Réalité EU
Spinwatch investigation
Réalité-EU: Front group for the Washington based Israel Project?
Réalité-EU not actually based in the EU at all
Tom Mills and David Miller, 30 October 2009
Spinwatch has uncovered evidence that an apparently London based organisation offering expertise on Iran to journalists and politicians is a covert propaganda operation run by a pro-Israel organisation in the United States.
The organisation, which is called Réalité-EU, has direct connections to the Israel Project, a hardline pro Israel organisation based in Washington DC. Both Réalité-EU and the Israel Project also appear to be connected to a Jewish organisation – B’nai B’rith International, which is also active in pro-Israel campaigning.
Réalité-EU was at one time linked to the former Shadow Security Minister Patrick Mercer, raising further concerns about the Conservative MP's links to individuals and groups involved in exaggerating and even fabricating domestic and international threats for personal and political ends. These activities have previously been reported by Spinwatch as well as other sources.
Réalité-EU has claimed to be based at offices in London, but e-mails received from the organisation were sent from a mail server registered to the Washington offices of B'nai B'rith International.[1] An expert from Réalité-EU who spoke to Spinwatch denied ‘any connection whatsoever’ with B'nai B'rith.[2]
Affiliations
International Media Intelligence Analysis
People
Expert sources
- Frederic Encel is a Middle East expert and author. Encel earned a Ph.D. in Geo-policy at the University of Paris VII and teaches International Relations at the International Institute of Public Administration and at the Institute of Political Studies in Rennes. He is a prolific author and has published several books including: "The Art of War: Strategies and Battles" (2000); "Geopolitics of Israel" (2004) "Understanding the Middle-East: A Necessity for the Republic" (2006). He also works in the field of risk-analysis. Contact: geostrat@wanadoo.fr www.fredericencel.org
- Claude Moniquet is an expert on counter-terrorism and extremism and a specialist on Near and Middle East issues. He is the director of the European Strategic and Intelligence Center. Moniquet focuses on terror networks and their European connections. He has published several books and studies including: "The Faceless War" (2002); "Jihad. Secret History and European Networks" (2004); and "Jihad and Islamism in Belgium" (2005).
- Dr. Matthias Küntzel is an author and a political scientist from Hamburg, Germany. Küntzel has been researching, writing and publishing on the threat of Islamic Fundamentalism and Iran. In 2006, his work on Ahmadinejad, the Bassiji movement, and Germany's policy towards Iran was published in Internationale Politik, and in The New Republic. Küntzel is also a member of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East. Contact: MatKuentzel@aol.com http://matthiaskuentzel.de
- Dr. Victor Mizin is Vice-President of the Moscow based Center for Strategic Assessments, member of the Center for Political and Military Prognosis of the Russian Academy of Science IMEMO Institute, and the board of the Russian NGO Committee on Critical Technologies and Nonproliferation. Dr. Mizin formally served as a member of Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs where he concentrated on arms control, non-proliferation and global security.
- Dr. Arnon Groiss is the co-author of the report and director of research for CMIP. He has authored several reports about textbooks in Syria,Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority. He is currently deputy director of the Voice of Israel-Arabic Service. Dr. Groiss earned his Ph.D. at the Department of Near East Studies, Princeton University.
- Khattar Abou Diab Political analyst and consultant, Khattar Abou Diab is a Professor at Paris III University. A specialist on the Middle East and Islam, he is a contributor to both "Cahiers de l’Orient" and "Arabies" magazine. He is co-author of "The Worldwide Dictionary of Radical Islam" under the direction of Antoine Sfeir.
- Simon Barrett, Director IMIA. Simon Barrett is the founder of IMIA, International Media Intelligence Analysis. IMIA provides journalists with specialised information on Israel, Middle East and terrorism related issues. IMIA also provides a biweekly news alert with information not generally covered by the mainstream media. Barrett is a former Advisor to the Conservatives Frontbench Spokesman for Homeland Security on issues relating to Islamic Terrorism and Iran.[3]
Resources
- Rightweb Réalité EU
- Neocon Europe Réalité EU
Notes
- ↑ Réalité-EU, email to Tom Mills, 14 July 2009 20:34; Gerlinde Gerber, Email to Tom Mills, 11 September 2009 16:48. Both emails were sent from the IP address 66.208.24.163, the IP number for mail.bnaibrith.org.
- ↑ Phone interview, 10 September 2009
- ↑ Realite-EU Expert Sources (access 20 December 2007)
