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Eli Clifton

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Senior Adviser at QuincyInst.org. Investigative Journalist at Large at ResponsibleStatecraft.org. Send tips to my secure email: eliclifton @protonmail.com https://eliclifton.com/

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Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com · 4d

Execs at Oracle, the likely new owner of TikTok, are VERY outspoken in Israeli media about the company's "mission to support the State of Israel" & "unequivocal support for Israel."

Insufficiently pro-Israel Oracle staff receive mental health counseling. responsiblestatecraft.org/oracle-tikto...

Oracle execs: Love Israel or maybe this isn't the job for you

Employees who disagreed were reportedly referred to company mental health services

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Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com · 1d

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the lobby group ostensibly responsible for maintaining U.S.-taxpayer funded aid to Israel as it wages a genocide in Gaza, is now lecturing about what “good and moral Americans” should do.

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Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com · 2d

Van Jones brought his A-game to audition for the anchor seat at the new Bari Weiss approved CBS Evening News 🔥🔥🔥

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Van Jones repeats “dead Gaza baby” as a punch line. New York Times columnistThomas Friedman laughs along.

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Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com · 3d

“Babies are dying every day in Gaza.”

Who is killing them?

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Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com · 3d

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman laughing at Van Jones’ “dead Gaza baby” joke.

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Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com · 3d

Van Jones repeats “dead Gaza baby” as a punch line. New York Times columnistThomas Friedman laughs along.

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Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com · 4d

Oracle execs: Love Israel or maybe this isn't the job for you

Employees who disagreed were reportedly referred to company mental health services

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Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com · 6d

New TikTok coming soon.

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Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com · 6d

Leaked email reveals communication between company leading the TikTok purchase and former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak.

“We believe that we have to embed the love and respect for Israel in the American culture,” wrote then-Oracle CEO Safra Catz. responsiblestatecraft.org/oracle-tikto...

TikTok investor: 'Embed the love and respect for Israel' in the US

In a 2015 email, Oracle CEO Safra Catz said 'we have to fight the battle' before kids get to college. She might get her wish now.

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Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com · 7d

How much are social media influencers being paid by Israel?

@nickclevelandstout.bsky.social found receipts showing influencers receiving between $6,143 to $7,372 per post to promote Israel's preferred talking points to U.S. audiences. responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influ...

Israel is paying influencers $7,000 per post

Netanyahu referred this week to a 'community' pushing out preferred messaging in US media — and boy are they making a princely sum

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Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com · 16d

“Four US citizens, including three children, were among five people killed Sunday by an Israeli air strike on southern Lebanon, according to the Lebanese government.” www.cnn.com/2025/09/21/m...

Four US citizens killed, including three children, in Israeli strike on Lebanon, says Lebanese government | CNN

Four US citizens, including three children, were among five people killed Sunday by an Israeli air strike on southern Lebanon, according to the Lebanese government.

www.cnn.com

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Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com · 21d

UN: Israel is committing genocide. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds

GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, a...

www.ohchr.org

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Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com · 28d

New CBS News ombudsman Kenneth Weinstein formerly ran a think tank that took massive funding from foreign governments and weapons firms.

The think tank then produced reports that were beneficial to those countries/companies and didn't disclose the potential conflict of interest.

CBS's new ethics chief led arms industry, foreign gov't funded think tank

Under Kenneth Weinstein's leadership, the Hudson Institute published reports calling for more military spending without disclosing potential conflicts of interest

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Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com · Sep 1

When the International Association of Genocide Scholars says Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza, maybe Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, leading scholars’ association says

Israel’s foreign ministry called the resolution “disgraceful,” but it added to a growing chorus from rights groups concluding that Israel is committing genocide.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com · Sep 1

Germany, Italy, Japan, South Africa, the USSR, and Iran have all undergone regime change.

Why not Israel too? foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/i...

The Question of Israel’s Right to Exist is a Red Herring

Israel’s critics should be talking instead about regime change.

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Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com · Aug 8

The Center for American Progress, which previously received funding from foreign govts and major weapons firms, is no longer disclosing their funders.

CAP joins the ranks of dark-money think tanks like American Enterprise Institute and Foundation for Defense of Democracies

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Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com · Aug 3

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Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com · Jul 30

GHF's anonymous "sworn statements" by other contractors denouncing whistleblower Anthony Aguilar contain two different misspellings of "Israel."

Do GHF contractors really have no idea how to write the name of the country they are based in?

Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com · Jul 30

If you just came to the conclusion that Israel is intentionally creating a famine in Gaza, why didn’t you take the words of Israeli political leaders seriously for the past 20 months?

They literally said this is what they were going to do.

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Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com · Jul 30

Logic leading to a dangerously large carveout for “Never Again.” www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com · Jul 4

He said the quiet part out loud.

John Podhoretz is either antisemitic or simply doesn’t care about antisemitism.

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Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com · Jun 26

Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com · Jun 18

I was one of the last analysts from a US thinktank to visit Iran and speak with Foreign Ministry officials and nuclear negotiators.

They were flexible on key issues and eager to reach a deal with Trump, if Trump could just take "yes" as an answer. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

America is sleepwalking into another unnecessary war | Eli Clifton and Eldar Mamedov

Here we are, on the brink of another Middle East conflict with Iran – one that was entirely preventable

www.theguardian.com

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Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com · Jun 17

“Iran has prepared missiles and other military equipment for strikes on U.S. bases in the Middle East should the United States join Israel’s war against the country, according to American officials who have reviewed intelligence reports.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/u...

Iran Is Preparing Missiles for Possible Retaliatory Strikes on U.S. Bases, Officials Say

www.nytimes.com

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Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com · Jun 16

The last public assessment by the U.S. intelligence community is that:

“Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme leader Khomeini has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003.”

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