Britain ran a major psyop against the US using an Israeli front and Rothschild money


Operating under multiple names such as the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment and the Global Sustainable Investing Alliance, the Social Finance network [claims $23 trillion in assets](https://medium.com/positive-returns/why-we-invested-global-steering-group-for-impact-investment-91c252511b79) and the support of Blackrock CEO Larry Fink, Ford Foundation President Darren Walker, David Bonderman's TPG Capital, and the Omidyar Network of e-Bay founder Pierre Omidyar. A central figure in the organization is [Sir Ronald Mourad Cohen](https://archive.is/cOAF7) of the Portland Trust and Apax Partners, co-founder of Social Finance Israel, and chairman of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment. Three things to note:

1. "Social Finance" and "Impact Investment" have implications beyond making money. They intend for these investments to have an impact on society.
2. "Sir" means he works for the British government.
3. from Cohen's biography: "with his pal, Jacob Rothschild."

[The Portland Trust is closely tied to top Israeli officials yet it promotes an anti-Israel agenda.](https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/140051/israel-policy-forum-network-intrigue-moshe-dann) As described by Daniel Greenfield in his investigative report on the Israel Policy Forum:

> The Portland Fund's CEO, Brig.Gen (ret) Eival Giladi, a close Sharon advisor, along with Dov Weisglass, and Gen (ret) Dan Halutz, former COS, organized and carried out Israel's retreat from Gaza and Northern Shomron - and were handsomely rewarded.

> Working with Shimon Peres and the PCP, the Portland Trust, with EU assistance, helps Arab and Israeli businessmen and NGOs advance a Palestinian state. They organized the "Israeli-Palestinian Chamber of Commerce" to finance Arab building and business projects in the West Bank. In addition, Cohen runs Apax, a large private investment firm with projects in Israel, which supports the British Labor Party and former heads Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and thus, wields influence in the British government.

> These organizations and individuals were enthusiastic supporters of Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from southern Lebanon (which gave Hezbollah its base) and the Gaza Strip (which became Hamastan) and they continue to support Israeli withdrawal from Judea and Samaria.

[The formation of a PLO-controlled state and economy in Palestine is part of the Phased Plan to destroy Israel.](http://www.acpr.org.il/resources/plophased.html) Here it is backed by a British agent and Rothschild ally, and top Israeli officials. As Greenfield has reported, this is one of several such initiatives associated with British agents, the Bronfman-funded Israel Policy Forum, and George Soros whose International Crisis Group has established its own diplomatic relations with the state of Qatar.

These organizations have recruited many of America's leading Jewish businessmen to fund Israel's enemies and to denounce strategic policies and on-the-ground facts favorable to Israel. When a committee led by former Israeli Supreme Court justice Edmund Levy found in 2012 that Israel had legal title to the West Bank, which was common knowledge 20 years earlier, this finding was denounced by representatives of the U.S. Holocaust Museum, the Jewish Federation, United Jewish Appeal, the Union for Reform Judaism, the American Jewish Committee, Lester Crown, Marvin Lender of Lender's Bagels, Charles Bronfman, and other Jewish leaders affiliated with the Israel Policy Forum.

A similarly [UK-linked](https://disobedientmedia.com/2017/02/democrat-propaganda-group-shareblue-has-ties-to-chinese-government-host-of-foreign-special-interests/) initiative by OneVoice and Peaceworks to invest in PLO-controlled areas ended with OneVoice being run by the PLO to [advocate for war](https://archive.is/J7WB7) against Israel, and with KIND granola bars in every supermarket and Starbucks in the United States. For whatever reason, likely the oil money, the UK has covertly sided with the global jihad against Israel. What people call Corbynism, the antisemitism of the new Left, is simply the very old antisemitism of very right-wing Islam flowing from the UK's military and foreign policy bureaus.

Ronald Cohen's Social Finance company has a base in Israel whose members include Chemi Peres of the Peres Center for Peace that was founded by his father Shimon Peres; [Galia Maor](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/galia-maor), board member of Teva Pharmaceuticals, the leading producer of transgender hormones; Ariel Weiss, CEO of Yad Hanadiv, the Rothschild Foundation; Martin Karp of the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles; Amir Levi, former budgets director of the Israeli finance ministry; and Sigal Shelach, director of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee's Tevet employment program that has been adopted by the Israeli government as a state program.

The Peres Center board includes Orit Gadiesh, the chair of Bain & Company and a board member of the World Economic Forum and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. The Peres Center's International Board of Governors includes Publicis Groupe CEO Maurice Levy who operates Kekst CNC in concert with Wolfgang Ischinger of the Munich Security Forum, Nuala O'Connor of the Center for Democracy and Technology, and Rothschild and HSBC banker Matthew Westerman.

The Peres Center has a position on the Arab-Israeli conflict: Israel should not exist. This was expressed when [the Peres Center boycotted the play Snow Ball](https://www.algemeiner.com/2013/08/12/peres-center-for-peace-rejects-fc-barcelona-related-play-snow-ball-for-pro-israel-dialogue/) for the uncontroversial line "the state of Israel is the national home of all Jews." This is the founding principle of Israel as stated in the 1922 Palestine Mandate that called for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people."

