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Did LA pro-Israel group conceal right-wing identity from Hollywood celebs and media?



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New York, NY, September 2, 2014 - On August 23, the Los Angeles group Creative Community for Peace (CCFP) released a widely reported on statement in Billboard Magazine - “200 Hollywood Heavyweights Support Israel.” What was not reported is that CCFP is a “creative” front group for the right-wing, pro Israeli settler nonprofit StandWithUs, that has a close relationship with the Israeli government. Though CCFP carefully avoids explaining this on their website and materials, CCFP is the same legally-registered nonprofit as StandWithUs (SWU), and, as of October 2013, operated from within SWU’s LA office.

Felice Gelman from Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel commented, “We wonder if CCFP explained to the Hollywood luminaries who signed its statement, like Ziggy Marley and Sarah Silverman, that its apolitical message of ‘art building bridges for peace’ is actually a sanitizing front for the right-wing, pro-settler organization StandWithUs, that has deep ties to the Israeli government? We are also concerned that US media covering the statement did not report on who CCFP really is.”



The statement on Gaza is as misleading as its hidden identity and the politics of its sponsor SWU. Nerdeen Kiswani, a student activist with Students for Justice in Palestine, explained, “CCFP begins and ends its statement with apolitical, and essentially deceptive invocations of peace. But the core argument reflects typical SWU talking points and Israeli government right-wing spin, that Palestinians themselves are somehow entirely to blame for Israel’s slaughter of over 2000 Palestinians and the destruction of thousands of homes and entire villages in Gaza.”

Since the statement was first published, at least one celebrity ‘signatory’, Moroccan filmmaker Sanaa Hamri, has had her name removed, saying she never agreed to sign on.

SWU, which was originally created and registered in 2001 as Israel Emergency Alliance, states on its website that “StandWithUs, known as the Israel Emergency Alliance, is a 501(c)(3) organization.” CCFP, created in 2010, also states on its donation page that it is “a 501(c)(3) organization, dba [doing business as] Israel Emergency Alliance.” Upon creation, CCFP was simply integrated into the existing legally registered organization Israel Emergency Alliance/StandWithUs. As The Jewish Daily Forward reported in October 2013, CCFP is not actually a nonprofit, but rather it operates under the aegis of the long-established nonprofit StandWithUs, which is “widely perceived to be on the far right of the pro-Israel spectrum.”

SWU regularly touts congratulations and endorsements by the Israeli government and has organized pro-settler PR projects with Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. SWU also works with the right-wing evangelical group Christians United for Israel (CUFI) and CUFI’s homophobic leader, John Hagee. Additionally, in 2010, SWU members disrupted a Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) meeting, even pepper-spraying two JVP members.



Exposing CCFP’s similarity to SWU, The Forward reported in October 2013 that CCFP “takes positions that appear to be held by only a narrow spectrum among Jews who support Israel,” disputing that Israeli settlements are a primary obstacle to peace, and that Israel holds Palestinians under military occupation. The Forward article showed that CCFP is in lockstep with Israel’s right-wing government, quoting David Siegel, Israel’s Consul General in Los Angeles, lavishing praise on CCFP, and saying “they are effective because they work from inside the industry.”



CCFP’s cofounder, music executive David Renzer, has attempted to distance CCFP from SWU, telling The Forward that CCFP has “always operated independently,” and asserting “there is no day-to-day relationship” with SWU. The facts belie this. On top of CCFP’s legal status as part of SWU, David Renzer is married to the SWU’s cofounder and president, Esther Renzer. Another CCFP co-founder, Ran Geffen-Lifshitz, is on the board of StandWithUs Israel, and CCFP and SWU held a strategy session together with Israeli government officials to shape CCFP’s activities.



SWU and CCFP have gone to lengths to camouflage their interrelationship, even registering StandWithUs and Creative Community for Peace with the LA County Clerk in 2010 as “fictitious business names” for Israel Emergency Alliance (documents viewable in this expose). Though CCFP asserted to The Forward last year that it was only working under SWU while “awaiting the processing of its application” as “a tax-exempt charity,” current online searches of IRS and California state records for Creative Community for Peace continue to come up empty.

Despite the fact that CCFP operates within SWU/Israel Emergency Alliance, the most current publicly available 990 tax form for SWU/Israel Emergency Alliance from 2012 makes no mention whatsoever of CCFP. The 2012 990 demonstrates that the organization is managed by SWU, noting the salaries and titles of six “Key Employees,” each of whom is an SWU staffmember, with no one listed from CCFP.

