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2011-11-22T20:05:00.001-08:00

Anti-Israel crusade on U.S. campus (The usual suspects)

November 19, 2011 By Lee Kaplan

The University of San Francisco is a Jesuit college. One thing of interest is how the Catholic Pope during World War II did nothing to help the Jews during the Holocaust. In following tradition, USF’s campus President and Reverend Stephen Privett is no better. Alerted that one of his faculty, the virulently anti-Israel and anti-US Stephen Zunes arranged for a recruiting session to boycott the Jews on the Bay Area campus sponsored by Global Exchange, a non-profit group that gave $600,000 in aid to al Qaeda while our marines were fighting in Fallujah and provides aid to Hamas, Pruitt followed the example of the World War II Pope: He did nothing to stop it. In fact, he stonewalled any communication with the Jewish community.

Lying by omission: University of San Francisco’s Middle East Studies Department hosts Dalit Baum’s lecture to recruit more BDS activists and financially ruin the Israeli economy

By Lee Kaplan, investigator, analyst

On November 9^th, 2011, the University of San Francisco’s Middle East Studies Department and International Studies Professor Stephen Zunes, the school’s Muslim Students Association (MSA), as well as the Bay Area non-profit Global Exchange all sponsored little more than an indoctrination session against the Jewish state of Israel and Jewish businesses. The event promoted the BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement against Israel while trying to pass itself off as an academic event. Professor Zunes has a long history of antipathy against Israel as a US ally.

The guest speaker for that evening was Dalit Baum , who runs the website Who Profits? and is an Israeli leftist who in the past has called for the dismantling of the Jewish state and who boasted she has already cost the Israeli economy in excess of 1.5 billion dollars in promoting BDS against Israeli firms worldwide. Baum bills herself as a “feminist scholar” and was introduced as such by Zunes, even though she holds only a degree in math and has never published any academic work regarding feminism. Baum made clear during the evening she was at USF to present to the students “information” and “tools” they could use to boycott and divest from the Jewish state. Zunes remarked at Baum’s courage speaking at USF because of Israel’s new law allowing lawsuits by companies affected by BDS against activists like Baum.

As a form of perversion, the BDS Movement gets touted on college campuses by the likes of Zunes and Baum as some form of fighting “oppression” and “human rights abuses” when it is actually an extension of the Arab League Boycott against Israel that was created in 1950. Boycotting was the first political action step taken by the Nazi Party in 1933 that led to the Final Solution. It is a form of economic warfare to force Israel’s government to capitulate to Arab demands. Zunes and Baum also tried to conflate their boycott efforts by fallaciously comparing Israel today with the 1980’s apartheid South Africa in order to instill in those attending the idea that they were fighting “oppression.”

Global Exchange, Baum’s main sponsor, is the fundraising arm for Medea Benjamin’s Code Pink, an NGO that routinely provides monetary and physical aid to the terrorist group Hamas whose charter calls for not only the killing and dispossession all of Israel’s Jews, but the complete annihilation of all world Jewry, so already the event was off to a shaky start. Code Pink/Global Exchange also sent $600,000 in aid to the “Iraqi Resistance” while US marines were fighting in Fallujah.

A photograph of Medea Benjamin was flashed on the screen demonstrating against Israel overseas, but few in the audience would have seen the connection or recognized her and Zunes mentioned the organization as if it were a purveyor of brotherly love. Dalit Baum also condemned the US presence in Iraq and Afghanistan suggesting it was mainly for profits and like the dispute between Israel and the Palestinian Authority a form of “neo-colonialism.”

In order to put some distance between the event and itself after some Jewish groups expressed alarm the event would be held on the Jesuit campus, the administration required the head of the Muslim Students Association read a disclaimer that stated, ”The presence of a guest speaker on the campus of the University of San Francisco does not necessarily imply approval or endorsement by the University of the views expressed by the guest speaker or by anyone present at the event.” A communiqué also went out assuring critics that a question and answer session would follow to allow for differing points of view. 2 x 4 cards were passed out with instructions to write questions down that would be addressed later that evening.

After the disclaimer was read, Professor Stephen Zunes immediately stood before the room and stated he felt obliged to “declaim” the disclaimer. “I’ve been teaching here for 15 years, “ he said, “and it’s the first time I’ve ever heard it explicitly said. Why it had to be said is an indication it’s a challenge to raise human rights issues when you are dealing with a strategic ally of the United States [Israel]. Zunes reminisced about his own activism in boycotting South Africa and tried to conflate what when on there in the 1980’s with what Israel is dealing with in the Palestinian Authority. While he mentioned whites discriminated against blacks in South Africa, he avoided mentioning that Arabs who are Israeli citizens enjoy full civil rights the same as Jews and even have affirmative action programs in Israeli universities, own businesses and serve as judges, policemen and even in parliament . “There is much to be said,” he continued, about boycotts, divestment and sanctions as a way to raise a challenge to the Israeli occupation.” However, he made no mention that the Palestinian Authority does practice genuine apartheid against Jews (not to mention terrorism) and even has a law on the books that metes out a death penalty for selling land to a Jew, even retroactively, and a constitution modeled after those of Iran and Saudi Arabia that do discriminate against religious minorities.

Zunes then introduced Baum as an “outstanding scholar” and “human rights activist.” Baum began her lecture by first asking the audience how many of them had heard of the BDS movement or participated in it. She remarked that few in the audience knew about it as she thanked specifically Zunes and the MSA for inviting her explaining that her purpose there was to “report back” to USF students on the BDS movement and give them “tools” by which to engage in boycotting Israel “over here.” She thanked specifically Zunes and the MSA for inviting her.

Baum’s lecture could only be described as a form of “lying by omission”; that is, a style of presenting just enough information about a topic to elicit a positive or negative reaction without presenting all the facts just as Professor Zunes had done in trying to conflate South Africa’s apartheid years with Israel’s current dilemma with the Palestinian Authority. In some instances she just outright lied.

