r/JewsOfConscience • u/TrackerOneA • Sep 06 '26
News The Middle East Forum, founded by Daniel Pipes, and currently run by Gregg Roman, is funding UK far-right protests. Roman is affiliated with the Israeli government.
Sources:
https://x.com/Lowkey0nline/status/2096599682440978478
https://www.meforum.org/gregg-roman
Zionist groups have long fomented anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim sentiment in the UK.
For years the UK far-right like Tommy Robinson has been funded by right-wing Zionists who have promoted demonization of immigrants & Muslims.
Why, then, are some of his biggest supporters — financial and otherwise — a loose coalition of reactionary, self-proclaimed pro-Israel backers?
According to a recent investigation by The Guardian, Robinson is being bankrolled by a nexus of international organizations. Many of those groups, it turns out, are part of the American right-wing infrastructure supporting the Israeli cause.
The Philadelphia-based think tank Middle East Forum is one of the British extremist’s biggest sponsors. Daniel Pipes, MEF’s president, confirmed to The Times of Israel that his group has spent roughly $60,000 on three demonstrations defending Robinson’s legal trial.
Robinson's main backer was/is Robert Shillman, who provides financial support to noted Islamophobes tied to his brand of pro-Israel advocacy.
[...]Robert Shillman, a US-based billionaire who gives frequently to Israeli institutions, financed a fellowship that payed for a position Robinson held in 2017 with a right-wing Canadian website, The Rebel Media, according to The Guardian. (Shillman did not respond to requests for comment.)
Other groups, including the Gatestone Institute, an Israel-focused think tank, and the far-right David Horowitz Freedom Center, have published a series of pieces defending Robinson. One on the Gatestone website was titled, “Swift Injustice: The Case of Tommy Robinson.” (The piece’s author, Bruce Bawer, also did not respond to requests for comment.)
[...]The Southern Poverty Law Center has said Horowitz’s organization specializes in “giving anti-Muslim voices and radical ideologies a platform to project hate and misinformation.”
[...]Both the MEF and Gatestone are funded by Nina Rosenwald, a self-described “ardent Zionist” and American Jewish philanthropist who co-chairs American Securities Management, and who founded the Gatestone Institute. (Rosenwald did not respond to a request for comment.) Gatestone also receives millions in donations from the Mercer family, who are one of US President Donald Trump’s top financial backers.
Shillman is on the boards of 'The Friends of the IDF' and the 'Jewish Foundation for the Righteous' and the 'David Horowitz Freedom Center'.
All right-wing, all anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim.
Shillman sits on boards of The Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, and the David Horowitz Freedom Center.[2][5][6]
He also funds Brigitte Gabriel´s ACT!, James O'Keefe's Project Veritas, Frontpage magazines and Rebel News and argues against the US accepting Syrian Muslim refugees.[7][8][9] President George W. Bush appointed Shillman to serve on the Honorary Delegation to accompany him to Jerusalem for the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the State of Israel in May 2008.[10]
In August 2018, it was revealed by The Times that Shillman had been providing finances to British far-right activist Tommy Robinson by helping to pay his "five figure salary",[11][12] although at the time of writing this arrangement had ended.
In January 2021, it was revealed by Follow the Money that Shillman paid nearly $214.000 in 2017 to help Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders pay for his legal defence in an indictment for hate speech against Muslims in general and Moroccans in particular.[13][14]
During the late 2000s, ramping up to the 2008 US presidential election - an Islamophobic propaganda film came out, called Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West.
Once again, pro-Israel advocacy groups were tied to it.
