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  1. From Stuff.co.nz:
    Israeli Minister who trolled Christopher Luxon visits Auckland, meets Brian Tamaki
    Glenn McConnell October 28, 2025
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360867523/israeli-minister-who-trolled-christopher-luxon-visits-auckland-meets-brian-tamaki

    …..Tamaki and Destiny Church have been leading pro-Israel protests since the Hamas attack, often setting up counter protesters to oppose events calling for recognition of Palestine.

    According to Stuff and other news sources, Haskell did not meet with any government ministers, or officials.
    So why was she here?

    Follow the money:

    Israel News
    U.S. pro-Israel groups failed to disclose grants from Israeli government
    By Aiden Pink August 31, 2020
    https://forward.com/israel/453286/us-pro-israel-groups-failed-to-disclose-grants-from-israeli-government/

    ….. the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs and a quasi-governmental organization it created have given at least $6.6 million to U.S. organizations since 2018. These grants, along with millions more that went to groups in Europe, Latin America, Africa and Israel itself, were to further the country’s public diplomacy efforts, particularly against BDS.
    The Israeli government’s gifts to pro-Israel American entities — including more than $1 million each to Christians United for Israel and Aish Hatorah’s Hasbara Fellowships — were publicly unknown until the last few weeks, after a politician not from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party took over the ministry and dropped its longstanding stance against releasing its public records…..
    …..The documents, which include financial spreadsheets, government memoranda and the minutes of official meetings, were released after a Freedom of Information Act request by the Israeli Freedom of Information Movement and the Israeli news website The Seventh Eye, and shared with the Forward…..
    …..Many of the payments that Israel made to the IAF and the other American groups were delivered through an organization that was set up, an Israeli official acknowledged in a Knesset hearing this summer, to mask the money’s source……
    …..Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs was once a backwater agency with unclear purpose. That changed in 2015, when it was placed under the control of the hard-charging, hawkish Gilad Erdan, who convinced Netanyahu, a fellow member of the Likud Party, to quintuple the ministry’s budget and add fighting BDS to its portfolio.
    Ever since, the ministry has been tasked with waging war in the battle of public opinion against Israel’s critics, especially on social media. It has fought in court to keep some of its activities classified, but it has also published dossiers on pro-BDS activists and hired an Israeli influencer popular on the U.S. college-lecture circuit as a consultant….
    …..By December 2017, the ministry largely stopped trying to directly give money to major Jewish advocacy organizations. Instead, it helped create a “public-benefit company” to fight BDS — and put a buffer between itself and the American groups. The company was originally called Kela Shlomo, or Solomon’s Sling, but less than a year later, its name was changed to Concert. In keeping with their penchant for secrecy, officials in the ministry and the company refused to explain the name change to journalists….

    Who would expect that Israeli journalists would do a better job of exposing Israeli government funding of foreign fundamentalist groups and NGOs than our lickspittle journalists?

    When will our lazy mainstream journalists start doing their jobs, and dig into how much funding, if any, was received by Destiny Church, or the Tamaki family, or any of their trusts, from the Israeli government to carry out Hasbara dirty work in this country?

    Would any overseas funding if revealed, affect Destiny Church tax-exempt status?

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