Baum began by saying, “The idea of having a Jewish only organization in Israel is like having a whites only racist organization here in America.” She explained how the activist organizations she belonged to had been fortunate enough to join Arab groups “in solidarity” to oppose Israel’s current existence as a Jewish state. She spoke of an Arab civil society of women’s groups, educators, unions, Muslim groups, even communists that was working to “end the occupation” (she made it a point not to mention the myriad terrorist groups that make up the Palestinian Authority government-to-be or that these “civil groups” support the terror groups in their activities). She claimed she would speak only of the 1967 occupation of the West Bank but alluded many times to events in Gaza without mentioning rockets fired on Israeli communities. Baum began by showing a map of Israel and the Palestinian Authority then saying that Israel has no borders. She claimed that 3.5 million Palestinians live in the area but that the Israeli communities (settlements) had control over the main roads and implied only Jews were allowed to use them. She referred to the areas around the settlements as being “ethnically cleansed,” to suggest racism when the Arabs and most Israeli Jews are racially the same, but practice different religions. She made no effort to point out that Arabs who are Israeli citizens are the same ethnic and religious makeup as Arabs in the Palestinian Authority nor about how various security measures were needed because Palestinian terrorists routinely attack Israelis who use those roads. Nor did she say Arabs from the PA can use those roads after getting security clearance, such as taxi drivers. She told her audience, “If you are Jewish you can go to some areas and if you’re not you can’t go to other areas all in a country that has no borders.” This was an example of leaving out just enough information to make a false impression. The truth is that if a person is an Arab and an Israeli citizen he is permitted to go anywhere any Jewish Israeli citizen goes.

Palestinian Authority Arabs are restricted due to terror attacks on Israelis. Israel’s lack of permanent borders is because the Arab states back in 1967 all agreed to refuse to make peace with Israel so the “borders” are in fact temporary armistice lines subject to final negotiations as part of a peace deal. None of the students attending her lecture would have known this and clearly Baum and Zunes didn’t want them to.

Baum then accused Israel of “profiting from the occupation” by selling inferior goods to the Arab population in the West Bank such as spoiled food, what she attributed to “neo-colonialism” . She later tied this profiteering as being behind the security costs in the West Bank. “The security costs are the costs of the Palestinian resistance” she said. Meanwhile, she made no comment of terror attacks on Israeli citizens both in or outside Israel. She made no attempt to suggest that the Palestinian Authority government is run by a terrorist organization (Fatah) and myriad such organizations run things there such as Hamas and even the PFLP that works with her organizational network in Israel. Nor but did she mention that the Oslo Accords sought to set up an independent Palestinian state there years ago but terror attacks against Israelis had made this impossible. Through some twisted logic she determined that Israeli corporations that provide jobs for Palestinian Arabs should be boycotted in order to make Israel leave the area to the Palestinians, without once explaining how any such activity would benefit the average Palestinian Arab.

Baum displayed a photo of boys at a weekly demonstration in the village of Bi’ilin. She urged people in the audience to boycott an Israeli firm that manufactures tear gas because “tear gas” can make you very sick and you could die”, but she completely ignored that the Arab population in B’ilin every Friday stages a riot at the Security Fence where rocks, Molotov cocktails and other incendiaries are thrown as Israeli soldiers. She called these riots demonstrations and declared them “nonviolent”. then said she never attends them physically herself because she is scared of the violence that goes on only from the Israeli police.

Baum then explained the three purposes of her movement and BDS: The first one was Repression which she explained was Israel’s need to control the population in the West Bank. She complained that security companies in the West Bank were profiting from the occupation and this was why the “occupation” would not end (no mention of Arab terror attacks on Israelis or the recent murder of an Israeli father of four on the highways which is an almost weekly occurrence). Baum displayed a photo of a section of the Security Fence that comprises large security walls and towers around Jerusalem but is really only about three per cent of the entire fence that is mostly barbed wire. The fence in the photo was set up to block sniper shots into the Jewish neighborhood of Gilo in Jerusalem from the surrounding hills. Nobody in the audience would know
this and apparently Baum didn’t want them to. Attempts to raise this information denied and referred to the 2x 4 cards to be answered “later.”

Baum explained her own history as beginning with the anarchist lesbian group Black Laundry is Israel. She elicited giggles from audience as she explained “funny” things her group would do in near weekly demonstrations against the Israeli military. None of her audience would have known that just for being lesbian in a Palestinian state she would subject to murder, let alone practice her sexual orientation openly as in Israel, nor that homosexuals in the PA routinely flee to Israel for refuge. She described Black Laundry as “the first time part of a huge nonviolent movement that was facing a very violent Israeli military” had done anything.” She continued, “being a nonviolent activist, I don’t’ like violence” (yet she had no qualms about stopping the Israeli military that protects Israelis from violence).

Baum next tied Israeli security companies, some that do business in the US because Israel profits from US subsidies. She declared this was done to provide Israel with free security products.

It was at this point that Baum also began explicitly lying in her presentation, not just omitting facts for an unknowing audience she and Zunes hoped to recruit. She displayed a photograph of Ofer Prison in the West Bank where the military and police incarcerate terrorists or violent rioters. She described it as “a very terrible prison for Palestinian “political prisoners.” She later said that she had never been inside or toured the prison herself nor that Palestinian prisoners in Israel’s system routinely earn even Master’s degrees and PhD’s while in prison at the expense of the Israeli taxpayer.

She described the administrative courts near the prison and accused Israel of arresting “13 year-old kids dragged from their houses in the middle of the night” and brought there.” Nobody in the audience would know these are the same rock throwers who attack Israelis on the highways and at riots such as in Bi’lin.” The implication was
that Israeli police just raid homes for no reason at all.

She objected to an unmanned robot vehicle Israel builds and uses that patrols the border urging the manufacturer be boycotted. She talked of Caterpillar and Rachel Corrie and Gaza and told the audience Israel routinely bulldozes homes with people in them. She falsely claimed the Israelis just pull up to civilian homes for no reason and give the occupants only a few moments to flee. “if you are very old or unlikely you die.” This was blatant lying. Home demolitions only are used to destroy homes that were used as bomb factories or homes of suicide bombers and they are not random.

Settlements was her second issue she said “because they are illegal”…She said that since WWI international law consensus was it’s not a good idea to let states hold onto what they occupy of other countries in a war, because it leads to later wars. She never told her audience that Jewish settlements were in the West Bank and Gaza before the war in 1948. She claims to cite international law by the 4th Geneva convention which states no state can take over another country’s land by force. “Such occupation it says must be temporary until agreement reached over time.” But this is exactly what Israel has been doing all along Baum has no international law degree nor is the Geneva Accords even applicable as it only is between established states that are signatories to the accords. There was no Palestinian state in 1967 and the West Bank and Gaza were Jordan and Egypt who ceded the land to Israeli control after the war, in essence dumped the Palestinian population in Israel’s lap.

She complained Israel held land 44 years without mentioning the “3 no’s” announced by the Arab League after the ’67 war: “No negotiations, no peace, no Israel. The settlements she claimed are illegal by international law but again they are not since UN Resolution 242 of the UN allowed Israel to regain land lost in 1948 as part of a negotiated peace settlement and final borders. “We have the law on our side,” she said but the audience would never know she was referring to kangaroo courts that routinely find fault with anything dominated by totalitarian regimes that condemn anything a democracy like Israel does. Baum is not an expert in
international law.

