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Despegar 4 months ago | hide | past | favorite


"The Grayzone is an American fringe,[7] far-left[19] news website and blog,[23] founded and edited by American journalist Max Blumenthal"

"It is known for its negative coverage of American foreign policy,[1][4] misleading reporting,[25][26] and sympathetic coverage of authoritarian regimes."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grayzone


The story mentions that Sergey Brin was "tbd" on his support for Israel. Sergey Brin has recently made it clear which side he's on [1].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/08/sergey-...


Snowden told us Americans spy on Americans too and get Americans to pay for it. Then what happened? Israel is just doing what Americans have trained them to do - https://michael-hudson.com/2023/11/israel-as-a-landed-aircra...


Forget The Grayzone, the story was first broken by:

  Dr. Jack Poulson ... completed his PhD in Computational and Applied Mathematics at UT Austin in 2012 before serving as an Assistant Professor of Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech then as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics as Stanford University.

  After two years as a Research Scientist in Google’s AI division working on recommendation systems and natural language processing, he resigned in protest of the company rolling back its international human rights protections and transitioned (back) into the nonprofit sector. 
~ https://tcij.org/person/jack-poulson/

who commented upon

  A widely noted dataset of purportedly leaked emails from former Israeli minister of defense Benjamin Gantz appears to show that David Ellison, the new head of media conglomerate Paramount, was coordinating with the recently retired commander-in-chief of the Israeli military on a nascent campaign to sabotage critics of the Israeli military’s activities in Palestine.

  The previously unreported emails appear to show David Ellison being recruited in December 2015 as a core American supporter of a nascent Israeli government effort which Gantz labeled the “Counter-BDS Initiative.” 
~ https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/david-ellis-benny-gantz-a...

The questions to be asked are

1/ whether Israel would fund and seek coordination to push back against the BDS movement, and

2/ whether this email trove is credible.

The first is a no brainer, the second requires a deeper dive than mere off hand dismissal.




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