Clarion Project
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Clarion Fund, Inc. is a non-profit organisation created in November 2006 by Rabbi Raphael Shore of Aish HaTorah.
It has produced and distributed several pro-Israel propaganda films, including the Islamophobic Obsession.
Contents
Principals
- Raphael Shore - founder
- Gregory Ross, spokesperson
Affiliations
- Aish HaTorah
- HonestReporting
- RadicalIslam.org
- Hank Sheinkopf, a long-time Democratic consultant in New York, who worked on President Clinton's re-election campaign, was hired by Clarion in 2008 to respond to the press coverage resulting from the release of Obsession and accusations that the non-profit had overstepped its charitable aims.
Funding received
2012
The Joe R Lee Family Foundation gave the Clarion Fund $50,000 in 2012.
2008
In 2008, CF received a grant of $17,778,600 from right wing 'slush fund' Donors Capital Fund, which also funded Security Research Associates, a group run by Tom Trento who assisted in the distribution of Clarion's film Obsession.[1][2]
Grants given
In 2008 the Clarion Fund gave a grant to Imagination Productions of $190,000. [3]
Contact
Mailing Addresss
- Clarion Fund, Inc.
- 255 W. 36th Street #800
- New York, NY 10018
Telephone Telephone
- General: 888.610.2221 & 646.308.1230
- Press & media: 646.308.1202
Websites:
- http://clarionfund.org
- http://www.radicalislam.org
- http://www.thethirdjihad.com
- http://www.obsessionthemovie.com
- http://iraniummovie.com/
- General: info@clarionfund.org
- Press & media: press@clarionfund.org
External Resources
- Justin Elliott, Mystery of who funded right-wing "radical Islam" campaign deepens, Salon.com, 16 November 2010.
- Eli Clifton, Clarion Fund Discloses Hawkish “Advisory Board” Before Launch Of Iran Documentary, Lobelog, 17 November 2010.
Notes
- ↑ Eli Clifton, Right Wing “Slush Fund” Behind 2008 Islamophobia Campaign, Lobelog.com, 28 October 2010
- ↑ Form 990 filing for Donors Capital Fund, Internal Revenue Service, Department of Treasury, 2008
- ↑ Donor record, Clarion Fund, accessed 2 March 2015