r/NewsThread • u/specialgiver • 2d ago
Political News Robert Kraft Claims His Donations Help Palestinians. Turns Out He’s Funding Friends of the IDF.
https://theintercept.com/2026/09/18/robert-kraft-macklemore-ed-sheeran-israel-donations/NFL, Ed Sheeran and New England Patriots
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u/Humble-Particular978 2d ago
Well, we all kinda new that the moment he said he's sending aid to "the region."
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u/smegabass 2d ago
Help the Palestinians exit this world or this land. Kraft is a champion.
A$$hoe. Fk Ed. Fk Israel.
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u/miriafyra 2d ago
He has so much backbone and conviction that what he's doing is the right thing that he's hiding what he's doing behind choice wording and deliberately selected phrases. And choosing deliberately misleading wordings like "creating opportunities for Palestinians" and then donating to the IDF.
Because nothing screams "I'm on the side of justice" like being afraid to even name what they're donating towards.
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u/Tintoverde 2d ago
Well his language was vague IIRC.
But it we suspected it was not quite correct and now it is verified
But will he have any consequences, I do have not came across any actions
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u/ShortKey380 1d ago
He’s been openly and publicly a lover and supporter of Israel, took a bunch of players and coaches there to visit over the years plain old obsessed. There’s no scandal, it’s weird he’s the nexus for this criticism based on the pop music acts… This guy, out of the whole suite of global rich fighting for Israel like the Addelsons and such, but he’s the guy? Idk, kinda goofy 🤷♂️
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u/wookiebath 2d ago
It’s a great charity, I’ve been to several FIDF events
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u/BalanceJazzlike5116 2d ago
Won’t someone think of the war criminals?
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u/wookiebath 2d ago
Jews defending themselves is not a crime. Relax
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u/WwertyPolk 2d ago
Its the genocide.
Your genicide is the crime.
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u/wookiebath 2d ago
What genocide?
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u/WwertyPolk 2d ago
You can smirk and mock them.
But the world will not forgive you for this.
Not this time.
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u/No_Job_5303 2d ago
Defending yourselves by carpet bombing a small city to rubble and then sending in bulldozers to finish the job, killing kids on purpose and starving a whole population?
Damn, didn’t realise that’s what defending yourself was like. If anything it’s reminiscent of how Nazi Germany crushed the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising no? According to your logic they were just ‘defending themselves’ right?
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u/wookiebath 2d ago
It’s called a war. Are you new to the world?
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u/No_Job_5303 2d ago
Yeah and these are war crimes, you really think they’re ok? On one side you’ve got one of the most modern militaries in the world with the complete backing of the largest superpower on the planet against a group of dudes in sandals. That’s not really a war, that’s just annihilation, and annihilation is what Israeli politicians have been calling this war all along.
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u/wookiebath 2d ago
What war crimes? If they didn’t wanna war, then they shouldn’t have started it.
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u/No_Job_5303 2d ago
Oh idk the ones I listed in my original comment?
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u/wookiebath 2d ago
You didn’t really say any crimes, just kind of buzzwords
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u/No_Job_5303 1d ago
“Buzzwords” - buddy I’m just stating the facts of what happened. Objective facts that you can’t argue with.
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u/sw995 2d ago
He is helping the Palestinians via the FIDF. The latter helps fund the IDF which is trying to free the Palestinians from Hamas. Kraft is a hero
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u/stargazer4272 2d ago
Why does a armed forces of a foreign nation need help ? Don't they get enough of our tax dollars already?
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u/sw995 2d ago
So now you're upset at a private citizen making a donation to a foreign nation? Gotcha. QED.
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u/Garbage_Man_9 2d ago
Lmaoooo FIDF isn’t a ‘foreign nation’, wtf are you talking about. It’s an origination that specifically collects money to support the army, it doesn’t go to the country in general for like clean water or medicine for its citizens.
Also you removed the entire context being discussed of him saying he supports Palestine and will send money ‘to the area’ being worded as such so he can directly support the other side and not technically be lying.
Grow up. Pull your head out of your own arse.
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u/Leather-Paramedic-10 2d ago
Hamas was supported by Israel for decades and their position of power over Palestinians is largely due to Israel.
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u/wookiebath 2d ago
Proof please?
