The irony of the above is that it is really most unlikely that either Haviv Schieber or Chuck Fischbein had anything to do with either the SPOTLIGHT or its successor the American Free Press. nevertheless, being pranksters among other things, and enjoying a joke, they claim:

Through their association with Liberty Lobby, the now-defunct populist institution on Capitol Hill in Washington, AFP’s current writers and editors worked with a number of prominent Jewish critics of Zionism seeking an outlet for their point of view that was unavailable through the major media in the United States. Some of those big names included:

• Benjamin Freedman (now deceased), the wealthy American benefactor who was the driving force behind a number of important publishing ventures that challenged Zionist influence in America;
• Haviv Schieber (now deceased), the Polish-born former mayor of Beersheva, Israel, who later defected to the United States and emerged as an outspoken critic of Israel;
• Dr. Alfred M. Lilienthal, who, as far back as 1948, wrote a famous article for Reader’s Digest declaring, “Israel’s Flag Is Not Mine.”
• Famed civil libertarian attorney Mark Lane, best known for his best-selling works on the JFK assassination, such as Rush to Judgment and Plausible Denial;
• Former Jewish National Fund Executive Director Charles M. Fischbein, one of the highest ranking officials in the Zionist organizational community in America, who went public with inside tales of corruption and intrigue in the Israeli lobby.

he is a professor of literature at some US university and a member of the 'holocaust-history' (anti-revisionist) group. His essay "General Semantics and the Holocaust' is absolute rubbish: a classic example of trying to blind the reader with science.

http://www.holocaust-history.org/gen-semantics/gs.pdf

but I don't know much about the Jack Bernstein story...

maybe a brief primer on his alleged background, the gist of his alleged contributions and its relevance to our chronic problems (and their largely zionist origins) and so forth can help me (and other readers) decide on whether or not they believe (or care) that this person existed...

thnx as always for your interesting contributions...

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"Money" has no value - people do.

the Liberty Lobby (Willis Carto, Spotlight, Barnes Review, etc), like the John Birch Society, had a massive interest in painting absolutely everything that was un-American as communist, or 'Marxist'. This book, which is right there at the link I put in marked "Jack Bernstein Tribute site," is an attempt to convince readers that the reason zionism is so horrible is because it is a form of 'Marxism.'

I wanna know more about these two. I cannot quite believe they would have spent time writing for SPOTLIGHT.

Andrew Mathis says that "Nazi gas chambers" did exist, and Jack Bernstein didn't exist. Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus. Mathis is lying on both counts.

On his September 30, 2008 show [from 23:23], Mike Piper talks about the case of Andrew Mathis the "Jack Bernstein denier". Evidently Mathis is a convert to Judaism who describes himself as a "post-Zionist".

According to Piper, the original publication of Jack Bernstein's book was sponsored by Willis Carto, and there was a picture of Bernstein on the back. Piper says he knew a red-haired guy who smoked a pipe and often wore military fatigues, who called himself Jack Bernstein and claimed to be the author of the book.

Bernstein died of some unknown disease believed to have been picked up in the tropics, and Piper and some people at the Spotlight helped to put up some money to help bury Jack Bernstein, because he had no estate to speak of.

Piper says the final irony is that after Mark Weber and his handler Andrew Allen drove Liberty Lobby out of business, the staff had to clean the office out, and Piper had the job of cleaning out the small legal office. So he picked up a file of personal papers relating to the late Jack Bernstein. There were documents regarding his military service, possibly a birth certificate and a death certificate.

Unfortunately, Piper threw them out. He could not have predicted that Andrew Mathis the "post-Zionist" would be a "Jack Bernstein denier".

This is for the benefit of Rowan and others with an attention span better than a goldfish, who can't make head nor tail of these "feuds" that crop up now and again. I keep telling myself I won't get into any more of these discussions about intelligence operatives and disinfo agents; there are plenty of areas more worthy of research. But sometimes I'm "dragged kicking and screaming" into these threads after being called a "crypto-Zionist", etc, and eventually accused of being a "Zionist liar" or a "criminal charlatan", merely for showing how intel operatives pose as "truth seekers".

In the summer of 2006 it gradually became clear that Eric Hufschmid - whose half-sister Kathryn married Zionist billionaire Rupert Murdoch's son and heir apparent James in 2000 shortly before 9/11 - was a liability rather than an asset to the anti-Zionist and 9/11 truth movements. Hufschmid, along with Chris Bollyn, had been promoting a story in which Sam Danner had claimed to see a Global Hawk hit the Pentagon. It turned out that Danner was a liar and fantasist who had made up the tale because he hungered for "a bit of glory".

