and is likely to be the world leader as the next
generation cell phone technology (3G) is adopted worldwide.
(Irwin Jacobs, Qualcomm).
And that is only the barest overview:
Dell: Michael Dell and Larry Ellison (of Oracle) share
the distinction of being two of the most successful college
dropouts in history. (Non-Jew Bill Gates is a third.) Dell quit
the University of Texas in 1985 when he was 19 years old to start
Dell Computer Corporation with a $1,000 stake. His idea was to
"cut out the middleman" by selling personal computers (PCs)
directly to customers.
Dell's combination of custom built computers, excellent product
quality, superb customer service, outstanding production
efficiency, and low prices created the world's largest computer
manufacturing company. In achieving that distinction, he took on
IBM, Compaq, Hewlett Packard, Toshiba, and many other PC makers,
most of them much bigger and better financed than Dell.
He is emblematic of the creative, determined nature of
successful entrepreneurs. In the process, he made his company one
of the most valuable in the world. In 1992, Dell became the
youngest CEO in history to earn a spot on the Fortune 500 when his
Company had been in existence for only eight years. With fiscal
year 2005 sales of $53 billion, Dell has humbled most competitors.
Despite the challenges of rapid growth and competitive success,
Dell and its founder are consistently counted as among America's
most respected.
The success has earned 40 year old Dell a fortune, sufficient,
till his most recent birthday, to consistently place him among
Fortune's "40 under 40." These are all young entrepreneurs,
athletes and entertainers who have achieved stellar success before
reaching age 40. With his wife, Dell has created the Michael &
Susan Dell Foundation, endowing it with more than $1 billion. Its
focus is the health, education, safety, care and development of
children. Among its recent commitments was $130 million to help
boost high school graduation and college attendance rates in
Texas.
Google: Sergy Brin is the son of Russian Jewish
emigrants who left the Soviet Union in 1979 to escape persecution.
Sergy was six at the time. Mathematically inclined, he earned a
computer science degree from University of Maryland before
entering Stanford as a postgraduate student. There he met non-Jew,
Larry Page, also studying for his doctorate. Together, they
developed a search engine - called BackRub before they renamed it
Google.
They dropped out of Stanford, rounded up $1 million from
friends, family and angel venture investors and on September 7,
1998, launched Google. Less than ten years old, it is the most
popular search engine on the Web with more than eighty-two million
users each month accessing more than eight billion Web site pages
(twice the comparable 2004 figure). It employs more than 4,000
people and has had a spectacular run up in its stock price to a
value of roughly $80 billion in mid 2005.
Microsoft: Steve Ballmer did not found Microsoft.
Non-Jews Bill Gates and Paul Allen did. They started the Company
in 1976, five years after they began programming together while
attending Lakeside High School in Seattle where they had access to
the school's computer. Gates went off to Harvard where he and
Ballmer became good friends. Ballmer was a bright Jewish kid from
Detroit who scored a perfect 800 on his math SATs and who took it
upon himself to "socialize" Gates at Harvard - until Gates dropped
out to start Microsoft. About the same time, Paul Allen dropped
out of Washington State and together Gates and Allen launched the
Company.
Gates tried to convince Ballmer to drop out as well, but
instead, Ballmer stayed in school, going on to graduate magna cum
laude from Harvard in 1977. He worked for Proctor and Gamble for
two years and then entered Stanford Business School. Perhaps just
to "fit in," he then dropped out of Stanford Business School in
1980 after Gates had made yet one more appeal for him to join
Microsoft. Ballmer was the Company's twenty-fourth employee.
Within three years Paul Allen was gone, the result of a bout
with Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Ballmer served first as the Company's
financial disciplinarian and later became the number two guy,
holding down every senior job in the Company before being named
President in 1998 and CEO in 2000. Known for his determination and
salesmanship, Ballmer has been vital to Microsoft's success.
Oracle: Larry Ellison is a University of Chicago
dropout. He was one of the three (later four) partners who founded
Oracle Corporation in 1977. Ellison, the leader, read an IBM
article about a new kind of software termed a "relational
database." Then commonly acknowledged as a revolutionary new way
to build a database, no one, not even at IBM, thought it was
commercially viable. Ellison disagreed and with $2,000, the
partners began developing the software, using cash generated from
consulting projects to augment the $2,000.
Of the four founders, two later left the company and one died.
But from the start, it was Ellison that was, and still is, the
driving force behind Oracle. "Relentless," "determined," and
"ruthless" are among terms commonly used to describe him. He has
been schooled in Japanese approaches to business where anything
less than 100 percent market share is not enough.
His strong ego is characterized by the titles of two books
about him. The first is titled, "The Difference Between God and
Larry Ellison." It is the first line of an old Silicon Valley joke
for which the punch line is "God does not think he is Larry
Ellison." The second book is Everyone Else Must Fail, for which
the preamble is "It is not good enough that I should succeed."
Ellison was born to an unmarried Jewish teenage mother and an
Italian-American air force pilot father, but he grew up with an
aunt, and an uncle who constantly put young Larry down saying he
would never amount to anything. Harvard Business School's
Entrepreneur of the Year in 1990, the 2004 Forbes' 400 lists
Ellison as the world's ninth wealthiest person.
Ellison has devoted roughly half a billion dollars to
charities, particularly a medical foundation focused mostly on
infectious diseases in the third world and diseases of aging. In
mid 2005, he also pledged $115 million to Harvard University.
Intel: As noted in the Andrew Grove bio, Intel was
formed in 1968 by non-Jews Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore who
recruited Grove to be their co-founder and third employee. Their
established reputations and ability to raise the needed $2.5
million from venture capitalist Arthur Rock financed the Company,
Noyce headed up sales and Marketing, Moore R&D, while Grove
headed manufacturing and product development. Grove disciplined
the organization to set and reach goals and he made the critical
decisions, such committing Intel to the microprocessors which made
Intel the huge success it is.
Lotus: Mitch Kapor did not invent the spreadsheet, but
his software program, Lotus 123, was the first application to
spawn huge demand for personal computers. Visicalc, an earlier
spreadsheet program created by Jew Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston
in 1982, was available on several early computers including the
Apple II a few years before Lotus 123 arrived. But Lotus 123 had
many more features, was easier to use, and had far better
graphics. It provided the compelling reason for consumers to buy
personal computers and demand was so strong, Lotus grossed $53
million in its first year and $156 million by 1984. Kapor went on
to create other major software programs including Lotus
Agenda.
eBay: Jeff Skoll did not create eBay, non-Jew Pierre
Omidyar did in 1993. For Omidyar, born to French and Iranian
parents, creating an on-line auction Web-site was a Labor Day
weekend hobby project. For its first couple of years, it was
simply a free Web-site Omidyar ran on his own home page along with
several other of his Web page creations. During the first few
months, he tried to recruit Skoll, a Jewish French-Canadian he met
through friends, to become his partner. Skoll turned him down,
choosing to remain at Stanford Business School.
In early 1996, Omidyar's Internet service provider began
charging him $250 a month to host the site. Omidyar was forced to
start charging a fee, which he passed along to the site's users
based on the sale price of auction items. As the checks started
rolling in Omidyar realized he needed help. Again, he approached
Skoll. This time, after a few months of consulting for eBay, Skoll
signed on as its first full time employee and President.
Skoll grew up in Canada and showed early signs of being a
driven entrepreneur. At twelve, he was selling Amway products
door-to-door. After graduating from the University of Toronto with
a 4.0 grade point average, he set up two high tech companies
before moving to Palo Alto to enroll at Stanford Business School.