Baum then mentioned Israeli companies the BDS movement was targeting such as Lev Leviev. She showed photos of activists picketing the store in New York and crowed how successful they were, that they had allegedly getting his company to stop building settlements in the West Bank.”This is a huge victory for a small group singing and dancing in New York.

Her third issue was “Land Exploitation” she said as she accused Israeli companies of exploiting “cheap land.”. ”Why is it cheap?” she asked the audience. An MSA student blurted out “It’s stolen!” “Right!” she replied. In fact, land taken by Israel for industrial uses or settlements is only former government land that belonged to the Jordanian government or Egypt’s. No private property of Palestinians is taken. Baum directly lied to the audience suggesting Israel just takes Palestinian private homes for its own use, taken with no legal
recourse.

Baum specifically targets the Ahava Company in the West Bank that makes cosmetics from Dead Sea mud boasting that the BDS campaign had forced the closure of the Ahava store in London . The audience would never know that the store closed not because people boycotted Ahava products but because BDS activists prevented the surrounding stores from doing any business so the landlord refused to renew Ahava’s
lease due to riots.

Again, playing international lawyer, Baum accused Israel of conducting “pillage” for selling mud. Israel employs Arabs in the West Bank, and is trying to set up an independent Palestinian state that applauds murdering Jews and repeatedly says it will take over all of Israel, but the Jews are responsible for pillage.

Baum also attacked Soda Stream, boasting how BDS activists got the. European Court of Justice to force them from saying Made in Israel on their products because their factory was in the West Bank. “You should educate people about that” she said, ”the most important category is exploitation of resources and the
Palestinian labor. At this point Professor Zunes recommended a film called the Bottomline about corporate exploitation of blacks in South Africa under apartheid. This was another false allusion to apartheid South Africa.

“Maybe you should have a training night one night where you can screen this film,” said Baum,” It shows how corporations supported the S. Africa apartheid regime” and she suggested this scenario be used to attack Israel.

A training night? For an academic lecture?

“Try and find something around you that connect to the crimes in Palestine. And try to find something you can do over here that will influence the bottom line over there…..you can be effective.”She urged students to … “ want to know how I am implicated, how products I buy are related to ‘crimes’ over there. Not
to make them feel guilty but to make a difference.”

She concluded with a swipe at Ariel Sharon who decided to build the Security Fence and said that years of Likud governments had exploited the West Bank. She made no mention of the horrendous bus bombings and terror attacks and murders of Israelis, may paid for by the late Saddam Hussein for the PLO and other
Palestinian terror groups that necessitated the fence, nor how terror attacks dropped 97% since its installation.

I raised my hand at the conclusion and to ask Prof. Zunes if I could ask him a question about bringing in a lecturer who could show how many falsehoods were just presented….Zunes replied I should fill out a 2 x4 card with my question for the question and answer session that was now to begin. I did so and handed him the card with my business card. Baum took all the 2 x 4 cards and each time she came on a question by a pro-Israel member of the audience she simply said, “I don’t want to answer this question.” She then answered questions that only supported what she said earlier, ignoring any questions that might elicit discussion. Zunes ignored my question.

Threatened with arrest… for daring to ask a question?

When the event broke up I approached Zunes at the front of the room and politely asked him, “Professor Zunes, you didn’t answer my question. Can I bring in a lecturer to lend balance to what was presented to your students here tonight?”

“You’re a liar!” Zunes screamed at me. A plainclothes security guard from USF stood next to me and threatened to handcuff me and throw me out of the room if I did not leave immediately. I asked the guard, “What? For asking him a question? He’s the one who is yelling.” I left. A complaint to the Administration with
recording and eyewitness by me the next day was only stonewalled.

This is the state of Middle East Studies at the University of San Francisco. Welcome to 1933 where students are taught to boycott, divest from and sanction Jewish businesses and it passes as an “academic lecture.” Reverend Privett should be proud of upholding the tradition on the Jesuit campus.

SABA Mosque has Hezbollah cells in the making

2011-07-14T07:22:00.000-07:00

How youths in American Mosques pose a potential threat as Hezbollah cells: SABA Mosque in San Jose, California leads the way:

Imagine you wake up one morning to the news: war has broken out between American forces and the Khomeinist regime in Iran. Within hours of U.S. forces landing on Iranian soil, shooting attacks have broken out at some U.S. high schools and colleges and in shopping malls. Synagogues and local police stations across the country have experienced bombing attacks. Even some day care centers have seen attacks on children across the country. Within hours of the war starting, fatwas were issued at some mosques ordering the devout to take up arms against “the oppressor” — America.

Sound implausible? Not really, if one looks below the surface at certain mosques in the U.S. As in any social construct, while the elders of a given mosque, the imams, might lead the call for such attacks, it is the young people with the physical vigor and desire to take action that would carry them out. Not all mosques or their youths would be involved. For example, while both Sunni and Shiite mosques both tend to be against American foreign policy, the Sunnis and Shiites don’t always get along (but sometimes they do when it comes to opposing Israel). Incredible as it sounds to non-Muslims, Shiites expressed satisfaction at the killing of the Sunni Osama Bin Laden.

But would young adolescent Muslims in America who listen to hip hop music, or play video games, especially the girls who don’t wear hijabs or niqabs, really take to arms for Holy Jihad? The answer lies with what the youths are listening to and saying behind the facade of the mosque that appears as just another religious institution in a land that allows maximum freedom of religion.

A case in point could be made about the SABA Mosque located in what on the surface looks to be the peaceful Silicon Valley, California. The Mosque is near all the Internet goliaths like Google, but within it lurks another world behind the scenes. Attending a sermon is the same as at any synagogue or church; the devout become lost in the daily orisons, very young children run around trying to amuse themselves as their parents pray, men and women serve food for the after service meal. But SABA is different in a sinister way; SABA is a mosque dedicated to the Khomeinist government in Iran. While brochures at its entrance stress how the Mosque’s school, SABA Academy, instills in its youth “a high moral character,” other brochures urge mosque attendees to never cooperate with the FBI.

In fact, the entire mosque gives constant tributes to the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the man who led the Iranian revolution that took U.S. embassy personnel hostage in 1979, killed 243 U.S. military personnel in 1983 and launched Hezbollah. Such tributes are not lost on the Mosque’s young people, either. Since the idea is instilled in the Mosque’s young adolescent men and women that following the lead of the Mosque’s elders will give them a “high moral character,” it would only be a natural progression in time of war for such young people to follow a fatwa to martyr themselves for the regime back in Iran.

