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How did a leaked, Israel-commissioned poll end up calling Israel a “genocidal, apartheid country” in the eyes of the world?
Why are billion-dollar media empires, Big Tech cloud contracts, and paid influencer networks all converging to sell you one story on Gaza?
Who really pushed for the detention of Sami Hamdi—and what does that tell us about the future of dissent and citizenship in the West?
In his latest Focal Point, Imam Tom maps the money, the media, and the smear machine—and what it means for your rights moving forward.
This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings.
Israel is in trouble. A leaked report paid for by the Israeli government themselves shows that the majority of people in Western nations think that
Israel has been killing civilians, not Hamas, for the last two years. And Israel's response to this is not to confess and to start to adhere to the truth. It's to
spend more money to control the media and to make more propaganda. Now if you're like me, you want real news, you want the truth, you want a free marketplace of ideas where people can share things and let the best
argument win. But that's not what Israel or their Zionist supporters across the world want. In fact, they want to control information and to censor the truth. And
they also want to smear and cancel anybody who stands in their way. And we saw this very, very recently with our dear brother Sami Hamdi, one of the latest victims of this campaign, where they drummed up some fears about Sami,
made a bunch of lies, insinuated some things about him, and he was detained by ICE. Thankfully now he's free. Now what we're going to go through today, we're going to uncover by the end of this episode just how badly Israel has
alienated the entire world when it comes to what they've been up to, especially the last two years. Also, what's their next move? Who are the shady figures who got Sami arrested, who drummed up all of the scare tactics against them? And who's
the network of funding that put them up to it? Let's go back to this report. This is issued by Dropsite News. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs commissioned an American polling firm named Stagwell to perform a sweeping battery of
surveys and focus groups coupled with message testing aimed at rehabilitating Israel's image in both the US and Europe. So they realized that they have a major credibility problem, and so they contracted, they hired out this
organization that does this thing in order to give them information. The survey asked people in the United States, Germany, the UK, Spain, and France how many people they believed Israel had killed in Gaza, and what portion of those people
were civilians. Respondents in all of the countries overwhelmingly said that those killed were, quote, mostly civilians. The research found that Europeans in
particular, quote, agree with the language of Israel being a genocidal apartheid country, end quote. That's not my language. That's the language of Stagwell, this company that the Israeli foreign ministry hired to tell them and
give them, to break them the bad news of the absolute collapse of their credibility. But Israeli propaganda is not yet defeated. The last several years
have shown that pro-Israeli actors have consolidated ownership over the legacy media, and the result has been narratives and media coverage that aligns with Israeli interests. We're going to go into that more now. And after we go into that,
we're also going to see how the new generation of social media influencers is something that Israel is weaponizing in order to push its propaganda, and how that particular network of actors was responsible for the campaign against
Sami. Now let's go back to 2013. Jeff Bezos from Amazon acquires the Washington Post. Now what does that have to do with Israel and Zionism? If you're unaware,
Amazon actually provides the infrastructure for genocide. And stay tuned, because there's something that you might use in your own home that is developed by the same technology that was tested out on Palestinians that
comes from Amazon. And if you have that in your home, I would suggest that you get rid of it. But let's go back first. So Amazon has this part of it, which is
Amazon Web Services, usually shorthanded as AWS. In 2021, AWS signed a 1.2 billion dollar contract with the Israeli government alongside Google. This was
known as Project Nimbus, and it promised vast amounts of cloud storage, AI tools, and analytics to the Israeli government and military. Amazon Web Service servers stored the intelligence that guided bombing runs and tracked entire
populations that were under occupation. AI programs like Lavender and Gospel were reported to generate kill lists of individual target recommendations, and they were processed through the Nimbus servers. So all of the data that the
Israeli military required was all stored on Google and especially Amazon Cloud Services. The cloud infrastructure is what allowed the Israeli military to ingest and to analyze vast amounts of data, satellite imagery. They intercepted
communications. They took drone footage, facial recognition records. All of this stuff has to be stored somewhere. And Amazon was a key player in storing it there. Now, Amazon has a subsidiary that you're maybe familiar with if you have
any home security system. If you've heard of Ring, okay, and Ring is probably the most popular home security system when it comes to cameras and it syncs with your doorbell and you can get the app on your phone and see who's at your house
or in front of your house while you're away. Well, Ring is a subsidiary of Amazon and Ring uses technology. It uses technology that was built based off of
the experience of the Israeli government in Palestine. The same technologies that human rights groups warn are used to monitor and control Palestinians. So Ring markets surveillance tools that are built on the same technologies that
human rights groups warn are used to monitor and control Palestinians. Now, how does this connect back to the media? So Amazon provides all this cloud service to the Israeli military. They enable, again, the infrastructure of genocide. I
think it's a pretty compelling and powerful phrase that Amazon provides the infrastructure for the genocide. Well, if Israel is your top customer and you're Jeff Bezos and you have your Amazon Web Services and you also own the
Washington Post, there's a conflict of interest here. How are you going to potentially view your top customer being treated in the media? And we'll talk about the incentives and how incentives align when it comes to narrative
selection and different things in the media. But we see that there's a conflict of interest here that if your top customer is Israel, then you have a disincentive to report on them in any sort of negative way. But it doesn't stop
there. That was just one example. We can go through several. Politico is one and I think maybe 10-15 years ago I used to read Politico online. Recently, within the last probably three years, I went back and I looked and I was, it was
