A new law in Russia may make Jewish organizations register as foreign agents.
"Russia has expanded its definition of 'foreign agents,' and it will now include 'those who take part in any activity that authorities determine goes against Russia's national interests or who receive support of any kind, not just money, from abroad', according to the Moscow Times.
In this case, Jewish representatives from the Jewish Agency or representatives of international Jewish organizations may be categorized as 'foreign agents'.
According to the Moscow Times, which quoted the new law, 'anyone who has worked with a foreign agent or received funding from one will be included in a new Justice Ministry list of people and groups 'affiliated with foreign agents'.
The Jerusalem Post reported exclusively last week that the Jewish Agency has been under investigation by Russian officials for the past three years, during which information and hardware from their offices were examined closely.
In a letter sent to the Jewish Agency this week, revealed exclusively by Post, the Agency received a list of what the Russian Justice Ministry sees as violations of the law and the consequences of these violations. As reported, a senior Israeli diplomatic official said that 'Russia has claimed that the Jewish Agency illegally collected information about Russian citizens'.
'Russia has claimed that the Jewish Agency illegally collected information about Russian citizens', said a senior Israeli diplomatic official.
As every organization would do, especially ones that promote immigration to another country, the Jewish Agency’s offices in Russia collect information about people who apply for aliyah or who participate in their activities.
The fear is that if the Agency has already been under investigation, the new law will create an impossible situation for Jewish and Israeli organizations to work in Russia.
Last week, the ministry indicated that the agency officials in Russia have violated the law, since the information gathered there is shared with its offices in Jerusalem or with Israeli government offices in order to proceed with immigration. The letter stated that the agency should respond to the allegations and may have to cease activities in Russia if found guilty of charges.
The Jewish Agency said last week that: 'The Jewish Agency wishes to clarify that, contrary to some publications, no directive has been received from the Russian government to terminate our activities. Hence all the plans of the Agency and all the planned activities continue as normal'.
'As part of ongoing control and inspection procedures conducted by the competent authorities in Russia for several years and following an administrative inspection procedure that lasted more than a year, the Agency’s offices in Moscow recently received a letter from the [Russian] authorities', it said.
The letter mentioned 'mainly administrative issues and points to problems that, according to its authors, have been criticized and their possible legal consequences', it added.
'The letter invites the Agency to respond in writing regarding the facts stated in it. Therefore, the Agency intends to study in depth the meaning of the issues raised and their implications and to address them accordingly in the ongoing conversations with the authorities', the Jewish Agency said". -Zvika Klein, Jerusalem Post
The last time an American president attempted to force Israel’s foreign lobby to register as foreign agents he and his attorney general younger brother were killed for their trouble.
"The lobby’s accolades for the late Ted Kennedy and his support of Israel mask the generally unknown conflicts fought by the senator’s older brothers. It is likely that lessons from the fiercest of all battles, fought behind the scenes by President John F. Kennedy alongside his brother and Attorney General Robert—guided the younger sibling’s political choices. Details of the JFK-RFK duo’s effort to register the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) parent organization, the American Zionist Council (AZC) as an Israeli foreign agent were shrouded in mystery until declassified in mid-2008.
Between 1962 and 1963 Senator J.W. Fulbright uncovered a massive network of financial 'conduits' moving funds directed by the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem to Israel lobby startup groups across the United States. Even as JFK attempted to place Israel’s Dimona nuclear weapons program under US inspection, RFK ordered the AZC to openly register and disclose all of its foreign funded lobbying activity in the United States.
The DOJ and AZC fought their secret battle as Fulbright’s hearings disclosed the immense proportions of the Israel lobby effort. Nathan B. Lenvin, a DOJ attorney who had been after AIPAC’s founder Isaiah Kenen since 1951 to continue registering as a foreign agent after he left the employ of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs took copious notes of the many meetings, AZC’s offers of limited registration and the DOJ’s counter offers.
