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Persian Gulf states linked to Kushner's firm which funds illegal Israeli settlements​

Friday, 14 March 2025

US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner's firm is now the biggest shareholder in the Israeli company which funds the construction of illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories

The investment firm called Affinity Partners is headed by Kushner and funded by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

Kushner’s firm has received several billion dollars in funding from the Persian Gulf states’ sovereign wealth funds since it was launched by Kushner in 2021.

Affinity Partners has secured further funding from the Qatari Investment Authority (QIA) and an Abu Dhabi-based investment firm. It has also completed the purchase of a near-10 percent stake in Phoenix Financial.

Phoenix is an Israeli financial services group that offers insurance and asset management services, and holds shares in other Israeli companies in its own name and through a subsidiary, Phoenix Investment House.

An investigation by Middle East Eye has established that these include 11 public companies and one private company currently named in a database of businesses with links to Israeli settlements in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.

The businesses include banks and companies involved in telecommunications, transport, energy, engineering, and retail.

Phoenix’s total holdings in the 11 public companies are currently valued at around $4.5 billion.

Kushner, who is considered to be close to Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was a key architect during Trump’s first term of the so-called Abraham Accords which established diplomatic ties between Israel and several Arab states including the UAE.

He has spoken openly of his support for, and desire to invest in Israel, and his hopes for a future normalization deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Phoenix Financial has financed and insured construction projects throughout illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and the Syrian Golan Heights.

According to the NGO watchdog Who Profits, Phoenix also owns an 80 percent stake in a large shopping mall in an illegal East al-Quds settlement and stakes in various companies operating throughout other settlements.

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Aziqbal said:
Piers Morgan makes around £20,000 to £30,000 from his YouTube

he loves to keep this conversation going since 7th October he's raking it in
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October 7, 2023 has given a lot of people great international audience, with literally billions of people following the events. It is even more than the Russia-Ukraine war.
 
NY Times is highlighting these kind of stories to attack Trump and to warn the 'liberal' Americans that you too, regardless of your skin color, could be next. Though the motivations of NY Times are domestic politics, it is still a welcome focus.
But, yes, ladies and gentlemen: Trump is going to do Netanyahu's bidding blatantly. This would have NEVER happened under a Harris Presidency and even the Genocide Joe would be careful going this far.



How a Columbia Student Fled to Canada After ICE Came Looking for Her​

Ranjani Srinivasan’s student visa was revoked by U.S. immigration authorities. That was just the start of her odyssey.

The first knock at the door came eight days ago, on a Friday morning.

Three federal immigration agents showed up at a Columbia University apartment searching for Ranjani Srinivasan, who had recently learned her student visa had been revoked. Ms. Srinivasan, an international student from India, did not open the door.

She was not home when the agents showed up again the next night, just hours before a former Columbia student living in campus housing, Mahmoud Khalil, was detained, roiling the university. Ms. Srinivasan packed a few belongings, left her cat behind with a friend and jumped on a flight to Canada at LaGuardia Airport.

When the agents returned a third time, this past Thursday night, and entered her apartment with a judicial warrant, she was gone.

“The atmosphere seemed so volatile and dangerous,” Ms. Srinivasan, 37, said on Friday in an interview with The New York Times, her first public remarks since leaving. “So I just made a quick decision.”

Ms. Srinivasan, a Fulbright recipient who was pursuing a doctoral degree in urban planning, was caught in the dragnet of President Trump’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian demonstrators through the use of federal immigration powers. She is one of a handful of noncitizens that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has targeted at Columbia in recent days.

In the week since that first knock at the door, Ms. Srinivasan says she has struggled to understand why the State Department abruptly revoked her student visa without explanation, leading Columbia to withdraw her enrollment from the university because her legal status had been terminated.
 
925boy said:
This broken down US and NATO militaries that got cut down to size in Afghanistan, and is being cut down further in Ukraine proooobably wont be able to destroy Iran and its regime now, and definitely not if it wants to have any chance of defeating China in a potential war.

i can bet $$ that US is trying secret negotiations with Yemen and Iran now or recently, because it doesnt have the military capacity to knock both countries out- that is what reality is telling us. Those of you who believe in your heart and minds that western militaries are soooo strong and competent today, are still living as if we are at least 20 years ago.
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There is always tomorrow
 
Aziqbal said:
the Christains came up with Zonism to control the Holy lands

Zionism is another form of Crusade, they just don't call it a Crusade because they know the Muslims will unite and remove the Christians from the Holy lands

they know the Crusades were a failure for over 1,000 years they tried to control Holy land and they failed instead heroes like Saladin were born

so this is why the Western nations did the Holocaust scare the Jews telling them they need a home if they want to be safe they need a air force a army and own navy

Project Israel is a Crusade by the Western nations, a sheep in a wolves clothing

Israel is the extension of the Western colonial entity's which is why they have full access to do whatever they like with full diplomatic immunity
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It is a Zion crusade; in the previous crusade the Christians were used to do the dirty work and prepare the ground for today's Zion crusade. What's new is the stranglehold control they have of the US , UK and Europe. Through the stolen wealth of these countries they exert extreme control and power.
 
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US and Isarel getting ready to invade Gaza again:-
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Meengla said:
NY Times is highlighting these kind of stories to attack Trump and to warn the 'liberal' Americans that you too, regardless of your skin color, could be next. Though the motivations of NY Times are domestic politics, it is still a welcome focus.
But, yes, ladies and gentlemen: Trump is going to do Netanyahu's bidding blatantly. This would have NEVER happened under a Harris Presidency and even the Genocide Joe would be careful going this far.



How a Columbia Student Fled to Canada After ICE Came Looking for Her​

Ranjani Srinivasan’s student visa was revoked by U.S. immigration authorities. That was just the start of her odyssey.