Compensating for Omidyar's easy going ways and enjoyment of
programming, Skoll was the driven leader who planned the business
and made things happen. He hired key people, established much of
the culture, and constantly pushed to build the business.
The result is the number one auction Web site in the world. It
grossed $3.9 billion in 2004, netted $936 million and was worth
$53 billion by mid 2005, all of which made both Omidyar and Skoll
very wealthy. Skoll has since left eBay and now devotes the bulk
of his time to philanthropic activities, particularly his Skoll
Foundation to which he has donated $250 million. The Foundation
supports social entrepreneurs working to effect lasting positive
social changes worldwide. In 2003, Skoll won recognition from
Business Week magazine as "one of the most innovative
philanthropists of the past decade"
InterActive Corp (IAC): Barry Diller has made a career
of corporate transformations. He started in the mail room at the
William Morris Agency in his early 20s, and at age 24, moved to
ABC-TV. Within three years, he was Vice President of Feature Films
and Program Development. In that job he inaugurated ABC's Movie of
the Week, the most popular movie series in television history. At
ABC Diller pioneered highly profitable "made-for-television" films
which focused on social issues such as homosexuality, the Vietnam
War and drugs.
In 1974, following that success (and still only 32), he was
named President of Paramount Pictures. At Paramount, he oversaw
creation of the hit television series: Cheers, Taxi, and Laverne
and Shirley, and hit movies including: Raiders of the Lost Ark,
Saturday Night Fever and Grease. Ten years later he moved to
Twentieth Century-FOX where in 1985, after Rupert Murdoch took
over, he launched Fox as the fourth television network. By 1990,
Diller had Fox producing five nights of prime time television with
such popular shows as: The Simpsons, Married With Children, Cops
and America's Most Wanted.
Diller quit Fox to purchase a stake in QVC, the cable shopping
network, and from there he launched an unsuccessful bid to take
over Paramount. Sumner Redstone's Viacom beat him out. Shortly
thereafter, in 1995, non-Jew John Malone recruited Diller to leave
QVC, invest in and run Liberty Media's Silver King Communications,
which was broadcasting the Home Shopping Network. Diller later
merged Home Shopping into Silver King.
Through a blinding series of name changes, strategic
redirections and $8 billion worth of mergers, acquisitions, joint
ventures and investments in more than 45 companies, Diller created
what is now called Interactive Corp (IAC), the fifth major
Internet Company, (behind Google, Amazon, e-Bay, and Yahoo).
Little known to the general public, IAC controls such prominent
Internet names as: Expedia, Hotels.com, Lending Tree, Hotwire.com,
Evite, Citysearch and Ticketmaster.
Over the years, Diller has served as a director of Coca Cola
and the Washington Post, Trustee of New York University, member of
the Executive Board for Medical Sciences at UCLA, member of the
Board of Councilors of USC's School of Cinema-Television and a
member of the Board of the Museum of Television and Radio.
Yahoo: Terry Semel did not create Yahoo. Non-Jews Jerry
Yang and David Filo did in 1994, as a hobby, while pursuing their
electrical engineering PhD's at Stanford. In those halcyon, "early
bubble" days, Yahoo went public within two years. It was then, and
still is today, regarded as one of the major Internet successes of
all time, but along the way, it hit a bump in the road. In 2001,
Yahoo lost $93 million on revenues of $717 million. The stock
tanked and new talent was needed to avert a melt down.
That is when Terry Semel arrived. Semel had 24 years at Warner
Brothers where he had been instrumental in building the Company
from $1 billion to $11 billion in annual revenues. Semel quickly
pushed Yahoo's marketing, consumers' services and acquisitions and
by 2003, he had turned the company around. In 2004, Yahoo made
$1.6 billion under his leadership.
Qualcomm: Irwin Jacobs is listed as one of seven
Qualcomm founders, but by any measure, he has been the "essential
man" from Qualcomm's 1985 inception till now.
Qualcomm created and controls Code-Division Multiple Access
(CDMA), a major wireless telecommunications technology. It is the
most widely used wireless calling technology in the United States,
(47 percent market share) used by such carriers as Verizon,
Cingular, and Sprint. Around the world, 212 million wireless
phones already utilize Qualcomm technology and as 3G, the next
generation of wireless, is deployed, Qualcomm is expected to
become the international market leader as well.
Jacobs grew up in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He was a mediocre
musician, but an excellent student earning a bachelors degree from
Cornell and a Masters and a Doctor of Science degree from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He taught at MIT and
the University of California San Diego (UCSD) from 1959 to
1972.
While teaching, he wrote a still used college text, Principles
of Communications Engineering, and in 1969, co-founded LINKABIT, a
company he describes as his initial move towards becoming an
"academic dropout." That finally happened in 1972 when he became
LINKABIT's full time President and Chairman. The Company pioneered
satellite TV receiver technology (VideoCipher) and was the first
to commercially introduce Time Division Multiplex Access (TDMA),
the predecessor technology to CDMA. Jacobs built LINKABIT to 1,400
employees, before merging it with M/A-COM and he served on that
Board until 1985.
Initially, Qualcomm did research and development and some
manufacturing for wireless companies while it built the largest
satellite-based messaging service used by trucking companies to
manage their fleets. That service was quickly overshadowed,
however, by CDMA. By 2004, CDMA was generating over $5 billion in
annual revenues.
All of this has made Jacobs (and his fellow founders) quite
wealthy. Jacobs has responded with major philanthropy. He and his
wife have given $110 million to the San Diego Symphony (hearkening
back to his days as a mediocre musician), another $110 million
went to the UCSD to "support the other faculty that are currently
doing the teaching," $7 million went to the Salk Institute, and
millions more has gone to support the San Diego Food Bank and
historic New Bedford. Both he, and fellow Qualcomm founder Andrew
Viterbi now have schools of engineering named after them, Jacobs
at UCSD and Viterbi and the University of Southern California.
RealNetworks: Ron Glaser takes credit for creating the
first technology to "stream" audio, video, and other digital
content, such as music and games, to computers. He founded
RealNetworks in 1994 to capitalize on the technology.
Fresh out of Yale with degrees in economics and computer
sciences, Glaser joined Microsoft in 1983 where he rose, over his
ten years there, to become Vice President of Multimedia and
Consumer Systems. He left Microsoft in 1994 and shortly
thereafter, says he downloaded Mosaic, an early version of the
Netscape Internet browser. He immediately saw the potential to
augment the browser with "streaming." He founded RealNetworks and
was soon able to take it public. It became a hot Internet stock
and, for a time, Glaser was a billionaire.
Today, following the bursting of the Internet bubble and
heightened competition with Microsoft's Media Player and Apple's
Quicktime, RealNetworks continues to post operating losses and it
is taking on Microsoft in court. Like earlier Federal and state
lawsuits against Microsoft, Glaser's company claims Microsoft
competes unfairly by bundling its Mediaplayer into its software.
Win or lose, RealNetworks has sufficient cash to finance itself
for some time and thus remain a major Internet force, particularly
as the downloading of music and games becomes ever more prolific.
If RealNetworks succeeds, Glaser will rejoin the ranks of
billionaires who hit it big with their Internet technology
innovations.
Broadcast.com & HDNet: Mark Cuban grew up poor, the
son of Russian Jewish emigrants in blue collar Pittsburgh. He was
a bright student who was also considered something of a hustler
with his native selling ability (selling garbage bags, greeting
cards and magazines, all door-to-door, from the time he was 12.)
