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Bernard Marcus

Bernard "Bernie" Marcus (born May 12, 1929) is an American billionaire pharmacist, retail entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is one of the founders of Home Depot and was the company's first CEO. Marcus served as Chairman of the Board until his retirement in 2002. 
In 1991 Marcus co-founded the Israel Democracy Institute. Marcus contributed $5 million to the construction of the IDI's headquarters in Jerusalem and has continued to donate large sums to the IDI ever since. Most of the institute's annual budget comes from Marcus.Shuki Sadeh, 'How foreign donors reshaped Israel: A who's who', Haaretz,17 March 2013, accessed 4 February 2015
Marcus is chairman of the Marcus Foundation whose foci have been described as "Jewish causes, children, medical research, free enterprise, and the community". Israel Democracy Institute Website Bernard (Bernie) Marcus bio. Accessed 4 February 2015. The Foundation is a major donor to the Friends of the Israel Defence Forces. 
Marcus has been highly critical of the Occupy Wall Street movement, characterising Occupy protesters as "imbeciles". Max Abelson, 'Bankers Join Billionaires to Debunk ‘Imbecile’ Attack on Top 1%', Bloomberg,20 December 2011, accessed 4 February 2015 Marcus is an opponent of the Employee Free Choice Act and in 2008 he commented that retailers who failed to support Republican candidates opposed to the act ought to be shot:
::If a retailer has not gotten involved with this, if he has not spent money on this election, if he has not sent money to Norm Coleman and these other guys," Mr. Marcus said, apparently referring to Republican senators facing tough re-election fights, then those retailers "should be shot; should be thrown out of their goddamn jobs. Huffington Post, 'Home Depot Founder: Retailers Who Don't Support GOP "Should Be Shot"', Huffington Post, 20 December 2008, accessed 4 February 2015
Marcus further described the act as "the demise of civilization" and pleaded for corporate donations in order to prevent the United States turning "into France".Sam Stein, 'Bailout Recipients Hosted Call To Defeat Key Labor Bill', Huffington Post, 27 February 2009, accessed 4 February 2015
In 2010 Marcus was listed as Chair of the Host Committee for the 2010 Foundation for Defense of Democracies Washington Forum:
:FDD's annual Washington Forum brings together diplomats, intelligence and military experts, policymakers, media and stakeholders for expert panels, debates, and discussions.
That year's forum was titled 'Countering the Iranian Threat'.FDD Website Washington Forum 2010: Countering the Iranian Threat. Accessed 4 March 2015. 
Other figures on the committee, who like Marcus, have been closely involved with the FIDF include Larry J. Hochberg and Robert J. Shillman. FDD Website Washington Forum 2010: Countering the Iranian Threat. Accessed 4 March 2015. 
==Affiliations==
*Republican Jewish Coalition - Board Member
==Notes==
Category:Israel
Bernard Samuel Levey

Bernard Samuel Levey is a trustee of the British Friends of Midreshet Harova. The charity supports the Midreshet Harova yeshiva in occupied East Jerusalem.Charity Commission Website Charity Overview. Accessed 26 August 2015. Midreshet Harova Website Contact Us. Accessed 26 August 2015. The director of the Midreshet Harova overseas programme, Rav David Milston, lives in the settlement of Alon Shvut in the Gush Etzion bloc in the occupied West Bank.Milstin, D., (2012), The Three Pillars - Am Yisrael, Torat Yisrael, Eretz Yisrael. Accessed 26 August 2015. B'Tselem Website Statistics on Settlements and Settler Population. Accessed 26 August 2015.
==Notes==
Category:Israel
Bernard Sheldon

Bernard Sheldon (died 2008), according to a Daily Telegraph report, was "the legal adviser to MI5 during the ill-fated attempt in 1986 by Margaret Thatcher's government to block the publication of Peter Wright's book Spycatcher and in the prosecution two years earlier of the would-be Soviet agent Michael Bettaney."Bernard Sheldon, Daily Telegraph, 29, February 2008.
==Notes==
Sheldon, BernardSheldon, Bernard
Bernard Soulage