The board of American Friends of the Peres Center includes Haim Saban who finances the Saban Center at Brookings which operates the Hollywood union Muslims on Screen and Television (MOST) with Gallup, the Unity Productions Foundation, and One Nation for All. One Nation and Unity Productions are affiliated with Farhan Latif of the El-Hibri Foundation and the Aspen Institute's Inclusive America Project, and with the Pillars Fund of Linda Sarsour. One Nation for All board member Luther M. Ragin Jr. is also on the boards of the Threshold Group, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, and the Social Impact Investment Taskforce of Sir Ronald Cohen and Tracy Palandjian. The Saban Center also runs the US-Islamic World Forum with Qatar and the Soliya project, originally Solis. As described by participant Peter Warren Singer in 2002, the goal of the US-Islamic World Forum from the beginning was to aid the Islamist parties of the worldwide Muslim Brotherhood that had incorporated into the Osama bin Laden network.

The focus of Social Finance is in the United States of America where it is headquartered in Boston, with the Bridgespan Group forming an effective second headquarters in San Francisco. There is also a Canadian branch at the MaRS Centre for Impact Investing which is affiliated with Tides Canada and the Rockefeller Foundation. The board members of the American branch of Social Finance include Tracy Palandjian, a member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers and of the Rockefeller-affiliated Surdna Foundation, and Goldman Sachs vice president Sonal Shah.

Sonal Shah serves on the advisory committee of billionaire Pierre Omidyar's Democracy Fund and the board of trustees of the Century Foundation, and founded the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation while serving as a deputy assistant to President Obama. A second person credited with co-founding the White House Office of Social Innovation is Matt Onek of Mission Investors Exchange, one of the partners of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment. Jonathan Greenblatt from the same White House Office of Social Innovation took over the leadership of the Anti-Defamation League which has since abandoned entirely its focus on antisemitic Muslim terrorist organizations while listing such harmless things as the cartoon Pepe the Frog and the OK sign as "hate symbols" because Republican politicians have used them.

The board of overseers of Boston's Harvard University has included Ronald Mourad Cohen (2007-2013), Tracy Palandjian (2012-2018), Lisbet Rausing of Yad Hanadiv (2005-2011), Sony CEO Michael Lynton (2012-2014), and Aspen Institute CEO Walter Isaacson (2010-2016). During this time, Harvard University hosted Saudi Arabia's top propagandist Nawaf Obiad at the Belfer Center whose experts included Juliette Kayyem, who previously ran the UAE-funded Dubai Initiative that called for federal funding of the terrorist-producing Muslim Brotherhood; Rami Khouri of the Soliya project that mixes the owners of Twitter with terrorist apologists from the Alwaleed bin Talal center at Georgetown; R. Nicholas Burns of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund which finances the PLO's movement to boycott Israel; and Farah Pandith who had been accused of aiding the Muslim Brotherhood while she had been the National Security Council's director for Middle East Regional Initiatives during the George W. Bush administration.

With the support of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Farah Pandith went on to develop the United Nations' Strong Cities Network police training initiative adopted by Attorney General Loretta Lynch and New York mayor Bill de Blasio; to lead the State Department's Women in Public Service project to demand that women compose half or more of all government and business boards; and to replace the staff of Britain's Institute for Strategic Dialogue with members and supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood. This work was performed through the State Department's Woodrow Wilson Center under the leadership of Jane Harman and Thomas Nides. The Wilson Center also hosts Yakin Erturk, a signer of the Yogyakarta Principles that established the basis of the transgender religion; Sylvia Matthews Burwell, president of American University and a member of the Gates Foundation; the Federal Games Group led by David Rejeski; John B. King, Jr., Commissioner of the New York State Education Department; Thelma Duggin of the Aspen Institute; Nathalie Rayes of Voto Latino; Aaron David Miller of the Israel Policy Forum; John Bryson of the California Endowment and the Pacific Council on International Policy; Amy Wilkinson of the Harvard University Center for Public Leadership; Wolfgang Ischinger; and former Secretary of State John Kerry.

Harvard University is also the home of the Shorenstein Foundation funded by the Shorenstein family of San Francisco. Run by Nicco Mele of Democracy Works, the Shorenstein Center hosts Khalil Muhammad, the great-grandson of Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad whose religion calls for a race war to exterminate white people; Nick Sinai, deputy CTO of the United States; Helen Boaden, the BBC's former head of news; Jonathan Zittrain of the Berkman Center which operates in concert with the MIT Media Lab; Wael Ghonim of Google, who is credited with the Egyptian Arab Spring revolution that put the Zawahiri network in power as Mohamed Morsi's secret police; Donna Brazile of the Democratic National Committee; and Zack Exley of the New Organizing Institute, who had hired most of the employees of Wikipedia.

The board of Yad Hanadiv, the Rothschild Foundation, includes Daniel Taub, the Israeli ambassador to the UK from 2011 to 2015. Another board member is Adam Wolfensohn, the son of World Bank president James D. Wolfensohn. The younger Wolfensohn is the treasurer of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, vice president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and a board member of the Harmony Institute with Buzzfeed CEO and Huffington Post co-founder Jonah Peretti.