At the University of Indiana he started a chain letter and gave
disco dancing lessons to pay for school.
After graduating in 1983 he started a computer consulting firm,
MicroSolutions, though he neither owned, nor knew much about,
computers. Self-taught by having to learn to perform on the
promises he made to customers, he built the Company to revenues of
$30 million a year before selling it to Compuserve. He made
himself wealthy in the process.
He then "kicked back" for a few years, before returning in
1995, with partner Todd R. Wagner (not Jewish), to create
Broadcast.com. It pioneered radio and television broadcasting over
the Internet. Cuban and Wagner soon took it public and, in 1999,
sold it to Yahoo for $5.7 billion. Cuban and Wagner were
billionaires.
His attention then shifted to his ownership of the Dallas
Mavericks basketball team. Cuban is a brash, avid, courtside
presence whose outbursts have cost him an estimated $1 million in
fines. At the same time, his savvy marketing and recruiting of top
talent has converted the Mavericks from a perennial loser to a
contender.
Cuban also launched HDNet, a high definition television
broadcast network available on satellite, cable, and selected over
the air high definition broadcast stations. He and Wagner also
purchased Landmark theaters, a large U.S. chain of "art-house"
movie theaters which will air the high definition movies he is
producing and the films he has contracted six major studios to
convert from film to digital.
Measures of entrepreneurial
success
One measure of entrepreneurial success is provided by the
Fortune "40 Under 40" annual list of the wealthiest young
Americans, nearly all of them self made. Though entrepreneurial
success is not simply about wealth, it is one scorecard. The
Fortune's 2004 list is included as Exhibit 16a. While it includes
thirteen athletes and entertainers, the remaining twenty-seven are
successful young entrepreneurs, mostly from high technology
companies they started or led. Of the twenty-seven, at least six
are Jewish. Three of them are among the top five and five of them
among the top ten. In order, the six include: #1 Michael Dell, #3
Jeff Skoll, #5 Sergey Brin, #9 Dan Snyder, #10, Marc Benioff, and
#17 Jerry Greenberg. Statistically, at two percent of the U.S.
population, Jews would be lucky if even one of the twenty-seven
was Jewish. At 22 percent, the result is ten times what one would
expect.
The Forbes 400 corroborates the Fortune list. (Exhibit 16b) Of
the year 2004 ranking, at least 25 percent of the "400" are
Jewish. And like the Fortune "40 Under 40," many of them made
their wealth as entrepreneurs who started successful businesses.
Prominent among the first twenty-five are #9 Michael Dell, #10
Lawrence Ellison, and #11 Steven Balmer. As with the Fortune 40,
the performance defies expectations. We would expect perhaps eight
Jews among the 400, the actual figure (at least 102) is twelve
times that.
And another Jewish article, this time from
http://emergentobserver.blogspot.com/2009/03/omg-jewish-history-of-internet.html:
OMG, A Jewish History
of the Internet
Did you know that the internet is Jewish? Yeah...Moses got the
Torah from HaShem on Mt. Sinai and HaShem told Moses that his
brother Aaron and his descendants would be Kohenim forever. Now a
"Kohen" is a priest and the story of the internet involves a
Jewish priest, a Jewish painter, a Jewish Scotsman and a Jewish
sugar merchant living high in the mountains...well sort of...
In 1972, at the International Computer Communication
Conference, Robert Kahn (a kohen) was able to connect 40 different
computers revealing his work to the public for the first time.
Just three years later David Farber (whose Yiddish family name
means “painter”) worked to create a primitive kind of
email system. Within the next twenty years the internet that we
now know and love was born. In 2003 MySpace was launched and by
2006 it had become the largest social networking site in the
United States. MySpace added a new dimension to how we communicate
and share information with our friends, family and even religious
communities. The website was co-founded by Tom Anderson. Although
Tom’s last name reflects his father’s Scottish heritage,
he and his mother are Jewish and he was raised in a messianic
Jewish household. At the age of 14 Tom was a computer hacker
working his mischief under the tag name Lord Flathead (not a
Jewish name). He lead a team of hackers that were able to brake in
to Chase Manhattan Bank computers, he tampered with banking
records and left a message saying that unless he was given free
use of the system he would wipeout the records. He must have been
praying because he was never charged with the crime :) The website
Tom would later become famous for inspired a 23-year-old Mark
Zuckerberg (a Jewish name meaning “sugar mountain”) to
create another social networking site called Facebook. Things are
looking sweeter then a pile of sugar for Zuckerberg because
Facebook has made him over a billion dollars and more people can
be found on his networking site then in the entire country of
Japan.
…So we see that many key players in the field of computer
technologies are our fellow tribesmen. The internet itself has
even been compared to the Talmud…layers upon layers of
commentary dealing with issues from personal hygiene to oven
construction. However the internet is only truly comparable to the
Talmud if it’s dialogue eventually returns to G-dly matters.
The Talmud finds a way to elevate even mundane and seemingly
secular matters to a level of Torah. We should do the same with
our technologies, only then do they become truly Jewish.
And finally yet another Jewish boasting article on the same topic
(from
http://kupe.joeuser.com/article/158970/Jews_On_The_Internet):
Jews On The
Internet
By Larry Kuperman
July 29, 2007
The question of how many Jews there are begs the definition of
"What is a Jew?" and also "Who is a Jew?" Questions that have been
asked many a time.....mostly by other Jews. Being a Secular Jew
myself, I like the most liberal, inclusive definition that
includes....well ME. The biggest number that you will see is about
18 million Jews. This works out to something like 1/4 of one per
cent of the world's population. So you would expect that our
impact on the Internet would be proportional to our numbers.
Not so, bubbala. (A term of endearment, darling. Can you feel
me virtually pinching your cheek? In a nice way.) The impact of
Jews far outweighs their numbers. Lets look at "Who's A Yid?"
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of Google. Larry Page's
mom, Gloria Page, is Jewish. Sergey Brin was born in Moscow,
Russia, to Jewish parents, Michael and Eugenia, who fled to
America for religious freedom.
Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, while he was a student
at Harvard University. It was originally going to be limited to
Harvard students, but expanded quickly. Zuckerberg saw the
potential in the site and sought capital. He turned to Peter
Thiel, a co-founder of Paypal and, not-so-coincidentally, also
Jewish. Facebook is often rumored to be up for sale. How much is
Facebook worth? Let me refer that to Mr. Thiel: "Facebook's
internal valuation is around $8 billion based on their projected
revenues of $1 billion by 2015." Founder Mark Zuckerberg is 23, or
as we like to say, 10 years past his Bar Mitzvah.
Robert Kevin Rose is, comparatively, an old man at age 30. He
is best known for founding Digg.com. Robert lost his job during
the burst of the Dot Com bubble, ended up working as a production
assistant on the show The Screen Savers He began appearing on air
and stepped in as host after Leo Laporte left TechTV. On November
1, 2004, he started a site that combined social bookmarking,
blogging, RSS into arguably the premier tech news site. Today Digg
is rated among the 100 most popular sites on the web.
Scott Blum has been referred to as the "Sam Walton of
e-commerce." Leaving a successful career as a shoe salesman as a
youth, he founded Microbanks, a company that sold add-on memory
modules for Macintosh computers. Before his 21st birthday, he sold
Microbanks to Sentron Technology in San Diego for $2.5 million in
cash. He would then co-found Pinnacle Micro with his father.