The first knock at the door came eight days ago, on a Friday morning.

Three federal immigration agents showed up at a Columbia University apartment searching for Ranjani Srinivasan, who had recently learned her student visa had been revoked. Ms. Srinivasan, an international student from India, did not open the door.

She was not home when the agents showed up again the next night, just hours before a former Columbia student living in campus housing, Mahmoud Khalil, was detained, roiling the university. Ms. Srinivasan packed a few belongings, left her cat behind with a friend and jumped on a flight to Canada at LaGuardia Airport.

When the agents returned a third time, this past Thursday night, and entered her apartment with a judicial warrant, she was gone.

“The atmosphere seemed so volatile and dangerous,” Ms. Srinivasan, 37, said on Friday in an interview with The New York Times, her first public remarks since leaving. “So I just made a quick decision.”

Ms. Srinivasan, a Fulbright recipient who was pursuing a doctoral degree in urban planning, was caught in the dragnet of President Trump’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian demonstrators through the use of federal immigration powers. She is one of a handful of noncitizens that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has targeted at Columbia in recent days.

In the week since that first knock at the door, Ms. Srinivasan says she has struggled to understand why the State Department abruptly revoked her student visa without explanation, leading Columbia to withdraw her enrollment from the university because her legal status had been terminated.
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And you wish it hadn't come to pass?
The mask only comes off once you pull from one end...
Bringing Kamala is a nothing burger. We wouldn't know... and I'm sure it wouldn't be much different, AS the whole university crackdown started in under genocide Joe and Kamala administration.
This is the best reflection people can hope for, and see! That the administrative state, will follow orders, with or without the constitutional backing. It was the case back then, it is the case now...
The whole Snowden affair, foregoing due process whenever convenient, killing American citizens... it has all happened. The state is crawling into the corner, one defined by its handlers...

The rest is just a pantomime and a circus. Orange clown has just about flipped on every campaign promise and set gungho on a parallel, yet unsaid path, devoid of public input or scrutiny.
So, don't wish for the unseen for that holds nothing new but a gasp and a hope, against hope!
 
Aziqbal said:
after destroying Israel we need to destroy UAE
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The Regimes that are eternally in power by Western wish and totally serve them against Muslims are different from their people, even if 45% of emirates are indian emigrants and the rest are East Asian emigrants
 
Oldenwisdom...قول بزرگ said:
Bringing Kamala is a nothing burger. We wouldn't know... and I'm sure it wouldn't be much different, AS the whole university crackdown started in under genocide Joe and Kamala administration.
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You are living in America and you have never learned the concepts of gradients, relativism, degrees, proportionality and bring up your absolutism in your typical Biblical phrases of BS! No, the crackdown even if officially condoned, which it was NOT, not happened under the Genocide Joe and Netanyahu was furious at that. Ask the students themselves what they had then and what they are facing now. It was mostly the rich Jewish donors to the university who muzzled the univ admins and the pro Israel Congressmen dragging Univ Presidents to 'hearings'.
Your gross exaggerations border lying!

Americans are rightly alarmed. Brown, immigrants: Better behave because Netanyahu's man in the White House will try to cleanse America of pro Palestinian voices! They are the first target but under the umbrella of such precedents, many more will be targeted.


Don’t Fool Yourself Into Thinking It Will Stop With Columbia​


Columbia University is now the epicenter of the American culture war. The Trump administration is targeting a former Columbia student — and the university itself — as a test case for its new authoritarian regime.

The story of Columbia isn’t simply about Mahmoud Khalil, a former graduate student in international affairs there who was one of the leaders of the pro-Palestinian protests that burst into view almost immediately after the Hamas terror attacks on Oct. 7, 2023. But when federal immigration officials showed up at his apartment building last weekend and whisked him away to a facility in Louisiana to begin deportation proceedings, they brought the malice and incompetence of the Trump administration into stark relief.

The incompetence was obvious from the start. At the time of Khalil’s arrest, federal officers seem to have believed that he was in the United States on a student visa. But that was incorrect. He’s a green-card holder, a lawful permanent resident of the United States.

The malice was plain as well. In spite of his permanent residency, which agents on the scene appear to have learned about soon enough, the government did not permit Khalil to have a privileged conversation with his lawyer until it was ordered to do so by a federal judge. Khalil was taken from his family when his wife, who is an American citizen, was eight months pregnant.

What was the reason for his arrest, potential deportation and isolation from his own attorneys? According to the Department of Homeland Security’s Notice to Appear that was provided to Khalil, “The secretary of state has determined that your presence or activities in the United States would have serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States.”

While that statement sounds damning, the reality is that Khalil was detained because of his protest activity and not because he’d provided illegal support for terrorists. As an administration official told The Free Press, “The allegation here is not that he was breaking the law.”

In an interview with NPR, Troy Edgar, the deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, made it clear that the administration was targeting Khalil’s expression. “We’ve invited and allowed the student to come into the country,” Edgar said, “and he’s put himself in the middle of the process of basically pro-Palestinian activity. And at this point, like I said, the secretary of state can review his visa process at any point and revoke it.”

But there is no visa to review. Khalil is a permanent resident now. Make no mistake, the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil are a direct attack on free speech.

While I’m appalled by the administration’s actions, I’m not surprised that the case arose out of what someone was doing at Columbia. The university has been in various degrees of political turmoil for decades.

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In fact, the first time I had to walk through metal detectors to give a speech was at Columbia 20 years ago. I was president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (now called the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression), and I went to campus to defend the right of Jewish students to speak out against faculty antisemitism in the university’s Middle East and Asian languages and culture department.

I will never forget the menacing atmosphere both on campus and at the event itself. People in the audience shouted at me and shouted at one another. Protesters chanted in the halls.
 
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