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"People With Extremely Deep Ties To Israel" Want To Buy TikTok, According To Social Media Users

Social media users are convinced that the TikTok ban has something to do with Israel. Here's why.

By Meredith Evans3 min read
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“Israel is trying to buy TikTok,” social media personality Ian Carroll says in a video investigating Israel’s alleged ties to the latest TikTok ban bill. Many agreed with his sentiment following the House's vote to approve a measure that would ban TikTok from U.S. app stores or force the parent company ByteDance to sell. Others argue that the bill will potentially be used to stifle free speech. Here’s what internet sleuths have to say about the whole thing.

A Jewish Man Wants To Buy TikTok

First, a correction is in order: It’s not that the country of Israel is attempting to purchase the popular video-sharing app, but that “people with really deep ties to Israel” are, notes Carroll, adding this is “one of those rabbit holes that I had no idea how deep it was about to go until I fell in.”

Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin is putting together a group to try to buy TikTok. Mnuchin believes that TikTok is a "great business."

Mnuchin is Jewish and has ties to “questionable people in finance,” according to Carroll. “But it's important that you know that Mnuchin had a long, illustrious career at Goldman Sachs and hedge funds,” he explains, stating that he was a “ key member of the Trump campaign.” However, as it stands, the former president is against the ban.

Carroll continues, “And among his [Mnuchin’s] many ties to questionable people in finance, he's buddies with Michael Milken, who's famous for being one of the richest and most evil scumbags in the history of the last century of finance.”

On October 7, 2023, Mnuchin said it was “time to invest in Israel," and Carroll points out how he also “recently traveled to Israel with his business partner, David Friedman,” the United States Ambassador to Israel for the Trump campaign.

“They were trying to recruit the ex-head of Mossad to join their investment fund,” the content creator explains. “But from what I can tell, it didn't pan out or he got recruited to a different banking enterprise. That's the kind of person that they want on their team. We're specifically referring to Yossi Cohen, the former director of Mossad. And a bunch of news outlets seem to pick up on it and were reporting on it when they were just in talks, and nothing was confirmed yet.”

While there hasn’t been confirmation on the reported partnership with Cohen, Mnuchin and Friedman invested in a company called Cyber Reason via Liberty Strategic Capital. “It's a US-Israeli late-stage cybersecurity startup,” Carroll adds.

Does Israel Want To Control the Narrative?

Cyber Reason's board of directors includes high-profile individuals, including "the vice president of security and privacy engineering at Google and a deputy CISO and director of intelligence and operations at Lockheed Martin." Why do these big players want to buy TikTok so badly? Are they truly doing it for profit, or are they attempting to control the narrative?

Carroll suggests the latter, stating, "The censorship is not about China on TikTok. It's about Israel. And the problem that all these politicians and rich people have about TikTok is pretty obviously, probably, allegedly, my opinion only, the massive support for the other country that was there before. And it's just so frustrating that when you oppress people's free speech with censorship, they don't just give in and believe what you want them to believe."

In November, The Cradle Media columnist Sharmine Narwani reported on a “leaked audio of ADL [Jewish organization Anti-Defamation League] chief executive Jonathan Greenblatt freaking out because global youth aren’t buying Israel's propaganda anymore.” Greenblatt stressed, “We really have a TikTok problem, a Gen-Z problem…”

MSNBC reported how many Congress members are backed by AIPAC PAC, a pro-Israel political action committee. In 2022, the organization donated $50,000,000 in contributions to candidates and outside spending. AIPAC donated money to 365 candidates, including every member of Congress.

Even The Times of Israel shared an article titled, "Major US Jewish group backs bipartisan bill that could see TikTok banned." Social media sleuths believe that there is an attempt to censor the "Free Palestine" content on TikTok.

Indeed, many Jewish members feel that TikTok has become antisemitic in recent months. Writer AG Hamilton writes, "TikTok is filled with antisemitic brain rot. Everything is blamed on Jews. AIPAC has taken 0 position on the TikTok bill. This is just further evidence of how the platform is, intentionally imp, poisoning younger generations. The top TikTok shareholder is a Zionist Jewish billionaire who has been trying to buy up votes against forcing the CCP to divest. Doesn’t matter because they want to blame Jews for a position they don’t like and that billionaire cares more about money than trying to use his influence to counter antisemitism." [sic]

However, TikTok likely won't disappear from smartphones any time soon, since the legislative process is still in its early stages.

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