unrecognizable the type of coverage, the types of narratives that were being spun. I didn't see the Politico that I had come to associate in my head. It was something completely different. Well, apparently there's a reason for that. In
2021, in October, Politico was taken over by a group from Germany called Axel Springer. It was sold for over or acquired for over $1 billion. And the
parent company actually is very explicit about their essentials. You can look this up online. It's on their own website. One of their essentials is, quote, we support the Jewish people and the right of existence of the state of
Israel. The media has covered the conflict of interest between Axel Springer and hence Politico and when it comes to covering the genocide. So, fair.org has run articles. Also, The Telegraph has run an article. The
headline of which, Politico owner's director attacks quote-unquote woke journalists over Gaza bombing article. So you've got somebody who is on the
board of Axel Springer and a journalist for Politico actually ran an article that was somewhat sympathetic to Palestinians, somewhat critical of Israel and the board member goes to the goes to the media and basically criticizes this
type of coverage, claiming that that type of coverage amounted to support for Hamas. You can't make this stuff up. So again, even though that demonstrates that media companies are contested territories, that it's not necessarily so
top-down and centralized that if the owner of a media corporation happens to be extremely pro-Israel or pro-Zionist, that doesn't mean that every single person underneath of them is in lockstep always reasserting that. But it does mean
that there is a slant and I think in cases like Politico, it's very obvious if a board member is going to complain about a journalist's coverage, I wonder what happened to that journalist. Was he able to stay around or was he fired eventually or did he just quit in frustration because it doesn't feel good
to be undermined by your boss. Let's go now to CBS slash Paramount Global, formerly Viacom. Viacom used to be a very notorious organization so they had a
little bit of a glow up and they call themselves Paramount now. Now listen to this, the parent company here is National Amusements that's run by the Redstone family, especially Shari Redstone. The Redstone family foundation led by Shari
has recently directed 101 million dollars in new giving in the wake of October 7th attacks, quote, to support Israel's resilience. Shari Redstone also is heavily invested in Israeli entertainment and film industry. She
runs a studio called Sipor, she's the chair of the board. And recently in October of 2025, Paramount Global did something very controversial which was
hire Bari Weiss to be their editor-in-chief of CBS News. So why is this controversial, who is Bari Weiss? This was part of a merger and we're gonna take our time and pull the threads here because there's a lot going
on. So in October 6th 2025, Paramount Global merges with Skydance Media, remember those two names Paramount and Skydance, and in the process they acquire Bari Weiss's own company called The Free Press. Just go do a quick Google
search on The Free Press and look what type of coverage that they have in there. The Free Press is not an old institution by any stretch of the imagination, they were only founded in 2021. But anyway, The Free Press gets acquired, Bari Weiss
launches, skips several steps in the corporate structure and goes to be the editor-in-chief of CBS News. Now why that's a little bit weird first of all is because a huge company like Paramount has both broadcast media and also
traditional legacy media like print media. And Bari Weiss doesn't really have a lot of experience in both of those fields. So it's kind of already red flags and people have commented about this, like how could this person
who doesn't really have the requisite experience to have this role all of a sudden they get promoted. Well it turns out the Financial Times reported on why and part of why she was hired was due to her quote vocally pro-Israel stance
despite the lack of her experience or her lack of experience in broadcast news. Now let's go back to talk about that merger because who is Skydance and how does this all fit in? David Ellison founded Skydance Media. David Ellison is
the son of Larry Ellison. Larry Ellison is the founder of Oracle and Larry Ellison is the single largest private funder of the IDF and of course now he's
got ties to the ownership of CBS. So Larry the father essentially financed this merger. At the end of it it was a good deal for his family. His son David ends up coming out as the chairman and CEO of the new corporation and the
Ellison family and all their entities in aggregate end up having over 70% a controlling interest in this new merged company. So if you happen to have a Paramount subscription you might want to reconsider at this point. I used to have a Paramount subscription back in the day when I used to watch you know
soccer slash internationally known as football but I haven't been able to bring myself to watch since October 7th I'm not sure about you. Now what's more it doesn't stop there so David Ellison's company Skydance after the merger is in
the process of attempting to acquire Warner Brothers specifically Warner Brothers Discovery and Warner Brothers Discovery owns CNN. So you've got CBS and
CNN and all the other subsidiaries and brands of the Paramount mega group owned by people who are ardent supporters and funders of Israel. Let's move on to Fox
Corporation and this one is very familiar. Now Fox has sort of like a dual structure where they've got Fox Corporation which deals with broadcast media, television media and then News Corp which is in print. Obviously it's well known at this point that the Murdoch family is the one who runs these
corporations both the father Rupert Murdoch who is infamous and his son Lachlan and Lachlan seems like he's going to take over the the Empire. So Rupert is very very notorious for his support of Israel at a December 2024
event he said that Israel quote has been leading the charge on the front line of Western democratic civilization end quote. He also received an award from the ADL in 2010. Wow. And he said quote I will not second-guess the decisions of a
free Israel defending her citizens. So you know what to expect with that type of ownership at the top. Now who else? The Wall Street Journal they own the Wall Street Journal they also own the Times of London and finally the notorious rag
the New York Post the same New York Post who ran very virulent anti Islamic and anti Muslim you know articles and headlines against Mamdani
throughout the Mamdani campaign in New York City that have criticized and targeted virtually every Muslim leader in America at this point I mean Imam Siraj Wahhaj who is a legend in the community they called him an unindicted
co-conspirator terror linked and we're gonna get into this language later this is always sort of the same vague accusations it sounds so horrible an unindicted co-conspirator homie if you're unindicted it means you haven't