Yad Hanadiv's Fay Twersky was Director of Impact Planning at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation during the time that the Gates Foundation and Carnegie Corporation developed the Common Core educational program. The Carnegie Corporation has two board members, Edward Djerejian and Vartan Gregorian, who represent the state of Qatar as members of the Qatar Foundation International. Qatar Foundation International executive Maggie Mitchell Salem placed Osama bin Laden's lifelong friend and supporter Jamal Khashoggi in the pages of the Washington Post and told him what to write. This arrangement was approved by Fred Hiatt who called critics "Saudi trolls", and by Ron Kampeas of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Fay Twersky was also director of the Effective Philanthropy Group at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation which donated $10.5 million to the Creative Commons Foundation while its board included Joi Ito of MIT Media Lab, who recently resigned for taking money from Jeffrey Epstein, and $5.5 million to the New America Foundation which fired its Open Markets team for questioning the anticompetitive practices of Google whose CEO Eric Schmidt was chairman of the New America Foundation.

Fay Twersky is also a member of the Bridgespan Group which includes former Bain CEO Thomas Tierney, Steve Ellis of David Bonderman's TPG Capital, Linda Hill of State Street Corporation, Cheryl Dorsey of the Harvard Board of Overseers, Paul Brest of the Hewlett Foundation and the Stanford University Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Shona Brown of Google, Pierre Omidyar of eBay, Barry Newstead of Wikipedia, Paypal CEO John Donahoe, NBC/Comcast chair and InterActiveCorp board member Bonnie Hammer, San Francisco Foundation CEO Fred Blackwell, the Acumen Fund's Brian Trelstad, and Mark Nunnelly, IT director for the state of Massachussetts. Trelstad is a partner in Bridges Ventures with Ronald Mourad Cohen.

Bridgespan, TPG, and Elevar Equity are partnered with the Rise Fund whose board includes Lynne Benioff, wife of Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and board member of the University of California San Francisco Foundation; U2's Bono; David Bonderman; Richard Branson of Virgin; Jim Coulter and Bill McGlashan of Bryan Lourd's Creative Artists Agency; Mellody Hobson of Dreamworks and the Economic Club of Chicago; LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman; Sudanese-British telecom magnate Mo Ibrahim; Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Steve Jobs; eBay co-founders Pierre Omidyar and Jeff Skoll; and Unilever CEO Paul Polman. Crunchbase lists John Kerry and Arne Duncan as additional board members.

Bono is also the representative of One.org whose CEO Gayle Smith is a fellow of the Center for American Progress and on the advisory council of the Acumen Fund. Polman is a leader of B Team, a UK-based project of the Avaaz / SumOfUs network. Mo Ibrahim's daughter Hadeel Ibrahim is a board member of Synergos with Peggy Dulany Rockefeller, former Unilever HR director Doug Baillie, Emirates International Holdings director Raza Jafar, Zainab Salbi of the United Nations Broadband and Gender Working Group, Liesel Pritzker Simmons of the Pritzker family, Surita Sandosham of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and other well-connected people. Skoll's Participant Media invested alongside Twitter shareholder Suhail Rizvi in Peak Group Holdings of Omar Amanat, co-founder of Soliya, brother of Marvel Comics vice president Sana Amanat, and cousin of Huma Abedin. Omar Amanat co-founded the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Media Fund with Participant, ICM Partners, and Summit Entertainment.

The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations has two subsidiaries, Silatech and Soliya. Members of Silatech include Qatar's Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Alwaleed bin Talal Foundation vice chair Ameerah al-Taweel, Tarik Yousef of the Brookings Doha Center, Google's Middle East / North Africa Government Relations and Public Policy Manager Martin Roeske, and Sir David Bell, director of Britain's National Equality Standard and member of the Media Standards Trust with Julia Middleton and Helena Kennedy. Soliya stems from the US-Islamic World Forum co-hosted by Brookings and Qatar. Its members include top Twitter investor Suhail Rizvi, Muna Abusulayman of Alwaleed bin Talal's Kingdom Holdings, Generation Obama co-chair Jeremy Goldberg, Disney heiress Abigail Disney, Adam Berrey and Shamil Idriss of Search for Common Ground, and Lucas Welch and Liza Chambers of the Berkman Center.

The new staff of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue includes Farah Pandith, Lisbet Rausing's husband Peter Baldwin, Wolfgang Ischinger and Roland Berger of the Munich Security Conference, David Cameron's national security advisor Pauline Neville-Jones, European Muslim Women of Influence coordinator Vidhya Ramalingam, former Hizb ut-Tahrir board member Rashad Ali, and Helena Kennedy. European Muslim Women of Influence is a project of the British Council under Martin Rose of the Alwaleed bin Talal center at Cambridge, and of the Open Society Institute of George Soros. Rose also sponsors the project Our Shared Europe which is coordinated by Karol Kujawa of Turkey's Ministry for EU Affairs and is run through the Anna Lindh Foundation whose deputy Mohamed Mahjoub shares the name of a deputy of the Muslim Brotherhood affiliate Ennahda. The Institute for Strategic Dialogue's co-sponsoring organizations include Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, the Brookings Institution, Chatham House, Carnegie Corporation, Harvard University's Berkman Center, the Robert Bosch Foundation whose subsidiary Carl Duisberg Society employed 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta, Evelyn de Rothschild's Eranda Foundation, George Soros's Open Society Foundations, and the governments of Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Commission.