But the law enforcement effort ended in tragedy. JFK’s assassination on November 12, 1963 in Dallas meant RFK’s political cover for the prosecution was gone and his days at the DOJ were numbered. He left to run for a New York senate seat. In 1965 the DOJ allowed the AZC to file a highly redacted and non-standardized FARA declaration in secret. The AZC then shut down and transferred lobbying activity to AIPAC, which refused to register.
RFK’s assassination in 1968 was followed a few months later by the quiet death of the 58-year-old Nathan Lenvin during a DOJ recruiting trip in Chicago. Low-level DOJ officials involved in the AZC registration battle such as Irene Bowman were gently eased out, while high officials willing to defer to the lobby, such as Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach and J. Walter Yeagley, moved on to stellar careers. As details of the secret DOJ-Israel lobby showdowns continue to emerge, it is hard not to conclude that the younger Kennedy’s renowned accommodation, mastered as a child from within the shadows of his siblings, was as much a survival strategy as the hallmark of an effective politician". -Grant Smith, Pulse
Israel had several motives to want both JFK and RFK dead.
- The Kennedys want Israel inspected for nuclear weapons. RFK also had information and testing done around Dimona showing the Uranium there had come from the U.S.’s Nautilus project, since it was the only uranium in the world enriched to that high a % at that point in time. It was all over the area.
- The Kennedys supported Palestinians' right of return.
- They wanted Israel’s foreign lobbies to register as foreign agents.
- JFK along with France’s Charles de Gaulle who also survived an assassination attempt supported Algeria's independence.
Every president going back to Dwight Eisenhower has recognized Israel as a strategic liability. But because of domestic pressure brought about by the lobby, there's nothing anybody could do about it.
Kennedy's vice president and eventual successor, Lyndon Johnson, particularly didn’t want the ZOA (Zionist Organization of America) to be registered as a foreign lobby. His aunt, Jessie Johnson was an actual member.
"A few months ago, the Associated Press reported that newly released tapes from US president Lyndon Johnson's White House office showed LBJ's 'personal and often emotional connection to Israel'. The news agency pointed out that during the Johnson presidency (1963-1969), 'the United States became Israel’s chief diplomatic ally and primary arms supplier'.
But the news report does little to reveal the full historical extent of Johnson's actions on behalf of the Jewish people and the State of Israel. Most students of the Arab-Israeli conflict can identify Johnson as the president during the 1967 war. But few know about LBJ's actions to rescue hundreds of endangered Jews during the Holocaust - actions that could have thrown him out of Congress and into jail. Indeed, the title of 'Righteous Gentile' is certainly appropriate in the case of the Texan, whose centennial year is being commemorated this year. Appropriately enough, the annual Jerusalem Conference announced this week that it will honor Johnson.
Historians have revealed that Johnson, while serving as a young congressman in 1938 and 1939, arranged for visas to be supplied to Jews in Warsaw, and oversaw the apparently illegal immigration of hundreds of Jews through the port of Galveston, Texas.
A key resource for uncovering LBJ's pro-Jewish activity is the unpublished 1989 doctoral thesis by University of Texas student Louis Gomolak, "Prologue: LBJ's Foreign Affairs Background, 1908-1948”. Johnson's activities were confirmed by other historians in interviews with his wife, family members and political associates.
Research into Johnson's personal history indicates that he inherited his concern for the Jewish people from his family. His aunt Jessie Johnson Hatcher, a major influence on LBJ, was a member of the Zionist Organization of America. According to Gomolak, Aunt Jessie had nurtured LBJ's commitment to befriending Jews for 50 years. As a young boy, Lyndon watched his politically active grandfather 'Big Sam' and father 'Little Sam' seek clemency for Leo Frank, the Jewish victim of a blood libel in Atlanta. Frank was lynched by a mob in 1915, and the Ku Klux Klan in Texas threatened to kill the Johnsons. The Johnsons later told friends that Lyndon's family hid in their cellar while his father and uncles stood guard with shotguns on their porch in case of KKK attacks. Johnson's speech writer later stated, 'Johnson often cited Leo Frank's lynching as the source of his opposition to both anti-Semitism and isolationism'.