Is this an exaggeration? If one looks at the Facebook and YouTube accounts and activities of one leader of the Mosque’s youth movement, the answer is apparently no.

That example would be the SABA Mosque’s imam’s son. Since the religious leader of any institution usually sets an example for his acolytes, one normally can expect to observe in his children the models for all youths growing up within the religious institution, so following the imam’s son would be a natural progression.

Nabi Raza Mir is the SABA Mosque’s religious leader, or imam. His prestige can be seen in how his followers, especially the youth, address him as “maulana,” which is Arabic for “our lord.” Mir was recently denied reentry into the United States after visiting his native village of Alipur, a Khomeinist stronghold in India. Despite the U.S. Homeland Security Department (DHS) wanting to keep him out, a U.S. judge decided to let him back into the U.S. In fact, part of Mir’s legal appeal aided by CAIR and lawyers from the National Lawyers Guild was that he needed to return because his son was still living here and would need to enter college soon. The boy, Ali Mir, to his friends is a high school student active in the Mosque’s community in San Jose, being groomed to one day be another extremist imam in America like his father heading several regional mosques.

Imam Nabi Raza Mir of SABA Mosque, father of Ali Mir.

Hezbollah agents and adherents usually like to have dual identities and as such have dual names. Ali Mir, San Jose high school student by day, in the Mosque is known as Ishraq Abidi. This distinguishes him from the kafirs, or non-Muslims, and sends out a message he is not just anyone in the Shia community. The Khomeinist youth movement back in Iran is known as the Basij, and they wear a distinctive white and black checkered scarf to let others know they mean business. Ali Mir/Ishraq Abidi sports this scarf at public functions in San Jose and around the Mosque.

Ali Mir/Ishraq Abidi at rally in downtown San Jose, California.

Is this just a 17 year-old boy living in America emulating terrorists and Khomeinist thugs in Northern California? Or is he promoting what he has learned at his father’s knee? The boy’s YouTube account reveals much more about him. Rather than images of rock bands and pretty girls, Ali Mir/Ishraq Abidi’s YouTube pages are festooned with images promoting terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas and denigrating Jews (Zionists). One page shows us an image that says, “Put this on your profile if you believe 9/11 was a Zionist inside job.” Immediately below this we see the image of two fingers making an obscene gesture with the quote “F— Zionists!” and immediately below that we have the image of a HEZBOLLAH-branded pistol with the statement “Take the gun and fight the Zionists [Jews] and the Nawasib [Saudi Sunnis, considered U.S. allies]-Put This On Your Page If You Support Resistance Against the Zionists and the Nawasib.”

An isolated incident? Not quite. As with most teenagers, Nabi Mir’s son is active with using social media on the Internet. A screenshot of a YouTube page he operates for the SABA Mosque features a video of his imam father lecturing and at the bottom lists his alias Ishraq Abidi and tells viewers for his avatar he chose the name of the Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi. An avatar is an emblem that represents what someone believes in and becomes their sign on a message board. Yazdi is the worst of all the Khomeinist imams running Iran today, the most militant, anti-U.S. and pro-terror, and he is the godfather of Ahmadinejad. Of note, we see that Ali Mir/Ishraq Abidi is not alone as one group he communicates with regularly that was listed on the page is Shia Youth representing thousands of Ali Mirs/Ishraq Abidis.

On still another Facebook page, one on which he openly uses his nom de guerre Ishraq Abidi, he explicitly says he is a fan of Ali Khamenei, the current militant Islamic leader of Iran and then includes his admiration for the Ayatollah Khomeini, the Hamas fund raiser and supporter George Galloway and Ahmadinejad, all terrorism supporters. He promotes his mosque’s youth camp and mentions he sells something that says he loves his dad. How sweet.

Watch this video the imam’s son has presented on the Web, especially noting the calls to violence and terror at the end:

http://wiki.islamiccounterterrorism.org/article/Ya_RAFIC_Labboun

Or this one: http://www.youtube.com/user/lebaneseboy1

And note the wall used by Ali Mir/Ishraq Abidi for many of his social media pages at this link:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hezbollahwatch/5917192650/

It’s obvious the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Ali Mir/Ishraq Abidi hosts multiple pages that all extol support for violence or terrorism. On yet another YouTube page where he lists his ID as ali3212, he has an Iranian flag with a silhouette of an armed terrorist superimposed over it. To the right is a video of a sermon given in Iran where the adherents all chant “Death to America!” In another YouTube page he operates there is a video tribute to the Ayatollah Khomeini, another titled “The Beautiful Channel” contains a collage of Hezbollah flags. Remember, it was Hezbollah who murdered our U.S. marines back in 1983. The Internet is full of this lads social media pages, and many have been since removed but were saved on screen captures. In one older Facebook page he uses a photo of the Ayatollah Khomeini as his avatar and he set up at least three more pro-Hezbollah pages that call for death to America. Apparently he has made a business out of this on YouTube that he now calls ZahraProductions.net, a site replete with the worst jihadist media and tributes to Khomeini and Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah. Some of the material makes threats and exhortations to violence calling for the destruction of the United States and Israel.

In downtown San Jose, California youths from SABA Mosque wear Basiji scarves, extoll Hezbollah.

Basijis are like the Hitler Youth Movement of Iran’s regime and commit themselves to martyrdom.

Ali Mir/Ishraq Abidi does not conduct a business doing this because nobody looks at his wares.He in fact communicates with and inspires other Muslim youths not only from the SABA Mosque which is a central mosque in Northern California, but across the globe. In the event of war, extolled by his beloved imam father to martyr himself for the cause, it is obvious he would take great joy to do so.

(Additional relevant screenshots and photographs are available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/hezbollahwatch/.Although some have been removed after being exposed, they are preserved there.)

It isn’t Islamophobia when generations of young Muslims are indoctrinated to the cause of jihad and martyrdom. When a sense of “high moral values” includes tributes to terrorism, we should all be afraid.

The Islamic Counterterrorism Institute contributed to this investigation.

San Jose's Dirty Little Secret: The SABA Mosque Khomeinist/Hezbollah cell

2011-06-30T20:28:00.000-07:00

Open support for terrorism by Shia Association of Bay Area visitors: Asad Jaffi

The San Jose, California’s Shia Association Bay Area (SABA Mosque) keeps producing evidence of support for the Hezbollah terrorism group and the militant Islamist regime of Iran almost every day.