Bernard Soulage (born 24 October 1948, Nanterre) is a former MEP (01.02.2009-13.07.2009) from the French Socialist Party.European Parliament, MEP Directory: Bernard Soulage, accessed 05 December 2010.
==Affiliations==
===Parliamentary Affiliations===
:Member:
:	01.02.2009 / 13.07.2009 : Socialist Group in the European Parliament
:	02.02.2009 / 13.07.2009 : Committee on Regional Development
:Substitute:
:	01.02.2009 / 13.07.2009 : Committee on Legal Affairs
:	01.02.2009 / 13.07.2009 : Committee on Budgetary ControlEuropean Parliament, MEP Directory: Bernard Soulage, accessed 05 December 2010.
==Record and Controversies==
===Declaration of Financial Interests===
Professional Activities:
*University Professor at the Institute of political Studies, Grenoble
Paid Functions or Activities:
*Vice-president of the Rhône-Alpes Regional CouncilEuropean Parliament, Déclaration des Intérêts financiers des députés: Bernard Soulage, 05 February 2009, accessed 07 April 2009.
===Record of Parliamentary Votes===
==Personal Information==
===Curriculum Vitae===
*Baccalaureate in mathematics; graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Studies - public service section (1970).
*Doctor in spatial and urban planning (1972). 
*Postgraduate teaching qualification in social sciences and economics (1977). 
*Highest doctoral degree in economics, thesis on industrial economics (1980). 
*University lecturer in economics (1985).
*Lecturer and chartered accountant for works councils (until 1981). 
*Project manager at the Industry Department of the State Planning Commission, then head of the Industry Department (1981-1985). 
*Lecturer at the Grenoble Institute of Political Studies, Pierre Mendès-France University (since 1989). 
*Secretary-General of Grenoble City Council (1995-1999).
*First vice-chairman of the Rhône-Alpes Region, responsible for transport, urban movement and accessibility. 
*Deputy national secretary for international economics, Socialist Party. 
*Vice-chairman of the economic and social committee of the Socialist International.
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==Resources==
*European Parliament, Déclaration des Intérêts financiers des députés: Bernard Soulage, 05 February 2009, accessed 07 April 2009.
*European Parliament, MEP Directory: Bernard Soulage, accessed 07 April 2009.
*European Parliament, MEP Directory: Bernard Soulage, accessed 05 December 2010.
==Notes==
Soulage, Bernard
Bernard Sunley Foundation

The Bernard Sunley Foundation is a philanthropic body that gives grants to charitable institutions. The principal areas of interest of the Foundation are defined as being 'within the United Kingdom with the majority of grants assisting community projects, the disadvantaged and where there is a focus on environmental issues'Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation, Aims & Objectives, Charities Direct, Accessed 05-September-2010. The foundation is classified as a patron of the UK's only private university the University of Buckingham, patron status is given to those who donate £100,000 or more to the university Patrons, University of Buckingham, Accessed 03-September-2010.
==Notes==
Bernardino León

Bernardino León is the EU Special Representative to the Southern Mediterranean Region, as of March 2013.EU Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean region, European Union External Action, accessed 30 March 2013.
==External resources==
*Jorge Valero, The problem-solver, europeanvoice.com, 5 January 2012.
==Notes==
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Bernd Halling

Bernd Halling worked for three years in the European Parliament during the negotiations of the Amsterdam treaty on institutional reform. He was co-founder of CIVIS, an NGO committed to strengthening the voice of civil society in the European institutions. Since 1999, he has been European Public Policy Manager of EuropaBio, the European Biotechnology Industry Association. He is a fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.source: EU Observer.com. 25 April 2003.
==Notes==
Halling, Bernd
Bernd Lange

Bernd Lange (born 14 November 1955, Oldenburg) is an MEP for Germany from Social Democratic Party of Germany since July 2009. He also served as an MEP between 1994-2004.Bernd Lange, , undated, accessed 16 April 2012.
==Affiliations==
*Member, INTA Committee on International Trade
*Member, DCAR Delegation to the Cariforum — EU Parliamentary Committee
*Member, D-ZA Delegation for relations with South Africa 
*Substitute, ITRE Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
*Substitute, D-JPDelegation for relations with Japan 
==Record and Controversies==
===Declaration of Financial Interests===
*Erklärung der finanziellen Interessen der Mitglieder: Lange, BerndEuropean Parliament, Declaration of Members' Financial Interests: Bernd Lange, 29 March 2012, accessed 16 April 2012.
===Record of Parliamentary Votes===
====Election Campaign 2009====
Bernd Lange has pledged to all four issues presented by the Election Campaign:
*to provide leadership in lobbying transparency and ethics,
*to provide leadership in reforming financial architecture,
*to promote a full-scale rethink of the EU trade policy,
*to promote corporate accountability.Election Campaign, Bernd Lange, accessed 16 April 2012.
==Personal Information==
===Curriculum Vitae===
===Contact===	
:Address:
: Parlement européen
: Bât. Altiero Spinelli
: 12G265
: 60, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60
: B-1047 Bruxelles/Brussel
:Phone:
: +32(0)2 28 45555
:Fax
: +32(0)2 28 49555
:Email:
:bernd.lange AT europarl.europa.eu
:Website: 
:http://www.bernd-lange.de 
==Resources==
*Bernd Lange, , undated, accessed 16 April 2012.
*European Parliament, Declaration of Members' Financial Interests: Bernd Lange, 29 March 2012, accessed 16 April 2012.
*European Parliament, MEP Directory: Bernd Lange, accessed 16 April 2011.
==Notes==
Lange, Bernd
Lange, Bernd
Lange, Bernd
Bernd Lucke