A second point of British entry is the MacArthur Foundation's Data and Society Research Group which was founded by Danah Boyd of Microsoft Research and the Multistate Working Group of Attorneys General. Other members include John Palfrey of the same Multistate Working Group and co-director of Harvard University's Berkman Center; Susan Crawford of the Berkman Center; Alondra Nelson who serves on the Social Science Research Council under Dame Sandra Dawson of the UK who is on the board of UAE Enterprises Group with HSBC Middle East CEO Abdul Jalil Yousuf Darwish; Catherine Bracy of the Color of Change Citizen Engagement Lab, part of the Avaaz / SumOfUs network that was the PR agency of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), continues to support extremists such as Linda Sarsour, and is advised by Tom Pravda of the UK Diplomatic Service; Anil Dash of Expert Labs which shares staff with the New Organizing Institute; Joi Ito of MIT Media Lab, Sony, and the New York Times; Gabriella Coleman, "the world's foremost scholar of Anonymous", the hacking collective; Deirdre Mulligan, chair of the Center for Democracy and Technology; Clay Shirky of Wikipedia; Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry of Personal Democracy Media; Ethan Zuckerman of Global Voices, the MIT Media Lab, and MIT's Center for Civic Media; Baratunde Thurston of the Daily Show; Cathy Davidson of the City University of New York and a co-worker of David Theo Goldberg, who repeats PLO disinformation in his writings; John Borthwick and Andrew McLaughlin of Betaworks whose investors include Ken Lerer, co-founder of the Huffington Post with Jonah Peretti; Brad Burnham and Nick Grossman of Union Square Ventures; among others.

A third point of British entry, barely hiding itself behind names like Sceptre and Royal Fiduciary, is the financial network of Angus Macdonald Parker and his sister Julia Parker duPont Benello. Julia Benello is affiliated with the Tides Foundation, which has been attempting to foment a communist overthrow of the United States government for decades but has never faced charges; the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative that is run in concert with the Harnisch Foundation of Ruth Harnisch and the Endeavor network of Edgar Bronfman Jr. and LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman; the Global Fund for Women of Leila Hessini who is on the board of the Center for Constitutional Rights and an author at the United Nations' sponsored Rewire News, formerly RH Reality Check; and the Gamechanger Film Fund with Dan Cogan and Geralyn Dreyfous. Cogan and Dreyfous are founders of Impact Partners Films with Diana Barrett, an investor in the Acumen Fund. Cogan sits on the Women Moving Millions Film Circle with Abigail Disney and Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the wife of the California governor. Dreyfous and Newsom are board members of the Representation Project which pays Newsom close to $350,000 in annual salary and speaking fees for the years in which its public IRS forms are available.

Another likely point of British entry is the Media Action Grassroots / Center for Media Justice network funded by the Whitman Institute of John Esterle and Pia Infante, which was founded in the name of Federal Reserve chairman Fred Whitman. The Whitman Institute board includes Les K. Adler, the dean of the history department at California's Sonoma State University, whose book "The Red Image: American Attitudes Toward Communism in the Cold War Era" denounces opposition to communism and denies that it was as great a threat as it was; and Jamie Allison-Hope, executive director of the Walter & Elise Haas Fund which funds the Islamic Networks Group. The Whitman Institute's investments include the Palladian Partners and Gerber-Taylor funds of Simone Meeks; Metropolitan Partners, whose board is affiliated with the Man Group and JH Capital Group; MAPCO of Israel's Delek Group; Alliance Berstein; Fortress Partners, whose Michael Novogratz is on the advisory council of the Acumen Fund, and which was purchased by Japan's Softbank in 2017 using money from Saudi Arabia's Vision fund; and the Rosemont-Solebury fund of Christopher Heinz, stepson of Senator John Kerry, and Devon D. Archer, who are also on the board of Rosemont Seneca Partners with Hunter Biden, son of Vice President Joe Biden. The Media Action Grassroots / Center for Media Justice network is coordinated by Amalia Deloney of the Berkman Center at Harvard University. MAG/CMJ executive director Malkia Cyril pressured Facebook into allowing a "civil rights audit" by Color of Change (part of the SumOfUs network) and Muslim Advocates.

Muslim Advocates operates in concert with the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) whose al-Talib magazine praised Osama bin Laden as a "brother" and "freedom fighter" in 1999; the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a well-known front for the foreign Hamas government of Gaza; Center for New Community; the CREDO organization of Becky Bond of Color of Change and the New Organizing Institute; the Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) network of the Rockefeller-affiliated Arcus Foundation; Hollaback; Indivisible; International Network Against Cyberhate; Jewish Voice for Peace; Lambda Legal; the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights; National Council of La Raza; the Sikh Coalition; Union for Reform Judaism; Unitarian Universalist Association; United Church of Christ; and numerous other organizations. Supporters of Muslim Advocates include WilmerHale partner and Energy Department deputy counsel Anne Harkavy, Hillary Clinton's advisor Doug Hattaway, and former Attorney General Eric Holder.