done anything wrong so all of these very very scary sounding things and it's up to them to call someone terror linked and you're terror linked and everybody else is terror linked just because the New York Post said so now let's get
something straight some people might say okay well owning media does not guarantee direct editorial control of every single story that is published on that platform and that's true that's that is true nobody is claiming that but it does set
incentives and it also sets staffing norms and it sets board appointments and overarching strategic direction it does influence what is covered how deeply it's covered and what gets omitted and that's not a wild conspiracy that's
actually documented fact so let's get into some of the results how do we know that this isn't just a conspiracy oh my gosh is this anti-semitic oh my gosh is this you know are you guys bigots you're claiming some sort of global global
conspiracy no this is documented fact in 2024 Adam Johnson for the intercept ran an analysis of media bias and there's other ones Al Jazeera did a more in-depth one there are other ones that have gone on for longer but we're just
gonna we don't want to be accused of being Qatari agents just for citing Al Jazeera so we're gonna go with the intercept they demonstrate and document the media slant there's a disproportionate emphasis on Israeli
deaths they found that the language used when it's talking about Israeli deaths are always very emotive but never for Palestinians so for example highly emotive terms such as slaughter and massacre and horrific they're almost
exclusively reserved for talking about Israelis who are killed by Palestinians rather than the other way around and we've got numbers we're gonna get into the numbers the term slaughter was used by editors and reporters to describe the
killing of Israelis versus Palestinians 60 to 1 okay 60 to 1 and the word massacre was used to describe the killings of Israelis versus
Palestinians a hundred and twenty five to two that means that for every one time a Palestinian's death at the hand of an Israeli is described as a slaughter
they've already described 60 times of an Israeli dying at the hands of a Palestinian and the same for as we said the word massacre and the same also for
horrific the word horrific was used to describe the killing of Israelis versus Palestinians 36 to 4 okay so there's no excuse for that type of imbalanced coverage that shows an ideological affiliation and very very selective
framing now looking specifically at the New York Times the Washington Post and the LA Times the word Israeli or Israel appear in any form more than the word
Palestinian or any associative language for every to get this listen to this for every two Palestinian deaths Palestinians are only mentioned one time
okay that's how valuable their lives are according to these newspapers by extension that for every two Palestinians that die they're only mentioned once you could say that they're worth half of a person whereas
for every single Israeli death that is reported upon Israelis are mentioned eight times every single Israeli that is killed they are mentioned eight
times that's a conversion rate of 16 times more so an Israeli death will be covered 16 times more than a Palestinian death you cannot tell me that this is a
this is not a conspiracy you cannot tell me that this is not the result of clear again maybe not every single person being under control but yes that there's
a large guiding framework and ideology that is resulting in this overall there was a disproportionate focus on attacks towards Jewish people instead of Muslims Arabs or those perceived as such we're talking about now here what about
how attacks are covered in America is the most significant thing that the United States is dealing with right now is it anti-Semitism or is it something else is that the affordability crisis is it violence against Muslims and Arabs
well if you would believe the news then these news corporations would have you believe that the most important and the most prevalent thing going on is anti-Semitism that there's a disproportionate focus on attacks
towards Jewish people as opposed to others including Muslims Arabs or those perceived as such during the period of the intercept study the New York Times the Washington Post the LA Times mentioned anti-Semitism more than
Islamophobia at a rate of 549 to 79 so that's a raw count 549 versus 79 and what's crazy is in doing the research for this episode like I went into you
know if you're going around the internet you will find lots of hue and cry and accusations that the media is biased against Israel that poor Israel they're just defending themselves are just doing what any nation has the right to do and
all these these media corporations and journalists are just they have it in for Israel and they have such a negative view and it's all anti-Semitism that if you go like honest reporting right and many of these things are just gas
lighting and psyops that an SEO manipulation you see that some of the top-ranked Google searches on these things will actually accuse the media of
being against Israel when we have documented numbers that demonstrate how the legacy media has completely lined up with a few exceptions here and there but
in general the gist the overall direction and thrust of the legacy media is that it lines up behind Israel and allows it gives it political cover and legitimacy but that shouldn't be a big deal should it because it's 2025 people
my age and younger do not get their news anymore from the legacy media we're not reading the New York Times at least I sure as heck don't we get our news from social media so shouldn't we be happy that you know everything now is going to
be solved not so fast Israel and Israeli actors Zionists across the world have been moving to consolidate ownership of social media and influence
social media influencers in the same way that they've done with the legacy media let's go back to Larry Ellison remember Larry Ellison the the billionaire
founder of Oracle well recently he effectively purchased not just CBS but TikTok as well TikTok which was one of the main driving
behind people becoming exposed to what's really going on the at the ground or what's really going on the ground in Palestine and Gaza because it was not
filtered by this ecosystem of control and propaganda and intimidation well you heard not too long ago the government and people getting all up in arms and in
a huff because if this was Chinese propaganda and the China is going to do this and that and you know this is a national security threat well I think everybody's figured out by now that it was never really about China it was really about Israel and what they were concerned about was they were concerned
about the truth of what's going on in Palestine and Gaza getting out and so they used China as a convenient fall guy a convenient escape goat to justify the
