Arielle Silverstein: Hiding in Plain Sight

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ARIELLE SILVERSTEIN

SIGHT ARIELLE SILVERSTEIN

table of contents

Introduction 3

Promoting “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” 5

Inciting Hatred Against Muslims 9

Furthering Bigotry Against Jews 11

Furthering Bigotry Against Christians 13

Supporting Anonymous Cyberterrorists 15

Enabling a Sex Traﬃ cking Promoter 19

Betraying the United Nations Mandate 23 Published as a Public Service by Freedom Magazine

table of contents

Introduction 3

Promoting “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” 5

Inciting Hatred Against Muslims 9

Furthering Bigotry Against Jews 11

Furthering Bigotry Against Christians 13

Supporting Anonymous Cyberterrorists 15

Enabling a Sex Traﬃ cking Promoter 19

Betraying the United Nations Mandate 23 Published as a Public Service by Freedom Magazine

In 2011, Arielle Silverstein joined employee “shall avoid any action the cyberterrorist group and, in particular, any kind of public Anonymous and started posting pronouncement that may adversely antireligious hate speech on the reﬂ ect on their status, or on the group’s forum using the integrity, independence and pseudonym Bozuri and others. impartiality that are required by Under the cover of anonymity, that status.” Silverstein promoted “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” that oﬀ ended As a lawyer, Silverstein knew full millions of Muslims worldwide. well that she had committed a An avowed antireligionist, she severe violation, and facing the repeatedly insulted other faiths prospect of unemployment, she and their followers, including went to great lengths to scrub the Christians and Jews. internet of any trace of her antireligious invectives. But the When she was exposed as the records were captured before she author of the poison-pen anonymous was able to erase them. Freedom postings, Silverstein became sheds new light on Silverstein’s accountable to her employer—the character and motives, making United Nations—for posting during available a selection of work hours and inciting religious Silverstein’s antireligious strife from within the very walls of pronouncements while serving as UN headquarters in direct an international civil servant in contravention of the UN mandate. UN employ.

Silverstein was actively undermining Today, Silverstein channels her the foundation of the Charter of the bigotry through her husband, United Nations and one of its Tony Ortega, an unemployed purposes: “promoting and encouraging blogger who feeds antireligious respect for human rights and for propaganda to tabloid media. fundamental freedoms for all without During his fi nal employment, with distinction as to race, sex, language, the defunct Village Voice, Ortega or religion.” profi ted from the child sex traffi cking website Backpage.com, Silverstein was contractually shut down in 2018 by law obligated to abide by UN Staff enforcement and its principals 2 Rules mandating that any UN under federal indictment. 3 INTRODUCTION HIDING IN

n Tuesday, May 12, 2011—in the middle of a work day at the United Nations—Silverstein O posted under the pseudonym Bozuri: “I’m planning on committing the crime of blasphemy on #MohammedDay, May 20. It’s good not to be living in Kuwait, Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia.”

Six days later, on May 18, she posted: “Draw Mohammad Day 2011 … it makes me mad that the Muslim world reacts so violently to any stick fi gure named Mohamed [sic].”

Such actions to deliberately mock and deride sacred aspects of a religion brought resentment and, contrary to the purposes of the UN itself, served to foment a more hostile environment. As is now well known, that hostility led to violence = BOZURI = SARAI that eventually included the January 2015 Charlie

4 5 PROMOTING “EVERYBODY DRAW

Six days later, on May 18, she posted: “Draw Mohammad Day 2011 … it makes me mad that the Muslim world reacts so violently to any stick fi gure named Mohamed [sic].”

