Aubrey Chernick

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</div><div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 22.4px;">Aubrey Chernick is a US software entrepreneur. He is married to <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Joyce_Chernick" title="Joyce Chernick" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Joyce Chernick</a> and it was reported in 2010 that Chernick has a net worth of 750 million.<a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Aubrey_Chernick#cite_note-LA-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[1]</a>The Chernicks have funded a range of pro-Israel groups through their charitable foundation, the <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Fairbrook_Foundation" title="Fairbrook Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Fairbrook Foundation</a>:<a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Aubrey_Chernick#cite_note-rozen-2" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[2]</a> and <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/David_Horowitz" title="David Horowitz" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">David Horowitz</a>'s<a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/David_Horowitz_Freedom_Center" title="David Horowitz Freedom Center" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Freedom Center</a><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">The Chernicks did not respond to messages relayed through Horowitz and a spokesman. But according to Horowitz, Joyce Chernick offered four years ago to fund Spencer and Jihad Watch, then functioning as a stand-alone nonprofit, under the Horowitz Center’s organizational umbrella.<a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Aubrey_Chernick#cite_note-ken-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a></dd></dl>In 2010 Politico also confirmed that "the lion's share of the $920,000 the Freedom Center provided over the past three years to <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Jihad_Watch" title="Jihad Watch" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Jihad Watch</a> came from <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Joyce_Chernick" title="Joyce Chernick" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Joyce Chernick</a>."<a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Aubrey_Chernick#cite_note-ken-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a> Chernick was also a "onetime trustee of the hawkish <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Washington_Institute_for_Near_East_Policy" title="Washington Institute for Near East Policy" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Washington Institute for Near East Policy</a>."<a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Aubrey_Chernick#cite_note-ken-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a> In that same article it was also suggested that the Chernicks were key funders behind the opposition to the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Ground_Zero_Mosque" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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"); background-color: initial;">Cordoba House initiative</a> or "Ground Zero Mosque:"<dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">But there’s also big money behind the mosque opposition, as highlighted by the relationship between [David] Horowitz’s Los Angeles-based nonprofit, Jihad Watch — the website run by Spencer “dedicated to bringing public attention to the role that jihad theology and ideology play in the modern world” — and Joyce Chernick, the wife of a wealthy California tech company founder.<a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Aubrey_Chernick#cite_note-ken-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a></dd></dl><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Views</h2>In addition to being a businessman, Chernick is believed to harbor "strong right-wing pro-Israel views."<a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Aubrey_Chernick#cite_note-axed-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[4]</a> In a post dedicated to the Chernicks Richard Silverstein asks: "Is it any accident that Chernick’s philanthropy supports Muslim-bashing and provokes fear in the minds of New Yorkers and Americans that Muslims will harm American security and sully the memories of the 9/11 victims?<a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Aubrey_Chernick#cite_note-axed-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[4]</a> Using Chernick's support for the neoconservative <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Foundation_for_the_Defense_of_Democracies" title="Foundation for the Defense of Democracies" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Foundation for the Defense of Democracies</a><a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Aubrey_Chernick#cite_note-rozen-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a> as one example, Silverstein also suggests that Chernick may have been one of the mystery funders behind the anti-Muslim film, <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Obsession" title="Obsession" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Obsession</a>.<a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Aubrey_Chernick#cite_note-axed-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[4]</a><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">I hate to say it but in the Chernicks, we have yet another prospect for the mystery funder of the $20-million promotion of the anti-Muslim film, Obsession, during the last presidential campaign. Not to mention a prospect for funding the entire roster of three films produced by the Aish HaTorah offshoot, the Clarion Fund.</dd></dl><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Affiliations</h2><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=");"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Joyce_Chernick" title="Joyce Chernick" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Joyce Chernick</a> - Aubrey is Joyce's husband<a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Aubrey_Chernick#cite_note-LA-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[1]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Pajamas_Media" title="Pajamas Media" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Pajamas Media</a> - Chernick is a a key investor<a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Aubrey_Chernick#cite_note-ken-3" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[3]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Washington_Institute_for_Near_East_Policy" title="Washington Institute for Near East Policy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Washington Institute for Near East Policy</a> - Chernick was a "onetime trustee"<a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Aubrey_Chernick#cite_note-ken-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Foundation_for_Defense_of_Democracies" title="Foundation for Defense of Democracies" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Foundation for Defense of Democracies</a> - Provided $120k in 2005<a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Aubrey_Chernick#cite_note-rozen-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a> (his wife Joyce served on the board)<a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Aubrey_Chernick#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[5]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/David_Horowitz_Freedom_Center" title="David Horowitz Freedom Center" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">David Horowitz Freedom Center</a> - funds this right wing group via the <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Fairbrook_Foundation" title="Fairbrook Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Fairbrook Foundation</a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Notes</h2><ol class="references" style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li id="cite_note-LA-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Aubrey_Chernick#cite_ref-LA_1-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up to:1.0</a> <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Aubrey_Chernick#cite_ref-LA_1-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1.1</a> LA Business Journal, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.labusinessjournal.com/news/2010/may/24/50-wealthiest-angelenos-aubrey-chernick/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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");">"The 50 Wealthiest Angelenos: Aubrey Chernick - #42"</a>, Los Angeles Business Journal, 24 May 2010</li><li id="cite_note-rozen-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Aubrey_Chernick#cite_ref-rozen_2-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up to:2.0</a> <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Aubrey_Chernick#cite_ref-rozen_2-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2.1</a> <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Aubrey_Chernick#cite_ref-rozen_2-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2.2</a> Laura Rozen, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/laurarozen/0910/The_Park51_money_trail.html?showall" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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");">"The Park51 money trail"</a>, Politico, 4 September 2010</li><li id="cite_note-ken-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Aubrey_Chernick#cite_ref-ken_3-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up to:3.0</a> <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Aubrey_Chernick#cite_ref-ken_3-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.1</a> <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Aubrey_Chernick#cite_ref-ken_3-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.2</a> <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Aubrey_Chernick#cite_ref-ken_3-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.3</a> <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Aubrey_Chernick#cite_ref-ken_3-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.4</a> <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Aubrey_Chernick#cite_ref-ken_3-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.5</a> Kenneth P. Vogel and Giovanni Russonello, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=D979BED4-18FE-70B2-A8314DD53412ADF8" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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");">"Latest mosque issue: The money trail"</a>, Politico, 4 September 2010, accessed on 29 October 2010</li><li id="cite_note-axed-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Aubrey_Chernick#cite_ref-axed_4-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up to:4.0</a> <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Aubrey_Chernick#cite_ref-axed_4-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.1</a> <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Aubrey_Chernick#cite_ref-axed_4-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.2</a> Richard Silverstein, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2007/12/03/charles-johnson-axed-from-pajamas-media-management/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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");">"CHARLES JOHNSON AXED FROM PAJAMAS MEDIA MANAGEMENT"</a>, Tikun Olam, 3 December 2007</li><li id="cite_note-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Aubrey_Chernick#cite_ref-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> OneSource, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.onesource.com/free/Chernick-Joyce/People/Profile/89019770-26" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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");">"Joyce Chernick"</a>, OneSource, accessed on 29 October 2010</li></ol></div><div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); 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</div><div>9/10</div><div>POLITICO's Ken Vogel and Giovanni Russonello <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/41767_Page3.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background: transparent;">dig</a> into the money trail of the Park51 Islamic community center, and the campaign against it:<blockquote style="margin: 1em 63px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2857em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.2857em; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">The think tank, the Center for Security Policy, which also produced an ominous Web ad opposing the mosque for the ground zero coalition, had a $4 million budget in 2008 (the last year for which it has filed tax returns). 