‎|250px|thumb|right|Bernd Lucke, Source: [https://twitter.com/berndlucke/status/658322769235582976 Twitter] 
Bernd Lucke was one of three leaders of the German Euro-sceptic party Alternative for GermanyGone boy on the right, 24 January 2015 but left the party in July 2015.
Lucke has made sympathetic comments about the anti-Islam street movement PEGIDA, calling it 'good and right' that people were expressing their fears by demonstrating and writing that the movement was 'a sign that these people do not feel their concerns are understood by politicians'.Justin Huggler, German Eurosceptics embrace anti-Islam protests, Daily Telegraph, 10 December 2014
==Affiliations==
*Alternative for Germany
==Notes==
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Bernt Reitan

Norwegian national Bernt Reitan is a long serving director, consultant and executive with aluminium company Alcoa, serving as Executive Vice President from 2004 to 2010. He was a director of alloy and silica company Elkem from 1988 to 2000, who subsequently sold their aluminium subsidiary to Alcoa in 2009.Alcoa website. News Alcoa Completes Exchange with ORKLA ASA For 2 Norwegian Smelters and Anode Plant. March 31, 2009. Accessed 24/02/2012 He is also a director of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd, Yara International ASA, International Primary Aluminium Institute and Renewable Energy Corporation ASA and is a former board member of the European Aluminium AssociationBusiness Week. Alcoa Profile Bernt Reitan biography Accessed 08/02/2012
==Directorships and affiliations as of feb 2012==
*Director Elkem 1988-2000
*Executive Vice President Alcoa 2004-2010
*Chairman Norzink 1995-2000
*Director Renewable Energy Corporation ASA since May 2010
*Advisory director Arkwright Insurance
*Independent Director Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. since September 2004 
*Independent Director Yara International ASA since May 2009
*Director International Primary Aluminium Institute
*Closure Systems International, Inc.
*Director Hunsfos A/S 
*Director Raufoss A/S
*Co-chair of the board of Trustees in ASF (American Scandinavian Foundation,
*Chairman of the board the Norwegian Metallurgical Industry's Association 1990-1992
*Former Director European Aluminium Association
*Former Director Norwegian Employers Federation
*Former Director Norwegian Process and Manufacturing Association Business Week. Alcoa Profile Bernt Reitan biography Accessed 08/02/2012
==Iceland==
Bernt Reitan was Senior Vice President of Materials and Technology and Managing Director of Elkem Aluminium between 1988 and 2000 while Iceland's Elkem alloys plant was being expanded)Elkem Iceland website English version Accessed 21/02/2012. In 2009, while Reitan was Executive Vice President of Alcoa Elkem's subsidiary Elkem Aluminium was sold to Alcoa.Alcoa website. News Alcoa Completes Exchange with ORKLA ASA For 2 Norwegian Smelters and Anode Plant. March 31, 2009. Accessed 24/02/2012 Bernt Reitan broke the ground at Alcoa's massive Alcoa Fjardaál smelter, their poster greenfield project, in the tiny fishing village of Reydarfjörður in 2004. He was heavily involved in the project which was completed in 2006. The project caused some of the biggest protests Iceland had ever seen over the Kárahnjúkar Dam, which flooded more than 60km of rare wilderness highlands to power it.Susan De Muth
The Guardian Power Driven Saturday 29 November 2003. Accessed 21/02/2012 
Bernt Reitan sits on the Icelandic-American Chamber of Commerce which promotes trade and business between Iceland and the USAIACC Contact Information Accessed 21/02/2012
==Resources==
Transcription and documents from a presentation by Bernt Reitan to Alcoa First Quarter Analyst Workshop, April 22, 2004.Edgar-Online transcriptions Alcoa First Quarter Analyst Workshop, April 22, 2004 Accessed 08/02/1012
==Notes==
Reitan, Bernt
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Bernward Garthoff