Muslim Advocates initiated the National Security and Human Rights (NSHR) project at George Soros's Open Society Foundations which sought to suppress public support for war against the Osama bin Laden network. The other leaders of the NSHR project included Morton Halperin, author of the Pentagon Papers and vice president of the Center for American Progress; Aryeh Neier, co-founder of Students for a Democratic Society, former leader of Human Rights Watch and the ACLU, and current board member of Global Witness, which is led by Bennett Freeman of Calvert Investments and the Global Network Initiative; Ann Beeson of the ACLU; Nancy Chang of the Center for Constitutional Rights; and Wendy Patten of Human Rights Watch.

Grantees of the NSHR project include the ACLU, Amnesty International, Aspen Institute, Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Brennan Center for Justice, Cato Institute, Center for American Progress, Center for Constitutional Rights, Center for Democracy and Technology, Center for Media and Democracy, Center for National Policy, Center for National Security Studies, Demos, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Human Rights First, New America Foundation, Proteus Fund, OneAmerica, and Sikh Coalition, among many others. Speakers at NSHR events included representatives of ReThink Media, the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund, the Impact Fund, the National Council of La Raza, NAACP, National Security Network, New Security Network, ProgressiveCongress.org, and September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, among others. In addition, NSHR was partnered with the Oak Foundation and Atlantic Philanthropies.

Islamic extremists call for the suppression of any political opposition or knowledge of their own memmovements. To encourage Western governments to do this work for them, the public relations wing of the Osama bin Laden network takes the position that opposition to Islam and Islamic terrorist organizations is a form of hatred that should be suppressed by the government. The International Institute for Islamic Thought (IIIT), a think tank run by the Osama bin Laden network, created the word "Islamophobia" to promote this agenda. The bin Laden network's position has been adopted by the Anti-Defamation League and by the Community Security Trust in the UK, whose Conservative government under David Cameron authorized a national security program to suppress all public opposition to Islam in response to the Utoya massacre of Labour Party youth attending a recruitment drive for the PLO, an Islamic terrorist organization. This position would have would have allowed Britain's partners, such as Demos which pressed for this change in policy, to deliver funds and take actions in support of Islamic terrorist organizations while receiving the protection of British intelligence. It is therefore notable that Muslim Advocates member Shahid Buttar established a "program to combat racial & religious profiling" before taking leadership positions with the American Constitution Society, Bill of Rights Defense Committee, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which gave an award to Malkia Cyril.

Gregory Nojeim is another person who rose through civic society groups after making his reputation opposing racial profiling of Arabs. Nojeim began his career as a member of the American Arab Anti Discrimination Committee (ADC), a project of Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal. A list of speakers and topics from the ADC's 1989 National Convention exposes the organization as a propaganda vehicle to promote the Islamic holy war against Israel as the attendees included numerous supporters of the PLO including Faisal Hussein, the grandson of Haj Amin el Husseini who started the Arab-Israeli conflict with the support of British intelligence. Nojeim became legislative counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union and is now on the board of the Global Network Initiative and a staff member of the Center for Democracy and Technology.

A third person of interest is Suhail Khan who has faced accusations of being an Islamist spy for his twenty-year political career. Khan's father Mahboob Khan founded the Islamic Society of North America and the Muslim Students Association that aligned with the Osama bin Laden network in the 1990s and held fundraisers for Ayman al-Zawahiri. The younger Khan was part of a Muslim delegation that was scheduled to meet with President George W. Bush on the afternoon of September 11, 2001 at the direction of Grover Norquist and since-convicted terrorist financier Aburahman Alamoudi. Khan soon entered the United States government and has since become a board member of the American Studies Center, a Senior Fellow for Muslim-Christian Understanding at the Institute for Global Engagement, a board member of Voto Latino, and a member of the Aspen Institute working alongside Dalia Mogahed, the Anti-Defamation League's George Selim, and Meryl Chertoff, the wife of former Homeland Security chair Michael Chertoff. Suhail Khan and ISNA chairman Mohamed Magid run Muflehun which takes credit for the Viral Peace project run by the Berkman Center. Suhail Khan would become Microsoft's head of external affairs in 2011 upon the recommendation of Fred Humphries, Microsoft's Vice President of U.S. Government Affairs and a member of the Center for Democracy and Technology. At the time, Microsoft's founder Bill Gates made investments in concert with Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal such as the Breakthrough Energy Coalition and the Four Seasons hotel chain.

In August 2014 users of 4chan's video games forum /v/ discovered that Microsoft was sponsoring a group of game developers and journalists who were attempting to form a monopoly over the video game industry's news agencies while also pushing a Soviet-style party line in all of their work, and that some of these people had sympathies for Osama bin Laden and Islamist terrorist organizations. This was the scandal that became known as Gamergate. Further investigation found similarly-minded people inside the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and its CIA equivalent IARPA engaged in a government project to forcibly convert all Americans to the Social Justice religion of Jesuit preacher Paolo Freire, in clear violation of the U.S. Constitution. 4chan banned all discussion of this issue, causing users with an interest in the subject to move to 8chan. 4chan's owner Christoper Poole was at the time employed by the Lerer Group of Ken Lerer. Reddit, Wikipedia, and Twitter also banned all discussion of the issue, as did many other prominent websites such as Metafilter. Both Reddit and Wikipedia were found to be under the financial control of Ruth Harnisch, while Twitter was under the control of Saudi investors Alwaleed bin Talal and Jamal Khashoggi and was partnered with a Qatari-led Internet censorship project run through the United Nations under the name Alliance of Civilizations, whose subsidiaries are Silatech and Soliya.

