Illegally occupied people of palestine. Palestine de classified as previously covered the zinish anglehold on the Music Industry and were looking at the talk again in todays show because weve uncovered more damming evidence. Ill be discussing this in detail with my studio guests and this exclusive report by the chief of chakra whos been looking at the impact on the Music Industry of one influential oligarch in particular. Who is the single most powerful person in the Music Industry today . Certainly a contender for the title would be sir lucian grange, the ceo of universal music group. In 2019 he was believed to earn more than 123 Million Pounds from the role. That was believed to be more than all uk songwriters put together in the same year. Grange was pictured happily next to carnier west, infamous picture of him donning the make America Great again, donald trump hat. While of west got significant backlash for wearing the hat, grange received zero scrutiny, however. Close inspection of grange and his family members reveals a political orientation. Universal ceo lucian grange was pictured in november 2016 a fundraizer for the Israeli Occupation forces in beverly hills, california. It is highly unlikely that a man of his prestige would attend such event without donating. Grange is very Close Friends with former israely soldier and prolific zinous lobbyist heim sayban. So much so that grange recently appoint. Saban as a director of universal music group. Over the years, haim saiban has raised hundreds of in millions for the Israeli Occupation forces and other Israel Lobby Groups too. Saib also funds the democrats and have been described as scripting u. S. President bidens policy on israel. Lucian grangers wife, caroline lewis, is a trustee of the lewis Family Charitable trust. The familys assets are held by the louis trust group which is controlled by an offshore Company Registered in the. Haven of the cayman islands. Trust has Property Holdings worth over 1 billion pound, including 13 hotels in the zinist entity. Through her role at the trust, the wife of lucian grange carolinas has funded the zinist federation, the mossard traine Community Security trust, the conservative party, the Islamophobic Henry Jackson society, and one of israels national institutions, the united jewish israel appeal. Universal music group has huge amount of cultural power. For the highest ranking figures in the company to have these political connections to the zionist entity should raise more than just eyebrows. As always were joined by our resident expert david miller. David is academic and a former professor at Bristol University and is now a nonresident Senior Research fellow at the center for islam and Global Affairs at istanbul zeam university. Hes also a codirector of the lobbying watch dog spinwatch and is a leading british scholarly critic of israel and im pleased to welcome back amar casmi whos joining us via skype of today. Amars an antiimperialist political activist and commentator. He previously worked on Jeremy Corbins 2016 Leadership Campaign and was a political advisor in my Parliamentary Office from 2017 to 2019. Welcome to the show. Am let me start with you. What can you tell us about some of the artists who released music with universal just so we can get an idea how large this Company Actually is . Uh well universal. Music group um is the Largest Music Company in the world, it was you know founded around 90 years ago and so it signed deals with some of the biggest Music Artists the world has ever known um today and in history and its acquired the rights to lots of music catalogues and there are names that many people will be familiar with, people like uh taylor swift, nass, kanye west, bob marley, the beatles, dr. Drey, so its a huge Multinational Corporation uh with a. Colossal stake in the global Music Industry, and so its a company with lot of power, money and influence. David, i mean, ill mention there some of the the major artists that have been signed by. Universal some of whom like were indeed political, i wonder whether you could just maybe set out list perhaps some of the all the political art artists have going to got a political agenda as it were that have been signed to this particular studio, well i would i would mention two which are i think relevant, so stormsy for example, famously procorbin artist and also dave, is also an artist whos been a leftwing voice, and these are people who whove put lot of. Effort into their politics and to channeling the resentment which the people in this country feel about the way in which wealth and power is distributed supporting corbin is a challenge to that wealth and power and so you you you see that there are leftwing artists uh funded you know signed to universal music where at the same time universal music is making huge profits from their work uh and the other problem of course is that theres a press by Large Companies like universal to push them away from more radical politics, especially in relation to the question of palestine, but not only in relation to the question of palestine, so theres a pressure towards a depoliticization, a pressure not to rock the boat on israel, palestine, and thats perhaps one of the biggest problems with this zionist influence in the media industry. Am, it was mentioned in report the wife of universal chief executive has actually funded the. Community security tust, i wonder whether you might just say a word to about the role of this organization, which is actually a registered charity, isnt it . Uh, yes, so looking greings wife, caroline is a trustee of the bellus Family Charitable trust, and uh, so it appears that through her role at the trust uh, mrs. Grange has assisted in