Clarion Project
Clarion Fund, Inc. is a non-profit organisation created in November 2006 by Rabbi Raphael Shore of Aish HaTorah.
It has been renamed the Clarion Project and describes itself as 'dedicated to exposing the dangers of Islamist extremism while providing a platform for the voices of moderation and promoting grassroots activism'.
Clarion has produced and distributed several pro-Israel propaganda films, including the Islamophobic Obsession in 2008. Its latest film project in 2015 is called 'Faithkeepers'.
Contents
People
Principals
- Raphael Shore - founder
- Gregory Ross, spokesperson
Staff and consultants
- Ryan Mauro, who is also associated with Brigitte Gabriel's ACT! for America
- Clare Lopez
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, $25,000 in 2011, $10,000 in 2009. [1]
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.[2][3]
Grants given
In 2008 the Clarion Fund gave a grant to Imagination Productions of $190,000. [4]
Films
- Iranium - 'explores the scenarios we may face if the radical Iranian regime comes to possess the world’s most powerful weapons'.
- Honor Diaries- 'features nine courageous women’s rights advocates with connections to Muslim-majority societies who are engaged in a dialogue about gender inequality'.
- Obsession - 'reveals an ‘insider's view' of the hatred the Radicals are teaching, their incitement of global jihad, and their goal of world domination'.
- The Third Jihad - 'a documentary that alerts Americans to the danger radical Islam poses to the United States and to Western civilization as a whole'.
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
By 2015 this was now:
- Clarion Project, Inc.
- 1717 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
- Suite 1025
- Washington DC 20006
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
- ↑ accessed 15 August 2015
- ↑ 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
