Bill Ackman, Jerry Seinfeld Wife DONATE THOUSAND$ To Pro-Israel Protests; Other Celebs Give $$ Too

Jessica Seinfeld, cookbook author and

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of comedian Jerry Seinfeld, is helping fund a pro-Israel counterprotest at UCLA, which was first reported by The Daily Beast. Seinfeld contributed at least $5,000 to a GoFundMe for the protest and promoted it on her Instagram Story. Seinfeld said quote more cities are being planned, so please

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what you can. Donations are anonymous, we will continue to share. They are light with love as proud American Jews. She's not the only celebrity funding counter-

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. Billionaire investor Bill Amman has

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d $10,000 to a GoFundMe for the University. of North Carolina fraternity br

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s who protected the American flag at a campus protest, the GoFundMe's stated purpose is to quote you, to enrage you.

Amman has expressed his disapproval of campus

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since the December hearing on campus anti-Semitism. but many celebrities have chosen to support the

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side. Author John Cusac, for example, took to . America for genocide is a fact, so it is very clear that there are people who see some of what the protesters have said and actually

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credit to the University protesters for those statements, when in reality in any protest everyone They are running for one for a different reason and while they might have common interests in the US no longer sending weapons to Israel, in the university not investing in and directly benefiting from the military industrial complex that is selling weapons to Israel, there will be different narratives.

There are different motivations there and at the end of the day, when we look at these protests and we see what has happened throughout history, we live in a country where we have these fundamental rights, because of the protests, partly thanks to what they are doing the students. I think the Vietnam War would have lasted much longer if it weren't for the student protest and they are effective, they have already gotten the attention of Congress and the president and they are putting pressure on Congress and the president. reconsider America's position on Israel and on the war on Gaza so when celebrities get involved I think it's important but I don't think it's everything yeah I agree I and I just to provide context , I mean both sides of this. apparently they are being funded by some pretty rich people, Jerry Seinfeld's

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apparently helps organize a pro-Israel protest, Bill Amman and other celebrities, or I guess rich people have helped

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to the party fund for the UNC fraternity that he saw himself protecting. the American flag and then on the pro-Palestinian side the students for justice in Palestine of course receive funding from some Soros foundations from the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation from a Wall Street banker named Feliz Galman the protesters have been led by some people who They are with the American campaign for Palestinian rights, they receive support from some of those same progressive

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ionaires to go to campus and help these students organize their protest, they have received free legal advice from the Palestine Legal Group, so in all the spheres, I mean, we can Don't just say that all this is pure grassroots campaign done by the students for the students, there is external influence from both the pro-Palestinian side and the pro-Israeli side, yes, I think it is when we are in a place where there are so many counterattacks.

There are many viral videos that end up gaining a lot of traction on Tik Tok on Instagram. of what many of these Zionists are saying and doing in these counter protests that are not picked up by the mainstream media and what we are really seeing here is the influence of the interests of the American foreign policy establishment in the media when we have the unfavorable statements by pro-Palestine protesters, regardless of whether or not there are people who are actually university students or people who simply come from the community to participate in the protest, there is simply a lack of due diligence around whether they are representative of the For the people who attend these protests, the answer is no in all cases, no matter who you talk to, and there really is a need to speak with many diverse voices to do good reporting on the ground and ask people why they are there and they are fighting. to and really evaluate whether these claims of violence and destruction of property are, you know, are these students the ones who are really there to support the pro-Palestine protests?

Are they as extreme as people say they are and when we put it in a broader context and look at the photos from Gaza today and we see how property has been destroyed. A few broken windows at the University shouldn't be the biggest problem. If they think the destruction of property is a problem, they should criticize our allies Israel for what they have done. in Gaza, so it seems very disingenuous and hypocritical to criticize these protesters for what they are doing and for words that are often not representative of their owner about why they are there and also for some of the things that Israel is perpetrating in the Gaza Strip.

If people criticize both the broken windows in Colombia and what is happening in Gaza, do you think that would be fair and ideologically consistent? I think if you're criticizing what's happening in Gaza, it depends on whether you know, it really depends on the context. it's because of your criticism of any of those things, if you think you know that peace is actually the absence of tension, I would say you know I don't agree with you, but if you think there shouldn't be broken windows in universities because you know I want things to be good at the University because the United States decides to stop giving money to Israel and the protest ends.

I agree with you, so it really depends on the context. I also wanted to hear you share some of the examples of what you said. the Z students are saying um in opposition to what some of the pro-Palestinian protesters are saying um because you mentioned that those videos haven't really been discussed in the mainstream media so I think this would be a good opportunity for you to do that, Yeah. I mean, you've seen a lot of these protesters show up and say you know how to go to Palestine if you like Palestine so much and that's really crazy to say to protesters when there's a genocide going on when 30,000 people have been killed.