funding the Community Security truster cst, and its basically an Israel Lobby Group in britain thats received training from the mosad, which. Is israels foreign intelligence agency, the cst also uh receives a huge amount of funding from the British Government uh, its a group thats been a forefront of efforts to redefine antisemitism, to conflate antizionism with antijewish prejudice and it consistently works to attack, censor and to character assassinate critics of the state of israel, and of course david, i mean, universal also the home of. Of dave renzer wasnt it . I mean, hes the guy who founded the Israel Lobby GroupCreative Community for peace. I wonder you could just say a word or two about him and that organization. So community for peace is a sort of front group, its a an organization which pretends that its there for the Music Industry to to foster peace and dialogue in israel, palestine, as they would call it, but actually its a direct front group for another organization and operates as a sort of trading arm and trading. Name of another organization which is called stand with us, which is based in the us, has a uk branch as well, which is almost entirely, at least is early years funded by the us office, and stand with us as an organization which was originally set up at the best and with the involvement of the Israeli Ministry of foreign affairs, surprise, so here we have an organization which is actually effectively instrument of the israeli regime, the is regime, which is involved in the Music Industry to try and put push artists towards saying something about israel, palestine, but definitely not to boycott uh going to israel, certainly not to sign up to bds, and also helps to encourage artists to play in israel, to help to legitimize uh zien cleansing in palestine, so you can see the way in which this works is that people high up in the industry are involved an Israel Government lobby group to try and divert artists from raising awkward questions about. The uh record of the science entity, i wonder what is precisely the link between dave renzer and and stand with us, well so well he set up um Creative Community for peace, yes i think i believe its the case that his wife is a director of of stand with us, so theres a very very close relationship there, but in any case Creative Community for peace is simply a front group for stand with us, right . Okay, well the uh the grange families also spondered the zianist federation and even funded the conservative party too, mean how do you think key corbin supporting artists like stormsay, david just referred to the assigned obviously to universal and and indeed closely associated to lucian green, mean how would they feel do you think to discover who this family is actually bankrolling . Well, i would hope that artists like stormsay, as david has mentioned of course was you, quite um close to Jeremy Corbin during the period of his leadership of the labor party and you know took a public stance against the government during um or sorry after the grandfeld disaster would be absolutely mortified by um you know grangers links and anyone with decent politics. Would be absolutely horrified by it, grange has extensive connections with the conservative party and conservative politicians uh when David Cameron was prime minister, grange was guest at checkers which is the prime ministers country house, grange was also a business ambassador under David Cameron, and he was actually very recently appointed to the British Governments newly revamped board of trade, so this is a person who has extensive links with the conservative party uh and so with various sionist organizations, right . Indeed. Well, david, i mean, what do you make of the fact that lucian grange attended a fundraiser for the Israeli Military, but back in 2016 . Well, this is an organization which we have referred to in this program before, the friends of the Israel Defense forces is its official name, of course we would not refer to it as them as being defense, rather to see them as occupation or offense forces, but this is huge organization in the states brings millions and millions of dollars every year which are channeled to the Israeli Military in you in contravention of all uh moral precepts never mind the law and so he was he was involved he was theres a shot a shot of him at this event back back then uh which appears to have be very very difficult to find on the internet now uh and that seems to have happened after we first reported upon this issue some months ago so so. This is an organization which is equivalent in the uk, the the uk version of its called the uk friends of the association for the wellbeing of israel soldiers, which obviously also sends money directly to the Israeli Military, and you you you see the way in which this this operates through, and you can you can track some of the funding of it uh through foundations in the us, and you can see some the funding flows and then the money it then pays out to the idf, but we dont have any record uh of grange paying money to to the friends of the idf, which presumably he has done, we dont know this, but presumably he has done, but theres theres no record of this, so this is another indication really of the the kind of opaque nature of the funding relations between zionist foundations, zionist business people, and organizations which directly support the crimes of the science entity, and briefly just got to put the old chest note to you that by you, highlighting this information that in some way this is antisemitic, i mean briefly do you want to. Well the these are organizations which are not Jewish Communal organizations any sense, these are directly prozionist pro idf, pro and indeed in