The latest evidence pointing to this are the frequent visits to the SABA Islamic Guidance Center by one Syed Asad Jafri, a mullah who speaks frequently at there, indoctrinating the congregation with Khomeinist ideas and messages of anti-Semitism.

Syed Asad Jafri
Jafri was born and raised in Toronto and completed his high school studies in Canada, then moved to the United States to pursue a college degree in computer technology. He received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science in 1998 and became a computer professional, relocating to work back in Canada, but his claim to fame in the Shia community is as a militant, anti-Semitic, pro-Hezbollah mullah.

This should come as no surprise since his upbringing was strongly influenced in his religious community by another militant mullah named Mohammed Zaki Baqri, another imam who was to become a SABA Mosque leader and who is also well-known for his hatred of Jews. Baqri hails from Alipur in India, the same Khomeinist stronghold where the Mosque’s imam Nabi Raza Mir comes from as well as other militant members of the Mosque’s leadership.

Asad Jafri became a loyal acolyte of Mohammed Zaki Baqri to such a degree that he married the militant mullah’s daughter, Zehra, who today is still his wife.

Flag of the terrorist organization Hezbollah
Asad Jafri has made statements at the Mosque that he openly supports the international terror organization Hezbollah. In lectures to pro-Khomeinist congregations in Canada and the United States, he has never shied away from promoting the image and ideas of Hezbollah. During one virulent session where he sought to indoctrinate the SABA Mosque congregation, while praising historical attacks on the “Infidel”, he praised the terrorist group’s attack on Israel by saying:

“And if that's not enough for you, that's too far in history, come to the summer of 2006, a small group of Shias in Southern Lebanon [i.e. Hezbollah terrorists], holding the flag of Husayn, defeated the Yazid of today (meaning Israel and the United States, since a “Yazid” is the most evil person to have ever been born.”

The Shia Muslims curse the Yazid throughout the year, especially during the Islamic month of Muharram al-Haraam. Citing from the Koran, Jafri told the congregation of “how many a small group defeated a numerous group (meaning Israel) with the permission of God only.”

In other words, Hezbollah was doing “God’s work” while kidnapping and ultimately murdering Israeli soldiers and innocent civilians and launching a war that killed many people on both sides.

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SABA Center
In 2004, Jafri relocated to the Shia religious studies center that is the city of Qum, Iran, along with his family. Both and he and his wife Zehra entered into the Hawza (religious seminary) and began their theological studies, later starting his tabligh missions such as to the SABA Mosque as early as 2006, when he started touring militant Islamist Khomeinist centers back in America and Canada. While touring in the U.S., Jafri spoke in Atlanta, Dallas, and Phoenix, but also made his presentations at the SABA Mosque because of its centralization in the northern California Islamic community. Jafri later returned to Qum where he resides today with his family and continues to study religion.

Asad Jafri is still openly hostile towards the United States. He frequently attacks the policies of the U.S. Government and openly promotes Khomeinist theories among the misguided American youths who frequent Islamist centers such as SABA in San Jose. In so doing he never strays from his open endorsement and promotion of the ideas of the late Ayatollah Khomeini.

MANZAR FOROOHAR TRIES TO SNEAK ONE BY THE CALIFORNIA FACULTY ASSOCIATION

2011-06-12T09:28:00.000-07:00

Manzar Foroohar: The California Faculty Association's Secret Weapon
by Lee Kaplan
FrontPage Magazine
June 3, 2011

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/06/03/manzar-foroohar-the-california-faculty-association%E2%80%99s-secret-weapon/

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/11388

When the California Faculty Association (CFA) adopted a resolution in 2009 condemning Israel for its military incursion into Gaza, it reinforced the fear that academic unions would be the next front in an ongoing propaganda offensive against the Jewish State. Amidst the ensuing controversy, one of the key players in the resolution's formation—Manzar Foroohar, an Iranian immigrant and history professor specializing in the modern Middle East and Latin America at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo—came to the fore. However, the extent of her involvement was never publicly acknowledged. In fact, Foroohar authored and championed the resolution, which was presented by the CFA Peace & Justice Committee (Committee), unanimously adopted by the CFA Board of Directors on February 7, 2009, and passed by the CFA General Assembly in Sacramento on April 4-5 that same year.

Blandly titled, "CFA Call for a Halt to Violence Against All Civilians in Palestine and Israel," the resolution was, in fact, blatantly anti-Israel. According to University of California, Los Angeles, professor emeritus Leila Beckwith, writing at American Thinker in January, 2010:

The resolution states seven propositions that form the basis for the actions recommended. The propositions include affirming a moral equivalence between Israel defending its citizens from missile attacks and Hamas firing missiles against Israeli civilians, a misstatement of the conditions in Gaza, an omission of the U.N. Security Council's condemnation of acts of terrorism, and a false charge against the U.S. of not seeking a just peace agreement.

Why would an academic union that acts as an exclusive bargaining representative within CSU and is devoted to improving working conditions for its members pass a resolution regarding international affairs? It turns out CFA president and California State University, Los Angeles, history professor Lillian Taiz—according to interviews with CFA members, and as the list of Committee resolutions makes clear—appointed the members of a statewide Committee in 2008 for this very purpose. With the exception of Foroohar, none of the unelected committee members have any expertise in Middle East studies, which might explain why their names were not listed on the resolution, nor was it prominently displayed on the CFA website in 2009. But during a phone interview, Stanley Oden, a professor in the department of government at Sacramento State University and a current member of the Committee, acknowledged that Foroohar was behind the 2009 resolution. Additionally, even though the names of Committee members no longer appear at the CFA website, a screen capture from 2008 demonstrates that both Foroohar and Oden were on the committee not long before the resolution was passed.

The resolution was slipped quietly in front of CFA members—for whom monthly dues are mandatory— for endorsement; afterward, several of them, when contacted by this author, said they felt duped. Decrying "violence against civilians—whether in Palestine or Israel" in the "interest of peace and greater humanity in the region," the wording of the resolution led CFA members to believe that by signing it they would simply be supporting innocent victims. They were also unaware of the level of anti-Israel activism engaged in by Foroohar and others on the Committee.

A cursory review of Foroohar's academic work at Cal Poly reveals that she donates a good deal of her time both inside and outside the classroom to demonizing Israel, particularly by promoting boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS). Indeed, Foroohar, along with a number of Middle East studies academics teaching in California, is on the organizing committee for the U.S. Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel, a group that works internationally to promote BDS.

