It's often the same people: dual Russian-Israeli citizens involved in organized crime. This dates back to the USSR and Semion Mogilevich (whose Israeli passport was procured by Robert Maxwell) to today's oligarchs like Roman Abramovich, who got Israeli citizenship after Russia was sanctioned.

For billionaires, attacking DEI also creates a new set of allies. It gets blue collar workers (especially White men) to side with billionaires rather than against them, by fueling blue collar workers' anger at the fact that they didn't benefit from efforts to expand access to white collar prosperity