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Spielberg Uses Schindler’s List Money to Fund Anti-Israel Protests
Daniel Greenfield ^ | 1/4/2026 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 01/05/2026 5:56:31 AM PST by Salman

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The only thing more disgusting than the ugly spectacle, which had been timed around a Hamas famine propaganda campaign over the summer, was that one of the hate groups behind the anti-Israel protest, which ended in arrests, was funded by proceeds from Schindler’s List.

When Steven Spielberg created the Righteous Persons Foundation with some of the profits from Schindler’s List, he wanted to educate people about the Holocaust and build up Jewish life in America. “I could not accept any money from ‘Schindler’s List’ — if it even made any money. It was blood money, and needed to be put back into the Jewish community.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: antiisrael; danielgreenfield; greenfield; israel; lookwhohatesjews; ohmyhashem; schindlerslist; spielberg; stevenspielberg; sultanknish
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Once again. The left is a suicide cult, the Jewish left doubly so.
1 posted on 01/05/2026 5:56:31 AM PST by Salman
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To: Salman

Not sure how I’m supposed to care about antisemitism when prominent Jews support antisemitism.


2 posted on 01/05/2026 6:02:49 AM PST by brownsfan (We are already on the slippery slope.)
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To: Salman

No surprise! His ancestors should be turning over in their graves!


3 posted on 01/05/2026 6:04:43 AM PST by quilterdebbie (We will endeavor to persevere!)
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To: brownsfan
Not sure how I’m supposed to care about antisemitism when prominent Jews support antisemitism.

Jews who aren't Hollywood lefties are being used as human shields by them.

Do you care about anti-Americanism when prominent Americans support anti-Americanism?

4 posted on 01/05/2026 6:06:08 AM PST by Salman (Trump is good, but we need Pinochet. )
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To: Salman

“Do you care about anti-Americanism when prominent Americans support anti-Americanism?”

Good point. It just seems like Jews are self destructive. Look at the Jews who voted for Mamdani.


5 posted on 01/05/2026 6:07:45 AM PST by brownsfan (We are already on the slippery slope.)
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To: Salman

Thanks for posting.


6 posted on 01/05/2026 6:11:35 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Salman

Zionist Jews, Anti-Zionist Jews.

Maybe we can take a break from and talk about the Holodomor. Where are the movies? Where is the museum? Where is the “education?”


7 posted on 01/05/2026 6:37:51 AM PST by ChessExpert (Infidels of the world unite against the evil that is Islam.)
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To: Salman

The perfidy of the left never ceases to amaze. It’s almost like they’re engaged in an active competition for a “Satan’s most evil agent on earth” prize.


8 posted on 01/05/2026 6:49:16 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: faithhopecharity

Used his people to make money against anti semitism and now he promotes it. It’s funny how Hollywood will make us believe the Holocaust was the only genocide in history.


9 posted on 01/05/2026 7:27:15 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Salman; 100American; 21twelve; 2nd amendment mama; A Conservative Thinker; Absolutely Nobama; ...
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam and leftism.

After Oct 7, David Schaecter, a 94-year-old survivor with the Holocaust Survivors Foundation wrote an open letter to Spielberg pleading, “I along with countless other survivors, are so heartbroken that, since Oct. 7, 2023, you have not spoken out and publicly taken a stand against terrorism, against Hamas and the millions who celebrate the shedding of Jewish blood — and want more.”
David Schaecter passed away in September 2025 without ever getting an answer. Meanwhile the anti-Israel hate groups funded by Spielberg’s foundation continue to demonize Israel.

It is a long article but very well worth your time.

Ping out to the Daniel Greenfield Ping! list.

As always, please FReepmail me if you want on or off the esteemed Daniel Greenfield ping list.

Daniel Greenfield's website: The Sultan Knish blog

10 posted on 01/05/2026 7:30:58 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: brownsfan
Spielberg Uses Schindler’s List Money...

He kept it in a separate account, away from all of his OTHER money?

