In November 2019, Shapiro wrote a column for the right-wing Jerusalem Post championing the virtues of expanded US military aid to Israel. When President Donald Trump moved the US embassy to Jerusalem, he argued it could help end the "conflict" between Israel and the Palestinians.
After Meghan Stabler was appointed to the Platform Committee, the Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI) congratulated Stabler, who is a board member: "A truly inspired choice of an inspiring woman."
DMFI is a lobbying group founded in 2019. Mark Mellman, the group's CEO, attacked the Sanders campaign for embracing Congressmember Ilhan Omar and activist Linda Sarsour, describing them as "endorsers who hate Israel." DMFI exists to prevent the BDS movement and Palestinian rights advocacy from gaining traction in the Democratic Party.
Wendy Sherman is a former State Department diplomat and senior counselor for the Albright Stonebridge Group. In 2016, she was appointed by Hillary Clinton to serve on the Platform Drafting Committee.
Sherman voted against a platform amendment that would have merely acknowledged Israel engages in a military occupation. She also opposed removing language that suggested the BDS movement and United Nations resolutions criticizing Israel served to "delegitimize" Israel.
"When these actions delegitimize Israel, or in fact, whether wittingly or unwittingly, create anti-Semitism, then we must say that is not a good thing," Sherman declared.
The Albright Stonebridge Group is an influence-peddling operation founded in 2009 by former secretary of state Madeleine Albright. In 2016, Albright said there was a "special place in hell" for women who would not support Clinton, and Albright is notorious because she supported crippling sanctions against Iraq that killed hundreds of thousands of children.
Regime-change experts defend the corporate orderTom Perez has nominated an array of US government regime-change operatives to ensure the foreign-policy establishment enjoys total control over the DNC.
James Boland, the president of the Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers (BAC) union, which endorsed Clinton in September 2015, was nominated to the DNC's Rules Committee by Perez. He is on the board of directors of the National Endowment for Democracy(NED), a regime-change outfit President Ronald Reagan established after a political backlash against the CIA in the 1970s.
The NED overtly engages in global operations that stigmatized the CIA as a criminal enterprise when they were carried out covertly.
The National Democratic Institute (NDI), a NED subsidiary that also exists to fund regime-change operations around the globe, has sent two members of its board of directors as nominees to the DNC standing committees: Elizabeth Bagley and Michael Steed.
Bagley is a former State Department official who worked as a Senate liaison for NATO "enlargement," ramping up the new Cold War with Russia.
Steed is the founder of the Paladin Capital Group, an investment firm that appears to assist "homeland security" companies in their efforts to secure government contracts. Former CIA director and card-carrying neoconservative James Woolsey once advised Paladin. The state of New York has accused Paladin of "pay for play" corruption in their management of pension fund businesses. The firm settled with New York in 2010.
As Dan Cohen reported for The Grayzone, the NDI was involved in fomenting the uprising in Hong Kong.
Claire Lucas worked for the US Agency for International Development's (USAID) Office of Innovation and Development Alliances (IDEA). She led efforts to expand collaboration with the private sector to achieve "development and US foreign policy objectives."
As The Grayzone's Ben Norton explained, USAID is a "central arm of Washington's hybrid war on socialist and independent states around the world. It has a long and sordid history of funding 'civil society' groups and political opposition parties to topple the governments of designated enemies." In just two years, USAID bankrolled the right-wing US-controlled opposition in Venezuela to the tune of up to $435 million.
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