purchase of how TikTok is going to operate within the US now technically the official language is that they are acquiring TikTok US operations and
will have a significant role in security and auditing TikTok algorithm so they're going to be in but there's no conspiracy right they are going to be
auditing TikTok algorithm it's not just Larry Ellison alone there are other investors including Ben Horowitz who is the son and heir to David Horowitz David
Horowitz of the David Horowitz Freedom Center the guy who brought you the term Islamofascism which now nobody uses because it's fake it's been fake news and it always was fake news and we'll talk more about understanding the David
Horowitz Freedom Center is actually key to the next segment of this program which is illustrating the handoff the intergenerational handoff that is currently taking place between old forms of media legacy media and the new social
media and how Israel is attempting to control the narrative spread as propaganda spread its lies and also to tar and feather and smear and intimidate
and deport if necessary to ruin and cancel anybody who attempts to stand in their way so the David Horowitz Freedom Center is a key player in this
intergenerational handoff they have a history a very very robust history of recruiting and funding and training individuals for anti-Islamic propaganda
and anti-Islamic propaganda is by default by default pro-Israeli propaganda as well one of the findings from the study that the Israeli Foreign Ministry
illustrated was that the most effective messaging by far that they tested out on populations again in France Germany UK Spain and the US the most effective messaging to get people to sympathize with Israel a little bit despite seeing
all the children being starved and bombed and beheaded and amputated the only message that can kind of make people a little bit sympathetic towards Israel is to scream Islamic terrorism is terrorism terrorism terrorism terrorism
here terrorism there terrorism terrorism everywhere that's the only thing that they have left and so this is plays very much into the David Horowitz Freedom Center as they train individuals in this type of propaganda the David
Horowitz Freedom Center will call it I guess DHFC for short because I don't want to repeat that phrase has supported Geert Wilders okay the far-right Dutch
politician and funneled money to his campaign they also so the DHFC gets a lot of funding from US tech billionaire Zionist Robert Shillman Robert Shillman
is an extremely important person if you've been following what's been going on with Turning Point USA and Charlie Kirk I'll say that in just a second but for now Robert Shillman has his own fellowship at the David Horowitz Freedom
Center that he sponsors right so he's organized his money he pays people and we're going to go through some of the characters that they have recruited and paid in order to train them in anti-Islamic propaganda now Robert
Shillman he's the billionaire founder of Cognex Corporation he sits on the board of wait for it Friends of the IDF that's the name of the organization he is on
the board of now the Turning Point USA connection Shillman was the same person who confronted Charlie Kirk about turning on Israel in his last days and
canceled his multi-million dollar donations for Turning Point USA because they were not being pro-Israeli enough and this happened of course
coincidentally perhaps or perhaps not just days before Charlie Kirk was assassinated so let's go through the all-star cast of who has received a
Shillman fellowship for being trained in anti-Islamic propaganda some of them are older folks but we'll see that they there's a new generation a new crop of people that are coming up Robert Spencer okay the person who bought who brought
you Jihad Watch his entire career is been trying to make Islam seem violent and lie about Islam a certain Joe Kaufman who is based in Florida and this was the first time I had come across this individual because I don't really
go to Florida much and he has been very busy in Florida when it comes to bullying the Muslim community and bullying anybody who wants to even talk to the Muslim community or a hotel that wants to host an event where the Muslim
community is there and he regularly follows and has developed this type of playbook that we're going to see has been taken up by newer faces and younger faces so the playbook is this you identify a target usually a Muslim
speaker or somebody who wants to host an event for Muslims because our money is as green as anybody else's and then comes the smear campaign so Kaufman writes accusations without evidence either vague evidence or non-existent
evidence with the same type of language that all of these fake propagandists use language like terror ties radical Muslim Brotherhood Hamas linked with no
corroboration of any of these claims that just because they say that you have a link to terrorism or that you have a link to Hamas all the sudden it means that and they can always hide behind it's like well reported alleged yeah you're the ones that are doing the reporting and the alleging you're the
people who are calculating this rhetoric for fear and providing either unfalsifiable claims or things that are just ridiculous or just mostly lying through your teeth once that is done then they pressure institutions here
come the emails and the calls and the threats and we're going to do this to you and do that to you if you don't cancel this event if you don't stop the Muslims from coming and having their who knows what probably just a bazaar or
something like that so it's coordinated outrage it's the vocal minority that's trying to cancel and once they force a cancellation or some sort of controversy then of course they crow about it and they declare victory and
then they use this as proof that this is true why would the hotel cancel the the event if they weren't dangerous see I told you that's the playbook and we'll talk about some of the people who have picked up this playbook and ran with it
and this is responsible for Sami getting detained but there's a next gen these folks are kind of older the Spencers and the the Joe Kaufman's there's a new generation that has come up and one of them is the British far
right activist known as Tommy Robinson and I say Tommy Robinson because Tommy Robinson is not his real name which is a pattern I don't know in researching for
this episode there's a lot of shady characters that are involved that have gotten these Shillman fellowships and are engaged in anti-Islamic propaganda and pro-Israeli propaganda a lot of them have fake names a lot of them have
aliases now I wonder what they could be hiding that they would choose a fake name I don't have a fake name nobody I know in my local mosque has a fake name we don't go by one name out in public and then you know have a completely
different secret identity right this is kind of it's kind of strange so his real name is Stephen Yaxley or a Steven maybe Yaxley I'm not sure how to pronounce