11 posted on 01/05/2026 7:37:48 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: texas booster
ME: I found this floating around. anti-Israel hate groups funded by Spielberg’s foundation continue to demonize Israel. How about some detail?

COPILOT: Below is a fact‑based, citation‑grounded breakdown of what your search results actually show about the claim that “anti‑Israel hate groups funded by Spielberg’s foundation continue to demonize Israel.”

Everything here is taken directly from the three articles returned in the search results — The New York Sun and JFeed.

Summary

The articles you found report that Steven Spielberg’s Righteous Persons Foundation has recently funded several progressive Jewish organizations that are sharply critical of Israel’s actions in Gaza. These outlets describe those groups as “anti‑Israel,” but the foundation itself frames the grants as supporting Jewish social‑justice causes. The reporting is critical commentary, not evidence of Spielberg personally endorsing anti‑Israel positions.

📌 What the articles actually say (with citations)

🎬 1. The foundation in question

  • Spielberg created the Righteous Persons Foundation in 1995 using profits from Schindler’s List.

  • He donated $100–150 million to launch it.

  • The foundation originally focused on Holocaust remembrance and strengthening Jewish life.

🏛️ 2. What the criticism is about

The New York Sun and JFeed articles claim the foundation now funds Jewish progressive groups that:

  • oppose Israeli military actions in Gaza

  • accuse Israel of war crimes

  • support ceasefire movements

  • promote social‑justice activism that includes criticism of Israel

These two outlets describe such groups as “anti‑Israel” or “antagonistic to the Jewish state”.

🧾 3. Which groups are mentioned?

The articles do not list every organization by name, but they describe them as:

  • “social justice organizations that vilify Israel”

  • “progressive groups that vilify Israel and propagate falsehoods about the Gaza war”

  • “groups antagonistic to the Jewish state”

  • “Jewish organizations that sharply oppose Israel and have accused it of war crimes”

These are editorial characterizations by the publications, not neutral descriptions.

🧭 4. What the articles do not claim

None of the sources say:

  • Spielberg personally supports anti‑Israel activism

  • The foundation funds violent groups

  • The foundation funds designated hate groups

  • The foundation funds anti‑Jewish organizations

The criticism is specifically about Jewish progressive groups whose political positions on Israel differ from the publications’ own stance.

🧩 5. Why this is being discussed now

According to the articles:

  • The Gaza war has intensified scrutiny of Jewish organizations that criticize Israel.

  • Some donors and commentators argue that funding such groups is inappropriate for a foundation created with Holocaust‑related money.

  • The New York Sun frames this as a “scandal” or “shonda” (a shame).

Again, this is editorial framing, not a legal or factual finding.

🧭 How to interpret this

The claim you saw floating around is not a neutral fact — it’s a political interpretation coming from opinion‑leaning outlets.

What is factual:

  • Spielberg’s foundation does fund progressive Jewish groups.

  • Some of those groups are critical of Israeli government policy.

  • Certain commentators describe those groups as anti‑Israel or demonizing Israel.

  • That language reflects their viewpoint, not an objective classification.

📚 Sources

  • The New York Sun reporting on Spielberg’s foundation funding groups critical of Israel

  • JFeed summary of the same issue


12 posted on 01/05/2026 7:45:41 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Salman

That man has become a billionaire off the gullibility of the human mind.

Mid-november 1971, corn and soybean harvest was over, and aside from fall plowing, us kids were actually done with after-school farm work by 6 pm. One night after supper the gamily was in the living room, Dad reading the paper, and on comes the tv movie (later a feature film at the theater) “Duel”, about a maniac truck driver trying to use his truck to kill a timid salesman innocently driving his car in the rural southwest USA.

I was 17 and, already quite accustomed to driving heavily loaded straight trucks as well as cars and pickups, thought parts of the film were just stupid, especially the premise that a loaded tanker semi could keep up with a car (with only one person in it), on curvy mountainous road. My dad found the supposedly serious dramatic film absolutely absurd.

