Middle East Forum - Revision history

Melissa Jones: /* 2013 */

2017-03-22T00:28:52Z

2013

Melissa Jones: /* Legal Project */

2017-03-16T07:33:02Z

Legal Project

Melissa Jones: /* Legal Project */

2017-03-16T07:31:33Z

Legal Project

Melissa Jones: /* Legal Project */

2017-03-16T07:29:42Z

Legal Project

Clementine Boucher: /* 2010 */

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2010

Melissa Jones: /* 2014 */

2016-11-15T08:12:06Z

2014

Clementine Boucher: /* 2010 */

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2010

Clementine Boucher: /* 2011 */

2016-11-14T11:53:48Z

2011

Clementine Boucher: /* Organisations that MEF funds */

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Organisations that MEF funds

Clementine Boucher: /* 2014 */

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2014

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 <ref> Conservative Transparency database, Middle East Forum, accessed 27 May 2015 </ref>
-Various other payees: [[Taube Foundation For Jewish Life And Culture]], [[Shalem Foundation]] (Research - Eval - Promoting Org Respon & Transparency-Report-Inc) | [[Investigative Project on Terrorism Foundation]]
+Various other payees: [[Taube Foundation For Jewish Life And Culture]], [[Shalem Foundation]] [[Research - Eval - Promoting Org Respon & Transparency-Report-Inc]] | [[Investigative Project on Terrorism Foundation]]
 ===Circa 2011===

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 The Middle East Forum's [[Legal Project]] was reportedly established to 'protect the right in the West to freely discuss Islam, radical Islam, terrorism, and terrorist funding'.<ref name="Lane">Oliver Lane, [http://www.breitbart.com/london/2014/12/22/court-of-appeal-overturns-conviction-of-woman-prosecuted-for-insulting-islam/ COURT OF APPEAL OVERTURNS CONVICTION OF WOMAN PROSECUTED FOR INSULTING ISLAM], ''Breitbart News'', 22 December 2014, accessed 3 February 2015</ref> It has provided financial support to 'critics' of Islam and [[Counterjihad]] activists facing prosecution and those convicted to facilitate appeals. Dutch [[Party for Freedom]] leader [[Geert Wilders]] and French anti-Muslim activist [[Christine Tasin]] are among those who have received funds, according to right-wing news site [[Breitbart]].<ref name="Lane"/>
-Daniel Pipes however reportedly told Dutch daily newspaper NRC in 2015 that he was withdrawing financial backing of the Dutch populist politician following Wilders’ ‘fewer Moroccans’ chant and court case,<ref> DutchNews.nl, [ http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2016/12/us-anti-islam-campaigner-donated-e150000-to-the-pvv-in-three-years/ US anti-Islam campaigner donated €150,000 to the PVV in three years], 28 December 2016 </ref> which he has since been found guilty of, (although is appealing). Dutch records to Wilders' [[PVV]] political party show only one donor for the past three years, the [[David Horowitz Freedom Center]].
+Daniel Pipes however reportedly told Dutch daily newspaper NRC in 2015 that he was withdrawing financial backing of the Dutch populist politician following Wilders’ ‘fewer Moroccans’ chant and court case,<ref> DutchNews.nl, [ http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2016/12/us-anti-islam-campaigner-donated-e150000-to-the-pvv-in-three-years/ US anti-Islam campaigner donated €150,000 to the PVV in three years], 28 December 2016 </ref> which he has since been found guilty of  (although is appealing). Dutch records to Wilders' [[PVV]] political party show only one donor for the past three years, the [[David Horowitz Freedom Center]].
 ====Conferences====

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 The Middle East Forum's [[Legal Project]] was reportedly established to 'protect the right in the West to freely discuss Islam, radical Islam, terrorism, and terrorist funding'.<ref name="Lane">Oliver Lane, [http://www.breitbart.com/london/2014/12/22/court-of-appeal-overturns-conviction-of-woman-prosecuted-for-insulting-islam/ COURT OF APPEAL OVERTURNS CONVICTION OF WOMAN PROSECUTED FOR INSULTING ISLAM], ''Breitbart News'', 22 December 2014, accessed 3 February 2015</ref> It has provided financial support to 'critics' of Islam and [[Counterjihad]] activists facing prosecution and those convicted to facilitate appeals. Dutch [[Party for Freedom]] leader [[Geert Wilders]] and French anti-Muslim activist [[Christine Tasin]] are among those who have received funds, according to right-wing news site [[Breitbart]].<ref name="Lane"/>
-Daniel Pipes however reportedly told the NRC in 2015 that he was withdrawing financial backing of the Dutch populist politician following Wilders’ ‘fewer Moroccans’ chant and court case,<ref> DutchNews.nl: US anti-Islam campaigner donated €150,000 to the PVV in three years http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2016/12/us-anti-islam-campaigner-donated-e150000-to-the-pvv-in-three-years/ </ref> which he has since been found guilty of, although is appealing. Dutch records to Wilders' [[PVV]] political party show only one donor for the past three years, the [[David Horowitz Freedom Center]].
+Daniel Pipes however reportedly told Dutch daily newspaper NRC in 2015 that he was withdrawing financial backing of the Dutch populist politician following Wilders’ ‘fewer Moroccans’ chant and court case,<ref> DutchNews.nl, [ http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2016/12/us-anti-islam-campaigner-donated-e150000-to-the-pvv-in-three-years/ US anti-Islam campaigner donated €150,000 to the PVV in three years], 28 December 2016 </ref> which he has since been found guilty of, (although is appealing). Dutch records to Wilders' [[PVV]] political party show only one donor for the past three years, the [[David Horowitz Freedom Center]].
 ====Conferences====