Its chief operating officer, Christine Brim, declined to discuss her group’s donors or its support for the coalition but, in a blog post, criticized POLITICO for asking about funding for both mosque supporters and opponents — which she said “implied a moral equivalency between ‘both sides.’” 

In fact, neither side’s funding is quite so clear-cut or ominous as their critics allege. 

In addition to the donations from Qatar and the Saudi prince, Rauf’s nonprofits — the Cordoba Initiative and the American Society for Muslim Advancement — also received a healthy dose of funding from mainstream American foundations that bankroll countless apolitical organizations. 

The Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Deak Family Foundation, the Henry Luce Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Swanee Hunt Family Foundation and the William & Mary Greve Foundation combined to give $650,000 from 2006 to 2008, according to foundation grant reports reviewed for POLITICO by the conservative Capital Research Center. ...<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2857em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.2857em; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">But there’s also big money behind the mosque opposition, as highlighted by the relationship between [David] Horowitz’s Los Angeles-based nonprofit, Jihad Watch — the website run by Spencer “dedicated to bringing public attention to the role that jihad theology and ideology play in the modern world” — and Joyce Chernick, the wife of a wealthy California tech company founder.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2857em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.2857em; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Though it was not listed on the public tax reports filed by Horowitz’s Freedom Center, POLITICO has confirmed that the lion’s share of the $920,000 it provided over the past three years to Jihad Watch came from Chernick, whose husband, Aubrey Chernick, has a net worth of $750 million, as a result of his 2004 sale to IBM of a software company he created, and a security consulting firm he now owns. 