The 2012 990 also lists Steven Rosen of Silver Spring, Maryland as a “Strategic Adviser.” SWU’s 2011 and 2010 990s also show that Rosen was paid $120,000 and $127,000 from SWU in that same role. For 23 years Rosen was a top official at AIPAC, the right-wing Israel lobby group. He served as AIPAC’s Director of Foreign Policy until he was indicted for alleged violations of the Espionage Act, though the charges were later dropped. A New Yorker expose on AIPAC last week noted that Rosen “was fond of telling people that he could take out a napkin at any Senate hangout and get signatures of support for one issue or another from scores of senators.” One of Rosen’s favorite quotes during his years with AIPAC was, “A lobby is like a night flower: it thrives in the dark and dies in the sun.”

For more detailed background and documentation on CCFP, SWU and their relationship see this expose by Phan Nguyen:

http://mondoweiss.net/2013/10/apolitical-organization-combatting.html

To see this full press release with hyperlinks to sources:

http://adalahny.org/press-release/1191/did-la-pro-israel-group-conceal-right-wing-identity-hollywood-celebs-and-media

It's time to remove the veils of deception the criminal Israeli state uses to sugar coat their terror and vicious genocide towards the people of Palestine.

A CNN Reporter, BBC Reporter, and an Israeli commando were captured by terrorists in Iraq. The leader of the terrorists told them that he would grant them each one last request before they were beheaded.

The CNN Reporter said, ‘Well, I’m an American, so I’d like one last hamburger with French fries.” The leader nodded to an underling who left and returned with the burger & fries. The reporter ate it and said “Now, I can die.”

The BBC Reporter said, ‘I’m a reporter to the end. I want to take out my tape recorder and describe the scene here and what’s about to happen. Maybe someday someone will hear it and know that I was on the job till the end.” The terror leader directed an aide to hand over the tape recorder and dictated some comments. The reporter then said, ‘Now I can die knowing I stayed true until the end.”

The leader turned and said, “And now, Mr. Israeli tough guy, what is your final wish?”

“Kick me in the ass,” said the soldier.

“What?’ asked the leader, “Will you mock us in your last hour?”

“No, I’m not kidding. I want you to kick me in the ass,” insisted the Israeli. So the leader shoved him into the open and kicked him in the ass.

The soldier went sprawling, but rolled to his knees, pulled a 9 mm pistol from under his flak jacket, and shot the leader dead. In the resulting confusion, he jumped to his knapsack, pulled out his carbine and sprayed the terrorists with gunfire. In a flash, all terrorists were either dead or fleeing for their lives.

As the soldier was untying the reporters, they asked him, “Why didn’t you just shoot them in the beginning? Why did you ask them to kick you in the ass first?”

“What?” replied the Israeli, “and have you report that I was the aggressor?”

how can *anyone* ever doubt that ' Lord Locksley' is a testimony to arrested development? And apparent Alzheimers...

Flights of fantasy about Israeli 'heroics' being its delusional mainstay.

Not at all like the propensity of the IDF using Palestinian children as human shields...

no, nothing like that.

I didn't write the joke...all I did was cut and paste it....you can't do that with Alzheimers'....if you want to trash somebody,trash whoever it was that wrote the joke....besides,it was Hamas using kids as human shields...IDF doesn't have to....they kick ass without having to do that

It's well known that the IDF uses children for human shields.

They're cowards and swine.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.530993

Children as shields

That would be the same UN that knew Hamas was using UN sponsored schools to store rockets and weaponry and didn't do a damn thing about it

oh wow, LL is using the IDF excuse of salted or made up 'evidence' to excuse indiscriminate slaughter.

Nothing new here...

I guess this distinguished newspaper got conned with "salted" evidence...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/07/31/why-hamas-stores-its-weapons-inside-hospitals-mosques-and-schools/

....as did this UN agency itself....

http://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/press-releases/unrwa-condemns-placement-rockets-second-time-one-its-schools

...even "Stinky Pussy" Rodham got fooled,I guess...heh...

http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/hillary-hamas-hiding-rockets-schools-because-gaza-pretty-small

" Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center "

That's what I call 'impartial' ha ha

So we're back to anonymous, salted and confabulated evidence again.

nothing new here.

