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| + | The '''Anchorage Charitable Fund''' is a New York based foundation, directed by '''Elizabeth Varet''', and is a known contributor to a host of anti-islam and counterjihad affiliated groups. Now the [[Middle Road Foundation]]. | ||
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| − | :The Varet family helps fund: [[Steve Emerson]]’s [[Investigative Project on Terrorism]] ($10,000); [[Counterterrorism & Security Education and Research Foundation]] ($15,000); Daniel Pipes’ [[Middle East Forum]] ($2,320,229.33); [[Frank Gaffney]]’s [[Center for Security Policy]] ($437,000); the [[Clarion Fund]] ($25,000); [[David Horowitz’s Freedom Center]] ($11,000) and [[Brigitte Gabriel]]’s [[American Congress for Truth]] ($125,000). <ref> [http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/09/02/310779/meet-an-islamophobia-network-funder-the-varet-and-rosenwald-family/ Meet An Islamophobia Network Funder: The Varet And Rosenwald Family], ThinkProgress, 2 September 2011 </ref> | + | :The Varet family helps fund: [[Steve Emerson]]’s [[Investigative Project on Terrorism]] ($10,000); [[Counterterrorism & Security Education and Research Foundation]] ($15,000); Daniel Pipes’ [[Middle East Forum]] ($2,320,229.33); [[Frank Gaffney]]’s [[Center for Security Policy]] ($437,000); the [[Clarion Fund]] ($25,000); [[David Horowitz Freedom Center|David Horowitz’s Freedom Center]] ($11,000) and [[Brigitte Gabriel]]’s [[American Congress for Truth]] ($125,000). <ref> [http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/09/02/310779/meet-an-islamophobia-network-funder-the-varet-and-rosenwald-family/ Meet An Islamophobia Network Funder: The Varet And Rosenwald Family], ThinkProgress, 2 September 2011 </ref> |
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| + | *Between 2000-2009 the fund also gave counterjihad group the [[Middle East Forum]] a total of $252,230 in donations.<ref>[http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/images/uploads/Right_Web_Nov._2011_-_MEF_Funding_.pdf MEF Funding], ''rightweb.irc'', accessed 29 January 2016</ref> | ||
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*[[Nina Rosenwald]] | *[[Nina Rosenwald]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 17:23, 13 October 2016
Howard Clarke Jnr (left) and Elizabeth Varet (right), Source: New York Social Diary
The Anchorage Charitable Fund is a New York based foundation, directed by Elizabeth Varet, and is a known contributor to a host of anti-islam and counterjihad affiliated groups. Now the Middle Road Foundation.
Contents
People
- Elizabeth Varet, a director at American Securities Management
- David Steinmann — also a director at American Securities Management, a trustee for the Anchorage Charitable Fund and president of the William Rosenwald Family Fund, sits as a board member at Frank Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy.
Funding
According to researcher Eli Clifton in 2011
- The Varet family helps fund: Steve Emerson’s Investigative Project on Terrorism ($10,000); Counterterrorism & Security Education and Research Foundation ($15,000); Daniel Pipes’ Middle East Forum ($2,320,229.33); Frank Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy ($437,000); the Clarion Fund ($25,000); David Horowitz’s Freedom Center ($11,000) and Brigitte Gabriel’s American Congress for Truth ($125,000). [1]
- Between 2000-2009 the fund also gave counterjihad group the Middle East Forum a total of $252,230 in donations.[2]
Affiliations
Resources
Notes
- ↑ Meet An Islamophobia Network Funder: The Varet And Rosenwald Family, ThinkProgress, 2 September 2011
- ↑ MEF Funding, rightweb.irc, accessed 29 January 2016