Microsoft was well positioned to use domestic and foreign intelligence agencies to suppress criticism of its business practices. Co-founder Bill Gates was in contact with Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal and had held a strategic meeting in 2009 with George Soros, David Rockefeller, and the Environmental Defense Fund of the Shorenstein family, among others. Suhail Khan maintained his family's relationship with the Islamic Society of North America, which maintained its affiliations with the bin Laden network. Microsoft's former lead attorney William Neukom had been head of the American Bar Association for a year and sat on the boards of Stanford Law School, Stanford University's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Pacific Council on International Policy, and the World Justice Project of Qatari Sheikha Abdulla al-Misnad. Samir Ramji and Bryan Kirschner, Microsoft's top strategists for dealing with the open source software movement, were traveling around the Middle East as a small company called Apigee with then-unknown Model View Culture co-founder Shanley Kane. Microsoft's geopolitical strategist Kate Edwards, a member of the transgender religion, was head of the International Game Developers Association and had made contact with the FBI. Microsoft Research, under the direction of Peter Lee and Danah Boyd, was affiliated with members of the Multi-State Working Group on Social Networking that worked for the attorneys general of 49 states.

Microsoft's senior director of community affairs Akhtar Badshah was vice-chair of the Council on Foundations which acts as the governing body of the largest nonprofit foundations in the United States. Badshah was part of the United Nations Broadband and Gender working group with such figures as FCC chairman and Carlyle Group member Julius Genachowski, Amir Dossal of the Global Partnerships Forum, Ann Mei Chang of World Pulse and the US State Department, and representatives of Microsoft, Alcatel, Cisco, Ericsson, the World Bank, and the state of Qatar. This working group shares leadership with the UN Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development whose members include Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, owner of the New York Times.

The Gates Foundation shares staff with Yad Hanadiv and its connections to the Bridgespan Group. The Gates Foundation's director of special projects, Trevor Neilson, co-founded Threat Pattern with Michael Sulik, former director of the CIA clandestine service. Neilson is a board member of Wikipedia. White House Office of Public Engagement director David Washington had previously been CEO of the Gates Foundation. Gates Foundation senior communications officer Katelyn Sabochik held similar positions at the Department of Interior, White House, and AFL-CIO.

Microsoft tapped these relationships to suppress the news that it was harboring a spy ring that was targeting the United States. Most, if not all, of these contacts appear to have gone along with it. The strategy of Microsoft and its co-conspirators was to falsely claim that news reports about Gamergate were a harassment campaign. This plan had been successfully pioneered a few years earlier by Brett Kimberlin, the Speedway Bomber, who had obtained a court order to prevent a journalist from writing about his history of crime and terrorism after he claimed to have been harassed by the journalist's readers.

The first participants in this disinformation campaign were the developers in Microsoft's Execution Labs, their Vancouver-based PR agency Silverstring Media, and their friends in the gaming guild Goon Swarm and the trolling groups Bantown, Gay Nigger Association of America, and Bill Waggoner Crew. Observers noted early on that a Silverstring representative had appeared at a conference with IARPA / DNI program manager Adam Russell and their associate Fatima Villanueva had made contact with members of Congress, Entertainment Software Association president Michael Gallagher, and DHS Critical Infrastructure director Mike Echols. Goon Swarm had its own connections to the intelligence community exposed when one of its top officers Sean Smith was killed in Benghazi.

Many of Microsoft's early supporters had been affiliated with the publications Critical Distance under editor Ian Miles Cheong, Kill Screen under Jamin Warren, the Borderhouse blog under Katherine Cross, and Edge Magazine under Keith Stewart. Edge Magazine's owner Future PLC was bought in 1998 by Apax Venture Partners, which shares the name of Ronald Mourad Cohen's firm Apax Partners. Microsoft also obtained the support of Reddit's ShitRedditSays commmunity which operates in concert with Color of Change, and the Atheism+ movement which had received unusual promotion by the BBC and was discovered to be under the control of Victor Soliz, a project manager for China's Huawei Corporation. Microsoft gained additional influential supporters in the technology sector in Larry Lessig, founder of Creative Commons and the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, and Bruce Schneier of the Berkman Center.

Twitter transferred the identities of users discussing Gamergate to the Qatar Computing Research Institute, according to Finnish researcher Kiran Garimella who worked on the project. Twitter thereafter began banning influential users and independent journalists who had mentioned the scandal, which was not then publicly known to involve Microsoft or foreign agencies. Twitter also banned a number of unrelated accounts including atheists that had been critical of the Atheism+ movement and the journalists who discovered that black nationalist Shaun King was white. Twitter's investors at the time included Suhail Rizvi of the Soliya Project, Alwaleed bin Talal, and Jamal Khashoggi. Twitter's management included Katie Jacobs Stanton, former Director of Citizen Participation at the White House, Special Advisor to the Office of Innovation at the U.S. State Department, and board member of the ADL Center on Technology and Society with Shawn Henry of CrowdStrike and Eli Pariser of SumOfUs. Stanton later jointed the board of Vivendi and used this position to rally Silicon Valley executives against President Trump.

