New CBS owner colluded with ex-Israeli military chief to counter BDS: Leaked emails
Leaked emails expose collusion between David Ellison, the new Zionist owner of CBS News, and former Israeli military chief Benjamin Gantz in 2015 against the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement promoting Palestinian rights.
As part of a sequence of exchanges on December 11, 2015, the television's executive Adam Berkowitz brought up the question of whether Gantz had visited the Israeli spy firm Black Cube.
“Did you ever visit the black cube?” Berkowitz asked Gantz. “I am curious because I wanted to know your feedback [on Black Cube] since I have heard mixed things about them and am not sure if there is the company I want to help.”
Black Cube had promised Berkowitz that it had “sensitive” capabilities for disrupting the BDS movement, according to an email from the Israeli spy firm which was forwarded to Gantz.
Olivia Katbi, the North America coordinator for the BDS movement, said, “What is shocking here is that a prominent head of a major media corporation in the US was caught blatantly offering assistance to a foreign government to spy on Americans and undermine their civil rights.”
Also in the email chain, Berkowitz said he had spoken to David Ellison “who is very interested in helping out with the BDS movement.”
In another email from on November 28, 2015, Berkowitz hoped Gantz will accept the offer to “your behind the scenes man in Hollywood whether it involves your speaking engagements, your book or anything else that is in my purview of expertise.”
“Benny meet David. David meet Benny,” opened an email from Berkowitz on December 23, 2015, before continuing that he had “told David briefly about your [Gantz’s] 12 tribe idea”.
It was referring to a proposal that involved each of the 12 Jewish donors being asked to commit $1 million over a five year period to fund “state-of-the-art cyber technology as a soft weapon” against the BDS movement.
Katbi said despite Israel’s “most ferocious attempts to crush it, the BDS movement’s impact has grown exponentially across the world, including in the US.”
A new survey shows that the majority of Americans believe Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians and support an arms embargo, she added.
The BDS movement gained new momentum after Israel unleashed a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023.
Since then, the Tel Aviv regime has killed 64,718 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 163,859 others in its brutal Gaza onslaught.
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