A Jewish charity is seen behind the funding of a controversial anti-Islam documentary being widely circulated across the United States to scare Americans from Islam and Muslims, reported the St. Petersburg Times on Friday, September 26.
“We don’t have to say who its directors are or give financial information until Nov. 6, 2008,” Gregory Ross, spokesman for Clarion Fund, said.Clarion Fund, a shadowy NGO founded in 2006 by Canadian filmmaker Raphael Shore, has shipped out millions of copies of “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against The West” documentary in 14 US states by mail and as an advertising supplement of major newspapers.
The film, produced by Clarion, features interviews with commentators famed for their notorious anti-Islam views, including Martin Gilbert, Daniel Pipes and Steve Emerson.
It also shows footage of terror attacks, clips from Arab TV and historical films.
Clarion Fund has declined to unveil the source of its funding for the film.
But an investigation by the St. Petersburg Times found that the fund is connected to Aish HaTorah, a charity founded in Israel in the 1970s.
According to the daily, Ross, the Clarion spokesman, was listed as an Aish HaTorah international fundraiser on a federal election donation form in June 2007.
The name written on the mail permit for the bulk mailing of the anti-Islam film was Elke Bronstein, who worked for Aish Discovery, which produces high-tech programs and films for Aish HaTorah.
Clarion’s address, according to Manhattan directory assistance, is the same address as Aish HaTorah International, a fundraising arm of Aish HaTorah.
The Clarion Fund and Aish HaTorah International are also connected to a group called HonestReporting, which produced the anti-Islam documentary.
Two of three Clarion Fund directors appeared in 2006 as Aish employees on Aish websites. The third appeared on the Aish executive committee.
A complaint has been filed with the FEC. 28 million have been distributed in US swing states.
Did “Obsession” contribute to the pepper spraying of children at a Dayton Ohio mosque on Friday?
Dayton Daily News update
Jews on First ties in the CUFI connection - John Hagee (headquartered in Canada at Charles McVety’s Canada Christian College) first sent out Obession in 2007 to Jewish leaders in the US along with a copy of the CUFI executive directors book (David Borg). Jews on First updates information on the latest propaganda mailing of this DVD.
John McCain distanced himself from John Hagee’s endorsement in May after Hagee’s radical Zionist views came to the attention of the public, but it appears the Clarion Fund and CUFI are using their charitable status for political purposes.
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It’s amazing to think that 28 million copies of this
were distributed in swing states.
McVety is selling it for $20 a copy.
Are we subsidising the free distribution in the US?
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While on the subject of controversial films and the like,
what’s become of Martin Himel and Simca Jacobovici?
They were controversial several years ago for various
reasons and now they seem to have disappeared.
I can guess that CanWest Global is not buying
any more product from Himel because of the Palestinian
controversy that pervades CanWest Media’s newsrooms.
Jacobovici–perhaps he’s run out of credibility, too.
The Jesus Ossuary was the first installment of his
downward slide.
CUFI US ia selling this DVD to Cdns for 28/US
Product Id # 11354 -Obession DVD
Nice catch. McVety’s TV show has it on sale for 20/Cdn
McVety is still trumpeting his debunked push poll, he hasn’t updated the rejection of the impeachement request, his magazine Evangelical Christian calls McVety and Rushfeldt Dr.’s on the latest cover.
His Christian Times calls Stephen Boissoin a pastor (he isn’t).
CUFI Canada accepts donations through McVety’s Institute for Canadian Values. and off the CUFI Canada site. His blockchildporn site still accepts donations through the Institute for Canadian Values site.
Man, they must be raking it in - with money left over to send DVD’s anywhere they want. I wonder if Obsession on sale because Canadians are less likely to tolerate it?
Interesting article with the tie ins of the various Canadians involved in promoting Zionism and courting Jewish leaders.
McVety promotes HonestReportingCanada, which ties in with the US site connected with Raphael Shore and the Republicans and the free DVD blitz to US swing states.