4 5 Hebdo massacre in Paris. Twelve worth of the human person…. died and 11 more were wounded Consequently, staff members shall in that tragedy—one widely exhibit respect for all cultures; they condemned by Muslims and shall not discriminate against any Islamic organizations. individual or group of individuals or otherwise abuse the power and In the Sta Rules and Sta authority vested in them.” “THIS FIGURE Regulations of the United Nations, the fi rst item listed In violation of such clearly worded [THE PROPHET under “Core values” states: “Staff policy, Silverstein propagated members shall uphold and respect incitation to hatred and intolerance the principles set out in the Charter, from within the walls of the United MOHAMMED], WHO including faith in fundamental Nations headquarters and from her IS CENTRAL TO human rights, in the dignity and UN-subsidized home. ISLAM, IS BEING INSULTED REPEATEDLY AND IT FEELS TO THEM [MUSLIMS] LIKE DELIBERATE PROVOCATION.”

AKBAR AHMED Chair of the Islamic Studies Department at American University in Washington, D.C.

Silverstein, aka Bozuri, posted this cartoon on an Anonymous forum to promote “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day.” Editor’s Note: Out of respect for those of the Islamic faith we have covered the face and quote in this drawing.

6 7 Hebdo massacre in Paris. Twelve worth of the human person…. died and 11 more were wounded Consequently, staff members shall in that tragedy—one widely exhibit respect for all cultures; they condemned by Muslims and shall not discriminate against any Islamic organizations. individual or group of individuals or otherwise abuse the power and In the Sta Rules and Sta authority vested in them.” “THIS FIGURE Regulations of the United Nations, the fi rst item listed In violation of such clearly worded [THE PROPHET under “Core values” states: “Staff policy, Silverstein propagated members shall uphold and respect incitation to hatred and intolerance the principles set out in the Charter, from within the walls of the United MOHAMMED], WHO including faith in fundamental Nations headquarters and from her IS CENTRAL TO human rights, in the dignity and UN-subsidized home. ISLAM, IS BEING INSULTED REPEATEDLY AND IT FEELS TO THEM [MUSLIMS] LIKE DELIBERATE PROVOCATION.”

AKBAR AHMED Chair of the Islamic Studies Department at American University in Washington, D.C.

6 7 INCITING HATRED AGAINST The Muslim society in

general, not just in Iran, Arielle Silverstein’s hate campaign primary topics. Hiding behind against the Islamic religion has not various pseudonyms, she has is very sexually repressed been limited to “Everybody Draw been, until now, comfortable Mohammed Day.” and unrestrained, drawing a and has unhealthy attitudes hefty paycheck from the United She posts antireligious Nations, and receiving subsidized towards sexuality, whether invectives on social media and in housing and other beneﬁ ts while Anonymous forums where hate betraying the very purposes of heterosexual or homosexual. speech, racism and child porn are that organization.

Even the more developed Kuwait arrests a man for oﬀ ending the prophet Muslim countries (Dubai, Mohamed [sic] on Twitter. Who knew that an illiterate desert dweller as Mohamed [sic] could read tweets? Qatar, Turkey) are still BOZURI (ARIELLE SILVERSTEIN) incredibly hypocrite [sic] when it comes to sex. It has been part of the Muslim’s [sic] BOZURI (ARIELLE SILVERSTEIN) belief, based on traditions, that the Prophet Muhammad was illiterate. BOZURI (ARIELLE SILVERSTEIN)

Arab men ... think that the husband is always right and that they are allowed to beat up the woman. No thanks. Will never happen. And guess what? I’m making 100,000 thousand [sic] without having to endure a Neanderthal husband. 8 BOZURI (ARIELLE SILVERSTEIN) 9 INCITING HATRED AGAINST The Muslim society in

Silverstein has variously referred hatred of religion and religious to herself as an “atheist Jew” and people extends to members of all a “heretic Jew.” Her deep-seated faiths, including Judaism.