The bibliographies and hand-outs (click here, here, and here for examples) for Foroohar's Middle East history courses reveal a biased professor trying to convince her students to blame Israel for the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict and to reject Zionism. Student comments at PolyRatings.com demonstrate as much, with one of them flatly stating that, "This professor has an agenda. Her classes are nothing but propaganda to support her cause." Fittingly, she supports her "research" with pseudo-scholarship that reiterates standard anti-Israel propaganda, including selections from Stephen Walt and John Mearshimer's notoriously shoddy book The Israel Lobby.

Foroohar is known for inviting virulently anti-Israel speakers to Cal Poly. In January 2003, a lecture series offered in conjunction with one of her courses included Israeli "peace activist" Susy Mordechay speaking about "The Assault on Palestinian Civilian Life, 2000-2002"; University of Southern California linguistics professor Hagit Borer on "Zionism: Myth and Reality"; and Jeff Halper, anthropology professor emeritus at Ben Gurion University in Israel and director of the one-man NGO, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, on "The Key to an Israeli-Palestinian Peace: Dismantling Israel's Matrix of Control." In November 2004, Foroohar moderated a presentation featuring Ilan Pappe, an Israeli expatriate and "New Historian" who is one of Israel's harshest critics and now teaches in the UK. Among other attempts to rewrite history in order to tarnish Israel's image, Pappe was involved in the scholarly fabrication of a nonexistent massacre of Arabs in the village of Tantura in 1948.

Along the same lines, Foroohar gave lectures at California State University, Sacramento, in February 2009 titled, "Occupation of Palestine: The Obstacle to Peace" and "Zionism and Peace: Compatible or Contradictory Ideas?" In March 2009, she took part in a panel discussion at the University of Southern California titled, "From la Frontera to Gaza: Chicano-Palestinian Connections." She presented a slide show and discussion at California State University, Fresno, in October 2002, on "Occupation and Resistance." In May 2005, Foroohar moderated a discussion session at Cal Poly following a Muslim Student Association co-sponsored screening of several anti-Israel "documentaries," including Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land.

In the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist atrocities, Foroohar blamed U.S. support for Israel, in large part, for the attacks and warned that Israel would use it as pretext for violence. As she put it:

Fundamentalist extremists also resent the fact the United States helps Israel target Islamic civilians. . . . Now that our attention is on the attacks, it's giving license to the Israelis to shoot at will.

According to another Cal Poly faculty member who prefers to remain anonymous, Foroohar helped organize the Students for Justice and Peace in the Middle East-sponsored "Wall of Separation" displays on her campus from 2007 through 2010. During at least one of those occasions, she also gave a presentation. He added that:

In 2007, two of our Hillel students, on their own and not representing Hillel, made a couple of 2×3 posters and held them on the sidewalk, perhaps thirty feet away from their wall on our Dexter Lawn area. When she came in and saw them, she called the police to come and remove the students! The police responded, but told the students to walk with the signs, not plant them in the lawn. Complaints to the university about violations of free speech drew no response.

Had CFA members been aware of Foroohar's extremist background, it's a safe assumption they would have been hesitant to endorse the 2009 resolution. That a radical academic such as Foroohar was able to impose her anti-Israel positions on a union representing 23,000 faculty, counselors, librarians, and coaches on twenty-three campuses speaks volumes about the ability of a fanatical few to advance a deceptive, and often false, narrative on the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Moreover, the campaign to delegitimize Israel through the CFA didn't stop with the 2009 resolution. It may have opened the door for a future resolution to boycott and divest from Israel, which union leadership—responding to this author's interview requests during and after the closed-door 74th CFA Assembly in San Francisco on April 8-9, 2011—refused to confirm or deny is in the works. At the conference, Nena Torrez, an education professor at California State University, San Bernadino, and current member of the Committee, was whisked away by her colleagues before I could broach the subject of BDS, while later requests for an appointment with CFA staff were stymied and eventually labeled "harassment."

A number of CFA members certainly believe that a BDS resolution has been passed, and the fact that union leadership has engaged an attorney who has advised them not to discuss boycott-related issues with the rank and file would seem to back up their suspicions. In addition, several CFA members have consulted an attorney about the unelected members of the Committee authoring politicized resolutions against the wishes of the membership-at-large. Meanwhile, the second largest academic union in the U.S. may soon begin promoting boycotting and divesting from the Jewish state.

Lee Kaplan is an investigative journalist and columnist who writes for Isracampus.org.il, Israel National News, and the Northeast Intelligence Network. He is a Fellow at the American Center for Democracy and the founder of DAFKA.org and StoptheISM.com. He wrote this article for Campus Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum.

JOSEPH MASSAD IS NO EXPERT ON INTERNATIONAL LAW

2011-06-12T09:24:00.000-07:00

Columbia’s history professor Joseph Massad decides he’s an expert on international law above the entire world when it comes to de-legitimizing Israel.

By Lee Kaplan

Joining a long line of Palestinian and other Arab “academics” is a relentless quest to de-legitimize the Jewish state of Israel, Columbia’s Joseph Massad claims that the United Nation’s exercise of international law “against the Palestinian people” in 1948 creating Israel is rooted in a “ficticious”(sic) narrative of Israel having a "right" to exist.

Massad has taken pen or keyboard in hand to write a less-than-dignified propaganda rant against the Jewish state in the less-than-objective Arab news service, al Jazeera. In the article, dated May, 6th, 2011, Massad, who is not a law professor, nor has any expertise in international law, decides he knows more about international law than all the international lawyers in the world and throughout history including those who wrote UN resolutions pertaining to Israel’s existence and the establishment of states in the Middle East.

In the same Al Jazeera article Massad explains that “For the Palestinians and the international community, represented by the United Nations and the myriad resolutions its Security Council and General Assembly issued since 1948, what was to be negotiated were the colonization of land, the occupation of territory and population, and the laws that stipulate ethnic and religious discrimination in Israel, which, among other things, bar Palestinian refugees from returning to their land and confiscate their property. In their struggle against these Israeli practices, Palestinian leaders, whether in Israel, the Occupied Territories, or the diaspora, have always invoked these rights based on international law and UN resolutions, which Israel has consistently refused to implement or abide by since 1948. Thus for the Palestinians, armed by the UN and international law, the negotiations were precisely aimed to end colonization, occupation, and discrimination.”

Massad forgets or overlooks intentionally the United Nations in 1948 set up a Palestinian state on what is today called the West Bank the same time it created Israel (a state that was subsequently swallowed up by Jordan while Gaza was swallowed up by Egypt). Apparently, the United Nations setting up a Jewish state next door had no legal basis, but the Arab one did solely because Massad, the self-proclaimed international law expert says so. Massad also ignores that Jews were the majority population property owners who legally purchased all their land in the final area designated by the UN to be Israel. The remaining Negev desert had little going for it as private property back then. It is further a myth of the Palestinian movement that Jews just grabbed Arab property at the behest of the UN.