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	The Middle East Forum's [[Legal Project]] was reportedly established to 'protect the right in the West to freely discuss Islam, radical Islam, terrorism, and terrorist funding'.<ref name="Lane">Oliver Lane, [http://www.breitbart.com/london/2014/12/22/court-of-appeal-overturns-conviction-of-woman-prosecuted-for-insulting-islam/ COURT OF APPEAL OVERTURNS CONVICTION OF WOMAN PROSECUTED FOR INSULTING ISLAM], ''Breitbart News'', 22 December 2014, accessed 3 February 2015</ref> It has provided financial support to 'critics' of Islam and [[Counterjihad]] activists facing prosecution and those convicted to facilitate appeals. Dutch [[Party for Freedom]] leader [[Geert Wilders]] and French anti-Muslim activist [[Christine Tasin]] are among those who have received funds, according to right-wing news site [[Breitbart]].<ref name="Lane"/>		The Middle East Forum's [[Legal Project]] was reportedly established to 'protect the right in the West to freely discuss Islam, radical Islam, terrorism, and terrorist funding'.<ref name="Lane">Oliver Lane, [http://www.breitbart.com/london/2014/12/22/court-of-appeal-overturns-conviction-of-woman-prosecuted-for-insulting-islam/ COURT OF APPEAL OVERTURNS CONVICTION OF WOMAN PROSECUTED FOR INSULTING ISLAM], ''Breitbart News'', 22 December 2014, accessed 3 February 2015</ref> It has provided financial support to 'critics' of Islam and [[Counterjihad]] activists facing prosecution and those convicted to facilitate appeals. Dutch [[Party for Freedom]] leader [[Geert Wilders]] and French anti-Muslim activist [[Christine Tasin]] are among those who have received funds, according to right-wing news site [[Breitbart]].<ref name="Lane"/>
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		+	Daniel Pipes however reportedly told the NRC in 2015 that he was withdrawing financial backing of the Dutch populist politician following Wilders’ ‘fewer Moroccans’ chant and court case,<ref> DutchNews.nl: US anti-Islam campaigner donated €150,000 to the PVV in three years http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2016/12/us-anti-islam-campaigner-donated-e150000-to-the-pvv-in-three-years/ </ref> which he has since been found guilty of, although is appealing. Dutch records to Wilders' [[PVV]] political party show only one donor for the past three years, the [[David Horowitz Freedom Center]].
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		+	====Conferences====

	In May 2009 the Legal Project presented a Washington DC conference on 'Islamist lawfare', in collaboration with the [[Federalist Society Center for National Security Law]], and the [[Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression]]. <ref> [http://www.legal-project.org/309/conference-on-islamist-lawfare-may-19th Conference on Islamist Lawfare - May 19, Washington DC], The Legal Project, 8 May 2009, accessed October 2015 </ref>		In May 2009 the Legal Project presented a Washington DC conference on 'Islamist lawfare', in collaboration with the [[Federalist Society Center for National Security Law]], and the [[Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression]]. <ref> [http://www.legal-project.org/309/conference-on-islamist-lawfare-may-19th Conference on Islamist Lawfare - May 19, Washington DC], The Legal Project, 8 May 2009, accessed October 2015 </ref>

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 *[[American Jewish Congress]]: $50,000
 *[[American Jewish Committee]]: $136,169
-*[[American Islamic Forum]]: $10,000
+*[[American Islamic Forum for Democracy]]: $10,000
 *[[American Friends of NGO Monitor]]: $100,000<ref>  Middle East Forum, 990 form, 2010. </ref>

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 ====Recent tax filings grant amounts known/declared for US-based organisations ====
 =====2014=====
-Paid $192, 634 research grants to 'domestic' individuals in the US. These include:
+Paid out $192,634 in research grants to 'domestic' individuals in the US. These include:
 *[[Americans for Peace and Tolerance]] - $10,000 (cited purpose: research)

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 *[[American Friends of NGO Monitor]]: $10,000 <ref>  Middle East Forum, 990 form, 2011. </ref>
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+====2010====
 *[[Phyllis Chesler Organisation]]: $24,000
 *[[Myths and Facts Inc]]: $20,000

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 *[[American Friends of IDC]]: $18,000
 *[[American Friends of NGO Monitor]]: $10,000 <ref>  Middle East Forum, 990 form, 2011. </ref>
 Through its [[Middle East Forum Education Fund]] (MEFEF) it states that it 'distributes about $2 million annually in separately earmarked funds to some 75 individuals and groups, all of them working to promote the Forum's goals of forwarding American interests and preserving Western civilization'. <ref> As of 2015 </ref>

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 ====2013====
-Its 2013 tax filings show that MEF gave [[Gatestone Institute]]  USD $1,383,471 and $1,098,878 in 2012 <ref> [http://conservativetransparency.org/recipient/gatestone-institute/ Gatestone Institute], Conservative Transparency database, accessed 3 March 2015  NB doublecheck this </ref> The purpose cited was research. <ref> Form 990, 2013 </ref>
+====2012====
 Through its [[Middle East Forum Education Fund]] (MEFEF) it states that it 'distributes about $2 million annually in separately earmarked funds to some 75 individuals and groups, all of them working to promote the Forum's goals of forwarding American interests and preserving Western civilization'. <ref> As of 2015 </ref>

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 *[[Honest Reporting]]: $10,000
 *[[In Search of Truth]]; $10,000
-*[[Investigative Project of Terrorism]]: $30,000
+*[[Investigative Project on Terrorism]]: $30,000
 *[[Jewish News Service]]: $30,000
 *[[Lela Gilbert Writing Service]]: $10,000