Twitter's managing director of Global Brand and Agency Strategy was Jean-Phillipe Mahew of analytics company Bluefin Labs and former chief digital officer of Ogilvy & Mather. A review of LinkedIn accounts shows that Bluefin Labs was staffed by Saudis, at least one of whom also worked for Starcom Mediavest Worldwide and its parent Publicis Media. Bluefin Labs was created by members of MIT Media Lab. An anonymous and unconfirmed report claimed that Joi Ito had previously worked for Microsoft through Starcom while he was on the board of Machinima. Joi Ito is known to have previous business dealings with Aramex founder Fadi Ghandour, who is a member of Sharjah's Pearl Initiative with UN Global Partnerships Forum director Amir Dossal and board member Badr Jafar. Other members of MIT Media Lab included HSBC general counsel Preeta Bansal who developed a list of Muslim candidates for the Obama administration and was appointed to the President's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

Reddit banned mention of Gamergate from all of its major discussion groups, allowing it only in the one forum KotakuInAction. At the time, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian was part of Ruth Harnisch's Awesome Foundation with Advance Publications owner S.I. Newhouse IV and MIT Center for Civic Media director Ethan Zuckerman, a board member of Wikipedia. Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman would join the ADL Center on Technology and Society.

Independent websites that allowed any discussion of the scandal were struck by denial-of-service attacks and persistent years-long efforts to remove them from the Internet and their owners from payment processing services. In one incident, Samuel Collingwood Smith of the UK had the mother of Kiwi Farms operator Joshua Moon fired from her job as a real estate agent so as to pressure her into forcing her son to shut down the website. Attempts to develop new websites to compete with Twitter, Reddit, and Wikipedia have faced similar opposition which is ongoing to this day. An attempt to develop an alternative to Patreon, which banned anti-extremism researchers David Horowitz and Robert Spencer, ended with the developer arrested and extradited from Taiwan for having once hired a prostitute in Texas who had told him she was an adult but was actually one year under the age of consent.

Kate Edwards and others from the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) participated in Operation Gamergate, an astroturfed Anonymous operation to identify and harass the users discussing the scandal. The figureheads of the operation were Wesley "Laurelai" Bailey and Commander Xanon of the People's Liberation Front. Microsoft invited Brianna Wu to Microsoft headquarters to join the operation. Wu thereafter worked with Doemela of Team Poison whose member Junaid Hussain was killed in a US drone strike while working for ISIS in Syria. Microsoft's organized harassment campaign was observed by a large number of journalists and academics who failed to use their positions to report on the corporate cover-up. These included Ben Doernberg and Dan Gillmor of the Berkman Center, Sam Biddle of Gawker, Kate Callen of the Toronto Star, Adrian Chen of New Inquiry, Joseph Cox of Wired, Eric Dolan and Tory Ortega of Raw Story, Jason Koebler and Derek Mead of Vice Motherboard, Dave Lee of the BBC, Anna Merlan of Jezebel, Aaron Sankin of the Daily Dot, and Nick Woolf of the Guardian. The operation ended quickly when another member of Anonymous claimed that Laureai and Xanon were federal informants.

Google's subsidiary Jigsaw, under Yasmin Green and Jared Cohen, gave jobs to the trolls and supported Randi Harper's work to create a blacklist of Twitter users following the journalists who were reporting on the story, these being Mike Cernovich, Nick Monroe, Ethan Ralph, Slade Villena, and Milo Yiannopoulos, as well as the feminist scholar Christina Hoff Sommers and the actor Adam Baldwin who had named the scandal Gamergate. The blacklist excluded the Bantown troll Teridax, one of very few people who are known to have harassed any of the women involved in the scandal. A leaked mailing list links Teridax to MTA Records agent Will Anderson who works in the Spanish Congress and is the manager of Benin City, an obscure band that denounced people discussing Gamergate.

Google's Jigsaw was partnered with the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and with Affinis Labs, the company of Quintan Wiktorowicz, Shahed Amanullah, and Wajahat Ali. Wiktorowicz, a member of Obama's National Security Council, caused a scandal in Britain by inviting a member of Hamas front organization Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to speak with British Muslims. Amanullah had joined former Pakistani ambassador Akbar Ahmed in a campaign to rewrite the Department of Homeland Security's training materials, with the approval of director Michael Chertoff, and worked with the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and the Berkman Center. Amanullah is now managing director of Frost Capital, a "Palo Alto-based private equity fund manager and investment advisor that connects companies in Muslim-majority countries to Silicon Valley." Ali was the lead author of the Center for American Progress report "Fear Inc.: The Roots Of the Islamophobia Network In America" which denounced critics of Islamic extremism, including liberal Muslims.

The Center for American Progress had been working on behalf of George Soros's Open Society Foundations to create "high quality opposition research" on the "Islamophobia movement." CAP targeted by name David Horowitz and Robert Spencer along with several other researchers, academics, activists, and public speakers. At the time, the International Crisis Group of George Soros, Frank Giustra, and British foreign service officer Mark Malloch Brown had entered into a partnership with Wadah Khanfar of Qatari state media Al-Jazeera. The Huffington Post, operated by the Lerer Group of Ken Lerer, also entered into a partnership with Khanfar.

