Chernick

Through the Fairbrook Foundation, a private entity he and his wife Joyce control, Chernick has provided funding to groups ranging from the Anti-Defamation League ADL and CAMERA, a right-wing, pro-Israel, media-watchdog outfit, to violent Israeli settlers living on Palestinian lands and figures like the pseudo-academic author Robert Spencer, who is largely responsible for popularizing conspiracy theories about the coming conquest of the West by Muslim fanatics seeking to establish a worldwide caliphate.

Max Blumenthal: The Great Islamophobic Crusade Max Blumenthal 2010

However, by injecting his money into a small but influential constellation of groups and individuals with a narrow agenda, Chernick has had a considerable impact.

Max Blumenthal: The Great Islamophobic Crusade Max Blumenthal 2010

A former trustee of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, which has served as a think tank for the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee AIPAC, a frontline lobbying group for Israel, Chernick is said to be worth $750 million.

Max Blumenthal: The Great Islamophobic Crusade Max Blumenthal 2010

That meeting gave birth to the David Project, a campus advocacy group led by Charles Jacobs, who had co-founded CAMERA, one of the many outfits bankrolled by Chernick.

Max Blumenthal: The Great Islamophobic Crusade Max Blumenthal 2010

The film identified him as "one of the most dangerous intellectuals on campus," while he was featured as a crucial villain in The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America, a book by the Chernick-funded neoconservative activist David Horowitz.

Max Blumenthal: The Great Islamophobic Crusade Max Blumenthal 2010

In 2004, after conferring with Martin Kramer, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the pro-Israel think tank where Chernick had served as a trustee, Jacobs produced a documentary film that he calledColumbia Unbecoming.

Max Blumenthal: The Great Islamophobic Crusade Max Blumenthal 2010

Soon enough, David Harris, director of the Chernick-funded American Jewish Committee, was demanding that Cordoba's leaders be compelled to reveal their "true attitudes" about Palestinian militant groups before construction on the center was initiated.

Max Blumenthal: The Great Islamophobic Crusade Max Blumenthal 2010

Through the Fairbrook Foundation, a private entity he and his wife Joyce control, Chernick has provided funding to groups ranging from the Anti-Defamation League ADL and CAMERA, a right-wing, pro-Israel, media-watchdog outfit, to violent Israeli settlers living on Palestinian lands and figures like the pseudo-academic author Robert Spencer, who is largely responsible for popularizing conspiracy theories about the coming conquest of the West by Muslim fanatics seeking to establish a worldwide caliphate.

Max Blumenthal: The Great Islamophobic Crusade Max Blumenthal 2010

However, by injecting his money into a small but influential constellation of groups and individuals with a narrow agenda, Chernick has had a considerable impact.

Max Blumenthal: The Great Islamophobic Crusade Max Blumenthal 2010

That meeting gave birth to the David Project, a campus advocacy group led by Charles Jacobs, who had co-founded CAMERA, one of the many outfits bankrolled by Chernick.

Max Blumenthal: The Great Islamophobic Crusade Max Blumenthal 2010