My dislike of the ultra-orthodox is so high, that I refuse to work with them on anything. Rabbi Marvin Hier, Dean and Founder BOZURI (ARIELLE SILVERSTEIN) of the Simon Wiesenthal Center

The ultra-orthodox are never defined as cults [even Rabbi Heir [sic] is an ass**** and though they totally are]. fame whore of the first degree. BOZURI (ARIELLE SILVERSTEIN) BOZURI (ARIELLE SILVERSTEIN) I like nothing more than explaining to religious people why I dislike God. BOZURI (ARIELLE SILVERSTEIN) I now want the Simon Wiesenthal Center As if chanting some magic organization to cease to exist. words ever helped anyone? BOZURI (ARIELLE SILVERSTEIN) BOZURI (ARIELLE SILVERSTEIN)

10 11 FURTHERING BIGOTRY AGAINST

My dislike of the ultra-orthodox is so high, that I refuse to work with them on anything. Rabbi Marvin Hier, Dean and Founder BOZURI (ARIELLE SILVERSTEIN) of the Simon Wiesenthal Center

10 11 FURTHERING BIGOTRY AGAINST

Christians were really glorifying Silverstein’s hate speech and of the image of Jesus Christ on denigration of sacred images is the Facebook page of her father, a torturous death and becoming not limited to the Islamic religion. Leon Silverstein, an Israeli land Under the name “Arielle Sarai” she developer. martyrs. That’s why many of posted an obscene comparison them refused to convert. They thought there [sic] were going to heaven for sticking to the faith and dying painfully. Suckers! BOZURI (ARIELLE SILVERSTEIN)

Whether it’s the Hispanic preachers, Jehova witnesses [sic] or those crazy ‘the end of the world is coming’ people. They are all loud and crazy. BOZURI (ARIELLE SILVERSTEIN)

A degrading and insulting image Silverstein posted on Facebook.

12 13 FURTHERING BIGOTRY AGAINST

Whether it’s the Hispanic preachers, Jehova witnesses [sic] or those crazy ‘the end of the world is coming’ people. They are all loud and crazy. BOZURI (ARIELLE SILVERSTEIN)

A degrading and insulting image Silverstein posted on Facebook.

12 13 SUPPORTING ANONYMOUS

rielle Silverstein is a supporter of Anonymous, the cyberterrorist group that states in a A manifesto, “Right or wrong? No. We destroy for destruction’s sake.”

Anonymous has targeted blacks, Jews and Muslims with hate propaganda. It has attacked people of all faiths for their religious beliefs with a barrage of demeaning images and obscenities.

In recent years, Anonymous has mounted hate campaigns against selected targets with tactics that We ruin the lives of range from spreading obscenities and degraded imagery on the internet to massive attacks that other people simply render websites inaccessible. Anonymous members have infested the internet with postings encouraging because we can. suicide and murder, also engaging in cyberterrorism ANONYMOUS and more conventional forms of harassment such as bomb threats and vandalism.

14 15 SUPPORTING ANONYMOUS

rielle Silverstein is a supporter of Anonymous, the cyberterrorist group that states in a A manifesto, “Right or wrong? No. We destroy for destruction’s sake.”

Anonymous has targeted blacks, Jews and Muslims with hate propaganda. It has attacked people of all faiths for their religious beliefs with a barrage of demeaning images and obscenities.

14 15 With her UN salary, Silverstein knowingly ﬁ nanced a fellow Anonymous member who has been repeatedly arrested for criminal acts. He prides himself for “suck[ing] in donations and spend[ing] them on booze, pot, crystal meth and more!”

This is what Silverstein had to say about this individual:

… Please be nice and send him some money for his legal defence [sic]. I did. Bozuri

As Bozuri, Silverstein described her collaboration with an Anonymous hacker:

An Israeli hacker recently joined WWP [an Anonymous forum]. His name is eOnlyOne. I’m in touch with him, he might get some info for us. He Anonymous members use Nazi symbology to mock and disparage people for their beliefs or actually posted here, saying that he wanted to protest and was looking for practices, reﬂ ecting the Nazi mentality that runs through the hate group’s forums and websites. others to join him in Tel Aviv. Bozuri

Silverstein as Bozuri incited Anonymous to directly interfere with a religion:

