In any scandal, that’s the rule: follow the money. When you see who is paying, and who is benefiting, you learn plenty.
Yesterday, this newspaper followed the money, and broke some news: anti-Israel protestors are getting paid to protest.
The post-October 7 protests were anything but. They were big, they were noisy, and they were causing chaos from the island of Manhattan to the island of Vancouver. They looked like the sort of rallies that professional
political parties put together.
Did that many people really hate the Jewish state? No. Because if you’re getting paid to be there – effectively just an actor – then you’re just playing a role. Which suggests that the anti-Israel protests are as phony as a three-dollar bill.
A recap of yesterday’s Toronto Sun scoop:
• a Victoria BC group called the Plenty Collective has been distributing thousands of dollars to individuals and groups to show up at anti-Israel rallies
• the Collective was dispersing as much as $20,000 a month, going back months
• the Plenty Collective gave priority to indigenous people and people of color – to project the false media notion that Israel was all-white, and opposed by a diverse group
• there managers would show up at anti-Israel rallies with vans stocked with professionally-rendered signs, banners and flags – and the organizers would wear uniforms and provide food and drink to the people they hired to be there
The scam wasn’t just happening in far away Victoria, BC. It’s been happening across the continent, too.
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Originally Posted by jabjab