Particularly the 'heroics' of the IDF using human shields

...if you consider the Washington Post and the UNRWA and "Stinky Pussy" Rodham to be "anonymous" sources....LMAO

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2753176/Hamas-DID-use-schools-hospitals-Gaza-Strip-human-shields-launch-rocket-attacks-Israel-admits-says-mistake.html

yea...a mistake...just a big misunderstanding...heh

(Is this what you objected too? Its simply a call for peace and tolerance)



We, the undersigned, are saddened by the devastating loss of life endured by Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza. We are pained by the suffering on both sides of the conflict and hope for a solution that brings peace to the region.

While we stand firm in our commitment to peace and justice, we must also stand firm against ideologies of hatred and genocide which are reflected in Hamas' charter, Article 7 of which reads, “There is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!” The son of a Hamas founder has also commented about the true nature of Hamas.

Hamas cannot be allowed to rain rockets on Israeli cities, nor can it be allowed to hold its own people hostage. Hospitals are for healing, not for hiding weapons. Schools are for learning, not for launching missiles. Children are our hope, not our human shields.

We join together in support of the democratic values we all cherish and in the hope that the healing and transformative power of the arts can be used to build bridges of peace.

Orly Adelson

Marty Adelstein

Dan Adler

Lou Adler

Michael Adler

Dan Aloni

Avi Arad

Tom Arnold

Jeff Astrof

Craig Balsam

Gary Barber

Roseanne Barr

Jason Barrett

Elana Barry

Jonathan Baruch

Aaron Bay-Schuck

Lainie Sorkin Becky

Lawrence Bender

PeterBenedek

Steven Bensusan

Raphael Berko

Adam Berkowitz

Greg Berlanti

Jordan Berliant

Mayim Bialik

Joshua P Binder

Todd Black

Michael Borkow

David Boxerbaum

Scooter Braun

Dan Brecher

Eric Brooks

David Broza

Dan Bucatinsky

Naomi Bulochnikov

David Byrnes

David Caspe

Omri Casspi

Josh Charles

Liza Chasin

Emmanuelle Chriqui

Cynthia Cidre

Neil Cloud

Ayala Cohen

Etan Cohen

Joe Cohen

Charlie Corwin

Marc Dauer

Robert Davi

Craig David

Stephen Davis

Donald De Line

Matt DelPiano

Josh Deutsch

David Diamond

Leonard Dick

David Draiman

Minnie Driver

Jack Dytman

Lee Eisenberg

Doug Ellin

Diane English

Dan Erlij

Ron Fair

Erik Feig

Dave Feldman

James Feldman

Patti Felker

Erica Forster

Gary Foster

Doug Frank

Bryan J. Freedman

Geordie E. Frey

Michael Fricklas

Robert Fried

William Friedkin

Daryl Friedman

Rob Friedman

Ronald Friedman

David Gardner

Jeremy Garelick

Alan M. Gasmer

Ran Geffen-Lifshitz

Andrew Genger

Bob Gersh

Jody Gerson

Risa Gertner

Jami Gertz

Gary Ginsberg

David Glick

Jonathan Glickman

Michael Glouberman

Elon Gold

Evan Goldberg

Gil Goldschein

Tony Goldwyn

Nate Goodman

Howard Gordon

Mitchell Gossett

Marc Graboff

Kelsey Grammer

Trudy Green

Adam Griffin

Iris Grossman

Jay Gruska

David Guillod

Phil Hacker

Jay Hoffman

J. Todd Harris

Adi Hasak

Ned Haspel

Ken Hertz

David Hoberman

Craig Hunegs

Andrew Hurwitz

Kathy Ireland

Neal Israel

Michael Jacobs

Bill Jacobson

Neil Jacobson

Nina Jacobson

Jonathan Jakubowicz

Patrick Joest

Nathan Kahane

Adam Kaller

Adam Kanter

Scott Karp

Zach Katz

Ryan Kavanaugh

Ron Kenan

David Kendall

Larry Kennar

Chris Keyser

Kevin King-Templeton

Michael Kives

Courtney Kivowitz

Patrick Knapp

Amanda Kogan

Jeff Kolodny