Massad further turns history and truth on their heads by ignoring that Israel was founded in international law by the United Nations over a 30 year period starting with the Balfour Declaration by the British. If Massad’s outrageous statements about law had any validity then most of the Arab states founded after the First World War would also have no legitimacy, such as Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon that were sops for Arab tribes who fought against the Turks for the British and French. Massad further ignores that the Jewish majority in Israel legally purchased most of their land in pre 1948 Israel, and denies a Jewish presence in the land for 3,000 years even existing after the Roman conquest, thus negating his accusation that the founding population of Israel were little more than colonists dispossessing the “indigenous” population of Arabs. Massad also ignores that Jews were the majority population property owners who legally purchased all their land in the final area designated by the UN to be Israel, parts of which were stolen by Jordanian and Egyptian armies back in 1948. The remaining Negev desert had little going for it as private property back then. It is further a myth of the Palestinian movement that Jews just grabbed Arab property at the behest of the UN.
Of course, Massad, ignores the myriad pogroms of Jews by the Arabs in the region in 1921, in 1929 in Hebron, in 1936 and 1947 which led the United Nations and Britain to declare finally a separate state for Jewish self-determination in those areas where Jews were a majority.

Massad even ignores that a “Palestinian” back in 1948 was a term used to mean a Jew, and the term was not even adoptede by Arabs allegedly from the region until after 1964 as was explained by the PLO leadership in 1970. One can only attribute such outrageous claims of violations of international law to Massad’s being tenured which guarantees he will be able to continue to teach his falsehoods to Columbia students.
So is Massad, the historian making up new history to bolster is ignorant rantings about international law? Is he covered by academic freedom to make such outrageous statements? The intelligent answer would be no.

Here are some further re-creations of events taught by Massad as evidenced by the Al Jazeera article:

“On the other hand, one of the strongest and persistent arguments that the Zionist movement and Israel have deployed since 1948 in defense of the establishment of Israel and its subsequent policies is the invocation of the rights of Israel, which are not based on international law or UN resolutions. This is a crucial distinction to be made between the Palestinian and Israeli claims to possession of "rights." While the Palestinians invoke rights that are internationally recognized, Israel invokes rights that are solely recognized at the national level by the Israeli state itself. For Zionism, this was a novel mode of argumentation as, in deploying it, Israel invokes not only juridical principles but also moral ones.

‘In this realm, Israel has argued over the years that Jews have a right to establish a state in Palestine, that they have a right to establish a "Jewish" state in Palestine, that this state has a "right to exist," and that it has a "right to defend itself", which includes its subsidiary right to be the only country in the region to possess nuclear weapons, that it has the "right" to inherit all the biblical land that the Jewish God promised it, and a "right" to enact laws that are racially and religiously discriminatory in order to preserve the Jewish character of the state, otherwise articulated in the more recent formula of "a Jewish and democratic state". Israel has also insisted that its enemies, including the Palestinian people, whom it dispossesses, colonizes, occupies, and discriminates against, must recognize all these rights, foremost among them its "right to exist as a Jewish state", as a condition for and a precursor to peace.”

Professor Massad in two paragraphs doesn’t even credit Israel with trying to make peace with its Arab neighbors who have been screaming to drive the Jews into the sea since before Israel’s creation because it is not an Arab majority and Muslim dominated state. He states no objection to “Muslim” states all over the Middle East, most of which no longer have Jewish populations that were ethnically cleansed (murdered) by the Arab majorities within them.

Since Israel was created by the United Nations, is Massad simply lying or is he trying to rewrite history to the Palestinian narrative? Obviously, the latter. The Israeli Declaration of Independence from 1948 stipulates equal rights for all citizens of Israel despite their ethnicity and non-Jewish Israelis, a majority of which are Arabs and Muslims serve in Israel’s judiciary, police force and even the IDF is they wish. Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arab women can vote. Israel even has US-mimicked affirmative action laws in its universities and Arab members in the Knesset (who routinely under rules of freedom of speech call for the desruction of the Jewish state. If Massad were less a political hack for the anti-Israel crowd and a truthful academic, he wouldn’t make such false statements about discrimination and dispossession. Arabs who remained in a nascent Jewish state, founded legally by international law in 1948 after Arab armies failed to destroy it, have had their population multiply ten thousand percent since then and enjoy the highest living standards and more human rights than Arabs living anywhere else in the world.

Massad, the now self-proclaimed expert on international law, even faults the Almighty for what is written in the Bible and even in the Koran: the right of Jews to live in their own land, Israel, for their own self-determination. He says he is incensed that Israelis would deign to say they want “peace” because they don’t even have the right to exist. One can translate this into an endorsement of violence and terrorism and certainly cannot interpret it as any call to a peaceful settlement. To Joseph Massad international law must be obeyed when it supports Arab and Muslim goals, it is irrelevant when it supports the creation or rights of Jews to “exist” within secure borders. As such, Massad sees his function as a historian to promulgate the jihadist line rather than to educate the world to seek truth and advancement of society. His remonstrations about the inadequacies of international law are no better than his lectures and writings on history when it comes to objectivity and the facts.

This article was originally published at the American Center for Democracy website,
www.acdemocracy.org .

THE DEPRAVITY OF THE ISM CAN BE SEEN ON THE PALSOLIDARITY WEBSITE TODAY

2011-05-02T09:41:00.003-07:00

THE DEPRAVITY OF THE ISM CAN BE SEEN ON THEIR PALSOLIDARIY WEBSITE TODAY 5/02/2011:

Of course, the ISM has not commented on the death of Bin Laden. The fact is, like their Hamas masters, the ISM praises Bin Laden. This needs to be understood. But here's some more ISM depravity for you:

The Fogel family was murdered by Arabs from Awarta, the next village over. The killers were captured through the use of DNA. Yet the ISM declares them innocent and blames the murders on a mythical Thai worker. Now, the killers of the Fogels left the house after killing toddlers and their parents but came back later after they realized they left a three month old baby alive. They then cut the baby's throat and severed its head.

