Trump Administration Targets Americans Opposed to Zionism
The US regime is declaring war on the First Amendment to silence anti-war dissidents and critics of Israel by labeling them foreign agents, just like they did with Russiagate and the McCarthy era
Gabrielle Cuccia, a MAGA influencer and former chief Pentagon correspondent for One America News (OAN), was hired earlier this year to write a script for Vine & Fig Tree Institute (VFT), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization “that combats antisemitism and hate.” The image of “vine and fig tree” is mentioned several times in the Old Testament. References appear in Kings, Micha, and Isaiah.
“VFT is a pro-Israel organization with ties to the administration,” Cuccia posted to X on May 22. “Earlier this year, VFT was at the White House meeting with Sebastian Gorka.”
Shortly after that White House meeting, I was contacted through a third party and asked to script-write for VFT. The individual who contacted me is publicly very Christian and widely perceived as America First. I was told the script would be used to create an AI-generated video on behalf of the White House, specifically for NSC and Sebastian Gorka.
Zettawire characterizes VFT as a “pro-Israel nonprofit… [that has] conducted domestic surveillance on conservative voices from inside the White House, using AI propaganda.”
An investigative report alleges that pro-Israel nonprofit Vine & Fig Tree (VFT) runs a domestic surveillance and propaganda campaign targeting America First conservatives from inside the White House, using AI media and data operations, and that VFT recently met with NSC counterterror director Sebastian Gorka.
Gorka, as I pointed out in an earlier post, is deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism. He said speech critical of the White House and Israel may be considered “incitement of violence under government standards” and linked to Iran and Russia.
Cuccia was told VFT worked covertly with the Trump administration and was provided with a link to a Dropbox account. “Inside the Dropbox were 7 folders,” she writes. “Through those documents, I learned more about what this organization actually does. Their reports monitor major conservative and ‘dissident-right’ accounts and frequently frame those accounts as vulnerable to, or participating in, foreign influence operations.”
The reports contain information on Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Ian Carroll, Jackson Hinkle, Dan Bilzerian, Mario Nawfal, Joe Kent, and others. “In another report, they argue that distrust surrounding Charlie Kirk’s assassination was mostly due to Americans falling for Russian, Iranian, and Pakistani propaganda networks” Cuccia writes. ‘In another report, they argue that distrust surrounding Charlie Kirk’s assassination was mostly due to Americans falling for Russian, Iranian, and Pakistani propaganda networks.”
VFT suggested collaboration with NCRI, a multi-million dollar organization that tracks ‘hate speech’ on social media. NCRI, the Network Contagion Research Institute, founded by Joel Finkelstein, focuses on hate groups, disinformation, and misinformation on social media platforms. Finkelstein is a former researcher at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). In addition to reports on political “dissemination of disinformation” supposedly produced by Iran, Russia, and China, NCRI reported on “anarch-socialist extremists,” antifa, “Jihadi extremism,” “martyr narratives,” and “lone wolf terror attacks.”
The Institute receives funding from the Open Society Foundations of George Soros and the conservative Charles Koch Foundation. In 2021, the NCRI was paid $335,000 by the anti-BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) Israel on Campus Coalition (funded in part by Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life), which conducts self-described “psychological warfare” on pro-BDS students using Blend AI, a service that manages online ad campaigns. In addition, the Israeli Eran Teboul stated that his anti-BDS organization, Hetz for Israel, has privately raised funds for NCRI. Hetz for Israel bills itself as a “non-profit public organization in the field of Israel relations” and describes its mission as connecting NGOs, activists, corporations, and officials to fight anti-Semitism and advocate for Israel.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/government-corruption/trump-administration-targets-americans-opposed-to-zionism