In Gaza, when Gaza is not a safe place to be when there is an active occupation and genocide, telling people to go to that country suggests that you want them to die too. We have also seen posters depicting many of the Israeli government's statements. Administration and therefore when you run in support of Israel, you really run in support of the Benjamin Netanyahu Administration, in support of Benir, and there have been members of this Administration who have said directly that there cannot be a State Palestinian and that everyone who lives in Palestine has called them human animals, they have said that there are no innocent civilians in Gaza, so presenting yourself as a counter-protest to people who are protesting against a genocide suggests that you are pro-genocide and that is why I think that anyone to show up at these counter protests for Being There, uh, is something that I find disgusting because there are so many Jews who are there supporting the protest for Palestine who can say very, very clearly that it is not anti-Semitic to criticize anyone, no matter who.

They are killing 30,000 people, most of them women and children because when they say never again about the Holocaust that does not mean that we protect the State of Israel at any cost of human lives it means never again for anyone it means that there are no genocides in the future, so I really think that people talk to each other when they talk about the issue and when you really analyze what is happening on the ground and what the Israeli administration is saying directly, the issue becomes very clear and very obvious. that the United States is supporting an unjust war and anyone benefiting from it has blood on their hands, which means the university must make the decision to invest in the military-industrial complex.

Yes, this is my problem, so if there is a pro-Palestinian student group. on campus and some of them carry signs that reject Israel's right to exist or uh uh because they're anti-Zionist, right? and a Zionist is someone who believes that Israel has a right to exist and then someone else comes along. and and and flies an Israeli flag, which means that the person who is counterprototist is supporting genocide. That is Israel's position today is that there should not be a Palestinian state and therefore there are many people many of whom would like to There are people who are pro-Israel who are not Zionists to the extent that many Of these people who show up at these demonstrations are Of course, we cannot say that each Jewish person is a monolith.

Every person who believes that Israel has a right to exist as a monolith, but there are people who criticize what the administration is doing and therefore would not fly the Israeli flag right now. to pledge their support for Israel today there are people within the state of Israel who are critical of what the administration is doing and who agree with what the pro-Palestine protesters are doing on university campuses and therefore they are running as counter-protesters. and says that it is against what the pro-Palestinian movement supports, they are only supporting Palestine's right to exist, they are supporting the end of the mass killing of Palestinians.

So to counter that and show up with an Israeli flag, yes, I would say that. Is this a political statement that supports genocide, but it sounds like you're making the same rhetoric in terms of absolutism about painting Jewish protesters or pro-Israel protesters a certain way while criticizing people who are uh? accusing pro-Palestinian protesters of being anti-Semitic as if they can use the exact same argument you're using to say that the pro-Israel people who are showing up support Israel's right to exist, so the pro-Palestinian people being there and who support Palestine are, therefore, supporting the fact that they don't want Israel to exist, as if that's the same kind of rhetoric that's being used against the progressive side, so I don't think it's fair to characterize all people who have Israeli rights. flags like saying they support every single thing Israel does, just like if you raise an American flag, that doesn't mean you support every single thing the US government does and then I mean one more thing like I'm sorry I didn't understand what said.

I'm happy to clarify that if you want me to do it, yeah, that would be great and then one more thing just because I know we want to finish so I want to have it on um. so you can answer both, um, in terms of whether or not you know that Israel should be able to exist because it is a religious state rather than a state for an ordinary people or a people within a certain geographic region, for example. I mean there are also many states that are explicitly Islamic states, so I wonder if the Palestinian side has a similar objection to those that Israel has directly said are representative of the entire Jewish people;

The United States has explicitly said that they are Our position is that there should not be Islamic States but there should not be the establishment of a caliphate and that is why I am someone who believes that any State should be secular, there should not be a religious State and that is why when we think about what these protesters are doing and supporting, yes, they are supporting an Israel that is a Jewish state, but also to present themselves as counter-protesters in a pro-Palestine protest, it is obvious what you represent, you do not show up and say: They are protesting against anti-Semitism and that is why we are here, they are shit, although some say it explicitly, but then yes, and there are protests that are explicitly anti-Semitic.

I'm talking about the specific counter-protests of the Pro-Palestine protests on college campuses, so showing up and being a counter-protester at a pro-Palestine protest is anti-Palestine by definition. Yeah, I guess my problem is that you're saying that you know some people on the Palestinian side. expressed anti-Semitism and when you talk to the people who show up to counter the protests, that's what they disagree with, they don't show up to say that they want to destroy Palestine or that they support genocide. That's why I think it's important for both sides to listen to what these people really want rather than projecting onto them our own characterization of what they believe, and there are many people who have said on the Israeli side that they don't do that.

They don't want a Palestinian state and they don't believe they are innocent Palestinians, so yes, I'm not going to credit everyone who presents themselves as counter-protesters as someone who believes precisely that, but I will categorize them as anti-Palestinian. and I think that everyone who appears with an Israeli flag likecounter-protesters are anti-Palestinian, so I think if we were challenged to go there and say, like you know, if you are for Palestine, everyone would say no, and that means they are against the Palestinian state and the Palestinian people by show up there as counter-protesters. We'll be back more Rising after this.