Already in 1934 - four years before Chamberlain's Munich sellout to Hitler - Johnson was keenly alert to the dangers of Nazism and presented a book of essays, 'Nazism: An Assault on Civilization', to the 21-year-old woman he was courting, Claudia Taylor - later known as 'Lady Bird' Johnson. It was an incredible engagement present". -Morris Smith, The Jewish Times
Few people know that according to Jewish law, LBJ was himself Jewish. His mother was Rebekah Baines, thus Johnson’s middle name. She was Jewish. Her mother was Ruth Ament Huffman, and her mother was Mary Elizabeth Perrin all of whom were Jewish. Perrin’s husband was John S. Huffman whose mother was Suzanne Ament, thus Ruth’s Middle name. Ament was a German Jew. The Huffman’s settled in Fredrick Maryland and from there went to Kentucky and finally Texas. The Jewish Times brags, ”The line of Jewish mothers can be traced back three generations in Lyndon Johnson’s family tree. There is little doubt that he was Jewish".
Johnson was the Israeli lobby's lapdog. He was having an affair with an Irgun terrorist, Mathilde Krim, despite the fact she was also married. She even slept with the president in the White House the day the Six Day War broke out.
"The big scandal is that Israel attacked the USS Liberty as a false flag, to blame it on Egypt at the start of the Six Day War and thus draw the U.S. in openly on Israel’s side. The big scandal is that LBJ ordered other ships to not help them and 34 men died in a vicious attack that, save for a miracle, did not send the ship to the bottom of the sea, killing all on board.
The false flag failed. Most of the men survived. The whole thing was covered up and the official story was that Israel had made a boo-boo; they supposedly didn’t know that it was an American ship. The survivors were strictly warned to never talk about what really happened.
But the survivors have talked about it after many years. The scandal is that an American president collaborated with a foreign government to kill American servicemen as a war pretext. Of course, Johnson had lied about the Gulf of Tonkin incident resulting in over 50,000 American servicemen killed in Vietnam, so no surprise here.
The scandal is that this vicious attack is nearly unknown among the general U.S. public and it should be known.
From a survivor: Anyone who doubts the sinister nature of this attack by a purported ally need only remember that, prior to the Six-Day Land Grab (a provocation that set in motion all that has followed since in the region), Lyndon Johnson was 'befriended' by Arthur and Mathilde Krim. Arthur, president of United Artists, was chair of the campaign finance committee for the Democrats, a party then headed by LBJ. Krim acquired property near the LBJ Ranch in Texas where he built 'Mathilde’s House' where she commenced a long-running affair with our Commander-in-Chief.
On the night that the 1967 'war' commenced (aka an agent provocateur operation), Mathilde was having a 'sleepover' in the White House. Mathilde was previously married to an Irgun terrorist and became an Irgun operative. The Irgun, led by Menachem Begin, arranged for the bombing of the King David Hotel, leaving 91 dead. Mathilde, a convert to Judaism, struck up an exquisitely well-timed affair with a U.S. president in the lead-up to this provocation. Irgun became the Likud Party of Sharon and Netanyahu". -Je' Czaja, Truth Scooper
One can't help but be reminded of a more recent U.S. president who was also shacked up with a Jewish mistress with ties to a foreign intelligence agency.
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The truth about Israel’s attack on the USS Liberty and the subsequent White House cover-up continues to be officially concealed from the American people to the present day and is a national disgrace.
If Vladimir Putin is successful in doing what Bobby Kennedy set out to accomplish back in the 1960s, the Russian people will be better off because of it.
With hope, perhaps one day Americans too can go about pursuing their national interests without instinctively following the advice of the obsequious interventionist lobby which advocates democratic revolution throughout the Arab world and then wails over how Israel is being increasingly threatened by the democratic governments they helped establish.