some cases pro settlement organizations that that they money to. I would also point out that this Uh Foundation lucian greens wife is a director of a trustee of also gives money to his think tanks so theyre directly this is me effectively comes from artists making huge sums of money in the their arms which then goes to paid and benefits to likerage and perhaps that money then ends up funding racist organization like we think well well well just pause the discussion there for moment touch this report now about the American Music mogel. The other figure featured in the infamous kanye west marga hat controversy is leo cohan. Cohen described by most death now known as yasin bay as the tall israeli that runs rap currently. Sits as the global head of music at youtube, born in new york city to father by the name of alisha had been part of the hugne terrorist group, specifically as a part of the hurell brigade involved in the planned dalit campaign to ethnically cleanse palestine in 1948. As a child, leia kohen spent years living in the israeli settlement of kafar khaim, which was named after haim arlosoroff, who negotiated with the nazis in germany. As was the policy the Design Movement at the time. Elisha, the father of leo, was later employed as security at the israel consulte. At the same time, his mother ziva sarkas was assistant to the representative at the un, ababen. Leo displayed industrious attitude, a childhood friend refers to leos running of lemonade business in stock terms, leo became like a slave driver. When asked why he became so deeply involved. My mother went to work, and my black nanny, who shared a room with me, always sang me black songs. Leo is involved with the iconic hip hop label death jam, where he expelled Professor Griff from the political outfit public enemy. Among other things, Professor Griff expressed support for the palestinians. Through his work there, cohen became key figure at universal music, where he grew very close to jz, of whom he. Later remarked, i would have married him, the problem is hes a man. When edgar brontman jr. , the son of israel lobbys and nephew of the founder of birthright bought one. He asked kohen to work as his right hand man, while at warna cohen was reported to have blocked the album release of pro palestinian artist lupe fiasco. Cohen sits at the helm of the most viewed Video Service in the world and is very Close Friends with universal music heads lusion grange and khaim saiban who are personally invested in israeli settler colonialism in palestine. Within a year of coming being appointed to youtube israel group the anti Deformation League was selected to be a trusted flagger on the platform. Amar, what would you say to the people who say, well, whats the problem with the antiDeformation League being made a trusted flagger on youtube . Well, i mean, the adl is a deeply nefarious group, its an israel lobby organization, and its also a spy agency, you know, the adl has been spying on arabs in the United States since. Before the creation of the state of israel, it was caught in a spy scandal in the 1990s, which included spying on thousands of individuals, it was involved in selling intel to a partide south africas bureau of state security, and in the modern day, the adl works to viciously suppress all um public expression of propalestine speech and activity, it works not just against uh propalestine politicians, activists in the United States, which is probably. Most famous for, but it also collaborates extensively with social Media Companies to eliminate anything propalesine and to promote the state of israels global interests, but people are beginning, i think understand more about the adls influence and resisting it, the adl recently received a huge backlash for its attempts to influence x, which is formally known as twitter into removing content from the platform, but nevertheless the adl continues to exert huge amount of power in taking down online content under the guise of antisemitism, so the adl to be a trusted flagger for youtube, only gives it more power and makes it more effective in squashing propalestine content on that platform, and thats incredibly problematic and deeply troubling. Yes, indeed, of course, youtubes been in the news recently for demonetizing russell brand, but david, i wonder whether you might just sort of outline uh, what this shows experience has actually been with youtube as well, so the. Show has faced challenges from social Media Companies, we have uh, in the past, weve been labeled by twitter before e mas took over, indeed, as being iran state affiliated media, and your personal twitter account, my personal twitter account were um were labeled in that way, we were also of course um uh down rated through the algorithm and shadow band, that seems to have lifted at least to some extent uh since elon mosk has taken over, but on youtube things are uh considerably worse, so what happened on youtube was that the. Community security trust, the organization weve just been talking about, which is funded by lucian gridges wife through this uh islamophobic Uh Foundation uh took a complaint uh against us to youtube and youtube just removed the palestiine classified channel, not only that but and i didnt even discover this until later and the cst crowd about having had banned and sensored from from youtube as if this was something to be proud of, but not only that as i discovered later. The the the channel for spinwatch, the organization which im the codirector of have been since 2005 was removed without any communication with us and and simply uh vanished from from youtube. Now there wasnt really anything on there about palestine even so it was just a question of like guilt by association