In 1994, Dr. Garthoff joined the top management of Bayer’s Crop Protection Business Group as Head of Portfolio Management. 
He has managed the integration process associated with the acquisition of Aventis CropScience and has been a member of the Board of Management since the creation of Bayer CropScience in
mid 2002. 
He has just recently taken over association-related tasks for Bayer AG,
focusing on Crop Protection and Bioscience, and is now situated in Bayer’s
Headquarters, Leverkusen.
*member of the Private Sector Committee of CGIAR (The World Bank)
*member of the EuropaBio Board, Chairman of the Agrifood Council of EuropaBio.
*chairman of DIB, Deutsche Industrie-Vereinigung Biotechnologie.http://www.europabio.org/Board/CV-Garthoff.pdf
==Notes==
Category:Food Industry lobby groups
Category:Food Industry People
Bert Ward

::Bert Ward was a manual worker for many years and active in the National Union of Railwaymen holding a variety of lay offices including the delegate to the NUR Darlington District Council and the Middlesbrough Trades Council. He then studied at Ruskin College before working for the AEU in their Peckham Head office. After attending LSE he became a lecturer in Politics and an activist in the lecturers' union NATFHE. Bert was an active member of the CPGB for 40 years until it disbanded, when he joined the Labour Party. A founder member of the cross party peace group New Dialogue, its secretary for some years, and editor of its monthly Information Bulletin New Dialogue News.Democratiya - Advisory Editors - Bert Ward, accessed 17 April 2008.
==Affiliations==
*Communist Party of Great Britain
*National Union of Railwaymen
*NATFHE
*Labour Party
*New Dialogue
*Democratiya
*Euston Manifesto
==References==
Bertram Wolfe

Bertram Wolfe was a member of the Lovestoneite International Communist Opposition, and later a leading scholar of Communism.Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.134. 
In 1933, Wolfe was appointed to the board of the International Relief Association formed by Jay Lovestone with support from US liberals to aid the Communist Party (Opposition) in Germany.Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.9. 
During the 1950s, Wolfe was the chief ideological advisor of the International Broadcasting Office of the State Department. He was a senior Fellow in Slavic Studies at the library of the Hoover Institution, before becoming a Research Fellow at the institution itself in 1956. He was also a visiting professor at Columbia University and the University of California.
==Affiliations==
*Communist Party of America
*International Communist Opposition
*Friends of Russian Freedom
*Hoover Institution
*Committee on the Present Danger (1976 version)
===Connections===
*Jay Lovestone
==External Resources==
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==Notes==
Wolfe, Bertram
Bertrand Collomb

Bertrand Collomb is one of the six most central members of the Transnational Elite.
:Bertrand Collomb is Chairman of Lafarge, the worldwide leader in building materials. A graduate of the École Polytechnique and the École des Mines in Paris, he also holds a French law degree and a PhD in Management (University of Texas). From 1966 to 1975, he worked with the French government. He also founded the Center for Management Research at the École Polytechnique. He joined Lafarge in 1975 and has been Chairman since 2003. He is a director of Total, ATCO and vice-chairman of Unilever. He is a trustee of the International Accounting Standards Foundation. He is a member of the European Round Table of Industrialists. He is chairman of Association Française des Entreprises Privées, chairman of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, and chairman of the French Institute of International Relations. He is also a member of the “Institut de France” (Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques).
==Affiliations==
*European Institute
==Notes==
According to Carroll and Carson the other five are Peter Sutherland, Minoro Murofushi, Percy Barnevik Paul Allaire and Etienne Davignon. See William K. Carroll Colin Carson 'Forging a New Hegemony? The Role of Transnational Policy Groups in the Network and Discourses of Global Corporate Governance'Journal of World systems Research, Vol. 9 No. 1, Winter 2003.
Bessel Kok

Bessel Kok is a businessman and chess organiser. He was a past chief executive of S.W.I.F.T. (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, an electronic clearinghouse for banks) Dylan Loeb Mcclain, 21-April-2008, New York Times, Chess Blog, Accessed 01-March-2009. He is also the chairman of Scarlet Communications in the Czech Republic.Democracy and Security Conference, List of Participants, Accessed 25-February-2009.
==Affiliations==
Democracy and Security International Conference, AttendeeDemocracy and Security Conference, List of Participants, Accessed 25-February-2009| S.W.I.F.T
==Notes==
 
