MONDOWEISS
Baseball fans, don’t forget that the scene of tonight’s fifth game of the World Series was the site of a fundraiser for an American group supporting illegal settler zealots, the Hebron Fund, back in 2009. The Mets defended the fundraiser at the time with this email:
Citi Field hosts a wide range of events that reflect the diversity of our hometown and the differing views and opinions of New Yorkers. The beliefs of organizations holding events at Citi Field do not necessarily reflect those of the New York Mets.
The Hebron Fund and dozens of other tax-exempt nonprofit organizations raise funds in the United States and send them overseas to expand and develop the settlements in order to make a Palestinian state impossible. Washington Post columnist David Ignatius recently reported that “A search of IRS records identified 28 U.S. charitable groups that made a total of $33.4 million in tax-exempt contributions to settlements and related organizations between 2004 and 2007.” Although they do not meet the Internal Revenue Service’s criteria for tax exemption, they have nevertheless been awarded 501(c)(3) status, which means that their activities are subsidized by the American taxpayer.
On November 21, hundreds of supporters will pay $300 a plate to attend the Hebron Fund’s annual dinner at Citi Field, home of the New York Mets. Sitting in the Caesar’s Club above the field, the attendees will enjoy a reception, buffet, and Viennese table, and toast the evening’s main awardee, Noam Arnon, an outspoken supporter of settler terrorism. In 1990 Arnon praised the Jewish terrorists who killed three Palestinians, and planted bombs that maimed the mayors of two Palestinian cities, and has slandered Breaking the Silence, a group of Israeli soldiers that published Israeli soldiers’ narratives of violence and racism by Hebron’s settlers, calling it an organization of anti-Semites and supporters of Islamic terrorism.
Eleven peace and civil rights organizations, including the Arab-American and Jewish-American organizations that we represent, have asked the Mets to cancel the fundraiser,
The majority owner of the Mets, Fred Wilpon, is Jewish and was hurt in the Bernie Madoff scandal. Madoff was very supportive of Israel. I don’t know if Wilpon is an active Zionist. This writer at the Jewish Week implies that Wilpon is:
The Mets owner, Fred Wilpon, a Jewish guy, stood tall against the anti-Zionist pressure. The Hebron Fund had its dinner.
Thanks to Scott McConnell, a Yankees and Giants fan.
The NY Mets and the Hebron Fund
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