Leaving there under a cloud of dubious accounting practices (he
paid no penalty and admitted no guilt) he would go on to found
Buy.com. He left before went public, returned to take it back
private and it is now his baby.
RealNetworks is not the most beloved company in the world, nor
is Real Player a favorite product. But there is no question that
CEO and Founder Rob Glaser has been influential. When he founded
Real Networks in 1994, at age 31, he was already a millionaire
from his days at Microsoft. He has had a major impact on the
Internet.
Certainly also worth mentioning are Steve Ballmer, CEO of
Microsoft, whose mother is Jewish; Larry Ellison, founder of
Oracle, who was born on the Lower East Side of New York to a
Jewish mother and raised by his great-aunt and great-uncle in
Chicago; and Phillipe Kahn, founder of Borland.
What would the Internet be like with Google, PayPal, Facebook,
Digg.com, Buy.com? It would be very, very different.
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Al Jazeera English under Jewish infiltration
By Freedom Research, January 2012
[Note: underline of quotes in articles below
have been added by Radio Islam for emphasis.]
When Al Jazeera English was launched many people had expectations that at last there would be an English language
media outlet that wasn´t just a mouthpiece of the Jewish agenda. But lo - were they wrong.
Just a quick check on the opinionmakers employed by this "Arab" TV
channel's Internet pages gives an astounding high percentage of people of the Jewish
mafia, delivering their analysis and perspectives on how to interpret
the world. A world very much affected by the actions of their
Jewish co-mafiosi in world Economics, US/French/British/Russian
politics, and so forth...
 
Left Column:
Al Jazeera English main page (screensaved), 11th September
2011, Jewish opinionmakers:
Weisbrot, Chomsky,
Sachs, Falk, Miliband,
Rogoff, Shabi (Iraqi
Jewess)
+ Zionist Gordon Brown
Right Column:
Al Jazeera English main page (screensaved), 6th August 2011,
Jewish opinionmakers:
Rosenberg, Rothman,
Sachs, Rogoff,
Miller, Rosenberg
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And as the Arab Spring in 2011 continues this channel has been in the forefront
of delivering the "information" But in whose interest? That the Libyan operation
was very much supported by the very same Qatari rulers that direct the Al
Jazeera channel is well known. But what is the role of the Jewish
analysts in their folds?
In the sample below taken as screen savings from the Al Jazeera
English´s main page (23 September 2011) we for instance see the Israeli Jew Nir
Rosen
acting
as "Al Jazeera special correspondent" with access to the
Syrian opposition, informing the audience on how the Syrian regime will be
combated militarily (in September 2011 a possible development which just happens
to be in Israel´s interest):
The same page, top right corner:
Even Israeli TV has realised the impact of Jews in Al Jazeera's
midst, see Israeli TV clip below:
Note that the Israeli Jewish editor "Roy"
at Al Jazeera English's Washington bureau openly wears the
Star of David around his neck and himself states very revealingly
that:
"I know that if I weren´t here, maybe they wouldn´t feature the
Israeli side as much."
We thus also see the Jewess Joanne Levine as the executive producer of
programming for the Americas at Al Jazeera.
Levine writes in the article
"Al-Jazeera, as American as Apple Pie" in The
Washington Post, 25 June 2006:
I'm a New York Jew married to a Jordanian Druze whom I met when I lived in Amman
in 2002 on a fellowship. I heard plenty of anti-Semitic comments there from
those who didn't suspect that I might be Jewish. Today, some people ask me how a
Jew can work for al-Jazeera. It's that kind of thinking that builds up walls,
rather than tearing them down. The racism I experienced was unacceptable in
Jordan. And it is unacceptable in the United States.
[...]
Al-Jazeera has even been labeled "Zionist" by the Arab street and its regimes.
It is the only Arabic broadcaster to put Israeli officials on television and to
report the Israeli side of stories. Israeli leaders such as Ariel Sharon and
Shimon Peres have been invited to appear on the network, although they
ultimately did not. But Israel routinely sends Arabic-speaking officials to
participate on various programs.
Jewess Joanne Levine, executive producer of
programming at Al Jazeera.
Amongst other Jewish actives in Al Jazeera during the years we also see:
Iraqi Jewess Rachel Shabi a contributor to Al Jazeera
English, see list of opinion makers above. Rachel Shabi´s book on Israel's Oriental
Jews, "Not the Enemy: Israel's Jews from Arab Lands" was published in
2009 and received a National Jewish Book award. She's also a contributing writer
to The Guardian, the Times, Jane's Intelligence Digest, Foreign Policy, the New
Statesman and the National (UAE).
Avram David (Avi) Lewis is a
Canadian-Jewish
documentary filmmaker and host of the
Al Jazeera English show
Fault Lines. According to Wikipedia "Avi Lewis is the great grandson of
Moshe Losz (Lewis), an outspoken member of the
Jewish Bund". Avi Lewis, married to world famous Jewish journalist and author
Naomi Klein, became host of Frontline USA for
Al Jazeera television in 2008.
Arthur Neslen
Jewish freelance journalist based in Tel Aviv and considered by his
Jewish critics to have been "the first Jewish employee of Al
Jazeera".
Jewess
Rebecca Lipkin, deceased 2009, was a director of Al Jazeera's programs,
AJ's executive producer for documentaries, and helped establish the network's
English-language programming in London.
According to the Washington Post, July 24, 2009:
In 2005, Ms. Lipkin joined al-Jazeera in London as
director of programs and helped establish the network's
English-language programming in London. She was credited
with bringing former ABC newsman Dave Marash to al-Jazeera
as a news anchor in 2006.
Lipkin
has also been hailed in the Jewish Women's Archive
(a site honouring influential Jewish women activists) after her
death "as a proud Jew".
Lipkin thus introduced fellow Jew Dave Marash. The article below will
also tell how
Jew Dave Marash´s equally Jewish wife, Amy Marash,
also was hired as Al Jazeera´s Washington bureau's deputy news
editor.
From The Jewish Exponent,
January 26, 2006:
Veteran ABC Newsman
to Anchor Al Jazeera in English
January 26, 2006
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| Dave
Marash |
Robert Wiener
New Jersey Jewish News
Whippany, N.J.
Veteran TV-news correspondent Dave Marash's recent
assignments for ABC's Nightline have included stints
in Iraq, Pakistan, areas affected by the Asian
tsunami, Israel and the Palestinian territories.
Good training, perhaps, for the flak he's about
to take for his latest career move: The former New
Jersey resident will become an anchor for Al Jazeera
International, an English-language news network
based in Washington, D.C.
[...]
The 63-year-old veteran journalist - a familiar
presence on New York local news before his years at
the ABC network - insists the Arab-owned news
satellite channel's agenda is one of "open
discussion and information exchange and not …
ideological triumphalism."
He pointed out that he is "not the only Jewish
person they have hired, and they've made it quite
clear that they regard my religious background as
incidental to my professional credentials."
Preceding him on the AJI payroll was New Yorker
Rebecca Lipkin, a colleague of his at Nightline,
who's based in London as AJI's executive producer
for documentaries.
In addition, his Jewish wife, Amy Marash, a
former photographer and field producer at American
networks, has been hired as the Washington bureau's
deputy news editor.
"I don't believe Al Jazeera is anti-Semitic,"
said Marash. "I don't believe we are anti-Israeli. I
don't believe we are anti-American. I don't believe
we are anti-Western."