And in case in the future anons would like to raid this table [a religious information stand] it was [address deleted]. Bozuri

Anonymous foments hatred against racial Like the Nazis in their propaganda of minorities, especially African Americans. Its the 1930s and 1940s, Anonymous posts members freely use the worst cultural epithets and caricatures to denigrate Jews. 16 stereotypes to attack blacks and their culture. 17 With her UN salary, Silverstein knowingly ﬁ nanced a fellow Anonymous member who has been repeatedly arrested for criminal acts. He prides himself for “suck[ing] in donations and spend[ing] them on booze, pot, crystal meth and more!”

This is what Silverstein had to say about this individual:

… Please be nice and send him some money for his legal defence [sic]. I did. Bozuri

As Bozuri, Silverstein described her collaboration with an Anonymous hacker:

Silverstein as Bozuri incited Anonymous to directly interfere with a religion:

And in case in the future anons would like to raid this table [a religious information stand] it was [address deleted]. Bozuri

or years, Arielle Silverstein’s UN salary has supported not only her own campaigns F of viliﬁ cation, but those of her husband, unemployed blogger Tony Ortega. Like Silverstein, Ortega is a bigot and hatemonger.

While working at The Village Voice, Ortega served as a principal defender of the sex traﬃ cking website Backpage.com. A cesspool for sex ads for underage males and females, the site served as the cash cow that sustained not only Ortega and the dying Voice, but reaped huge sums for owners So far averting prosecution Michael Lacey and James Larkin. in connection with Backpage.com child sex traﬃ cking at Village Voice, Both owners were charged in a 93-count federal Tony Ortega is now supported by indictment for prostitution and money laundering his wife, Arielle, with her United and are awaiting trial. Federal authorities seized Nations income. Backpage.com in 2018 and shut it down.

18 19 ENABLING A SEX TRAFFICKING

18 19 “Backpage is involved in 73% of Scott Pilutik, described her as all child traffi cking reports that “a power behind the throne ... his the National Center for Missing tireless researcher and signifi cant and Exploited Children (NCMEC) other, Arielle.” receives from the general public,” according to a 2017 U.S. Senate Silverstein, of course, had already report titled Backpage.com’s come out as an antireligionist, Knowing Facilitation of Online Sex cut from the same cloth as her Tra cking. husband, when she posted as “Bozuri,” joined the cyberterrorist Conspicuously, Ortega was not hate group Anonymous, and among those indicted. The owners promoted “Everybody Draw had severed him from Village Voice Mohammed Day.” Given her own in 2012 when his obsession with the bigoted heart, Silverstein has no most eff ective advocate against qualms about sharing her life, the sex-traffi cking site—the Church her prejudices and her income of Scientology—was drawing too with Ortega. much attention to Backpage. Ortega was out. He received hush But as an employee of the United money to forget what he knew. Nations, her support of a religious hatemonger provides yet another When the money ran out, example of her fl agrant violations Ortega was still unemployed and of the UN’s humanitarian unemployable. His only income principles she ostensibly supports <> backpage Post Ad Keyword young girl came from occasional pittances and the ethics codes she is “BACKPAGE from tabloid media. In stepped committed to uphold. KNOWS THAT Silverstein. Ortega’s attorney, IT FACILITATES The people I work for PROSTITUTION were smart enough to AND start Backpage.com. CHILD SEX TONY ORTEGA

