Epstein and the quiet financing of occupation |
There are crimes that shock because they are brutal, and there are crimes that endure because they are respectable, well documented, tax-deductible, and protected by silence. The story that emerges from the Epstein financial records belongs firmly to the second category, not because it is less violent, but because it shows how modern violence survives through institutions that look lawful, ethical, and even benevolent.
Jeffrey Epstein is usually remembered as a symbol of sexual abuse, elite corruption, and judicial failure, but this memory, while necessary, is also incomplete. Epstein was not simply a criminal operating outside the system; he was a man fully embedded within it, moving money through charities, donating to universities and foundations, attending elite gatherings, and participating in the same financial and moral ecosystem that sustains global power. It is here, not in his private crimes alone, that the Epstein files become politically unsettling.
Among the financial records associated with Epstein are documented donations to the “Friends of the Israel Defence Forces,” a US-based charity that raises funds for the Israeli military, and to institutions connected to the Jewish National Fund, an organisation historically central to settlement building, land acquisition, and the permanent dispossession of Palestinians. These are not claims drawn from polemic or speculation, but entries recorded in formal financial documents, the kind that usually function as proof of legitimacy rather than as evidence of complicity.
This is where the documents stop being evidence and start becoming an indictment.
The most disturbing thing about the Epstein files is not that a powerful man funded violence, but that he did so openly, legally, and without consequence, because this is how modern atrocities survive. They are not always hidden; they are processed, donated to, and normalised through institutions that speak the language of charity while producing the reality of dispossession. Epstein did........