"I am very, very comfortable that I am not
betraying my Jewish heritage or my American
citizenship. But in this job, I think I am going to
be able to express the best sides of my religious,
cultural, social and political background. It is
what makes this such an attractive job."
[...]
Marash draws a distinction between the new
English-language service and the one now
broadcasting in Arabic, which emanates from Doha,
Qatar, and reaches an estimated 30 million viewers
in the Arabic-speaking world.
"Let me make one point extremely clear," he said.
"Al Jazeera in English is an entirely different
channel."
Even as he stressed that difference, Marash said
that "the philosophy of Al Jazeera's Arabic network
is very much like our philosophy."
[...]
The broadcaster also argued that among
Arab-language news-gatherers, Al Jazeera was the
first to use Israeli sources: "If you believe in the
possibility of peace and reconciliation between
Israel and the Palestinians, between Jews and Arabs,
between the West and the Islamic worlds - any way
you draw the line in the clash of civilizations and
cultures - Al Jazeera is the bridge."
[...]
Marash, who first began reporting for Nightline in 1989, is
leaving the show as it undergoes major changes, including
the departure of anchor Ted
Koppel, who reportedly turned down an offer from Al
Jazeera and has since joined the Discovery Network.
Before Nightline, Marash was as an investigative
reporter for WNBC-TV and the news anchor for
WCBS-TV, both New York City-area stations.
Here we see Marash reiterating that Al Jazeera English is a different
thing from Al Jazeera Arabic. Here we also see that the Jew Ted Koppel also was intended to be part of the
Jewish cabal.
More on Marash, Al Jazeera's Jew, is read in the Jewish magazine
Moment:
Moment, February 2007
A Jew in Al Jazeera's House
In the Studio with Dave Marash
Boris Weintraub
Dave Marash is on the air, seated at the
news anchor desk in a television studio on K Street in
downtown Washington, DC. He’s reading his script from a
teleprompter as he introduces a clip from a speech by United
Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan.
“Yikes,” he mutters into his microphone
when the film clip fails to appear. This is live TV—glitches
happen—and the 64-year-old veteran reporter is unfazed by
the mishap, even slightly amused, eyes narrowing in his
avuncular, cherubic face. Marash, his gray beard matching
what little hair remains on his head, ad-libs for a moment
and promises to return as the network switches back to an
anchor at its headquarters in Doha, Qatar.
[...]
I’m spending the afternoon with Marash,
who joined Al Jazeera English in January 2006 in preparation
for its November launch. Marash might seem an unlikely
candidate to lend his expertise, mellifluous voice and
prestige to an Arab network that hopes to compete with CNN,
BBC and the new France 24. The highly respected veteran of
radio and TV news spent the past 16 years parachuting into
hot spots around the world as global correspondent for Ted
Koppel’s Nightline on ABC. Oh, and by the way, this
key figure for an Arab-owned and operated TV news network is
Jewish.
“I am not a particularly observant Jew in
the sense of going to temple, but Judaism, Jewish culture,
Jewish ideas and Jewish debates have been at the heart of my
life from the day I was born,” Marash tells me. “I look
Jewish; I sound Jewish; I act Jewish. It’s obvious that I am
Jewish. I have affirmed my Judaism in places like Iraq or
Kosovo or the occupied territories, where there is some risk
in doing this.”
At Al Jazeera English, Marash hosts two
nightly newscasts and also provides news cut-ins in the
afternoon, such as the one with the missing Annan clip. When
I arrive, the network is airing Annan’s speech live. Marash
is working on a script when the speech ends, so I turn my
attention to a monitor next to his desk, on which a
Georgetown University professor criticizes Annan for
tolerating Saddam Hussein’s “flagrant violations” of UN
resolutions and failing to halt Iran’s nuclear program.
The 2 p.m. news roundup, anchored from
Doha, leads with the deaths of three children in Gaza,
presumably at the hands of Hamas, whose father had ties to
Fatah. Reports on Lebanese politics, North Korean nuclear
talks, fighting in Sri Lanka and Iraqi violence follow.
Particularly notable is a piece on Iran’s Holocaust-denial
conference, which includes haunting footage of concentration
camp survivors just after their rescue—footage that appeared
on few American network TV newscasts later in the day.
The
report also features scenes of an Iranian protest rally,
showing a student tearing up a photograph of Iran’s
president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
When Marash goes on the air a second
time, the Annan clip runs without a hitch. His afternoon
stint over, he rises from the anchor desk. Seated, Marash
looks almost round, so it is a surprise to discover that he
is nearly six feet tall. We walk to a nearby carryout shop,
where he picks up a bowl of soup, and return to the office.
As he eats at his cluttered desk, we schmooze—Marash’s
word—and I ask what a nice Jewish boy like him is doing
working for Al Jazeera.
Marash isn’t perturbed by my question.
He’s used to this. “I did my due diligence,” he replies
calmly. “I had my ‘mole’ inside the network. I read into the
policies and history of the channel, and I found little to
trouble me.”
[...]
Al Jazeera English, says Marash, shares
this same commitment to top-notch international reporting.
“The stories are all international. They’re all serious and
significant. We have four news bases—London, Washington,
Doha and Kuala Lumpur—with autonomy in setting our own
priorities and creating our own assignments. The
responsibility here is to cover not just Washington and the
U.S. but the whole western hemisphere, so my global itch got
scratched. And this is most critical to me: our qualitative
standard is the highest, most nuanced of all the cable news
channels. I find this job every bit as intellectually
interesting and stimulating as Nightline.”
The son of a Jewish Community Center
director in Richmond, Virginia, Marash believes it is
crucial to distinguish between Al Jazeera in Arabic and Al
Jazeera English. The first claims to reach 50 million Arabic
speakers in 137 countries and focuses primarily on news and
culture in the Middle East. The latter wants to be the first
non-western international news source for a billion-plus
English speakers worldwide, including millions of Muslims
who don’t speak Arabic.
Supporters call the Arabic Al Jazeera an
independent voice that gives Middle Eastern viewers a rare
opportunity to hear all sides of the region’s many
conflicts. Its breadth and unprecedented willingness to
criticize Arab powers-that-be have led some to call it one
of the most positive and significant cultural phenomena in
centuries. Itamar Rabinovich, president of Tel Aviv
University and former Israeli ambassador to the United
States, remarked recently that, for all its problems, Al
Jazeera is a force of “democratization” in the Middle East.
But the network’s detractors—including a number of American
media watchdog organizations, both Jewish and not—see it as
a propaganda tool for opponents of the Jewish state, foes of
America and western values and even terrorists.
Marash contends that the English-language
Al Jazeera audience is more sophisticated by nature than
viewers of the Arabic version. For most of its market,
English is a second language, which suggests a certain level
of education and appreciation of nuance. The Arabic-language
network is, he says, more of a classic tabloid, the voice of
the Arab street.[...]
Marash is firm in his defense of Al
Jazeera’s overall coverage. “In their role of covering the
news of the Arabic-speaking world, they have no choice but
to carry hate speech, because it’s an active part of the
‘multilogue’ of politics and society in the Middle East,” he
argues. “But there is a real attempt to balance hate speech
with more moderate and informed voices. In fact, Al Jazeera
has a unique record in the Middle East of allowing Israeli
and other Jewish speakers unlimited opportunity to say
whatever they want. Al Jazeera in Arabic doesn’t limit
itself to friendly Israeli voices but regularly books some
of the most hostile, anti-Islamic voices in the world Jewish
community.”
