Solidarity with the illegally occupied people of palestine. Palestine declassified as previously covered the zinust stranglehold on the Music Industry, and were looking at the topic again in todays show because weve uncovered more damming evidence. Ill be discussing this in detail with my studio guests after this exclusive report by latifa abus been looking at the impact on the Music Industry of one influential oligarch in particular. Who is the single most powerful of 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 have earned more than 123 Million Pounds from the role. That was believed to be more than all uk song writers put together in the same year. Grange was pictured happily next to carnier west in the infamous picture of him donning the make America Great again, donald trump hat. While west got significant backlash for wearing the hat,. Grange received zero scrutiny, however, close inspection of grange and his family members of 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 of israeli soldier and prolific zinous lobbist. Saiban, so much so that grange recently appointed seban as a director of Universal Music Group. Over the years, haim saiban has raised hundreds of millions for the israeli of Occupation Forces and other Israel Lobby Groups too. Saiban also funds the democrats and has been described as scripting u. S. President bidens policy on israel. Lucian grangers wife, Caroline Lewis, is a trustee of the Bernard LewisFamily Charitable trust. The familys assets are. Held by the lewis trust group, which is controlled by an offshore Company Registered in the tax haveen of the cayman islands. The trust has property a Holdings Worth over 1 billion pound, including 13 hotels and the zinist entity. Through her role at the trust, the wife of lucian grange, Caroline Lewis has funded the Zionist 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 lobby and watch dog of spinwatch and is a leading british scholarly critic of israel, and im pleased to welcome back amar casmi, whos joining us via skype 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. Amar, let me start with you. What can you tell us about some of the artists whove released music with universal just so we can get an. Idea of how large this Company Actually is uh well Universal Music Group um is the Largest Music Company in the world it was founded around 90 years ago and so it sign 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 nas 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 uh, the major artists that have been signed by universal, some of whom like bob marley were indeed political, but i wonder whether you could just maybe set out, list, perhaps some of the other political artists have going to go got a political agenda as it where 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 uh artist and also dave, is also an artist whos been a leftwing voice, and then 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 coburn as a challenge to that wealth and power, and so you you you see that there are uh leftwing artists uh funded you know signed to universal music where at the same time universal music is make taking huge profits from their work, and and the other problem of course is that theres a pressure by Large Companies like universal to push them away from more radical politics, especially in relation to uh the question of palestine, but not only in relation to the question of palestine, so its about 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 scientist influence in the media industry. Amar, it was mentioned in latifas report that the wife of universals chief executive has actually funded the Community Security tust. I want, i wonder whether you might just say a word or two about the role of this organization, which is actually a registered charity, isnt it . Uh, yes, so lucing granges wife, caroline is a trustee of the berne louis 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 trust, 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 receives a huge amount of funding from the british government, uh, its a group thats been at the 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, you, universal was also the home of of dave renzer, wasnt it . I mean, hes the guy who who founded the Israel Lobby Group, but Creative Community for peace, i wonder you could just say a word or two about about him and that organization, so Creative Community for peace is a sort of front group, its an organization which pretends that its there for the Music Industry to to foster peace. 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 in its early years funded by the us office, and stand with us as an organization which was originally set up at the behest and with the involvement of the Israeli Ministry of. Affairs, surprise, so here we have an organization which is actually effectively instrument of the Israeli Regime with this regime and which is involved in the Music Industry to try and push artits towards saying something about israel, palestine, but definitely not to boycott uh going to israel, certainly not to sign up to bds, and also it helps to encourage artists to play in israel to to help to legitimize uh zion is definite cleansing. Palestine, so you can see the the way in which this works is that people high up in the Music Industry are involved in 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 the link between dave renzer and and stand with us . Well so will he set up um Creative Community for peace, i think i believe its the case that. 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 Zionist Federation and have even funded the conservative party too, mean how do you think key corbin supporting artists like stormsay, david just referred to the assigned obviously too universal and and indeed closely associated to lucian grange, i 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. The labor party uh 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 you know grange has extensive connections with the conservative party and conservative politicians uh when David Cameron was Prime Minister uh grange was a guest at checkers which is the Prime Ministers Country House uh grange is also a business ambassador uh 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 also with various scientis organizations right indeed well david i mean what do you make of the fact that lucian grange attended a fundraizer 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 in millions and millions of dollars every year, which are channeled to the Israeli Military, in contravention of all uh moral precepts, never mind the law, and so hes was he was involved, he was theres a shot a shot of him at this event back back then uh which appears to 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 its 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 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 of 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 and so this is another indication really 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 zionist entity, and briefly just got to put the the old chest note to you, that by you highlighting this information that in some way this is antisemitic, mean how briefly do you respond to that . Well the these are organizations which are not Jewish Communal organizations in any sense, these are directly prozionists, pro idf, pro and indeed some in some cases pro settle. Organizations that that they give money to, i would also point out uh that this uh Uh Foundation which uh lucian grangers wife is director of a trustee of also gives money to his lamophobic thing tanks so you theyre directly this is money effectively which comes from black artists making huge sums of money on the their albums much of which then goes to to be paid in benefits to people like loonge and perhaps that money then ends up funding racist organizations like the islam of think. Well well well well just pause the discussion there for moment to to watch this report now about the American Music mogel. The other figure featured in the infamous karnye west marga hat controversy is lea kohan. Cohen described by mos deaf, 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 the hagane terrorist group, specifically as a part of the hurell brigade involved in the planned dalit campaign to ethnically cleansed palestine in 1948. As a child, leia kohen spent years living in the israeli settlement of kafar khaim, which was named after haim arlaserof who negotiated with the nazis in germany, as was the policy of the Zionist Movement at the time. Elisha, the father of leo, was later employed as security at the israeli consulat. At the same time his mother ziva sarkas was assistant to the israeli representative at the un, ababer eben. 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 in hip hop, cohen said, my mother went to work, and my black nanny, who shared a room with me. Always sang me black songs. Leo was 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 brontmann jr. , the son of israel lobbyst, and nephew of the founder of birthright, bought a music, he asked kohen to work as his righthand man, while at warna, kohen was reported to have. Blocked the album release of propalestinian artist lupe fiasco. Cohen sits at the helm of the most viewed Video Service in the world and his very Close Friends with universal music heads lucian grange and chime saban who are personally invested in israeli settler colonialism in palestine. Within a year of coming being appointed to youtube, Israel Lobby Group, the antideformation 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 deeply nefarrious group, its an israel lobby organization, and its also spy agency, the adl has been spying on arabs in the United States since before the creation the state of israel, it was caught in a spy scandal. 1990s uh 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, you adl works to viciously suppress all um public expression of propalestine speech and activity. It works not just against uh propalestine politicias and activists in the United States, which is probably most famous for, but it also collaborates extensively. With social Media Companies to eliminate anything propalestine and to promote the state of israels global interests, but people are beginning, i think to understand more about the adls influence and their resisting it, you know, 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, the guys of antisemitism, so the adl to be a trusted flagger for youtube, only gives it more power and