Kok, Bessel
Bet 365 Group

Bet 365 is a UK-based gambling company and one of the world's largest online gambling sites, operating in almost 200 countries. 'About', Bet 365, accessed 28 June 2016 
It is is also registered as one of the top donors to Britain Stronger in Europe, the pro-EU campaign group in UK's EU referendum of June 2016. 
==Donations==
Donated £250,000 on 25 April 2016 to Britain Stronger in Europe, the pro-EU campaign group which failed to deliver a 'Remain' vote in the UK's EU referendum on 23 June 2016. Electoral Commission, The IN Campaign Donations, accessed 28 June 2016 
==Notes==
 
Category: UK Category: BrexitCategory:Brexit ‘remain’ donor
Betar

The Betar Movement (also spelled Beitar) is a Revisionist Zionist youth movement founded in 1923 in Riga, Latvia, by Ze'ev Jabotinsky. After the 1939-45 war and during the settlement of what became Israel, Betar was traditionally linked to the original Herut and then Likud political parties of Jewish settlers. It was closely affiliated with the pre-Israel Revisionist Zionist paramilitary group Irgun Zevai Leumi. It was one of many right-wing movements and youth groups arising at that time that adopted special salutes and uniforms: '[Jabotinsky] formed youth groups (Betar) whose practices, patterned after the tactics and symbols of fascism, included wearing brown shirts and using special salutes'.Smith, Charles D.Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict2004 Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, page 115 Some of the most prominent politicians of Israel were Betarim in their youth, most notably prime ministers Yitzhak Shamir and Menachem Begin, an admirer of Jabotinsky.Smith, Charles D.Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict2004 Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, page 138.
==See Also==
*Jewish Defense Organization (US)
*Jewish Defence League (UK)
*Ligue de Défense Juive (LDJ) - French version of the JDL
*Tagar/Betar - Tagar UK
*Meir Kahane
*Kach
==Notes==
Betar - Tagar UK

Betar UK existed in the late 1930s but had ceased functioning when the state of Israel was established. The movement's revitalization began in 1974 with Eli Joseph with the assistance of Eric Graus and George Evnine. Yisrael Medad of the World Betar Movement arrived in the UK in 1975 and built a winter camp at Sherborne School in Dorset, England, a summer camp in north-west France, and a two-week summer camp in Israel. Branches were opened in various locations in Greater London and elsewhere. Educational and cultural activities were organized and demonstrations were held on the themes of Soviet Jewry and Jews in Arab lands as well as on local British issues. Betar shared offices with the Herut Movement at 71, Compayne Gardens, London, at the "Tel Chai House". When that property was sold, Betar held its meetings at various locations in Stamford Hill and other Greater London areas.
Betar lost its registered charity status in 2004 when the Charity Commission for England and Wales stated that Betar "appeared to be in furtherance of a political purpose rather than a charitable purpose".Sharon Sadeh, U.K. charity commission strikes off Jewish youth group Haaretz.com. Aug. 8, 2004. 
According to the BBC:
:In January this year, the Charity Commission began investigating Betar following complaints from the Council for Arab-British Understanding (Caabu). Betar, a Zionist youth organisation associated with right-wing Israeli politics distributed an email which asked subscribers to lobby the BBC over the suspension of television presenter Robert Kilroy-Silk. Mr Kilroy-Silk had described Arabs as "suicide bombers, limb amputators, women repressors" in a British newspaper article. Betar's email republished Mr Kilroy-Silk's Sunday Express column and described it as "excellent", claiming the presenter had been fired "because his article spoke the truth". Dominic Casciani UK Jewish charity political row, BBC. 6 August 2004.
==People==
Shimon Shamila | 
==See Also==
*Jewish Defense Organization (US)
*Jewish Defence League (UK)
*Ligue de Défense Juive (LDJ) - French version of the JDL
*Tagar/Betar
*Meir Kahane
*Kach
*Betar UK
==Notes==
Betar UK

Betar UK is a grouping that created a social media presence in 2017. The group stopped posting on twitter in Feb 2018 but posted to Facebook as late as July 2020.
It is not known if it is connected with Betar - Tagar UK.
==Contact==
:Twitter: betar_uk
:Facebook: BetarUK
 
==Notes==
Category:Zionist movement UK