Then, 4 years later, I took a date to see “Jaws”. My date promptly got the giggles (pepsi did that to her). Again an absurd premise: a man-eating shark that outsmarts men; but at the end acts like a WW2 destroyer ramming a surfaced sub. The first encounter of the hunt could have been over with a few guys pumping 30.06 lead into its head as soon as it surfaced for bait.

The consumer public has made these hollywood moguls rich because we accept believing in fantasies.


13 posted on 01/05/2026 7:50:18 AM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

it appears that he venerates mammon more than anything else


14 posted on 01/05/2026 8:08:16 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Zuriel

Your analysis should be posted on IMDB. Just to jolt the writers on that site into reality.


15 posted on 01/05/2026 8:11:49 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: texas booster; Fred Nerks

Spielberg is a Vichy Jew....like the one’s in France who were “high class” Jews who turned their lesser privileged neighbours in to the Gestapo during the occupation of Paris, not thinking that the Nazis would eventually come for them. Its the same here with Spielberg. The jihadis will eventually come for him.

The Vichy Jew Spielberg would have his throat cut as quickly as any other in Mogadishu. How does he NOT know that? That’s a damned good question.Maybe he needs a visit to Yemen or some such.

The Vichy Jews...waving the white surrender flag to Islamists.One has to laugh at them all.

They are proof that G_d truly has a sense of humor,or else he would destroy them.


16 posted on 01/05/2026 8:12:16 AM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>) )
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To: Salman
Spielberg has said that he encountered anti-semitism as a child growing up in New Jersey. Some boys at his school said bad things about Jews.

I'm sure that like many liberal Jews, Spielberg sees anti-Semitism as a white thing. Something the results from "white supremacy."

In his eyes, Jews and POCs (people of color) are both "oppressed groups," oppressed by "white supremacy." And so POCs can't be anti-Semitic.

17 posted on 01/05/2026 8:28:53 AM PST by Angelino97
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To: Salman; brownsfan

“Not sure how I’m supposed to care about antisemitism when prominent Jews support antisemitism.
Jews who aren’t Hollywood lefties are being used as human shields by them.

Do you care about anti-Americanism when prominent Americans support anti-Americanism?”
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This, in spades. In case you had not noticed, Brownsfan, elites, generally do not speak for the common people, and much more often speak and act 100% against the interests of the average person in the group to which they belong (usually by accident of birth - because they certainly don’t choose to belong to a group of people who whom they despise).

Condemn the elites, whether Jewish or not, as you see fit - they usually deserve it. But please don’t act as if the common people in there group are not affected badly by something that these elites promote out of naked self interest (and not a little bit of stupidity).


18 posted on 01/05/2026 9:03:18 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Zuriel

I was about to write that you probably don’t believe in Jedi Mind Tricks either. :)

Then it occurred to me that a Hollywood movie can be a Jedi mind trick.


19 posted on 01/05/2026 9:03:29 AM PST by ChessExpert (Infidels of the world unite against the evil that is Islam.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“It’s funny how Hollywood will make us believe the Holocaust was the only genocide in history.”

That bothers me too. Before the Holocaust, there was the Holodomor, which resulted in a similar number of government murders. Turkish murders of Armenians also preceded the Holocaust. Government murders in China followed the Holocaust. Muslims murdering infidels in Africa continues, but I have no sense of scale.

The murder and mistreatment of Jews in history is a sad tale. To Jews, it is unique. It’s no more unique than the other cases that I mentioned.

For what it’s worth, Walter Duranty was not Jewish. I have not delved into ownership and editors of the New York Times.

I think the case can be made that honest reporting on the Holodomor by Walter Duranty, the NYT and the rest of the follow along MSM, would have prevented the Holocaust from ever happening. Protecting Uncle Joe and communism emboldened another mass murderer, Hitler. Talk about your unintended consequences!

Honesty really is the best policy.


20 posted on 01/05/2026 9:19:26 AM PST by ChessExpert (Infidels of the world unite against the evil that is Islam.)
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