US State Department's favourite celebrity chef builds Gaza aid dock with rubble stolen from destroyed Palestinian homes which includes "genocidal biomatter"
'Max & Aaron discuss Israel's massacre of US-supported World Central Kitchen aid workers, its attack on an Iranian consular facility in Damascus + horrifying massacre at al-Shifa hospital'
The depth of depravity and inhumanity continue as horrifying revelations of the “that” US “aid dock” along with the massacre of World Central Kitchen aid workers and the al-Shifa Hospital massacre come forth all on the same day.
Below is a reposting of Wyatt Reed and Max Blumenthal’s article about the deep state’s favourite celebrity chef, José Andrés who is now operating in Gaza.
Before you get there I recommend watching this short video clip by human rights activist, Sarah Wilkinson who has long been a staunch supporter of the Palestinians in their dire apartheid state of ongoing ethnic cleansing. It is genocide.
Please listen to what Sarah has to say:
George Galloway MP commented upon this egregious situation in the UK Parliament on 21 March 2024 along with the possibility of another potential use for the new port.
British MP George Galloway expressed concerns regarding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposal to utilise the new Gaza port, currently under construction, for the "deportation of millions of Palestinians from the territory."
Galloway's remarks come after reports emerged of Netanyahu discussing this proposal during a private meeting of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Security Committee. Netanyahu suggested that the port could serve as a means to facilitate the removal of Palestinians from Gaza, stating that there was "no obstacle" to their departure except for the reluctance of other countries to accept them, as reported by Kan News.
The following is a reposting of the article by Wyatt Reed and Max Blumenthal as originally published on the Grayzone website.
Jose Andres with USAID Director Samantha Power, April 22, 2022
After years of accusing Russia of using food as a weapon in its conflict with Ukraine, State Department “culinary ambassador” José Andrés is working with the Israeli government to supplant UNRWA as the main supplier of aid to northern Gaza.
State Department-linked Spanish celebrity chef José Andrés has emerged as the US government’s preferred conduit for aid to enter Gaza, following the Biden administration’s decision to suspend funding to the enclave’s main supplier of food, aid and education, the UNRWA.
The operation appears designed to serve as a stopgap measure to provide minimal quantities of food to Gaza’s famine-stricken population until the US military finishes building a pier in the Mediterranean Sea, and a shadowy contractor run by former US Marines and CIA officials is able to implement an aid program called “Blue Beach Plan.”
Andrés’ organization, World Central Kitchen, has already finished constructing its own jetty, which was made from the rubble heaps in Gaza — a decision that virtually guaranteed the building materials contain the remains of humans killed by Israeli bombing.
[I am inserting below the video from the tweet above.]
The use of genocidal biomatter in the construction of the pier has been roundly ignored by legacy media outlets, whose fawning coverage of the plans has instead cast Andrés as a kind of maverick “superhero” fighting to protect Palestinian civilians in the face of international indifference.
In their rush to lionize the shady chef, the Washington Post falsely claimed, “The first ship bearing aid to Gaza since 2005… was spearheaded not by the United Nations or a world leader but by a celebrity chef, José Andrés.” In 2008, activists succeeded in using boats to deliver aid to Gaza six times before Israel began sinking the ships and killing members of their crew.
Strangely, these English-language outlets have generally neglected to mention that WCK is only able to operate in Gaza with the explicit permission of the Israeli military. The New York Times was an exception, noting in a glowing profile of Andrés’ group that “the Israeli military helped World Central Kitchen’s operation, providing security and coordination” and that “every step was carried out with permission from the Israeli military.”
“Nothing goes in without Israel’s permission,” Andrés himself conceded in an interview with NBC News. The chef claimed Israel’s COGAT unit which controls aid to the besieged enclave is “doing everything at its disposal to help the people of Gaza,” but that its “hands are tied” by the military operation.
Immediately before their recent pivot to Gaza, Andrés’ WCK spent several weeks providing meals to Israeli soldiers following Hamas’ October 7 attack.
