The Honest Take

What does it feel like to walk into a room run by dictators and state sponsors of terror — and tell them the truth to their faces?Hillel Neuer has done it for twenty years. As executive director of UN Watch in Geneva, he's become, by his own account and several media outlets', "the most hated man at the UN." In this conversation with Benjamin Chertoff, he explains the machinery behind the headlines: who actually writes the resolutions, how the "automatic majority" of 56 Muslim-majority states plus the dictatorships works, why Western democracies go along to get along, and how the Human Rights Council went from its founding chair Eleanor Roosevelt to a representative of Gaddafi's Libya.They get into the Iran moment — the UN's near-silence on the massacre of Iranian protesters, followed by its sudden fury once the US and Israel struck the regime — and the case of Francesca Albanese, the Special Rapporteur condemned by France, Germany, Canada, the US and others for "Holocaust inversion" and antisemitism, who remains effectively unaccountable. Neuer breaks down the disinformation feedback loop (NGO → UN statement → "the UN says" → global press), the meaning of the Council's Israel-only "Agenda Item 7," and whether the institution can ever be fixed.Guest: Hillel Neuer — Executive Director, UN Watch. Host: Benjamin Chertoff. From HonestReporting.

In 2012, Dr. Charles Asher Small pulled an all-nighter at Stanford, started googling a Yale administrator, and stumbled onto a money trail that became one of the most consequential antisemitism research projects in the West. The founder of ISGAP — which he launched in 2003 alongside Elie Wiesel — joins Ben Chertoff to lay out what he found: an estimated $100 billion in undisclosed Qatari money flowing into American universities, $10 billion to Cornell, $1.3 billion to Texas A&M, a K-12 curriculum in 8,000 American classrooms that erased Israel from the map, and a campus-to-City-Hall pipeline that runs all the way to the mayor of New York. We also press him on the hardest question: where the documented paper trail ends and connect-the-dots begins.ISGAP: https://isgap.org — publications free to the public."Follow the Money" project — Qatar / Muslim Brotherhood university funding research.DETERRENT Act — federal bill (passed the House, before the Senate) lowering the foreign-gift disclosure threshold from $250K to $50K.New (May 2026) ISGAP report — "Institutional Capture: Qatar Foundation International": https://isgap.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/QFI-US-Report.pdf — published the day after this taping; documents $65.3M across 220 K-12/education programs (2009–2025).(00:00) - — Cold open:** "$10 billion to Cornell" — the white-sheets vs. keffiyehs analogy. (00:47) - — Who is Charles Small & what is ISGAP:** 23 years tracing Qatar's money into American universities. (01:16) - — The 2012 discovery:** A Yale administrator, a Stanford all-nighter, and the thread that became "Follow the Money." (03:26) - — 2003 & Elie Wiesel:** Co-founding ISGAP at the UN — "a time of a great emergency." (05:14) - — Mamdani, SJP & what the Muslim Brotherhood actually is:** From a Bowdoin chapter to City Hall; the Protocols at the core of the ideology. (08:25) - — Why the West keeps missing it:** The "failure of imagination" and the 50-year strategic goal. (11:17) - — Inside "Follow the Money":** $3 billion → $18 billion → $100 billion; the Qatar–Muslim Brotherhood oath. (16:59) - — How the research works:** Texas A&M's $1.3B contract, Georgetown, and $10B to Cornell — all open-source. (19:29) - — Columbia reported $0:** The disclosure laws on the books since WWII that no one enforces. (22:26) - — The 300% statistic:** Soft power, correlation vs. causation, and a university's "sacred responsibility." (26:23) - — The DETERRENT Act:** Where the federal investigations stand now. (28:15) - — K-12 capture:** Brown's "Choices" curriculum in 8,000+ American classrooms. (31:19) - — How campus ideas filter into society:** Edward Said, and the chilling parallel to the 19th-century academy. (33:59) - — The Columbia teach-in, 10 days after October 7:** When gender-studies professors called the massacre "justified." (38:18) - — The Red-Green coalition & Judith Butler:** Why the radical left and Islamists converge. (43:35) - — Soft power, silence & the Iran test:** The pogrom that the campus left wouldn't condemn. (47:41) - — Where else the money lands:** Al Jazeera, the Qatar–CNN deal, Northwestern, social media. (49:13) - — JVP, SJP & Neville Singham's network:** Following the money behind "Jewish Voice for Peace." (51:41) - — Mamdani:** "Of course he knows what he's doing." (55:40) - — Allies in the Arab world & the three centers of the Brotherhood:** Qatar (money), Turkey (command), London (laundering). (57:13) - — How do you fight an idea?:** Lessons from defeating communism and fascism. (01:00:43) - — What's next for ISGAP:** New reports on Canada, the UK, South Africa — and the Muslim Brotherhood terror designation. (01:03:37) - — Where to find ISGAP's work.** (01:04:10) - — Ben's close:** "The emergency didn't arrive by accident." Click here to view the episode transcript.

What happens when the very system built to protect minorities leaves Jews out entirely - and then gets turned against them?David Christopher Kaufman is a journalist, a Black man, and a Jew. That combination gives him a lens on American identity politics that almost no one else has. In this conversation, he argues that October 7th didn't just expose antisemitism - it exposed the structural failure of the DEI framework to account for Jews at all. The result: Jews now have the highest hate crime rate of any group in America, and yet they're the only minority expected to argue for their own victimhood before anyone will believe them.We talk about Zohran Mamdani's rise and what it tells us about where the DSA and the progressive left are actually headed. We talk about the word "Zio" - which Kaufman says hit him the same way the N-word does. And we talk about why he believes Jewish safety is the defining civil rights issue of this moment - and why American Jewish leadership is failing to say so out loud.David Christopher Kaufman is opinion editor at the Daily Mail, former editor at the New York Post, and author of the Substack Counterintuitive.Follow David: davidkaufman.substack.com---HonestReporting is a media watchdog holding the press accountable on Israel coverage.Website: honestreporting.comYouTube: youtube.com/@honestreportingvideo