that there and one of the ironies of Steven Yaxley is that he has a criminal record the dude is a criminal and irony of ironies one of those offenses is
immigration related the anti-immigration guy from the UK Tommy Robinson attempted to illegally enter the US with his buddy's passport in 2012 you couldn't I
couldn't make this stuff up I couldn't write it if I tried later through the David Horowitz Freedom Center and his Shillman we'll talk about how much money he was getting from his Shillman fellowship they attempted to bring him
to the US and meet with congressmen and talk to congressmen many times but if you have visa violations you're gonna get your visa denied and he was denied a visa from coming to the US so Tommy Robinson Tommy Robinson has a criminal
record that prevents him from even coming to the US and he's complaining about immigrants upstanding immigrants law-abiding immigrants that are coming to the UK again the irony is so rich you could you could cut it with a knife but
so how much money was Tommy Robinson making sorry Tommy Robinson making from his fellowship Shillman reportedly bankrolled the fellowship for Tommy Robinson at his time with Rebel Media Canadian outfit on a salary of about six
thousand seven hundred dollars per month Wow mashallah making a good chunk of change there for doing what you're doing and helping him rebrand here's another pattern as a citizen journalist and I
want you to pay careful attention to this because this is the common tactic we're gonna get it gonna get into Laura Loomer we're gonna get into Amy Mecklenberg and posturing as a citizen journalist when you have no journalistic credentials you are not a journalist and you lie through your teeth what they're
trying to present themselves as is just you know we're just good Samaritans we're just citizen journalists they are not they are paid propagandists by pro
Israeli organizations that are made and trained to smear Islam that's what it is let's move on to another Shillman recipient or Shillman fellowship recipient that say that three times fast Laura Loomer Laura Loomer in her
own words proudly admits that she get she got her start in politics by being paid by Zionist billionaire Robert Shillman as a Shillman fellow Loomer worked as an activist and contributor for several ignominious outfits such as
Project Veritas the Geller Report Rebel News which Tommy Robinson was also part of and InfoWars now at her time with Project Veritas she became known for doing stunts and this is kind of where you see the intergenerational handoff
happening where the older generation they rely on print media they rely on hit pieces on online dossiers articles Loomer was doing videos and that was new
in 2015 she used a concealed camera to record a conversation with Barry University officials she was staging it she basically said that she wanted to
to start a club a student call a student club that was going to be in support of ISIS and of course she's trying to catch people and and do this sort of thing so that was one stunt another stunt the very next year in 2016 she
dressed in a burqa and requested a ballot under the name of Huma Abedin if you remember Huma Abedin a very secular you know person from a Muslim family I
don't know her her faith or her level of observation or practice that was key to the to the Clinton campaign to the Hillary Clinton campaign so these types of stunts is what she became famous for now in 2020 she decides to run for
Congress of course because with such a illustrious career that's the next logical step Florida's 21st congressional district who supports her who funds her campaign Robert Shillman wow she's really in debt to this Robert
Shillman guy who's on the board of Friends of the IDF isn't she Robert Shillman and his wife June June Shillman donated the maximum allowable amount of
direct donations $11,200 to Loomer's 2020 campaign thankfully she lost now again here's another pattern that I want you to notice we mentioned that Tommy Robinson has an extensive criminal background well Laura Loomer also has a
lot of things that she can't do so she has been banned from Uber and Lyft in 2017 she was banned by both Uber and Lyft after complaining that she could
not find a non-Muslim driver I just I find that hilarious and suggesting creating a new ride-sharing company that did not employ Muslims do you see how pro-Israeli people they don't actually want freedom or equality they
actually want to discriminate like they want to say that Israel is not an apartheid state yet they want to make the United States into an apartheid state where now we have Muslims who are second-class citizens that were
completely excluded from certain companies so we have a pattern of criminality that we're seeing here with some of these pro-Israel anti-Muslim influencers she's been banned from Facebook Instagram PayPal GoFundMe
Venmo and Medium she was even banned from the conservative political action conference in 2019 after aggressively confronting reporters she had her press credentials revoked during trial for harassing the defendant's family the FBI
has banned her from owning a firearm due to her mental health history this is my favorite one this one coming up she sued CAIR alleging that they conspired with
Twitter to get her banned off of Twitter and the lawsuit was thrown out because it was a complete lie based off of just conspiracy complete fabrication and in 2021 the US magistrate judge ordered that Loomer and her company pay
CAIR money so they had actually I'm sure that really bothers her to this day that she had to pay CAIR reimburse CAIR for $120,000 of attorneys fees but Laura
Loomer despite her unhinged background and her ignominious career has a lot of influence and that's the concern here in early April 2025 she had an Oval Office
meeting with President Trump during this meeting she presented a list of officials that she told Trump were insufficiently loyal to his agenda within 24
hours of this meeting the administration fired the director of the NSA his deputy and several National Security Council staffers okay it could be a coincidence but she publicly took credit for these firings including the assistant US
attorney a CIA senior executive and the NSA's top lawyer so she's online bragging about the type of influence and infiltration that she has recently in August 2025 the US Department of State suspended all visitor visas from
Palestinians or this is for Palestinians from Gaza following Loomer's public criticism now these are children amputees people who need dire medical aid that are coming from Gaza due to the United States support of the Israeli
genocide in Gaza and Laura Loomer is calling these children who need medical aid Islamic invaders and her agitation basically was one of the reasons why the
US Department of State suspended these visitor visas of course Loomer most recently was behind the detention of Sami Hamdi she posted quote scoop jihadist arrested at San Francisco International Airport while attempting
to travel to Florida again they can say whatever they want and lie through their teeth and there's never any consequences for these people that you know prove that Sami ever did anything violent or called to violence you can't find it it