Incidentally, Tom Flocco reported that Barbara Olson had been arrested on the non-existent "Polish-Austrian border", and was soon recognised as a prime disinformation agent.

Meanwhile, Hufschmid had been making preposterous claims about people such as Ernst Zundel, Germar Rudolf, Fredrick Toben, David Irving and David Duke being either crypto-"Zionists" or "blackmail victims" of Zionists, who "allow themselves" to be arrested and jailed in order to help the Zionists.

In a delicious absurdity, Hufschmid suggested that Mike Piper, Mark Glenn, David Duke and others are behaving "as if they are part of a crime network" because they support each other, and went on to ask "so why shouldn't we assume they are part of a crime network?"

According to Hufschmid, "99% of the truth seekers are somehow connected to the criminal network". He claimed that outlets such as RBN and American Free Press were "Zionist controlled", that AFP had "censored" Chris Bollyn's work, and he posted a chart depicting a mix of suspect people, anti-Zionists, truth tellers and broadcasters (e.g. with John Stadtmiller in the center) as all part of a Zionist "criminal network".

When Hufschmid appeared on Stadtmiller's show and was confronted about his "criminal network" allegations, he was wholly unconvincing. His claims of "censored" Bollyn articles were also trounced when he went on Mike Piper's show. Clearly, Hufschmid had been tasked with sabotaging the 9/11 truth movements.

In August 2006 there was an incident at Bollyn's home in which police Tasered and arrested him. Initially it seemed that this was a straightforward case of state terrorising of a plucky researcher who had been digging into Israel's involvement in 9/11.

I got involved in a long debate about 9/11 in September / October 2006; my first post is numbered 66 at the following link.

http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=158547&Disp=All&#C132

I found that Bollyn's reports about molten steel and "seismic spikes" could not be substantiated, and were actually hindering the argument for WTC controlled demolition. He had misinterpreted the 10-second collapse time high amplitude seismic waves and the 50-second relatively low amplitude aftershocks as a sinister 2-second "spike" and the 10-second collapse respectively. The "seismic spikes" claim was readily refuted by Popular Mechanics (which debunked straw men but not the proven fact of controlled demolitions).

Bollyn would question various experts and witnesses such as Arthur Lerner-Lam and Mark Loizeaux, and proceed to misquote them in his reports. Since we only had Bollyn's word for what he was alleged to have been told, and his sources (e.g. Mark Loizeaux, Judy Chertoff, Debbie Simon) would simply deny his claims, his material was worse than useless in proving the case for WTC controlled demolitions and the role of Zionists as the primary perpetrators of 9/11. The fact that Bollyn had chosen to be interviewed by CNN in order that they could set him up as an "anti-Semite" - and when asked who did 9/11 replied, "I wish I knew" - did not help.

I found others also had problems with the reliability of Bollyn's reports. At Jim Hoffman's site, he explains how Bollyn's AFP report on the molten steel is suspect because (i) Bollyn's sources are not objective, reliable witnesses (ii) Bollyn and others have used this molten steel report to support the dubious theory that "basement bombs" destroyed the Towers. Fortunately Hoffman - who some no doubt would allege to be a "shill" - goes on to include other reports of molten steel. More reports of impossibly high temperatures are available here and here.

In October 2006 as I was finding Bollyn's reports to be unreliable, American Free Press fired him. The reason given was that Bollyn had on several occasions given credence to the ludicrous claim that AFP was "controlled by Zionists". Since he had lied about AFP, they felt they could not trust his reports and it would be uneconomical for them to have to employ someone to check his articles. Initially AFP had stood by Bollyn, published his articles about his brutal arrest, and paid him thousands of dollars towards his legal bills and even doctor's fees. AFP's Editorial Board even publishes a statement regarding the claims about "Zionist control":

We invite anyone with any concerns to visit our office in Washington to meet with us personally or to call us on the phone to find out for themselves just how baseless these charges really are.

