Serial liar @CJWerleman does it again - claims, in @TRTWorld, Israel gives "BILLIONS!" to anti-Muslim hate groups

Pseudo-journalist CJ Werleman - who we have already proven is an lying antisemite - is at it again,

From Turkey's TRTWorld:

The Zionist state has been pumping billions of dollars into US-based groups to portray Muslims as a community of terrorists.

Billions!

 Recent revelations that an anti-Muslim hate group allegedly paid thousands of dollars to two employees of a Muslim advocacy organisation to undermine American Muslim activists on behalf of the Israeli government are undoubtedly shocking but represent only the tip of the iceberg in what is now a decades-long effort by the Jewish State to harass, smear and threaten pro-Palestinian activists in the United States.

The International Project of Terrorism is not an Israeli group. It is also not an anti-Muslim group, from everything I can see. It exposes antisemitism and terror ties in some Muslim groups, I have never seen it say any blanket anti-Muslim statement.

Anyway, that is "thousands" of dollars, and not from Israel. Next?

[T]he nexus between Zionism and the Islamophobia industry is documented in great detail, starting with a Zionist-funded conference in 1979. The conclave brought together US neoconservatives with Likud Party figures to tie Islam to terrorism in mainstream political discourse, with the aim of tying Palestinian aspirations for liberation to “terrorism” in the minds of American voters, as observed by Professor Deepa Kumar in Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire.

The book isn't online, so I have no idea what conference this is, but even here Werleman doesn't claim that the supposedly anti-Islamic conference was funded by Israel, just that it was "Zionist-funded." Strike two. 

His next two examples likewise say that Zionist groups are funding anti-Islamic groups. Nothing about Israel, and if anyone wants to bother to check if these groups are really Islamophobic, feel free. I've never seen anti-Muslim statements from Campus Watch or Daniel Pipes or the others. 

Strike two.  Next?

Last year, the Jewish-American magazine Forward obtained documents showing that Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs transferred $40,000 to US-based Christian Zionist organisation, 

Proclaiming Justice to the Nations (PJTN), which has been identified as an anti-Muslim hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Centre, a non-governmental organisation that tracks hate crimes in the United States.

I couldn't find PJTN listed as an Islamophobic group on the SPLC website. Werleman doesn't want you to know that the PJTN strongly protested, and the SPLC removed them from their Islamophobic list! 

So the only "evidence" that Israel gives "billions" to "Islamophobic hate groups" is a single $40,000 contribution to a Zionist Christian group that isn't a hate group.

Werleman strikes out, and proves yet again that he is a serial liar. I don't expect him to recant - his lies are deliberate - but perhaps Turkey's media mouthpiece has at least a modicum of journalistic ethics.

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