{"id":279839,"date":"2024-01-11T07:22:37","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T07:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=279839"},"modified":"2024-01-13T06:37:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T06:37:32","slug":"registered-israeli-foreign-agent-behind-contrived-antisemitism-crisis-at-u-s-colleges-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=279839","title":{"rendered":"Registered Israeli foreign agent behind contrived \u201cantisemitism\u201d crisis at U.S. colleges, universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ethan Huff \u2013 Natural News Jan 9, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Israel-Protests-Gaza-Hama-Kidnappings.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt aligncenter wp-image-279840\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Israel-Protests-Gaza-Hama-Kidnappings.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The spate of alleged &#8220;antisemitism&#8221; incidents being reported at colleges and universities all across the country ever since October 7 all <a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/2023\/12\/17\/registered-israeli-foreign-agent-campus-antisemitism\/\">stem from<\/a> one single entity: a shady corporate law firm that was registered as a foreign agent of an Israeli principal.<\/p>\n<p>The firm, known as Kasowitz Benson Torres, previously fielded pro-settler, ex-U.S. ambassador to Israel David Friedman, who served under President Donald Trump. Until 2021, Kasowitz Benson Torres was registered with the U.S. <em>Department of Justice<\/em> (DoJ) as a foreign agent acting on behalf of a principal in Israel.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, Kasowitz Benson Torres currently represents numerous professional Israel lobby activists whom <em>The Gray Zone<\/em> says are &#8220;posing as victimized &#8216;Jewish students&#8217; and seeking to crush the free speech rights of Palestine solidarity activists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kasowitz Benson Torres is spearheading the antisemitism witch hunt that already cost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upenn.edu\"><em>University of Pennsylvania<\/em><\/a> president Liz Magill her job. The law firm is also pushing for the firing of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvard.edu\"><em>Harvard University<\/em><\/a>&#8216;s Claudine Gay, who is refusing to play ball with the Zionist lobby and its speech demands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The firm&#8217;s clients include associates of a jailed Ukrainian billionaire who bankrolled neo-Nazi militias, along with a who&#8217;s who of corporations accused of defrauding and even killing consumers,&#8221; <em>The Gray Zone<\/em> further reports about the work of Kasowitz Benson Torres.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Meanwhile, the &#8216;Jewish student&#8217; witnesses who set the stage for the attacks on Magill and her fellow university presidents at the House Antisemitism Committee were employed on at least a semi-professional basis by Israeli lobbying cutouts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Jewish student&#8221; witnesses in question include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Harvard law student Jonathan Frieden, who moonlights as president of Alliance for Israel<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mit.edu\"><em>Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/em><\/a> (MIT) graduate student Talia Khan, president of the MIT Israel Alliance<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyu.edu\"><em>New York University<\/em><\/a>&#8216;s (NYU) Bella Ingber, co-president of NYU&#8217;s Students Supporting Israel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Related: The U.S. has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/2024-01-01-israel-us-bombs-dense-civilian-areas-gaza.html\">sent Israel<\/a> at least 5,400 MK-84 bombs to drop on Gaza \u2013 each MK-84 bomb weighs a ton.)<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Pro-Israel lobby calling for COVID-era lockdowns to stop &#8220;antisemitic&#8221; speech<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Kasowitz Benson Torres helped stage the December 5 House Committee on Antisemitism hearings at which Israeli-American UPenn senior Eyal Yakoby spread &#8220;harrowing&#8221; and &#8220;clearly questionable&#8221; claims that echo back to the claims of the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the course of the last few weeks, I&#8217;ve &#8230; read the statement, &#8216;Ninety-percent of pigs are gas chambered!&#8217; on the pavement as I walked to class,&#8221; Yakoby testified, apparently mistaking an animal advocate message for neo-Nazi messaging.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The most likely explanation for the appearance of this phrase on UPenn&#8217;s Locust Walk was not the presence of chalk-wielding neo-Nazis but rather, that of animal welfare advocates, who were presumably calling attention to the fact that most pigs are killed by slaughterhouses which employ a grotesque method of gas inhalation exposed by activists in late 2022,&#8221; <em>The Gray Zone<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Yakoby would go on to claim that his classmates and professors called him &#8220;a dirty little Jew&#8221; while telling him: &#8220;you deserve to die.&#8221; Yakoby was unable, however, to actually name a single student or teacher who supposedly uttered these or other similar antisemitic words at him.<\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of his bizarre testimony, Yakoby would call for the imposition of COVID-style lockdowns to punish those who speak out against Israel&#8217;s war on Gaza, which has already killed well over 20,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During COVID, strict guidelines governed everything from class attendance and graduation walks,&#8221; Yakoby said. &#8220;But now, when students and faculty defy policies to intimidate Jewish students, where is the same resolute enforcement?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just hours after giving this testimony, Yakoby would file a lawsuit against UPenn, claiming the university violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by failing to respond to his claims of &#8220;antisemitism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more stories like this at <a href=\"http:\/\/CampusInsanity.com\">CampusInsanity.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources for this article include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/2023\/12\/17\/registered-israeli-foreign-agent-campus-antisemitism\/\">TheGrayZone.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/2024-01-01-israel-us-bombs-dense-civilian-areas-gaza.html\">NaturalNews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/2024-01-09-registered-israeli-foreign-agent-contrived-antisemitism-colleges.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-Israel activists calling for COVID-style lockdowns to stop &#8220;antisemitic&#8221; 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