Zionist foundations shifted from direct donations to donor-advised funds after 2011 scrutiny

Evidence

Since the publication of Fear Inc. in 2011, these three foundations have stopped direct donations to Islam-ophobic groups. However, the 2019 Spinwatch report shows that they use donor-advised funds such as those mentioned above and others to achieve these aims. Fairbrook is run by Aubrey and Joyce Chernick and “has provided funding to groups ranging from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and CAMERA, a right-wing, pro-Israel, media-watchdog outfit, to violent Israeli settlers living on Palestinian lands and figures like the pseudo-academic author Robert Spencer,” according to Blumenthal. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 698 (#expands, via linked claim)

Two of these foundations (Becker and Berrie) are explicitly committed to promoting what they see as the interests of the Jewish community (specifically Zionism), and a third, the Fairbrook Foundation, is even more extreme in its Zionist orientation. Run by Aubrey and Joyce Chernick, it “has provided funding to groups ranging from the ADL and CAMERA, a right-wing, pro-Israel, media-watchdog outfit, to violent Israeli settlers living on Palestinian lands and figures like the pseudo-academic author Robert Spencer,” according to Max Blumenthal’s investigative journalism. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 550 (#expands, via linked claim)

The Becker and Berrie foundations are explicitly committed to promoting what they see as the interests of the Jewish community (specifically Zionism), and a third, the Fairbrook Foundation, is even more extreme in its Zionist orientation. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 698 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Church giving shifted from external charity toward internal operations — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 410; Zionist foundations shifted to donor-advised funds to keep funding Islamophobic groups — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 698; Zionist foundations explicitly funded the Islamophobia network — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 698 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Zionist foundations shifted to donor-advised funds to keep funding Islamophobic groups #expands (0.95) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 698
• Zionist-oriented foundations fund violent Israeli settlers and Islamophobic warriors alike #expands (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 550
• Zionist foundations explicitly funded the Islamophobia network #complicates (0.78) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 698