In truth, Marash asserts, Al Jazeera and
the Qatar royal family favor democratization and
reconciliation in the Middle East. The network has
criticized many Arab governments, he notes, and irked both
Hamas and Fatah by its coverage. “Honesty is very
important,” he says. “I am a Jew. I’m proud to be a Jew, but
I am a Jew who still believes in the possibility of
reconciliation with Judaism’s adversaries.
“I believe that Al Jazeera, probably more
than any other point in the Arabic-speaking universe, has
done more for reconciliation than any other institution I
can name.”
Marash admits that Al Jazeera made a
savvy public relations move by hiring a Jew as a key on-air
figure for the English-language outlet. But, he adds, he’s
not alone. “Al Jazeera English has at least a minyan here,”
he quips. “You’d have to waive the gender part but, if we
allow women in, we’ve certainly got a minyan.”
[...]
Marash’s Jewish identity and his obvious
pride in it, has made some in the Arab world uneasy.
There’s also concern that he and other western-trained
journalists will somehow dilute the network’s Arab
authenticity.
[...]
Marash bristles at the accusation on some
Internet sites that he took the job because he is “a
self-hating Jew.” “To me, that’s one of the most inherently
illegitimate and insulting charges that can be made,” he
says heatedly. He also points out that most reaction to Al
Jazeera English in its early months has been positive.
The
“pre-action” anxiety, he says, that it would be anti-Jewish,
anti-American, “maybe even pro-terrorist”
has faded “like
fog burned away by the morning sun because, if you watch us
for even a few minutes, you’ll see that there’s nothing to
any of those charges.”
[...]
Boris Weintraub
(“A Jew in Al Jazeera’s House”) is a contributing editor at
Moment who most
recently wrote about the revival of the Ladino language and
culture in the April 2006 issue. He was a senior writer for
National Geographic
Magazine for 16 years.
Note: A "minyan" is a Jewish congregation consisting of
minimum of 10 Jews.
The Jewish Daily Forward
Al Jazeera Gathering Draws a Full
Minyan To Heart of Arab World
By Orly Halpern
April 27, 2007
Doha, Qatar -
Some participants at the third-annual forum of
the Arab satellite network Al Jazeera were sorry they didn’t bring
matzo with them — had they known how many fellow Jews were attending
the media conference, they would have made a Passover Seder.
“We could have used the hotel wine to fill our
cups,” Mark LeVine said only half-jokingly. A professor of Middle
East studies at University of California in Irvine,
LeVine was one of several Jewish participants
who attended the invitation-only conference in Doha, organized by Al
Jazeera.
Ethan Zuckerman, whose wife is a Reform rabbi,
said that he had originally planned to hold a Seder in Doha. “I told
my wife, and she wrote me a two-page Haggadah,” he said, shortly
after speaking on a panel on Internet and the media. “But I didn’t
bring the matzo.”
The Jewish participants
were by no means relegated to the sidelines.
New Yorker correspondent Seymour Hersh gave the
keynote address; LeVine and International Herald Tribune executive
editor Michael Oreskes were panelists, and David Marash, the
Washington bureau anchor of Al Jazeera English, logged a stint as a
moderator.
The relatively high number
of Jewish academics, journalists and media experts who attended the
event stood in stark contrast to the view in some circles that the
network is anti-Jewish and anti-Western. Some critics have
gone so far to brand it “Osama Bin-Laden’s TV Network,” a name which
Al Jazeera executives say comes from the Bush administration and
conservative American television commentators.
The general atmosphere at the event was open and
friendly among Arab and Western participants. “If there is any
antisemitism lurking around here, it hasn’t been directed at me,”
said Danny Schechter in a heavy New York accent. “They make a
distinction between U.S. or Israeli policy and religion.”
Schechter, vice president of Globalvision, a
documentary film production company, said that he attended the event
because “in the post-9/11 world it is imperative to understand what
people think and this forum provides the opportunity to mingle,
discuss and even to get into arguments.”
Like many other participants, his main criticisms
were that few women participated and panel discussions were not
engaging enough. Indeed, whether dressed in sharp suits and ties or
starched white floor-length dishdashas and white head coverings, the
well-heeled forum panelists mostly agreed with each other. If
anything, it appeared that some of the Al Jazeera moderators were
avoiding conflict.
During breaks between panels, however, there was
plenty of chatter in the elegantly appointed lobby outside the
conference hall, where participants shmoozed over hors d’oeuvres,
and journalists and academics feverishly networked.
“To be here with the media makers and icons of
the Western world as they converge with those of the Arab world is
really inspiring,” said Nora Friedman, as she sat around a round
table where she shared a buffet lunch with a number of American and
Arab journalists. A 28-year-old producer at Pacifica Radio in
Berkeley, Calif., a left-wing radio network that tends to be
fiercely critical of American foreign policy, Friedman said that the
forum was “building a bridge between the Western and Arab media and
confronting the prejudices in the so-called ‘War on Terror.’”
“There is no problem with Jews here,” said Abdel
Bari Atwan, editor-in-chief of the London-based Arabic-daily Al-Quds
Al-Arabi, a regular commentator on Middle East affairs who opposes
American support for Israel as long as it occupies Palestinian
territory.
In general, Al Jazeera officials took the same
line, insisting that the network does not make distinctions based on
race, religion or gender. When asked by e-mail to provide contact
details for Jewish employees to be interviewed for this story, Lana
Khachan, the senior spokesperson at Al Jazeera English refused. “We
are not interested in pursuing a story based on our staff’s
religion,” Khachan wrote back. “We have over 900 highly experienced
staff based [around the world]. We have qualified people on board of
all nationalities and religions each employed for their merit. The
staff comprises of more than 30 different nationalities 45
ethnicities, enabling Al Jazeera English to provide a unique
grassroots perspective on important world events and report on the
untold stories from the under-reported regions of the world.”
Several of the top
employees at the network’s English operation are Jewish: Marash and
his wife Amy work in the Washington bureau with an Israeli-American
producer, and former BBC journalist Tim Sebastian moderates the
televised monthly Doha Debates.
Al Jazeera has been harshly criticized in the
West for providing airtime to terrorists like Osama bin Laden, but
it notes that American networks borrowed that material.
It was also the first Arabic network to give
Israelis air time. “Al Jazeera was seriously attacked by Arabs —
Islamist, nationalist, and even governments like Saudi Arabia — for
inviting Israeli journalists and government officials to present
their point of view,” Atwan said.
Despite the network’s declared dedication to
openness, not one member of the Israeli media was present at the
forum, even though the Israeli YES satellite
carrier pushed BBC Prime off air to make room for Al Jazeera
English, which already boasts of having 500,000 homes viewing in
Israel. The absence of Israelis was particularly noticeable
given the theme of this year’s event: “Media and the Middle East,
Beyond the Headlines.”
“I don’t know the reasons no Israeli journalists
attended, but I think there is a general attitude of talking about
peace with Israel but not talking to Israel,” said Yoav Stern, the
Arab Affairs correspondent of the Israeli daily Ha’aretz.
“I think it’s a pity,” said
Stern, who is frequently interviewed in Arabic on Al Jazeera.
“I know that Al Jazeera specifically can make pioneering decisions
in this regard, because it has credibility and trust from its
viewers.
Apart from this policy of infiltration we also see outright plans
of Jewish overtake of the ownership of the channel. The 2004 article
Israeli millionaire to purchase 50% of Al-Jazeera shares
was the first on this theme, but it has since been repeated.