On October 16, when Spain’s then-Minister for Social Rights, Ione Belarra, condemned Israel for conducting a “genocide” in Gaza, Andrés immediately jumped to Tel Aviv’s defense and demanded her resignation:
“You as Minister have to first recognize that the Hamas attack against civilians is a terrorist act… and that Israel @IsraelinSpain is defending its citizens… then you can ask for restraint and respect for the lives of civilians in Gaza,” the US government-aligned chef bellowed.
“Do you also support Russia? Who has killed children and women and old people and civilians?” Andrés continued. “Are you Pro @KremlinRussia_E and Pro Hamas? You do not represent me or Spain. She does not deserve to be a minister…. President [Sanchez] should remove her from her position…”
State Department asset Jose Andrés likens Blinken to Thomas Jefferson
Andrés has collaborated closely with the US government. Since early 2023, the celebrity chef has worked with the US State Department as a member of the so-called “American Culinary Corps,” a new partnership between Foggy Bottom and the James Beard Foundation.
When Andrés gave a softball interview to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on his podcast that February, their warm and comfortable relationship was on full display.
“You are this fascinating man, who graduated at Harvard… you even play guitar, you have three songs on Spotify,” Andrés gushed, during his first question to the top American diplomat. “You grew up in New York, in Paris, you are fluent in French… What do you remember eating as a young man growing up in Paris?”
When Blinken responded that “for me, going to the McDonald’s… that was the culinary experience,” and said his most cherished foods in France were “English muffins and Bumblebee tuna fish,” the world-renowned chef generously compared him to America’s second Minister to France, Thomas Jefferson, who famously grew his own crops and had various foods shipped from his Virginia slave plantation while stationed in Paris.
But the real purpose of the conversation quickly revealed itself when Andrés asked his follow-up question: “What else US and international community can be doing to keep putting pressure on Russia to make sure that grain has not become another form of weapon?”
Andrés serves not only as a semi-official emissary of the US government, but as a representative of one of its top client states. In September of 2023, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky personally welcomed Andrés to the country, describing the chef as an “ambassador” of Ukraine’s official aid collection agency, whose “strong voice helps us maintain global support.”
The chef’s intimate relationship with the US predates the current conflict in Ukraine. In 2020, he was honored at an event by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he was warmly introduced by now-CIA chief Bill Burns, who called it a “special pleasure” to bring Andrés onstage.
The result of this collusion appears to be a series of double standards that treats the lives of Palestinian as secondary to those living under the US government’s preferred regimes – a disparity which was unintentionally highlighted by recent headlines from US outlets who conducted interviews with the chef.
In April 2022, Axios wrote: “José Andrés: Russia is ‘totally’ using starvation as a weapon of war.” When speaking about Israel two years later, he displayed a significantly milder tone. According to NBC’s Meet the Press, “José Andrés says Israel should ‘totally’ be doing more to get aid into Gaza.”
Wyatt Reed is the managing editor of The Grayzone. As an international correspondent, he’s covered stories in over a dozen countries. Follow him on Twitter at @wyattreed13.
The editor-in-chief of The Grayzone, Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and the author of several books, including best-selling Republican Gomorrah, Goliath, The Fifty One Day War, and The Management of Savagery. He has produced print articles for an array of publications, many video reports, and several documentaries, including Killing Gaza. Blumenthal founded The Grayzone in 2015 to shine a journalistic light on America's state of perpetual war and its dangerous domestic repercussions.
On Tuesday night’s livestream, Max and Aaron Maté discussed Israel's “massacre of aid workers from the US-supported World Central Kitchen, its attack on an Iranian consular facility in Damascus, and the horrifying revelations of its massacre at al-Shifa hospital - all on the same day.”
We must not remain silent whilst witnessing Israel continue to commit war crimes in which the US, UK, France, Netherlands and other countries are complicit.
From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free.
I wonder if this chef has his eye on the "food distribution opportunity" in Gaza as well? Might give us new insight into why the Israeli singled out those UN aid workers, (my error here, see below) shelled them three times to make sure all were killed. They were killed despite the fact that they had been cleared to go in by the govt. Lambs to the slaughter?
I wonder if this chef has his eye on the "food distribution opportunity" in Gaza as well? Might give us new insight into why the Israeli singled out those UN aid workers, (my error here, see below) shelled them three times to make sure all were killed. They were killed despite the fact that they had been cleared to go in by the govt. Lambs to the slaughter?