{"id":9722,"date":"2024-06-16T13:42:58","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T17:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=9722"},"modified":"2024-06-16T13:42:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T17:42:58","slug":"is-the-ultra-zionist-censorship-group-the-southern-poverty-law-centre-purging-dissidents-in-it-ranks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=9722","title":{"rendered":"Is the Ultra-Zionist Censorship Group, the Southern Poverty Law Centre, Purging Dissidents in It Ranks?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Unz Review \u2022 An Alternative Media Selection<\/a>Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Collection of Interesting, Important, and Controversial Perspectives Largely Excluded from the American Mainstream Media<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The $PLC Massacre\u2014Purging Pro-Palestinians?<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Patrick Cleburne<\/strong> \u2022 Friday, June 14, 2024 \u2022 1,300 Words<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On June 12, in a shocking development, the Southern Poverty Law Center ($PLC to VDARE.com<\/a>) announced it was laying off 60 employees, one quarter of its staff, and, in an apparent change of direction, closing some entire operations. My inspection of its financial reports reveals no recent funding shortfall (unfortunately). So what is going on?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The $PLC has acquired a very articulate union, which posted a long and vitriolic denunciation thread on Twitter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Today, @splcenter<\/a> \u2013 an organization with nearly a billion dollars in reserves, given an F rating by CharityWatch for \u201choarding\u201d donations \u2013 gutted its staff by a quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 SPLC Union (@SPLCUnion) June 12, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Amongst the 13 follow-up posts were<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of this writing, Google News has picked up no reports of this event in the Regime Media. Their extreme interest in and reverence for the SPLC has been put on hold. No doubt they are waiting to be told the Party Line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neither has the SPLC deigned to put up a statement on its Press Center<\/a> website page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But members of the Dissident Right Media quickly took note. Perhaps the most informative discussion is MELTDOWN: SPLC Terminates a Quarter of Staff, \u2018Decimates\u2019 3 Departments, Union Claims<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>byTyler O\u2019Neil, The Daily Signal, <\/em>June 13, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"🚨\"BREAKING: The far-left smear factory Southern Poverty Law Center is laying off staff, according to its union. The move comes one week after SPLC smeared a record number of mainstream conservatives as “hate” and “antigovernment extremist” groups.\"‼️\"https:\/\/t.co\/buYLyxvxnR<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/rWZDsAUidM<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Tyler O’Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) June 13, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

O\u2019Neil has the advantage of having written Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center<\/em><\/a>. This book\u2019s Amazon accurately says<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Southern Poverty Law Center \u2026 has\u2026 contributed to a climate of fear and hostility in America. Hotels, web platforms, and credit card companies have blacklisted law-abiding Americans because the SPLC disagrees with their political views \u2026 Corporate America, Big Tech, government, and the media are wrong to take the SPLC\u2019s disingenuous tactics at face value.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I must admit this book flew under my radar screen. I plan to buy it: SPLC-watching is getting interesting again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O\u2019Neil\u2019s account brings one up to date on this curious organization. Among other tidbits<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the wake of the Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel, the SPLC remained silent. The SPLC Union released a statement<\/a> before the SPLC did, and the union expressed \u201csolidarity with the Palestinian people,\u201d condemning Israel for \u201cthe violent imperialist desecration of a people\u2014the beginnings of a genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026When the SPLC finally did release<\/a> a statement about the Oct. 7 attacks, it falsely accused Israel of targeting Palestinian children in Gaza for airstrikes. [Links in original]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This is highly significant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow<\/a> recounted in The Speech That Launched An SPLC \u201cHate\u201d Honor<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>VDARE.com was anathematized by the SPLC in early 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The impact was immediate. Despite there being in those days very few effective spokesmen for patriotic immigration reform, Regime Media inquiries abruptly stopped, as did major Talk Radio invitations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SPLC was thus allowed to determine the scope of debate. They have continuously abused this power to harm the Historic American Nation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2009, after an earlier effort<\/a>, I finally did a deep dive into the $SPLC\u2019s finances: Good News: SPLC loses $50 Million. Bad news: $PLC can afford it<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I found astonished me. Running huge surpluses from what Peter Brimelow called in his article cited above \u201ca shakedown scam that preys on the elderly, Holocaust-haunted rich,\u201d the SPLC had created for itself what it misleadingly calls an \u201cEndowment Fund.\u201d Normally in charities, this would mean a legally established capital fund from which only the income can be drawn. But the use of the SPLC\u2019s endowment is entirely at the whim of the Directors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, instead of being held in convenient liquid form, the great bulk of the assets of the \u201cEndowment Fund\u201d have been committed to hedge funds, private equity managers, and other strange instruments, generally illiquid and in some cases hard to value (like President Trump\u2019s real estate holdings<\/a>). As of October 31, 2023, 89.6% of the \u201cEndowment Fund\u201d was in this category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also discovered (I believe I was the first) that the SPLC has a Cayman Islands bank account. Why a tax-exempt foundation needs banking facilities in a tax haven continues to mystify me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turning to their most recent accounts, their Audited Financial Statements of October 31, 2023 and their IRS Form 990 of the same date, we find:<\/p>\n\n\n\n