{"id":301030,"date":"2025-08-18T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=301030"},"modified":"2025-08-13T10:59:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:59:42","slug":"israels-biggest-us-donor-now-owns-cbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/08\/israels-biggest-us-donor-now-owns-cbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s Biggest US Donor Now Owns CBS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Illustration by MintPress News<\/p><\/div>\n

7 Aug 2025\u00a0<\/em>–\u00a0After reaching an agreement with President Trump, David Ellison\u2014the son of the second-richest man in the world, Larry Ellison\u2014has acquired Paramount Global, the media giant that owns CBS News.<\/p>\n

Larry Ellison, the largest<\/a> private funder of the Israel Defense Forces, is deeply tied to the Israeli national security state and counts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu among his closest friends.<\/p>\n

David has already announced significant changes at CBS, promising<\/a> \u201cunbiased\u201d news coverage and \u201cvaried ideological perspectives,\u201d which are widely understood to signal a shift toward right-wing, pro-Trump coverage. Worse still, Bari Weiss, a journalist with a long history of zealous pro-Israel advocacy, is being considered as the network\u2019s new ombudsman, shaping its political direction, precisely<\/a> because of her \u201cpro-Israel stance.\u201d<\/p>\n

MintPress News examines Ellison\u2019s close ties to both Trump and Israel, Weiss\u2019s extensive career as Israel\u2019s most vocal supporter in the U.S., and what this means for the future of free and diverse speech in America.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s Man In Silicon Valley<\/h2>\n

Although Skydance, Ellison\u2019s media empire, is officially headed by David, it is well understood that father Larry holds both the purse strings and the reins of power. With a net worth of $301 billion<\/a>, placing him second on the Forbes Real-Time Billionaires Rankings, Larry made his fortune by founding tech giant Oracle.<\/p>\n

Oracle started <\/a>as a project for the Central Intelligence Agency. Indeed, it is named after Project Oracle, a 1970s CIA operation on which Ellison worked. For some time, the CIA was Oracle\u2019s only customer, until it began to win contracts with other agencies of the U.S. national security state. Today, although Oracle\u2019s customer base is much wider, it maintains its role as the privatized face of the CIA.<\/p>\n

Yet if Oracle is close to Washington and Langley, it is perhaps even more intimately tied to the State of Israel. An avowed Zionist, Ellison has worked tirelessly to advance Israel\u2019s political project. Among his closest personal friends is Benjamin Netanyahu, with whom he vacationed on his private island in Hawaii. Ellison was so impressed and confident in the Israeli prime minister that he offered<\/a> him a seat on his company\u2019s board, replete with a salary of $450,000.<\/p>\n

While Oracle has signed multiple lucrative contracts with the Israeli national security state, Ellison himself has personally bankrolled the Israeli Defense Forces, giving tens of millions of dollars to the Friends of the IDF, an organization that purchases equipment for the Israeli military. This included a $16.6 million pledge (the largest single donation the group has received) to build a new training facility for soldiers defending what he called <\/a>\u201cour home.\u201d As Ellison explained:<\/p>\n

In my mind, there is no greater honor than supporting some of the bravest people in the world, and I thank Friends of the IDF for allowing us to celebrate and support these soldiers year after year. We should do all we can to show these heroic soldiers that they are not alone.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oracle sees itself as an activist organization, one whose goal is the advancement of the Israeli colonization project. Safra Catz, the company\u2019s Israeli-American CEO, bluntly explained<\/a> that any employees uncomfortable with supporting a genocide should simply quit. \u201cWe are not flexible regarding our mission, and our commitment to Israel is second to none,\u201d she said, adding:<\/p>\n

This is a free world and I love my employees, and if they don\u2019t agree with our mission to support the State of Israel, then maybe we aren\u2019t the right company for them. Larry and I are publicly committed to Israel and devote personal time to the country, and no one should be surprised by that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For a deep dive into Oracle and its connections to both U.S. and Israeli power, read the MintPress News investigation<\/a>, \u201cOpenly Pro-Israel Tech Group Now Has Control over UK\u2019s Most Sensitive National Security Data.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Openly Pro-Israel Tech Group Now Has Control over UK\u2019s Most Sensitive National Security Data Oracle, whose CEO Larry Ellison has troubling ties to Israel, just signed a deal to store the UK’s most sensitive military data.
MintPress News\u00b7Alan Macleod\u00b7Feb 7, 2023<\/p><\/div>\n

CBS\u2019s New Censor<\/h2>\n

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