ZIONIST LOBBY: THE MONEY PILES UP

Hudson Institute, Uzi Arad (and Iran) ctd.: The money piles up Didi Remez | August 22, 2010

Last Thursday (August 19 2010) Coteret 

The post also mentioned that, in the 2006 tax year, Hudson  provided $600,000 to the Atlantic Forum of Israel (AFI), an opaque, security-oriented, organization founded by the Israeli National Security Adviser, Uzi Arad, and run by him until last year. 

 Hudson Institute form 990 for 2008

Further analysis of Hudson’s IRS filings shows that this was not an isolated transaction. The institute’s form 990 for 2008 (page 10) lists the AFI as the fifth “highest paid independent contractor for professional services”  for the previous tax year, when it received $110,000 for “public policy research.”
Beyond raising the total value of the relationship between the Hudson Institute and and Arad’s outfit to at least $720,000, this information also reveals a multi-faceted relationship: AFI was both a grantee and a contractor for the institute.
Thursday’s post made the following case for a full disclosure of the relationship:

• The question of whether Israel should attack Iran and whether the US should support such a move is very tangibly on the (publicly perceived, at least) policy agenda of both governments.
• Numerous Hudson Institute scholars, past and present, have taken very hawkish positions on this question (see this very recent article for one example.)
• Uzi Arad has publicly articulated his (hawkish) position on the issue.
• The Hudson Institute recently provided an opaque, security-oriented, NGO founded by Uzi Arad and, until last year, run by him, with over half a million dollars of funding.
• The Hudson Institute is a central component of an active and ideological neoconservative opposition to the foreign and security policy of the current US President; Uzi Arad serves as National Security Adviser to the current Israeli Prime Minister.