TRAFFICKING.” Of course it’s about money. But it doesn’t make

UNITED STATES SENATE it illegal or wrong. A liberal like me strongly Permanent Subcommittee believes that prostitution should be legal. on Investigations BOZURI (ARIELLE SILVERSTEIN) 20 21 “Backpage is involved in 73% of Scott Pilutik, described her as all child traffi cking reports that “a power behind the throne ... his the National Center for Missing tireless researcher and signifi cant and Exploited Children (NCMEC) other, Arielle.” receives from the general public,” according to a 2017 U.S. Senate Silverstein, of course, had already report titled Backpage.com’s come out as an antireligionist, Knowing Facilitation of Online Sex cut from the same cloth as her Tra cking. husband, when she posted as “Bozuri,” joined the cyberterrorist Conspicuously, Ortega was not hate group Anonymous, and among those indicted. The owners promoted “Everybody Draw had severed him from Village Voice Mohammed Day.” Given her own in 2012 when his obsession with the bigoted heart, Silverstein has no most eff ective advocate against qualms about sharing her life, the sex-traffi cking site—the Church her prejudices and her income of Scientology—was drawing too with Ortega. much attention to Backpage. Ortega was out. He received hush But as an employee of the United money to forget what he knew. Nations, her support of a religious hatemonger provides yet another When the money ran out, example of her fl agrant violations Ortega was still unemployed and of the UN’s humanitarian unemployable. His only income principles she ostensibly supports <> backpage Post Ad Keyword young girl came from occasional pittances and the ethics codes she is “BACKPAGE from tabloid media. In stepped committed to uphold. KNOWS THAT Silverstein. Ortega’s attorney, IT FACILITATES The people I work for PROSTITUTION were smart enough to AND start Backpage.com. CHILD SEX TONY ORTEGA

TRAFFICKING.” Of course it’s about money. But it doesn’t make

ccording to one internet source, CareerBliss.com, “United Nations Attorneys earn $131,000 Aannually, or $63 per hour, which is 47% higher than the national average for all attorneys … at $81,000 annually and 70% higher than the national salary average for all working Americans.”

Considering the long time she has been drawing a UN paycheck, Arielle Silverstein may be making more than $63 an hour while posting her hateful and toxic tirades. As a UN employee, she enjoys other generous beneﬁ ts as well.

Meanwhile, her position as “Ethics Oﬃ cer” bestows upon her a trust for policing and upholding the internal rules and policies of the United Nations.

22 23 BETRAYING THE UNITED NATIONS

Meanwhile, her position as “Ethics Oﬃ cer” bestows upon her a trust for policing and upholding the internal rules and policies of the United Nations.

22 23 In that regard, revelations of posted this, strewn with Silverstein’s true personality and obscenities, under her Bozuri disregard for ethics emerged alias: “I can’t believe he survived when this self-described “highly in the fi rst place. How the f*** did educated” lawyer anonymously that happen? Why didn’t the police posted her views on due process shoot him? …. He will just agitate and other aspects of the legal the victims’ families. Nobody wants system. to hear his delusional s***. I hope he gets killed in prison before he ever On her view of the right to a gets to court. I hope he gets killed fair trial, for example, Silverstein before he goes to court.”

Basic rights and obligations of staff

Core values (a) Staff members shall uphold and respect the principles set out in the Charter, including faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women. Consequently, staff members shall exhibit respect for all cultures; they shall not discriminate against any individual or group of individuals or otherwise abuse the power and authority vested in them.

Regulation 1.2 Basic rights and obligations of staff Staff Rules and Staff Regulations of the United Nations

24 25 In that regard, revelations of posted this, strewn with Silverstein’s true personality and obscenities, under her Bozuri disregard for ethics emerged alias: “I can’t believe he survived when this self-described “highly in the fi rst place. How the f*** did educated” lawyer anonymously that happen? Why didn’t the police posted her views on due process shoot him? …. He will just agitate and other aspects of the legal the victims’ families. Nobody wants system. to hear his delusional s***. I hope he gets killed in prison before he ever On her view of the right to a gets to court. I hope he gets killed fair trial, for example, Silverstein before he goes to court.”

Basic rights and obligations of staff

Regulation 1.2 Basic rights and obligations of staff Staff Rules and Staff Regulations of the United Nations

24 25 TO COMBAT BIGOTRY AND TO INCREASE TOLERANCE AND UNDERSTANDING

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