Jun 2025
39m 1s
In this episode, we discuss the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) with the veteran of this podcast Amira Jarmakani, ICSZ collective member and Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality studies at San Diego State University. NCRI, presenting itself as a research institute interested in studying false and hateful narratives online, often flies under the radar as a Zionist organization. Amira Jarmakani debunks NCRI’s claim to be a small, neutral, not-for-profit institution and clarifies that it is actually an online surveillance organization, closely tied with major US policy-making institutions, and a purveyor of the War on Terror. We look at the work of NCRI and its reports demonizing leftist organizing, conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism, attacking BDS, and labeling Palestine solidarity organizing as “terrorism.”
Also mentioned in this episode: Anti-Defamation League (ADL), AMCHA Initiative, Hetz, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), Charles Koch Foundation (CKF)
Resources:
ICE contracted Giant Oak from 2014-2022 to flag people for deportation, according to AFSC.
ISGAP received 80% of its annual revenue from the Israeli government (Aiden Pink/ The Forward)
Joel Finkelstein's presentation to DHS,
The FBI identified SNA as a valuable tool for law enforcement as early as 2013.
Stop LAPD Spying, "The Algorithmic Ecology"