doesn't exist Sami as an addition to myself we have we have very public lives hundreds of hours of content if you had something real you would know it and it would be everywhere you don't have anything you have to rely on innuendo
and lying now this was coordinated with a certain Amy Mecklenberg who goes by Amy Mek on social media who coordinated this campaign against Sami let's talk about Amy Mecklenberg again here's another pattern she goes by Amy Mek and
initially her Twitter account was anonymous if if you want to do something that's based off of truth and that's this moral thing why are you anonymous or why are you hiding your name are you afraid that people are going to realize
that you have a Jewish heritage if you are known by Mecklenberg why would you change it to Amy Mek again you see these people Tommy Robinson and friends they all have aliases they all have suspicious backgrounds many of them have
criminal criminal pasts it's very very strange now Mecklenberg started her Twitter account in 2013 and she averaged 25 tweets a day that's a lot you're
you're very online if you're making 25 tweets a day in the that's four years later she had amassed 200,000 followers most of it was anti-Islamic propaganda
a lot of memes stuff like that in 2018 her identity was exposed so she was anonymously spreading her filth until 2018 Huffington Post journalist Luke
O'Brien successfully identified who she was and following her identity reveal notice the types of people who came out to support her Pamela Geller Robert
Spencer and of course her buddy Laura Loomer on Islam she has reportedly referred to Islam as a pervert cult she calls herself a modern-day crusader she has advocated for banning mosques in the United States right because we don't
have this thing called the First Amendment that prevents you know such things from happening again pro-Israeli people do not care about the Constitution they do not care about the rights and freedoms that are embedded in the US Constitution and rights of this country they want to establish an
apartheid society that's what Zionists want whether it's in Palestine or whether it's here she promoted theories that former president Barack Obama was an illegal alien quote-unquote and supposedly connected to jihadist
movements of course Obama became the king of drones he became someone who is very much involved in surveilling and antagonizing the Muslim community these people can lie and they can never be held accountable or have any
consequences for their lies the world just moves on and everybody forgets about it Mecklenberg does have a global reach though just like Loomer and her ilk has been banned from several places Mecklenberg's accounts are banned in
France and Germany due to her postings again we see that pattern of criminality and stepping outside of what is acceptable she founded an organization known today known today as the RAIR Foundation as RAIR now originally when
she founded it it was an acronym for Resistance Against Islamic Radicals very creative and the original mission was quote to stop the jihadi infiltration of our American communities again that's that main message that the pro-Israeli
lobby wants to hit on now later that was a bit too hard and so she she rolled it back and she renamed the organization Rise Align Ignite Reclaim which I think she hopes is more subtle Mecklenberg is the founder and editor-in-chief RAIR
brands itself as quote a grassroots movement to reclaim the Republic from globalists and Islamic radicals RAIR Foundation has received millions of dollars in funding from the Adelson family or Adelson not sure which way you
pronounce that that is a notorious family Miriam Adelson one of the staunchest supporters of Israel heavily involved in buying politicians and influencing them her deceased husband as well the family foundation of course is
a pro-Israeli foundation that funds causes advancing Israeli government policies and has one of its main aims the Israeli annexation of the West Bank I don't know maybe her funding has something to do with her with her
politics the Adelson family identified as the largest private donors among the largest private donors to groups focused on countering Islam and
spreading anti-Islamic propaganda they've given millions between 2014 and 2019 Mecklenberg frequently defends figures like Robert Shillman of the
Shillman fellowship fame and the sitting board member of Friends of the IDF and organizations such as Friends of the IDF they amplify the narratives and give sympathetic coverage to such people her
partner in crime is Chris Gaubatz not sure I pronounce that that's the organization RAIR's president Gaubatz is famous for having infiltrated CAIR under false pretenses he pretended to be a Muslim and infiltrated CAIR in order
to supposedly prove that CAIR was this radical Muslim jihadist group which is hilarious because if you're in the Muslim community you know CAIR is anything but that no offense to CAIR but they're they're very they're very
very friendly and they have they don't have enough ambition perhaps maybe they can get deal with some more ambition but to Gaubatz he claims that CAIR is a bunch of suit-wearing jihadis that's a quote whose ideology is quote
indistinguishable from that of al-Qaeda or the Islamic State Wow okay and that is the thing that we've seen in Israeli propaganda time and time again they want to draw a straight line between ISIS al-Qaeda anybody who wants to oppose
the Israeli genocide or Israeli government's apartheid state and then anybody in the United States or worldwide that speaks out against the Israeli genocide or the apartheid state they're all Hamas and they're all they're
all ISIS that's what they would like to have you believe in fact he said and he said it very clearly himself quote there is no such thing as radical Islam only Islam end quote that means that he thinks that all Islam must be radical
and violent previously he served as the vice president of Understanding the Threat another one of these outfits like Jihad Watch there they're all a self-referential community and bubble RAIR David Horowitz you know
Freedom Center Middle East Forum you know Jihad Watch Campus Watch they're all self-referential and they create this cacophony where they all they all cite each other they all refer to each other and they make it seem like they
make it seem as if there's something of substance to what they claim in reality it's all self-referential another interesting thing and this may be a later episode is that they translate okay RAIR Foundation translates Israeli
and Indian content into English for American audiences that's weird if you're America first or you believe in reclaiming the Republic why are you
translating Israeli and Indian articles and why do you claim that India's policies against Muslims are a good model for quote-unquote defending
civilization Mecklenberg became very famous with the EPIC City hoax okay so Mecklenberg posted about a Muslim housing development in Texas led by EPIC Mosque
