About Richard Maize
Richard Maize
The Richard Maize Foundation is a philanthropic organization that supports and contributes volunteer and financial resources to local and worldwide causes. By providing financial support to focus on art, culture, family services and healthcare, the Foundation helps ensure that those in need and their families can live more fulfilling lives.
Foundations
The Richard Maize Foundation generously supports foundations and causes such as the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America, the American Cancer Society, Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services, Hurricane Katrina, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Board of Governors, and the Jewish Maccabiah games, one of the world’s largest annual summer sporting competitions for Jewish youth. “Team L.A.,” supported by the Richard Maize Foundation, celebrated silver and bronze medal wins at the 26th annual Maccabiah games held in Detroit in 2008. The week-long sporting event included teen athletes from the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Hungary, Israel, Mexico and Venezuela.
The Maccabiah Games
Richard Maize is especially proud of one of the event’s soccer participants, his daughter, Ally. “The Maccabiah games…instill an appreciation of Jewish values, competitive sporting experiences and the spirit of community involvement in a memorable and rewarding environment,” said Richard.
Historic Buildings
Also in 2008, along with the Friends of Greystone Mansion, the Richard Maize Foundation supported a silent auction with all proceeds benefiting the sixth year of Greystone’s restoration. Currently owned by the City of Beverly Hills, the 1928 classic estate was originally designed in the English Gothic Revival style, and in 1976, the mansion was placed on the Register of Historic Places. Mr. Maize is dedicated to supporting young designers and the restoration of historic buildings around the greater Los Angeles area.
Human Rights
Richard Maize put immense efforts into creating human rights information sites on the Internet to call into question the conclusions reached in the UN Goldstone Report which was released last week. The biased report ended weeks of speculation into the Gaza War enquiry, a commission that Israel chose not to be involved in. As Richard Maize states, “When the UN Goldstone Report was released anyone could see that it was highly biased, one sided, a pure example of discrimination against Israel.”
It is a known fact that one of the four members of the Goldstone Commission had already made up her mind before the war ended, having signed a letter stating that Israel’s actions in Gaza were war crimes. The UN Human Rights Counsel includes in its members states that are known to have questionable records regarding human rights or hostile feelings towards Israel, such as Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Pakistan, Bahrain, Mauritius and Qatar.
In fact, the mandate was not upheld by several of the democratic members of the Human Rights Commission, including the European Union, Japan, Canada and Switzerland, all of whom refused to support the resolution.
When it comes to witnesses called by the commission, some of them were in fact Hamas operatives directly involved in terrorist activities. One of those witnesses, Mohammed Fuoad Abu Askar, was only one of the many senior Hamas operatives who offered their own homes in which to store arms and ammunition. The IDF targetted Askar’s “home” in its strikes against terror in Gaza.
Even though Hamas held the entire population of Gaza hostage by planting its rockets and terrorist infrastructure with the civilian residential areas and using those civilians as human shields, the commission did not acknowledge these crimes.