[mike_h]

He’s the largest individual donor to the IDF.

[dboreham]

Wait...individuals can donate to a country's army?

[MotiBanana]

No, you can't donate directly to the IDF, but turns out you can just make stuff up as long as it fits one's world views.

[omnimus]

Sure! And in return Oracle gets sweet IDF contracts payed by the US gov.

[TiredOfLife]

There is a huge war in europe (largest since WW2) and both sides rely on donations from individuals

[preisschild]

Yes. I donated to the Ukrainian army and others can easily too

[MotiBanana]

That’s misleading. You can’t directly donate to the IDF—people give to NGOs that support soldiers’ welfare, not combat operations or weapons. And while Ellison has given millions to FIDF, there’s no evidence he’s “the largest donor,” and no public ranking shows that. You can dislike Israel without inventing facts.

[HighGoldstein]

Why do you have such an issue with the donation to the IDF? I understand disputing that he's the largest donor, but I doubt he has ever written a big cheque directly to Trump (or in fact anyone except his family) either, is it also unclear whether he's a Trump donor?

Even if there were no mechanism for donating to the IDF available to the general public, do you believe someone like Ellison couldn't easily give money to whomever he wanted?

[cess11]

He financed facilities on an IDF base.

I think we can leave the pedantry for the ICC and just stop at him being a rather nasty genocide supporter regardless of the details.