and she was calling it a Sharia City so oh my gosh ring the alarm bells Sharia City coming to Texas and she got the attention of Texas governor Greg Abbott who reposted Mecklenberg's video and claimed that the development was quote
the epicenter of a strategic and coordinated effort to Islamicize Texas we're just trying to give you guys biryani and shawarma all right that's really all that's really all it is senator John Cornyn is that how you
pronounce it requested a federal investigation into the housing development citing concerns about Sharia law the US Department of Justice opened a federal civil rights investigation into the planned housing development
which was known as EPIC City all of this because of this pro-Israeli anti-Islamic trained person who is spreading her propaganda and lies on the internet look
at what they're able to trigger how far they've infiltrated and how much influence they have over the government that they can trigger these things of course ultimately the Department of Justice ended its investigation in June
2025 finding no evidence to support the allegations it was a hoax it was a lie but Mecklenberg will continue to spread her lies because she's never held accountable she never has to face any consequences for lying about people
saying this is terror linked to this and radical this and extremist that she just continues to lie and move on to the next lie trying to scare more and more people and that includes against people like Sami and myself that if you go
through her Twitter and the last couple months she has several things about me as well there's a couple really really interesting things about this okay one is that we all see that the the playbook is the same the funders are the same
they all claim that you have ties and links and and you're a radical you're an extremist you're linked to these groups when in fact the people that are actually linked to groups abroad are them okay then this is one of the
important things about exposing the funders and the networks that are behind them who are the people that have funds to foreign powers Mecklenberg Tommy Robinson Laura Loomer all of them have ties to Israel all of them have ties to
foreign powers and foreign money now I think that one thing that that is also important to recognize here is that I think they made a mistake they are a little bit too confident and a little bit too arrogant and they underestimate
how the truth will come out and if they think for a second that they're going to intimidate the likes of me or the likes of Sami I'm telling you right now we
want all the smoke we are ready we want all the smoke that we can tell me the time and place to show up and we can we can both pray to God Almighty I challenge them actually let's meet in the same place and pray to God Almighty
to bring down God's curse and punishment upon the person who is lying and the person who has foreign ties because I guarantee you it's not me and I know who
it is that these people are tired and they've been repeating the same thing over and over and over again people are starting to see through it and people are waking up now Mecklenberg is older than me Loomer is around a similar age
as I am Israel recognizes the need to get into Gen Z and Gen Alpha and so they have developed this Israel aligned influencer network so the Israeli government has established a paid influencer network known as the Esther
Project to promote pro-Israeli messaging and improve its public image among declining global support gee wouldn't it be easier to stop genocide and apartheid no apparently we have to put hundreds of millions of dollars into lying let's lie
harder let's lie better let's lie harder this initiative is managed by a US firm called Bridges Partners LLC and it involves paying American social media influencers to create content across platforms like TikTok Instagram and
YouTube they think the world is for sale they think that you can buy anything they think that you can buy the truth falsehood will perish I guarantee you we got a money said in the Quran well God yeah I'll have to was a half a belt in
the belt that I can as a hookah what is false will fall it will crumble and it will crumble hard and what is true will prevail and there have been enough opportunities to turn back but it doesn't seem like they're going to learn
their lesson now this particular project Esther it is financed by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs contracts show up in that go up to nine hundred
thousand dollars in payments for the influencer campaign and this nine hundred thousand dollars that's put aside for this influencer campaign as part of a larger publicly declared diplomacy budget of a hundred and fifty
million dollars that was allocated in late 2024 now if you're an individual influencer you will get paid seven thousand dollars again it's a panel I think about what I make in a month Tommy Robinson is making much more than that
and then the individuals who post in support of Israel get paid seven thousand dollars a post with the initial cohort of these influencers around 14 to
18 content creators that are expected to produce 25 to 30 pieces of content every month interestingly the intervention that happened at Charlie Kirk at the
Hamptons in New York this was one of those types of influencer gatherers where Charlie was basically berated and pulled aside for not being pro-Israeli
enough and after that that was when Shillman took out money removed and retracted his donation from Turning Point USA the goals of this project are obviously to counter any critical narratives about Israel's military
actions and their shady state that does shady things all over the world particularly for younger audiences Netanyahu has met with influencers you've all seen the videos at this point emphasizing that social media is a
crucial eighth front in the effort he's telling everybody in front of cameras that he's going to lie to people and he's going to pay people to lie for him do you really think that people are dumb do you really think that people are that stupid that they're not going to see through and that the truth will not
prevail it's as if these people don't believe that God exists the management we said that the campaign is managed by the Bridges Partners that claim that they are promoting cultural interchange between the US and Israel there's
another firm involved Clocktower X LLC was also hired by the foreign ministry to manage a separate AI driven PR push so what's the endgame here okay let's
let's bring this in and bring this to a close it's not just about the lies okay but it's also about the punishment okay that they are not happy to simply sit
back and spread false information and try to buy the truth but they will punish as harshly as possible anybody who stands in their way and the recent
ordeal with Sami proved that by the way I forgot to mention Laura Loomer and Amy Mecklenberg are liars when they take credit for it and say that Sami has been deported Sami has not been deported he was released and he is
