Anonymous ID: 5ef03d Oct. 19, 2020, 10 a.m. No.11153794   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>3866

Katz was born in Basra in Southern Iraq in 1963 to a wealthy Iraqi Jewish family.[1][4] After the Six-Day War and shortly after Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party seized power in Iraq in 1968, her father was arrested on charges of spying for Israel.[4] The family's property was confiscated by the state, and the rest of the family put under house arrest in a stone hut.[1][4] The following year, after having been tortured, Katz's father was convicted and executed in a public hanging in the central square of Baghdad, witnessed by more than half a million Iraqis; the government offered free transportation to people from the provinces, and belly dancers performed for the crowd.[1][4][5] Katz' mother managed to escape with her three children to Iran, from where they made their way to Israel.[4]

 

The family settled in the seaside town of Bat Yam.[4] While in Israel, Katz served in the Israeli Defense Forces and studied politics, history, and Middle Eastern studies at Tel Aviv University.[4] As a committed Zionist, Katz was reluctant to ever leave Israel, saying, "I believed that Jews belong in Israel".[6] Nevertheless, in 1997 Katz' husband was offered a research fellowship in endocrinology at the National Institutes of Health and they moved to Washington with their three children.[7] Katz has acknowledged that at this time she worked in violation of the provisions of her visa. This was disclosed whilst she was acting as a witness against a defendant accused amongst other things of visa fraud.[8]

 

She infiltrated

 

1998 Katz began working for a research institute called the Investigative Project, run by the former journalist Steven Emerson.[9][1] She worked there on counterterrorism investigations. During her first research project, she suspected that the Holy Land Foundation, a charity organization dedicated to supporting humanitarian programs primarily in the West Bank and Gaza, was a front group for Hamas. Wanting to examine it more closely, she attended a fundraiser of theirs dressed as a Muslim woman.[1] Soon thereafter, again disguised as a Muslim woman, wearing a burqa and wearing recording equipment, Katz began attending Islamic conferences and fundraisers, visiting mosques, and participating in pro-Palestinian rallies in the U.S. as an undercover investigator in order to expose links of American Islamic groups to foreign terrorist groups.[1][10]

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Katz

Anonymous ID: 5ef03d Oct. 19, 2020, 10:04 a.m. No.11153866   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

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In 2015, Katz described an apparent Australian online supporter of ISIS who used the online handle "Australi Witness" as holding a "prestige" position in online jihadi circles and as being "part of the hard core of a group of individuals who constantly look for targets for other people to attack". It later transpired that "Australi Witness" was an American (Joshua Ryne Goldberg), who was arrested by the FBI.[25]

 

โ†Goldberg is Jewish.[18][19][20] He lived with his parents in Orange Park, Florida, a suburb of Jacksonville.[21]