Some of these arrangements were certainly invited by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who has held close relations with the Osama bin Laden network ever since she allowed al-Qaeda operative Abdurahaman Alamoudi to choose the guest list for an Iftar dinner at the White House in 1995. The Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership was founded in partnership with Frank Giustra and Carlos Slim of Mexico. Clinton's campaign manager and chief of staff, John Podesta, had founded the Center for American Progress. Clinton had met with the Organization of Islamic Conference in July 2011 and promised to support their efforts to outlaw opposition to Islam by using "old-fashioned techniques of peer pressure and shaming." Clinton hired Farah Pandith from the Shorenstein Center and invited the heads of European intelligence agencies to join Pandith's Women in Public Service project. At the same time, Clinton had overseen the arming of al-Qaeda in Libya and Syria and a disinformation campaign to blame the Benghazi attack on a video that was likely produced by the intelligence community.

Pandith worked with Haris Tarin from the Muslim Public Affairs Council to create the Viral Peace project, a "global research and action network focused on youth-oriented hate speech online" headquartered at the Berkman Center at Harvard University. This was done with the approval of Lisa Monaco, President Obama's Assistant for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, and former Boston police commissioner Ed Davis. Pandith and Hillary Clinton created Generation Change, a network "dedicated to empowering and networking a new generation of innovative young leaders in Muslim communities around the world," whose members have been linked directly to the Safa Group subsidiary of the Osama bin Laden network that was raided by the Customs Department in Operation Green Quest after 9/11. All charges against this part of the bin Laden network were dropped by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which forced Customs to surrender the investigation to them, under director Robert Mueller. Pandith oversaw the staffing of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue with Vidhya Ramalingam, coordinator of European Muslim Women of Influence, a group that has been endorsed by Cherie Blair, wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair; and Sasha Havlicek, sponsor of the CEDAR project and its European Muslim Professionals Network. With the support of the top national security officials in the United States, United Kingdom, and other NATO countries, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue became a global governing body determining what information would be allowed on the Internet.

At the same time, the Aspen Institute ran the Inclusive America Project in concert with the Islamic Society of North America. Members of the Inclusive America Project included Madleine Albright, who as Secretary of State refused Sudan's offer of intelligence on the Osama bin Laden network; Meryl Chertoff, wife of former DHS director Michael Chertoff who ended the career of FBI agent Robert Wright for investigating the 9/11 hijackers before the attack; Michael Leiter of Palantir, a former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, whose wife Alice Leiter is the attorney for the Center for Democracy and Technology; John DeGioia of Georgetown University, which hosts a propaganda center funded by Alwaleed bin Talal; Maria Ebrahimiji, executive editorial producer of CNN; Abraham Foxman and Martin Budd of the ADL; Wayne Firestone of Hillel and the Russian-funded Genesis Prize Foundation; David Saperstein of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism; and several Christian leaders in academia. Suhail Khan and the American Jewish Committee led a similar project called the Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council with the support of the El-Hibri Foundation, Congressman Steve Israel, and Rabia Chaudry of the United States Institute of Peace and the New America Foundation, among others. The American Jewish Committee's president Stanley Bergman is a member of the International Crisis Group, while board member Matthew Bronfman co-owns Baker Tilly with E.L. Rothschild, and board member Dov Zakheim is on the Pentagon's Defense Business Board.

Another member of the Inclusive America Project is Michael Gerson of One.org, which uses U2's singer Bono as its figurehead. One.org's members include Gates Foundation chief strategy officer Mark Suzman and managing director Joe Cerrell, Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, the Open Society Foundations' Morton Halperin, Warren Buffett's daughter Susan Buffett, and Silicon Valley investor John Doerr, who is a board member of the Barack Obama Foundation. One.org chief operating officer Suzy George had been chief of staff of Obama's National Security Council from 2014 and had previously been a principal of the Albright Stonebridge Group. The previous chief of staff, Brian McKeon, worked at a time when former Georgetown Muslim Students Association president Mehdi Alhassani claims to have been a special assistant to the chief of staff at the National Security Council and an employee of CIA contractor Palantir, whose co-founder Peter Thiel is now one of Donald Trump's few outspoken supporters in Silicon Valley. Alhassani is also a member of the Truman National Security Project with John Cooke of the Getty Museum and the Pacific Council on International Relations, whose members included Maher Hathout of the Muslim Public Affairs Council.

The Muslim Students Association was founded in 1963 by members of the Muslim Brotherhood, a right-wing organization that seeks for Islam to conquer the world. The MSA was among several organizations funded by Saudi Arabia and can be seen as a branch of Saudi intelligence. MSA co-founders included Mahboob Khan and Malika Khan, the parents of Suhail Khan. The MSA is the parent organization of the Islamic Society of North America and numerous similar organizations such as the North American Islamic Trust. As described in a declassified FBI memo from an investigation in 1987-1988, "This faction of Muslims have declared war on the United States, Israel and any other country they deem as an enemy of Islam."
This was written before these organizations joined the Osama bin Laden network. The MSA is also present on the board of International ANSWER along with PLO front organizations Al-Awda and Free Palestine Alliance.