allowed to come back and apply for another visa and I hope that he does and I hope he goes back on another tour that has three times the amount of people that listen to him speak and I hope that it's all over social media and that Amy Mecklenberg and Laura Loomer have to bite on their knuckles out of rage
because it's not true that they want anything in fact you've only achieved a setback for yourself this is going to this is gonna backfire major and you will see that you will regret the day when you went after folks like Sami
Hamdi so it's not just about spreading lies it's also about punishing and the whole idea of revoking your visa magically overnight is part of a larger pipeline that they are trying to achieve listen up this is extremely
important look at the Mamdani campaign one of the things that happened when Mamdani was getting very very popular and after he won several Republican lawmakers and right-wing groups have publicly demanded that the Department of
Justice initiate denaturalization proceedings against Mamdani now what does that mean it means he's a citizen they want to he's not a birthright citizen he came here as not a citizen he came here legitimately as a legal immigrant and
then he was naturalized as a citizen they want to be able to take away his citizenship essentially because he is critical of Israel and who were the people who introduced this Andy Ogles from Tennessee and Randy Fine Randy Fine
who is you know a proud former member of the IDF and somebody who has the Israeli flag probably above the American flag in his office they have okay so that's one thing so the denaturalization of people who have naturalized the citizens again
pro-Zionist group they do not care about rights they don't care about laws they only buy you know cheat to win they will do anything that it takes to get what they want or to crush their opposition there was a bill a lot of
people didn't learn about it's called HR 5300 the Department of State Policy Provisions Act it was proposed this year and eventually withdrawn it was proposed
by another ignominious person representative Brian Mast of Florida another super Zionist person who laughs and and you know about the death of children and Gaza and things of this nature they proposed a bill and within
the bill there was a part of the bill that would give the Secretary of State unilateral authority to deny or to revoke passports for individuals who
have been determined to have provided material support to a foreign terrorist organization okay all of these terms are purposely vague in order for them to essentially to functionally punish whoever is criticizing Israel that they
will try to say if you criticize Israel and what they are doing they will say that you are a Hamas supporter you support foreign terrorist organization and your speech and whatever and they're trying to constantly expand that
definition so that it applies to the things that you say and that even criticism of Israeli military policy might one day they hope become and
become considered and acknowledged as supposedly material support so this is the game that they are trying to create new levers to pull new buttons to push
to disenfranchise to take away citizenship to trample upon all of your rights in order just to stop people from speaking the truth and stop people from
criticizing them that's it it's complete cancel culture on steroids and now this provision in this law the idea of stripping people of their passports was so controversial and produced so much backlash that it eventually got
taken out in September it was removed which which killed that particular measure and the current version of this bill does not contain that provision that has to do with passport revocation or anything like that but that's not to
say that they're going they're not going to try it again in fact we know that they're going to try it again let's be clear on one thing this is not to say that there is no such thing as a bad Muslim anywhere in the world or that no
Muslim has committed any acts of violence that that we would condemn or that should be condemned this is not what we're saying Muslims are like any other group of people there are good people and there are bad people but the
pro-Israeli lobby and the anti-Islamic propaganda is all geared to make you think that Islam is uniquely violent somehow that Muslims are uniquely violent that our faith that just it calls to this and all of the lies about
the Quran and about jihad and about this and about that they're all geared to make you think that Islam is a threat and that Muslims are a threat the FBI's
own documentation and own studies show that this is just a lie that when it comes to the populations that are the most threatening that are involved in the most terrorist activity and involved in the most violent crimes it's
not Muslims it's not so all of this propaganda and this is where it comes back to the main point here their one silver bullet their last line of defense when they commissioned Stagwell to run the numbers and to test the messaging
the single best messaging or the most effective let's say to try to claw back what little credibility and legitimacy and sympathy that Israel could potentially claw back after slaughtering children starving them
making them line up for food and then shooting them on purpose for two years or longer the only message that does any work in light of their crimes is to
scream terrorism is to scream jihad is to scream Islamic violence that's all they have that's the only card in their hand that's the last trick up their sleeve that's the only thing they have to rely on and so when they're saying
that we hope that the people of America and the people of the West wake up to this reality that this is just another situation of the boy who cried wolf that they're going to keep on using this fear tactic which has no basis in reality we
have seen the very sophisticated funding and the very sophisticated organizations and these citizen journalists and they're all self-referential and it's an entire push and they will pay you and they will they will organize trips for
you they'll get you speaking tours they will they will make your life very very pleasant in order to perpetuate this lie that it is a falsehood that is supported by lots of money it's not organic whatsoever we believe as Muslims
that the truth will prevail but our plea is also for people to wake up and to see through this and to stop it that if people like Mecklenberg and Loomer and
the people who are willing to lie if they're not stopped then they're coming for your rights they're coming for your rights to criticize foreign nations they're coming for your right to speak the truth and they might even come for
your passport now if they're targeting Muslims you might say well that doesn't affect me right now but they're coming for us first because we've been dehumanized for decades and decades through their channels of propaganda if
we don't stop them now together they might come for you next you
