JTA – Leading linguist and left-wing activist Noam Chomsky, longtime Bard College president Leon Botstein, filmmaker Woody Allen and former prime minister Ehud Barak are among the Jewish names listed on a newly unveiled private calendar for the disgraced financier and child prodigy. Sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein.
Some of the names had previously been linked to Epstein, a hugely influential Jewish philanthropist who was exposed by investigators years ago as an elaborate underage sex trafficking ring. Epstein interviewed thousands of people during his career, and the mere presence of their names does not indicate any evidence of wrongdoing.
But scheduling documents disclosed yesterday by The Wall Street Journal indicate that some of the figures already on his way to orbit are likely to appear in Epstein’s “black book” of personal contacts with him or in his flight log. held more frequent meetings than They also reveal that some individuals not previously known to have ties to Epstein actually met with him regularly.
Epstein’s death in prison in 2019 was ruled a suicide, but it occurred under mysterious circumstances, leading some to question the suicide ruling. At the time, he was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges following a Miami Herald investigation that revealed his sexual abuse and network of high-profile connections.
Journal reports of the scheduled meetings emerged years after Epstein’s initial arrest for sex crimes in 2008. Received a lot of scrutiny over the years.
Chomsky told the Journal, Epstein had arranged the meeting for Chomsky and Barak to discuss “Palestinian issues and Israel’s policies with respect to the international arena”.
Chomsky further said of Epstein, “I knew him and we met occasionally.” The two men had planned several meetings between 2015 and 2016, including a dinner between Woody Allen and Allen’s stepdaughter-turned-wife Soon-Yi Previn; And another meeting with the former president of Harvard University.
Epstein’s calendar includes other meetings with Barack, such as one that also involved an executive at former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s consulting firm.
Meanwhile, Botstein had scheduled dozens of meetings with Epstein to discuss financiers supporting various Bard programs. While Epstein did donate to Bard on occasion, Botstein described their relationship with The Wall Street Journal as “sadistic on his part” because Epstein often “swung philanthropic support” to which he was not committed. .
Chomsky’s own relationship with Epstein was not previously reported. Botstein had told the press in the past about Epstein’s donations to Bard, but the extent of the two men’s personal relationship had not previously been disclosed.
Allen’s own relationship with Epstein has been reported before.
Both Chomsky and Botstein defended their decision to continue meeting with Epstein after his first sex trafficking conviction, with Chomsky saying that Epstein’s prison time indicated a “clean slate” and Botstein supporting Bard’s prison rehabilitation programs. Invoked history to support.
Epstein had more than a dozen meetings with Ariane de Rothschild, chief executive of the Rothschild group of Swiss Jewish bankers, who had married into the family and was at the time chairman of the firm. De Rothschild himself is not Jewish, but the family has been a prime target of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories for decades.