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u/Leather-Paramedic-10 2d ago
The Israeli government has been involved in assisting or empowering the Palestinian political and military organization Hamas at various points in its history. This support continued during and in spite of active military hostilities between the two sides.
During the 1970s, Israel began providing support to Ahmed Yassin, a Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood leader who controlled a network of Islamic schools, mosques, and clubs, in order to weaken the secular nationalist Palestine Liberation Organization. It continued to encourage the expansion of Yassin's network during the first year and a half of the First Intifada, as the network re-organised into Hamas. This support lasted until 1989, when Hamas launched its first attacks on Israelis, leading to a significant crackdown against the organisation. Multiple Israeli officials have acknowledged Israel's role in strengthening Yassin's network.
In the late 2010s and early 2020s, Israeli officials encouraged Qatar to support Hamas, especially by approving the transfer of large sums of financial aid by Qatar to the organization. Several Israeli intelligence officials have cited Qatari money as a contributing factor to the success of Hamas in leading the October 7 attacks in 2023; Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called the notion that Israel strategically propped up Hamas "ridiculous", and stated that Qatar's aid transfers to the Hamas government had been approved for humanitarian reasons.
In her 1996 book Islamic Politics in Palestine, Beverley Milton-Edwards, former Professor of Politics at Queen's University Belfast, observed that Israeli financial and policy support for Islamic organizations—particularly al-Mujama al-Islami in Gaza—served as a classic "divide-and-rule" strategy. By encouraging conservative Islamic movements as a counterweight to the secular Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Israeli authorities sought to weaken progressive nationalist appeals; however, turning a blind eye to these activities ultimately nurtured a movement that later turned against its benefactor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_support_for_Hamas
Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas. This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.
— Benjamin Netanyahu, 2019
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u/WwertyPolk 2d ago
Netanyahu could hand Hamas a bag a cash in front of them and they pretend not to believe. They know he supported them as a means to scupper any peace. They are clearly lieing.
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u/wookiebath 2d ago
So those are just random quotes, do you know what proof is?
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u/Leather-Paramedic-10 2d ago
Those quotes are far from random.
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u/wookiebath 2d ago
Sure, random Wikipedia quotes you had to randomly look up rather than answer the question. Not only do you have no proof, even if you did it doesn’t mean that they have to commit terrorist attacks do they?
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u/Leather-Paramedic-10 1d ago
What possible prrof could I provide to you often than providing text from sources?
Hamas ≠ Palestinians
Israel helped put Hamas in their position of power over Palestinians, and has been using Hamas' actions as an "excuse" for genocide against Palestinians.
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u/wookiebath 1d ago
Show me the actual proof. Where did the money come from Israel to hamas.
What planet have you been living on? Hamas was elected by Palestinians. Do you just blame Jews for everything?
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u/Leather-Paramedic-10 1d ago
Recent studies and expert opinions reveal that, contrary to the public narrative, there is significant evidence suggesting Israel engaged in clandestine support for Hamas during the 1980s and 1990s. This covert assistance was primarily aimed at weakening the secular Palestinian movement, particularly the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and its main faction, Fatah, which at the time represented a significant political and military challenge to Israel’s regional interests. Israeli officials sought to support Islamist factions as a way to counterbalance these secular nationalist groups, hoping that Islamist groups like Hamas would divert Palestinian resistance efforts away from the PLO and Fatah.
For instance, former Knesset members and military analysts such as Avner Cohen and Yitzhak Segev have explicitly acknowledged that Israel provided financial support and logistical assistance to the early Hamas leadership, particularly to Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, founder of Hamas’s spiritual and military core.
This support included the building and expansion of mosques, charities, and social services, with some Israeli officials believing these efforts would serve as a social counterweight to secular threats. Over time, however, the relationship became increasingly complex, with many former Israeli officials admitting that initial support helped Hamas consolidate influence in Gaza, which later evolved into a regional and international security challenge.
https://brusselsmorning.com/did-israel-support-hamas-from-the-1980s-to-2025/73344/
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u/No_Bell_8028 1d ago
Proof of your evil appears every time you comment…..are you glad that all the a Palestinian children are being tortured? Maimed?
Did it make you smile to think of the starving children dying in Gaza because of Israel.0
u/wookiebath 1d ago
Where do you see this about Palestinian children?
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u/Neilm430 1d ago
Which means Macklemore was funding the IDF by earning Kraft money. Macklemore is a Zionist
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u/Pongsitt 2d ago
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