and so theres a real attempt to to make sure that youtube is controlled in the way that many other social Media Companies are controlled in in in particular in interest of of design is so facebook or meta instagram, tiktok, there are all similar kind of campaigns to to control control all of them, and and this show has suffered very directly as a result of that. No, no, i mean cst, seem to be saying pretty close to the window, in regards to Charity Commission rules in the way in which they they operate, well this is an organization which has uh itself, i mean, its the uk equivalent of the adl, yes, and and its since the beginning, its been a spy agency, it spies on, antis, it spies on proper. Studen activist it spires and the left, it compiles files on individuals. I asked for my file some eight or nine years ago now and there were over 100 pages i think from memory uh my file was quite small compared to someone i remember tony greensteins style file which he he asked for it went to hundreds of pages and went back to the 1970s so this is an organization which really shouldnt be a charity and the time will come when when complaints will have to be taken seriously about it absolutely well well mean why do you think uh escaped any criticism from the liberal commentariat after he appeared alongside kanye west supporting the maker America Great again cap. Well, i mean this is just a classic case of uh knowing what side uh your bread is buttered, you people like lucian grage and leo koin who supports causes are wellconnected, fantastically wealthy and have a great deal of influence as a result and so its very easy for people to go after kanye west and other black artists when theyre caught doing something uh sensibly problematic and you know theyre destroyed for it and then you have people like. Range and kohen bringing in millions of dollars year from music in many cases that promotes violence, drugs, prison to young people, and also have deeply nefarious personal connections without any scrutiny of their views or their actions and of course there are executives at these companies personally making hundreds and millions of dollars from bonuses from these albums, so there are people on the one hand with lots of money to does if people like kohen go under, and of course cohen is loyal executor uh of zionist interests, so i think thats really the bottom line for why hes not attacked and criticized. And david, i wonder whether you might just sort of uh tell us about the nonexecutive universal music, because of course hes very, very well known in the us as in israel lobbyist, i mean hes a huge funder of the Democratic Party and of the pro israel loby within the Democratic Party, he he created this. The key pro israel group in the us for many many years and he is central to to all of the kind of a um democrat related israel lobby activity in the us as we saw in the film there hes even been alleged by mondewice recently to have been uh scripting uh president bidens policy on israel so this is a man of of huge influence and hes now in this directorial role in universal music. Oh indeed, well, i mean, do you think that the dominance of the zinis lobby in the Music Industry actually deters artists from criticizing israel and speaking up for the Palestinian People . Um, i think its certainly the case that the israel always influence in the Music Industry has had incredibly crosive effects, not just from the perspective of freedom of expression, but also in terms of you, the cultural imperatives the lobby has tried to impose through. Just censoring certain artists, but as i think david was mentioning before earlier in the program, promoting other artists who are lobbied in many cases effectively to travel to and to perform in and to thereby legitimize the state of israel, and of course if youre a music artist to supports palestine, and you now if you go even further and youre v and criticizing the state of israel, then you face potentially if not definitely being suppressed, and that suppression happens in various ways, it could mean that youre not even signed by music label, it could mean that algorithms on youtube and on various streaming platforms work against you and so its difficult to promote your music because it just cant reach its audience, and it could also mean that youre just unable to access certain spaces because israel lobbiis are going to work continuously to have your shows cancelled and things like that, so these zionist actors in the Music Industry are not just quietly zionist, they dont just happen to be zionist, theyre there for a reason and they leverage the influence that they have to go after people who support palestinian liberation. Yeah, well, im afraid were going to have to leave it there for today, because some fortunately we run out of time, so id like to thank our guest, armar casmi, and of course our residence expert professor david miller. Thanks to your support, palestine declassified is reaching new people every week, so help us to continue growing our audience by sharing todays program on your social media platforms. You can also help us by following the show on facebook, twitter and telegram where we post regular clips and updates and remember. Palestini classified will be back next week with more forensic investigations and analysis, so until then this is Chris Williamson saying bye for now. It means jacket, this jacket, ready, im lemick here on press tv, and i want you to join me for cats and dogs, the heavy show that makes light worker serious politics, thats press tv, cats and dogs, lambodopic, dont miss it, as the berlin wall collapsed in 1989, so did the once great superpower of. 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