Source

It then became evident to me that there were irreconcilable problems with Bollyn's account of a "Zionist conspiracy" by the ADL, DHS, Hoffman Estates police force, Mike Piper, Scott Makufka, Jewish prosecutors, Jewish judge(s), a jury, etc, to "get" him. For a start, Bollyn admitted that he called 911 to call the police out to his home (whilst he was at the liquor store). Hence, his action - which could not have been predicted by hypothetical conspirators - in the minutes leading up to the arrest was a prerequisite without which the arrest would not have occurred. And the fact that his daughter said, "Daddy, they might arrest you!" is further evidence that Bollyn had blatantly chosen to provoke the cops and escalate the confrontation - even before he said he was going to "get his reinforcements" and turned to go into his house. And even his wife testified that an officer had shown a badge.

Although Bollyn was convicted of misdemeanor aggravated assault and resisting arrest, the Jewish judge allowed him to "fly the coop" after stating that he wasn't considered a flight risk. Bollyn did not show up for sentencing, and fled to Europe.

Problems with Bollyn's account(s) of events were thoroughly debated, e.g. at this forum.

I then found out that Bollyn was married for a mere two years (1983-5) to Bosmat Merimsky - as reported February 6, 2001 in the (Chicago) Daily Herald - a woman who worked for Israeli military intelligence at Herzliya (as admitted by Bollyn himself) - n.b. the Odigo two hours' advance warnings originated from Herzliya - and who had wanted to marry an American so she could gain entry to and live in the US (in Santa Monica in fact, within a mile of a Chabad Lubavitch synagogue). And Bollyn bizarrely left his position at IBM Global Network Services and was brought to the Spotlight by Ashkenazi Jew Jerry Meyers in 2000, just as Israel's greatest false-flag to date was imminent. American Free Press hired a private investigator and found that Bollyn was receiving money from overseas and was being protected at the highest level.

So, I documented and published my findings e.g. here and here. Every now and then someone tries to "shoot the messenger" when they are dismayed to learn that there is more to their "anti-Zionist hero" than meets the eye. And yet this hero of theirs was mixed up with Eric Hufschmid, who alleges that people such as Ernst Zundel and Fredrick Toben are working for the Zionists, without a shred of evidence!

It is never possible to be sure whether those who cry "fraud" are merely disaffected, duped true believers who hate to be disavowed of their misconceptions, or Zionist agents themselves.

I rather think that the US far right would engage in historical fabrication, even without the inducements of the FBI.

Here's some interesting commentary by Mike Piper from his September 30, 2008 show. I hadn't been particularly following the "former TFC trio" intrigues for several months, and only came across it when looking up references to Jack Bernstein.

It's from 8:10 minutes into the audio, available from this page at RBN. (That's the same show I referred to above that covers the subject of Andrew Mathis [23:23] and Jack Bernstein [24:50].)

For those who just want to listen to the segment transcribed below I have extracted the 2:09 minutes clip and made available here.

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I hope some of you had a chance to tune in to the broadcast that I did with Daryl Bradford Smith over at iamthewitness.com. That broadcast of course was done on Saturday and was up on the website last time I looked. Incidentally, you know, before, it wasn't on the broadcast itself, but when Daryl and I had a chance to chat off the air, I told Daryl some things that I had never talked about on the air. Well, I should say I talked about it on the air but didn't name any names. Actually talked about it on this show one time without mentioning any names.

But needless to say I told Daryl that in fact I was referring to Christopher Bollyn, the famous Christopher Bollyn. And Daryl and I were comparing some notes on Bollyn, and we pretty much reached very similar conclusions about Bollyn and his, his background so to speak. But be that as it may, sometime on the air I will tell the stories in detail. Two or three rather eye-opening stories which indicate to me that Christopher Bollyn had targeted me personally a long, long time before he ever popped up in the American Free Press radar screen. That his whole approach to cosy up to me through advocating, publicly advocating for my book Final Judgment was part of a long-standing intelligence operation and since, since all of those events that have gone down, and looking at some of Bollyn's connections and some of his activities, I can understand now, you know, it's funny when you're in the midst of something you don't quite understand it or recognize all the details at work, but when you can step back and look at the big picture you understand it. Well, enough said about that reprehensible character Bollyn.

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the guys at Spotlight, far from being embarrassed at Andrew Mathis telling them that they invented the Jack Bernstein character, they go on to say, "no, he hung around the Spotlight offices (this is WILLIS CARTO's newspaper, remember) he hung around here with those two other drop-out jewish cats, you know, haviv schieber, the ex mayor of beersheba, and that other cat... "