Barry Kotler

Steven Kram

Eric Kranzler

Brad Krevoy

Erik Kritzer

Howard Kurtzman

Rick Kurtzman

Jeff Kwatinetz

Peter Landesman

Eriq La Salle

Sherry Lansing

Estelle Lasher

Michael Lasker

Keili Lefkovitz

Carol Leifer

Avi Lerner

Colin Lester

Ben Levine

Susan Levinson

David Levy

Shuki Levy

Linda Lichter

Josh Lieberman

Maryam Lieberman

Todd Lieberman

Jon Liebman

Jonathan Littman

David Lonner

Richard Lovett

Jon Lovitz

Charlie Lyons

Benji Madden

Joel Madden

Bill Maher

Joshua Malina

Rob Markus

Orly Marley

Ziggy Marley

Ori Marmur

Bill Masters

Barry McPherson

Brian Medavoy

Jeff Melman

Scott Melrose

Jeffrey D. Melvoin

Willie Mercer

Rina Mimoun

Kevin Misher

Michael Morales

Rob Morrow

Robert Newman

Alan Nierob

Michael Nyman

Howard T. Owens

James Packer

Scott Packman

Bar Paly

Tom Parziali

Amy Pascal

Donald S. Passman

Brett Paul

Ann Peacock

Linda Perry

Richard Plepler

Amy Powers

Rob Prinz

Trevor Rabin

Dan Rabinow

Gideon Raff

Dean Raise

Bruce M. Ramer

David Ready

Ivan Reitman

David Renzer

John Reston

Hanna Rochelle

Seth Rogen

John Rogovin

Lena Roklin

Lon Rosen

Rick Rosen

Bruce Rosenblum

Zvi Howard Rosenman

Bill Rosenthal

Phil Rosenthal

Brian Ross

Michael Rotenberg

Rob Rothman

Robert Rovner

Susan Rovner

Odeya Rush

Haim Saban

Carole Bayer Sager

Nancy Sanders

Jonathan Schenker

Mark Schiff

Steve Schnur

Dean Schramm

Jordan Schur

Robin Schwartz

Sam Schwartz

Scott Schwartz

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Adam Schweitzer

Adam Shankman

Stacey Sher

Scott Siegler

Jamie Lynn Sigler

Chris Silbermann

Ben Silverman

Sarah Silverman

Martin Singer

Stacey Snider

Aaron Sorkin

Steve Spira

Susan Sprung

Sylvester Stallone

Norman Steinberg

Fisher Stevens

Gary Stiffelman

Erwin Stoff

Ken Stovitz

Gene Stupnitsky

Nick Styne

Eric Suddleson

Geoff Suddleson

Ken Suddleson

Danny Sussman

DB Sweeney

Traci Szymanski

Nina Tassler

Adam Taylor

Arn Tellem

Nancy Tellem

Mitch Tenzer

Steve Tisch

Noa Tishby

Fred D. Toczek

Michael Tolkin

Bennett Tramer

Nancy Travis

Jonathan Tropper

Matthew Velkes

Paul Wachter

Nina Wass

Avi Wasserman

Steven Weber

Bernie Weinraub

Bob Weinstein

Harvey Weinstein

Jerry Weintraub

David N. Weiss

David Weissman

Alan Wertheimer

Ron West

Nikki Wheeler

Jeff Wolman

Sharon Tal Yguado

Pete Yorn

Rick Yorn

Mosab Hassan Yousef

Rachel Zalis

David Zucker

remember your yada yada!

The real enemy after all the arabs have been driven into the sea ( and fired on by the IDF for chum ) the evil BDS serpent.

How come MY names not on this list?

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2014/09/265672_comment.php#265760

UN blasts IDF fake video showing Gaza schools used by Hamas to ...

www.voiceofrussia.com/ 2012_11_20/ UN-blasts-IDF-fake-video-showing-Gaza-schools-used-by-Hamas-to-fire-r ockets/ - View by Ixquick Proxy - Highlight

Nov 20, 2012 ... A UN relief agency has shot down allegations levied by the IDF via an animated film posted on their official YouTube channel saying Hamas

genocide, apartheid, illegal occupation, dispossession, violations of international law, surviving by stealing other people's water, oil, gas, IP and taxes



..for a start

" singling out Israel"

why not?

Israel seems to be the center of terrorism, false flag violence and lies. The world would be better off without this psychotic racist danger to world peace.

Thought you were talking about America there. North, south, whichever America.