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.

Principals

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:

E-mail

  • General: info@clarionfund.org
  • Press & media: press@clarionfund.org

External Resources

Notes

  1. Eli Clifton, Right Wing “Slush Fund” Behind 2008 Islamophobia Campaign, Lobelog.com, 28 October 2010
  2. Form 990 filing for Donors Capital Fund, Internal Revenue Service, Department of Treasury, 2008
  3. Donor record, Clarion Fund, accessed 2 March 2015