Stories written by PhilipGiraldi

This would be on top of $1.2 billion worth of US war stocks in Israel, and nearly $500 million in annual funding for cooperative anti-rocket and missile defense programs in recent years… Defense News, TEL AVIV, Israel (May 24, 2015) — Israel is seeking a hefty surge in annual security assistance from Washington and has […]
By Philip Giraldi – Memorial Day used to be a somber occasion, dedicated to reflection and remembrance of those killed in America’s wars. Today it is instead a celebration of ongoing wars, a long shopping weekend and the unofficial start of summer. Part of the problem with America’s shifting perception of the price to be […]

Ha’aretz – A new website is publicizing the identities of pro-Palestinian student activists to prevent them from getting jobs after they graduate from college. But the website is keeping its own backers’ identity a secret. “It is your duty to ensure that today’s radicals are not tomorrow’s employees,” a female narrator intones in a slick video posted to the […]

“I think there will be a friend of Israel in the White House,” he said, noting that both Clinton and the leading Republican candidates all have pro-Israel records…Lieberman, who has been to Israel more than 50 times, arrived to receive the Guardian of Zion Award… He is concerned that that younger Democratic activists “are more […]

Israeli Prime Minister Olmert wasn’t a pioneer of the financial connection between shadowy Diaspora tycoons and senior Israeli politicians. Leaders of all the major parties were in on it … Ariel Sharon, Ezer Weizman, Shimon Peres – all had their benefactors… Ha’aretz, excerpt: – Olmert wasn’t a pioneer of the financial connection between shadowy Diaspora […]

JTA — Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced to eight months in prison for accepting cash-filled envelopes from an American-Jewish businessman. The sentence, announced Monday in the Jerusalem District Court, includes an additional eight months probation and a $26,000 fine and could be added to the six-year sentence Olmert is already facing for […]

GOP mega-donor Paul Singer,whose financial interests and devotion to Israel combine to produce what can only be characterized as a singular obsession… By Stephen Sniegoski, May 21, 2015 Addressing leading Manhattan financiers at a private meeting in the Metropolitan Republican Club on May 5, Jeb Bush (who is doing everything possible to act like a […]

In 2013, the most recent year for which tax figures are available, Sears heiress Nina Rosenwald channeled $1,057,000 to groups that exist to make people fear and hate Islam. Photo: 2011 gala for American Friends of the Open University of Israel: Board member Nina Rosenwald, center.

A petition telling Amnesty International to focus on “anti-Semitism” is pushed by The Israel Project, which published a 116 page propaganda manual to cover up Israeli crimes… Stuart Littlewood, Shoa.org.uk – Here’s a petition that just landed in my Inbox: Amnesty International’s annual conference has rejected a motion to fight the rise of violent anti-Semitism […]

Participants in the trip were transformed into enthusiastic pro-Israel advocacy messengers… Nathan Guttman, Forward – Conservative Jewish funders and Christian donors of Hobby Lobby fame have joined forces to launch a Christian Birthright trip, modeled after the successful program that has taken thousands of Jewish young adults to Israel for the past 16 years. Covenant […]