Israeli paper Ha'aretz, online edition:
Egypt-born Jew
looks to buy 50% of Al-Jazeera
Haim Saban first showed a reported interest in
the Doha -based network after a visit in 2004.
By Nimrod Halpern
Egyptian-born Jewish businessman Haim
Saban is negotiating with Qatar's emir the
purchase of 50 percent of the Al Jazeera
television network, the independent Egyptian
newspaper Al-Mesryoon reported earlier this
week.
Saban was first reported to be
negotiating the purchase of half the Doha
-based network in 2004, after visiting the
emirate with former U.S. President Bill
Clinton.
The media mogul, estimated to be worth more than
$3 billion, brought the Power Rangers franchise to the Arab world
and made a fortune out of developing and
selling the Fox Family cable network together with News Corp.
In Israel, Saban owns a controlling stake in
Bezeq.
Last month Saban blasted
calls to boycott Israel for the occupation of the West Bank.
He called those who support boycotting the Toronto film festival's
decision to showcase Tel Aviv "anti-Semites" and "Jew haters."
"The world always had anti-Semites," the
Hollywood financier told the Los Angeles Times in an e-mail exchange
last month. "It has now and always will, but the people of Israel
always have, and always will live and prosper. Sorry Jew haters. You
lose."
Among the artists who signed the petition calling
for a boycott of the festival's Tel Aviv Week in August were Ken
Loach, Julie Christie, Danny Glover, David Byrne and Jane Fonda ¬
though Fonda later retracted her decision.
Meanwhile, a number of
Hollywood Jews, including Jerry Seinfeld, Sacha Baron Cohen and
Natalie Portman, issued a counter-statement in defense of the
festival's decision.
More on Zionist Jew Haim Saban can be read in
our list of powerful media Jews in the section on The Jewish Hollywood.
As if this wasn´t enough Wikileaks documents have also
appeared that shed light on the Al Jazeera channel bowing for
U.S. dictats.
FP - Foreign Policy
What Wikileaks Tells Us About Al Jazeera
Is the rapidly expanding Middle East satellite
television network and voice of the Arab Spring as
independent as it claims?
BY OMAR CHATRIWALA
|
SEPTEMBER 19, 2011
Al Jazeera has been making waves in the Middle East
ever since it aired its first broadcast on Nov. 1, 1996.
In its news dispatches and talk shows, the pan-Arab
satellite channel, which is funded by the state of
Qatar, has been a strident critic of U.S. foreign
policies in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Palestinian
Territories, even while it has been a thorn in the side
of many an Arab autocrat. But after the last dump of
leaked U.S. diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks, on Aug. 30,
articles have begun to circulate -- especially in
Iranian and
Syrian media outlets -- about Al Jazeera's
close relationship with a surprising interlocutor:
the U.S. government.
In particular,
a
newly
released cable issued by the U.S. Embassy in Doha
and signed by then ambassador Chase Untermeyer, details
a meeting between an embassy public affairs official and
Wadah Khanfar, Al Jazeera's director general, in which
the latter is said to agree to tone down and remove what
the United States terms "disturbing Al Jazeera website
content."
There have been longstanding accusations that Al
Jazeera serves as an arm of its host nation's foreign
policy, and
earlier leaked documents referred to the news
organization as "one of Qatar's most valuable political
and diplomatic tools," which could be used as "a
bargaining tool to repair relationships with other
countries." Another document urges Sen. John Kerry to
engage the Qatari government on Al Jazeera during a
visit to the Gulf country, saying, "there are ample
precedents for a bilateral dialogue on Al Jazeera as
part of improving bilateral relations."
Despite those assertions by U.S. diplomatic sources,
both the network and the Qatari government fiercely
insist that it is editorially independent and free from
interference.
Skeptics take the latest leak as proof, though, that
Al Jazeera is susceptible to external pressures, not
least in part due to the document's summary:
PAO [Public affairs officer] met 10/19 with Al
Jazeera Managing Director Wadah Khanfar to discuss
the latest DIA [U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency]
report on Al Jazeera and disturbing Al Jazeera
website content.... Khanfar said the most recent
website piece of concern to the USG [U.S.
government] has been toned down and that he would
have it removed over the subsequent two or three
days. End summary.
In what some are seizing upon as evidence of an
American-Qatari conspiracy, the cable, dated October
2005, continues with a quote from Khanfar saying, "We
need to fix the method of how we receive these reports,"
mentioning that he had found one of them "on the fax
machine."
Later, there is a reference in the memo to a sort of
understanding that's been reached between Al Jazeera and
the U.S. government:
On a semantic level, [Khanfar] objected to the
use of the word "agreement" as used in the August
report on the first page, under the heading
"Violence in Iraq", where a sentence reads: "In
violation of the station's agreement several months
ago with US officials etc". "The agreement was that
it was a non-paper," said Khanfar. [A non-paper is
diplomatic jargon for a proposal that is unofficial
and has not been committed to.] "As a news
organization, we cannot sign agreements of this
nature, and to have it here like this in writing is
of concern to us."
Leaving it at that, the cable appears to be a smoking
gun showing Al Jazeera at the U.S. government's beck and
call. Iran-owned
Press TV uses this to conclude that "the US
government has previously had a say in what content to
appear on the al-Jazeera website." The website
ArabCrunch similarly denounced Al Jazeera for
responding to U.S. pressure, and says the cable "might
have revealed the reason behind the AJ one sided
coverage of Iraq in the recent years." Read in their
full context, though, this and other leaked cables tell
a very different story.
Khanfar could not be reached for comment, and Al
Jazeera has made no official response to the latest
claims, but a source at the channel told Foreign Policy that these
sorts of meeting between high-level Al Jazeera
management and U.S. officials are standard practice, and
continue today. Elaborating, he said that
representatives of numerous diplomatic missions
regularly bring lists of complaints to Al Jazeera, but
that doesn't mean they are heeded or given undue weight.
The controversial cable actually backs up this
comment to a certain extent, detailing Khanfar arguing
with some points made in the U.S. government report
presented to him by the embassy representative. "Some
are simple mistakes which we accept and address," he
said. Other points, such as airing views not favorable
to the United States, are taken out of context, given
that the contrasting opinion would have its due in a
later report, he said. Khanfar also tells the
representative that some grievances can't be addressed,
including the use of "terrorist tapes" on air, which he
insists is the network's policy so long as they are
edited for newsworthiness. And obviously, he states, he
can't very well prevent guests or interviewees from
using language deemed by the U.S. government as
"inflammatory."
Reviewing the "troublesome website material" Khanfar
agreed to tone down, the U.S. public affairs officer
cites a sensationalistic report carried by Al Jazeera's
Arabic website:
The site opens to an image of bloody sheets of
paper riddled with bullet holes. Viewers click
on the bullet holes to access testimony from ten
alleged "eye witnesses"...
The unnamed U.S. officer tells Khanfar that the
report "came across as inflammatory and journalistically
questionable." It then says, "Khanfar appeared to
repress a sigh but said he would have the piece
removed."
Al Jazeera -- while lauded internationally for the
quality of its broadcasts -- has more than once
had to backpeddle
on content carried by the
Aljazeera.net website, which operates somewhat
autonomously from the Arabic channel in an office across
town. In 2007, for example, the site carried a poll
asking readers if they "support Al Qaeda's attacks in
Algeria." A majority of the poll's 30,000 respondents
answered yes, sparking a furor from the Algerian media,
accusing the channel of legitimizing al Qaeda. The
website's manager later said posting the poll was a
grave error and had been done without his permission.
