• xtr0n@sh.itjust.works
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    The Washington Post got the What’s App transcripts and multiple participants confirming the content of the chat. They then asked the mayor’s office about it and the spokesperson said that the question was anti Semitic.

    Correction, they asked about the Zoom meeting (which they had the transcript and on the record participants):

    Asked about the Zoom meeting with chat group members, the mayor’s office did not address it directly, instead sharing a statement from deputy mayor Fabien Levy noting that New York police entered Columbia’s campus twice in response to “specific written requests” from university leadership. “Any suggestion that other considerations were involved in the decision-making process is completely false,” Levy said. He added, “The insinuation that Jewish donors secretly plotted to influence government operations is an all too familiar antisemitic trope that the Washington Post should be ashamed to ask about, let alone normalize in print.”

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    keeping in mind that both Al Jazeera and Hamas are supported by Qatar, whose leader is probably also a billionaire.

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      That may be. Ironically though they can be less hypocritical and more consistent than much of the western media. It’s a bit non sequitur to even bring them up here. But it is still a problem.

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    • CEO of Starbucks Howard Schultz,
    • Dell founder CEO Michael Dell,
    • Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman
    • Joshua Kushner
    • Brother of former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser on Middle East issues, Jared Kushner.
    • Other leaders, such as snack company founder Daniel Lubetzky,
    • hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb,
    • billionaire Len Blavatnik
    • real estate investor Joseph Sitt also said that they held a video meeting with Mayor Adams on April 26.

    That’s a lot of people that seem to stick their nose in other people’s business.

    Some members also offered to pay for private investigators to assist New York police in handling the protests, the chat log shows — an offer a member of the group reported in the chat that Adams accepted.”

    You are telling me that Eric Adams accepted a P.I. help when he could have literally walked to a police station. Then to a detective to solve the case?

    Unless. Private investigators were used as counter protestors, then Eric Adams would have a lot to answer for.