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[[File:Varet.jpg‎|250px|thumb|right|Howard Clarke Jnr (left) and Elizabeth Varet (right), Source: [http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/legacy/partypictures/2005/12_06_05/partypictures12_06_05.php New York Social Diary] ]]
 
[[File:Varet.jpg‎|250px|thumb|right|Howard Clarke Jnr (left) and Elizabeth Varet (right), Source: [http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/legacy/partypictures/2005/12_06_05/partypictures12_06_05.php New York Social Diary] ]]
The '''Anchorage Charitable Fund''' is a New York based foundation, directed by '''Elizabeth Varet'''. The fund gives to a host of anti-islam and counterjihad affiliated groups.
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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 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>
 
: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>
  
 
==Affiliations==
 
==Affiliations==
 
*[[Nina Rosenwald]]
 
*[[Nina Rosenwald]]
 
 
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==Resources==
 
==Resources==

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.


People

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

  1. Meet An Islamophobia Network Funder: The Varet And Rosenwald Family, ThinkProgress, 2 September 2011
  2. MEF Funding, rightweb.irc, accessed 29 January 2016