"Ellison’s devotion to Israel is the least hidden thing about him. He made the largest single gift in the history of Friends of the IDF; Netanyahu is a personal friend; as far back as 2015 he was privately vetting Marco Rubio for loyalty to Israel in emails with Israel’s UN ambassador. Since 2021 he has given or pledged £257 million to the Tony Blair Institute — and when the Guardian reported
that institute staff had taken part in a project reimagining postwar
Gaza as a “Trump Riviera,” the money trail behind the institute ran straight back to him. Weiss, the family’s pick for CBS, is known above all for her advocacy on the subject.He is entitled to his cause. The empire has been a catastrophe for it. After thousands of film workers signed a pledge to boycott complicit institutions, Paramount stood publicly accused of maintaining a blacklist of talent who criticized Israel. His move on TikTok spawned a national campaign to take the platform back.
Every property he adds attaches his politics to it, and audiences keep
responding the same way: by leaving. The machine he built to protect the
cause now generates evidence against it. He bought the microphone, and
the room walked out...."
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-house-of-ellison-is-on-the-brink
The House of Ellison is on the Brink
Everything the world’s briefly richest man built is failing at once.