Beyond this specific memo, WikiLeaks has published
more
than 30 cables from the U.S. Embassy in Doha with
the label Al Jazeera, and many more making mention of
the news organization, ranging in date from September
2005 to February 2010. But the portrait the leaked
cables paint is not evidence of any sort of conspiracy
so much as an organization struggling to maintain
professional standards.
[...]
he next
available cable documents an earlier meeting between
Khanfar and the embassy's public affairs officer, in
which the Al Jazeera director likens the "War on Terror"
to Osama bin Laden's tactic of saying, "You're either
with us, or against us." Khanfar insists Al Jazeera
belongs in neither camp.
Another document from 2005 describes steps Al
Jazeera has taken to shore up shifting standards in
quality:
Khanfar noted that he holds a daily 1pm meeting
with an AJ quality assurance team entrusted with
implementing AJ's code of ethics and conduct, which
views and anlayzes all Al Jazeera programming,
looking for lapses in professionalism, balance and
objectivity. "That meeting is very tight, tighter
even than your list," said Khanfar.
The author of that cable concludes that Khanfar "is
clearly committed to bringing Al Jazeera up to
professional international standards of journalism and
... seems to be not only open to criticism but to
welcome it."
Following up, U.S. Embassy officials later met with
Jaafar Abbas Ahmed, the head of Al Jazeera's Quality
Assurance (QA) unit, who, they said was frank about
"resistance and hostility" from the channel's older
generation of journalists. Abbas told them some Al
Jazeera staff treat the quality assurance team with
suspicion, referring to them at times as the KGB and
CIA.
[...]
Then in another push to counter the impact of information, the
Jews have finally organized themselves into creating something they
call the "Jewish Al Jazeera".
From the Israeli site YNet News:
Coming
soon: Jewish 'al-Jazeera'
Dr. Alexander Mashkevich announces plan to form
pro-Israel international news network. 'It won't be a
propaganda channel, but will simply tell the truth,' he
tells Ynet during Jewish leaders conference
Liron Nagler-Cohen
WASHINGTON -
Dr. Alexander Mashkevich, president
of the United Israel Appeal's annual conference of
Jewish leaders in Washington, has announced his plan to
form a pro-Israel international
news network, similar to al-Jazeera and the BBC.
This year's conference focused on attempts to
deal with the de-legitimization campaign against Israel, and was
attended by some 200 Jewish community leaders and key
philanthropists.
Al-Jazeera studio in Washington (Photo: MCT)
An announcement on the creation of the international
news network was made at the end of the conference, with
the aim of dealing with anti-Israel defamation in the
media and influence public opinion.
Mashkevich, who also serves as president of the
Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, said that the network would
offer programs in English, French, Arabic and Spanish,
focusing on news only.
"My intention is not to create a propaganda channel," he
told Ynet, "but simply a channel telling the truth.
"Unfortunately, in the current situation most channels simply don't
tell the truth about Israel," he explained. "Every day that passes
we lose the battle for Israel's image. I am sure that Goldstone
is a decent person, who didn't want to damage Israel consciously and
intentionally, but if everything he gets from the media every day is
anti-Israel propaganda, I assume it's hard to make the right
decisions."
Presentation within 3-4 months
Mashkevich, whose fortune is estimated at some $3.7
billion, plans to recruit other philanthropists and
senior businesspeople for the mission. "The
international de-legitimization has become a huge risk
for Israel," he adds.
Anchor
Anderson Cooper. 'We'll get talents from everywhere'
(Photo: AP)
"It's unthinkable that Israel has no television
network like the channels operated by countries such as
the United States, Britain and Russia. The creation of
such a channel is necessary, and does not require
something out of nothing, as there are existing models
we can work according to."
The channel is in the thinking stages, without a target
date for the launching or even a revelation of the other
names behind it. All Mashkevich agreed to say was that
it would be a private, independent channel.
"We are preparing a work program, and in about
three-four months we'll hold a presentation in Israel.
We'll purchase talents from all other channels," he
promised. "From BBC, CNN – everyone."
'If we don't fight back, we'll be in
trouble'
The conference was also attended by outgoing Israeli
Ambassador to Britain and newly appointed Israeli
Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor, and Malcolm
Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of
Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, who
analyzed the anti-Israeli incitement on international
media.
Student protest in UK (Photo: Leon Ferri)
"We deal with creating awareness," said Prosor. "Today
there isn't one university campus in Britain which I, as
an Israeli ambassador, can enter without facing horrible
protests. If we don't fight back – we'll be in trouble.
"The current situation is that Jewish students in
Britain feel uncomfortable in their own campuses. What I
saw in Britain could definitely be seen here, in the
United States, in the coming years," he warned the
Jewish community leaders.
Prosor told Ynet that the organizations behind the
de-legitimization must be exposed, denounced and suffer
a counter attack. "We have no choice but to strike back
at them, to give a 'price tag' to those who demonize
Israel. Too much is at stake here. We are all at the
front, but if we coordinate, we'll be able to win the
battle."
'Situation like in 1947'
"It's time for us to stop complaining about how bad
Israel's PR is," added Hoenlein. "It's not just Israel
that's in danger – but all of us. The entire Jewish
people are under attack, and this is about the future of
all the Jewish people.
Hoenlein with Peres.
'World recognizes Jewish power, Jews don't'
(Photo: Avi Hayun)
"Those who undermine Israel's right to self-defense –
hurt the entire Jewish people's right to self-defense.
We are not talking about a situation like in 1967, but
like in 1947 – about the entire Jewish people's right to
exist.
"If we unite, others will join us too. So
we must launch
a well-coordinated campaign. It's unthinkable that
according to research we've conducted, the European
governments are more committed to Israel than the public
opinion in those countries. These are the enemies rising
to destroy us – from the inside and the outside.
"Jews today have power, and the entire world
recognizes it – apart from the Jews. We can make a
difference, if only we remember that
it's a battlefield.
We must educate our children from an early age – know
what to answer."
Hoenlein believes the establishment of a news network
like al-Jazeera is vital. "People are influenced by it,"
he says, revealing that he has already held several
meetings in a bid to strike a collaboration with media
organizations and Israeli governmental bodies.
Mashkevich recently bought an apartment in Israel and
lives in the country. He is considered one of the most
influential Jewish oligarchs in the world, and a "warm
Jew" who donates in many fields close to his heart. He
built seven synagogues in different countries, named
"Beit Rachel" after his mother, and donated 17 Torah
scrolls. He also participates in the bringing in of each
new Torah scroll.
"I still remember as a child, how difficult it was
for me to get to the synagogue, which was far away and
crowded," he said.
His parents fled the Nazis and gave him "a proud
Jewish education". His childhood in Kyrgyzstan
contributed to shaping his Jewish awareness as well. "In
Soviet Russia people would never let me forget I was a
Jew, not for one day," he said.
"I feel the persecution of Jews on my skin. We can't
just be indifferent. Every year the situation gets
worse, and we monitor it. People tend to think that the
American Congress members know the truth about the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but it's not true. All
their information comes from the media.
"Seventy percent of what the international media
reports in terms of the conflict is of anti-Israel
nature. We check the 'anti-Semitism index' in 27
countries, and there is definitely a rise in
anti-Semitism, which I believe is a direct result of
what the media reports."