A onetime trustee of the ...Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Aubrey Chernick <a href="http://dynamodata.fdncenter.org/990_pdf_archive/200/200993106/200993106_200812_990.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background: transparent;">led</a> the effort to pull together $3.5 million in venture capital to start Pajamas Media, a conservative blog network ...<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2857em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.2857em; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">The David Horowitz Freedom Center had a budget of $4.5 million last year, according to its tax filings, of which $290,000 came from the conservative Bradley Foundation, which also gave $75,000 to the Center for Security Policy last year. Horowitz has received an average of $461,000 a year in salary and benefits over the past three years, while Spencer has pulled in an average of $140,000, according to the center’s IRS filings.</blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2857em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.2857em; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">UPDATE: Here's a <a href="http://dynamodata.fdncenter.org/990_pdf_archive/200/200993106/200993106_200812_990.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">link</a> to the 2008 990 filings for Chernick's charitable foundation, the Fairbrook Foundation, that shows donations to a wide range of groups, including the American Friends of Ateret Cohanim that funds Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem, The Investigative Project on Terrorism, MEMRI, The Center for Security Policy, over $900k to the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles, $150k to American Jewish Congress, ADL, the Middle East Freedom Forum Fund, another David Horowitz group the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, the pro-Israel campus advocacy group <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:o91RY7hRQb4J:www.aish.com/jw/id/48942191.html+%22stand+with+us%22+and+%22roz+rothstein%22&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Stand With Us</a>; $80k to Gary Bauer's "American Values," the pro-Israel media monitoring group CAMERA, $150k to the "<a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:PeuO1wvhstMJ:www.muslimworldtoday.com/council1.htm+%22council+for+democracy+and+tolerance%22&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Council for Democracy and Tolerance</a>" of Alta Loma, CA, which <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CBwQIDAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwebcache.googleusercontent.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dcache%3AYTr79GuxL58J%3Anirboms.com%2Farchives%2Frumblings-in-damascus%2F%2B%2522nir%2Bboms%2522%2Band%2Bfoundation%2Bfor%2Bthe%2Bdefense%2Bof%2Bdemocracies%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ei=AQuDTJioJoWglAfT89mSDw&usg=AFQjCNE_kZosftQ-CEG3GP8fSN6tl3hfiw" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">listed</a> as a fellow and senior fellow <a href="http://www.zoominfo.com/people/Boms_Nir_198129838.aspx" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Nir Boms</a>, a former Vice President of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and a former Israeli embassy official; the group is listed as <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:WvgO88tZP2AJ:www.obsessionthemovie.com/action_activism.php+%22council+for+democracy+and+tolerance%22&cd=15&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">promoting</a> the "Obsession" video; the former president of the Council, Tashbih Sayyed, a Pakistani-American Shiite journalist who died in 2007, <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fJqjs3Fq1FoJ:www.islam-watch.org/TashbihSayyed/index.html+%22council+for+democracy+and+tolerance%22&cd=8&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">was</a> also an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute and a member of the Jihad Watch board, both also supported by Chernick's foundation; the Council for Secular Humanism; $80k to a group called "Defend the West" whose address is a UPS box in Santa Monica, CA but whose website<a href="http://www.whois.net/whois/defendthewest.org" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">domain</a> is registered to Nina Cunningham of Quidlibet research and the former<a href="http://backyardconservative.blogspot.com/2007/09/rjc-womens-luncheon.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">chair</a> of the Illinois regional branch of the Republican Jewish Coalition's National Women's Committee who is listed on tax forms as a director of the <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/28989068/Clarion-Fund-2008-Form-990" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Clarion Fund</a> which <a href="http://www.sethhettena.com/2008/clarion-funds-gop-ties/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">funded</a> the distribution of 20 million copies of the "Obsession" DVD; $50k to the Heritage Foundation; $50k to the Hudson Institute; etc. etc.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2857em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.2857em; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Similar donations in 2007 and 2006, including <a href="http://dynamodata.fdncenter.org/990_pdf_archive/200/200993106/200993106_200712_990.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">$190k in 2007 to the Hudson Institute</a>; $200k in <a href="http://dynamodata.fdncenter.org/990_pdf_archive/200/200993106/200993106_200612_990.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">2006</a> to the Zionist Organization of America, and $250k to<a href="http://dynamodata.fdncenter.org/990_pdf_archive/200/200993106/200993106_200512_990.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">ZOA in 2005</a>; $60k in <a href="http://dynamodata.fdncenter.org/990_pdf_archive/200/200993106/200993106_200512_990.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">2005</a> to the Central Fund of Israel, a U.S. nonprofit that<a href="http://www.israelforum.com/board/showthread.php?t=3042" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">funds</a> settler security and other programs in Israel, and on whose board (<a href="http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2008/132/992/2008-132992985-045422a8-9.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">listed in 2008</a> as vice president) is Itamar Marcus, who <a href="http://www.palwatch.org/pages/aboutus.aspx" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">heads</a> Palestinian Media Watch; $25k <a href="http://dynamodata.fdncenter.org/990_pdf_archive/200/200993106/200993106_200512_990.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">in 2005</a> to fund projects by Tariq Ismail at the Council for Secular Humanism (the funding for Islamic secularism contrasting with the foundation's generous funding of Jewish religiosity, including Aish HaTorah of Los Angeles); $120k in 2005 to the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, on whose board Chernick's wife Joyce Chernick <a href="http://www.onesource.com/free/Chernick-Joyce/People/Profile/89019770-26" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">served</a>. </div><div>
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