[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

[L`enn]

Did not Ford have an Arab-American as one of its big-wigs? If true, this fact was "somehow" left out.

[Zipporah]

The congressional investigation of tax exempt foundations in the 60s showed what these foundations were funding and that it was not in the best interest of the US.. too bad that Congress didn't act on those findings. But of course, the power they yield then and now is astounding.

[Imal]

Henry Ford passionately hated Jews and went to great lengths to make sure the world knew he did. As he told the New York World in 1920:

"The international financiers are behind all war. They are what is called the International Jew -- German Jews, French Jews, English Jews, American Jews. I believe that in all these countries except our own the Jewish financier is supreme... Here, the Jew is a threat."

Fearing that this important message might not have been expressed with sufficient zeal, Mr. Ford proceeded to explore the topic in vivid detail over the next two years (91 consecutive weeks, to be precise) in The Dearborn Independent, his personal newspaper distributed throughout the halls of the Ford Motor Company.

Drawing heavily upon such works as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Ford's tireless campaign against the "International Jew" ultimately was bound into volumes and enjoyed international popularity. In 1938, Henry Ford was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle (Grosskreuz des Deutschen Adlerordens) by Adolf Hitler for his valiant efforts and support of the Reich, the highest honor Nazi Germany could bestow on a foreigner.

Not surprisingly, subsequent generations of Ford's descendants sought to distance themselves from their patriarch's world-class anti-Semitism, but in the end, it seems the apple does not fall far from the tree.

[VU4G10]

The largest benefactor of Hispanic advocacy groups, the Ford Foundation seems determined to divide Americans along racial and ethnic lines.

In 1968, the Ford Foundation established two Hispanic advocacy groups: the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) and the Southwest Council of La Raza (later renamed the National Council of La Raza, or NCLR). Both were "creatures" of the Ford Foundation, say Linda Chavez and Jorge Amselle of the Center for Equal Opportunity. To this day both MALDEF and NCLR remain "dependent on annual grants from New York City and unrepresentative of Hispanic Americans."

Writing in a recent issue of Foundation Watch, a publication of the Capital Research Center, Chavez and Amselle argue that these two organizations "have played an enormous role in shaping public policy toward Hispanics, on everything from immigration to education to voting laws. In 1975," they observe, "MALDEF was instrumental in amending the 1965 Voting Rights Act to force jurisdictions with significant numbers of voters identified as Hispanic to receive voting materials in Spanish." MALDEF also "pushed through bilingual education programs and requirements across the country." On a grassroots level, however, Hispanic Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to bilingual ballots and education.

"Despite their ability to stage media events," say Chavez and Amselle, "MALDEF, NCLR, and other Hispanic advocacy organizations funded by the Ford Foundation are not directly accountable to the community whose interests they purport to represent. The Hispanic community does not elect the members, officers, or boards of these organizations, most of which pursue their objectives with little public scrutiny. Because they are not membership organizations dependent on individual contributions from the community at large, few Mexican Americans can name these groups. Their leaders are unknown despite their influence on public policy affecting Hispanics."

Hispanic advocacy groups like MALDEF and NCLR simply do not represent the average Hispanic American. "The Hispanic community does not control the funding of these groups and, most important, it has virtually no say in the agenda they choose to promote," say Chavez and Amselle. "The Ford Foundation and other grantmakers have freed these organizations from the need to be accountable to the communities they are supposed to represent. And they have created a cadre of ethnic power brokers, instead of identifying legitimate representatives from the Hispanic community."

Linda Chavez and Jorge Amselle charge that the objective of these advocacy groups is to transform Hispanics into "wards of government permanently entitled to public benefits because of their ethnicity. Most Hispanics, like other groups before them, would choose to become part of the mainstream. Instead, these groups speak of 'empowering' Hispanics by defining them as members of a protected class." According to Chavez and Amselle, "Only the lobbyists and activists who broker the policies of the welfare state benefit from such strategies."

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting this very important article about the phoney non profits.

When any so called non profit gets into funding political action, terrorism or support for terrorism and those who advocate terrorism, the organization should lose its non profit status.

That will stop these laundered money attacks against America and Israel in America and around the world.

[Grampa Dave]

Backhoe, fyi.

[dennisw]

This is a great story. I saw it today in my print edition WSJ. I would have posted it but don't get the WSJ on-line. I'll alert you when I see a great WSJ story.

[Tailgunner Joe]

bttt