The ISM, of course, is running a video of some of the Arabs from Awarta claiming the big, mean Israelis attacked them for no reason at all. The introduce the speakers as the adult children of "martyrs" (dead terrorists), so is it any wonder that the homes of these individuals were subject to such. Of course, these children of "martyrs"insist the Arabs who murdered the Fogels are innocent.
But here's the corker: as the camera pans around their house that looks ransakced (who knows if they did it themselves to blame the IDF) we see on the side of a cabinet a poster praising Ahmed Yassin the founder of Hamas and the murderer of 350 Israelis before the IDF killed him. Now, obviously this family praises a mass murderer of Jews, but here's another question: are we to believe the IDF entered that home, ransakced it for no reason, then didn't touch that poster at all?
Please, the ISM are so full of crap. The video is clearly contrived and another attempt at propaganda by the ISM on behalf of the ISM and Arab terrorists. Go see for yourself on the ISM's homepage.

When Israel outlaws the ISM and jails foreigners who come to Israel to assist Arab terrorists as human shields for the terrorist groups Israel will finally move closer to getting some peace. As long as the Paul LaRudees, Huwaida Arrafs, the Greta Berlins and other perverts that make up the ISM
cult are permitted to keep walking around calling themselves "peace activists" when they know they are human shields for terrorists, the war will keep roiling and going on. All that is being accomplished right now is making another Iran in the Middle East that will call itself Palestine.

The fault lies with the US government as well for not arresting these people who roil the war. The US government knows they assist terror groups, fund raise for them and do propaganda for them on US campuses. The time has come to take a heavy hand and shut down the ISM. This week we will show some of you how to do it in your own neighborhoods.

DING DONG, OSAMA'S DEAD!!!

2011-05-01T19:48:00.000-07:00

No, I didn't kill him and neither did the Mossad, our brave boys in the US military did. The bastard from 9/11 was killed by the US military a week ago. To the ISM Flotilla creeps, may his fate await you and your Hezbollah and Hamas proxies!!!

ARRIGONI KILLED FOR BEING GAY?

2011-04-20T09:17:00.000-07:00

New information of Vittorio Arrigoni: Killed for being gay.

It is now emerging that Vittorio Arrigoni may have been gay as the motivation for why some factions of Hamas killed him. This makes the most sense. Arrigoni was reportedly gay like so many other ISM anarchists who strive for an anti-establishment way of life. One of his killers was a Hamas policeman. That cetain factions of Hamas would have kidnapped an Italian national who was gay to put pressure on the other Hamas factions in dealing with the Italian government sounds plausible. However, the urge of the Muslims to murder a gay would have been just too tempting. Gays are being murdered all the time in Gaza under the repressive Hamas regime, a regime the ISM loves to support in its quest to kill Jews, Christians and anyone else from the "establishment."

HERE IS A DEATH TO MOURN: DANIEL VIFLIC, 16

2011-04-17T10:02:00.000-07:00

With all the crying and carrying on about Vittorio Arriigoni's death at the hands of his beloved Arab terrorists, nobody in mainstream media, esepcially the ex-Jews like Amy Goodman or Phlip Weiss bothered to report the death of 16 year-old Daniel Viflic.

Daniel died about the same time as Arrigoni. Why did this child die? He was a Jew on a school bus coming home from school when the Hamas, Vittorio's dearest buddies, fired a rocket at his school bus.

To all you ISM useful idiots out there: Where are your tears for Daniel Viflic? Where's the outrage at his murder by Hamas "peace activists"? And what about Gilad Shalit?

Rest in peace, Daniel. You died while still a boy, but you were a man among men.

MORE FROM THE VITTORIO ARRIGONI CLOWN CIRCUS

2011-04-17T09:16:00.001-07:00

Philip Weiss, an ex-Jew who just loves Jew killers over at his blog informs us that the Italian fool Vittorio Arrigoni who was murdered in Gaza by his Arab buddies was there (quoting Arrigoni)" because my grandfathers fought fascist occupation in Italy."

How interesting. Now, let's assume someone has even a slight knowledge of history and current events.

The Fascisti in Italy were allied with the Nazis who of course were allied with the Arabs. Hamas frequently makes reverential reference to Nazi ideas and symbols. Hamas is also p[art of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Nazi wing set up by Qtub who was
an admirer of Adolf Hitler (he even sported the silly same moustache).

The Hamas Charter is blatantly fascist. It takes its orders from God to kill all the Jews in the world and ultimately the Christians too. Cornell U has an excellent non-biased translation. Husseini, the leader of the Palestinians during World War 2 spent the war as a personal guest of Adof Hitler. Many historians believe he was the architect of the crematorium camps like Auschwitz after 1943. Of course, after fascism was defeated in Europe in 1945 many Nazis ran to the Arabs who hid them.

The Palestinian Authority Constitution and Hamas Charter are both fascist documents,
the latter copied from those of Iran and Saudi Arabia, two more fascist Arab states.
Sadly, it was paid for by the morons in the US State Department because they believe the Arabs will only accept a fascist form of government to live under because of Islam (they may be right).

Israel is recognized by Freedom House as one of the top four democracies in the world. Israel forcibly withdrew from Gaza its own people and industry to make peace
and got 8,000 rockets instead. Arrigoni tried to help get the sea lanes to Gaza opened from control by Israel to import those rockets from Iran.

Of course, this is the tactic of the ISM and the Arabs to sell their fascist irredentist goals to the West. They call themselves "Freedom fighters" when they should call themselves "Fascism Fighters" because they are truly fighting for fascism.

The Arabs who killed Arrigoni picked him of course because they knew it would embarass Hamas in the West and because he was an "Infidel" from Europe. He wore tattoos. He was a useful tool for Arab goals, but certainly not one of them. When their plan failed, they off'd the Italian meatball for the sheer pleasure of it.

Hamas is a fascist movement and government. So is Fatah. So is the entire Arab world.
If Arrigoni was serious when he stated his reasons for running with terrorists in Gaza, when he died and met his grandfather one can only assume hearing this exchange:

Vittorio: Grandpapa! It's me! Vittorio! I was killed defending Gaza from the Jews! I wanted to be remembered as just like you for fighting fascism!

Grandpa: Stupido! I fought fascism, You were promoting it every day against the democracies of the West as part of your anarhcist philosophy. I'm ashamed of you!
You were running with Hitler's and Mussolini's allies.

Vittorio: But grandpa! I was a "peace activist"!!!

Grandpa: The Faciscti of Hamas were no better than the Fascisti in Italy. The Jews have a word for guys like you: You're a shmuck!!!

Vittorio: Grandpa! You don't understand, for us anarchisti, logic means nothing. We oppose the status quo no matter what it is and we fight "oppression"!

Grandpa: You're just a shmuck like that ex-Jew who used my name on his blog to give meaning to your useless death. A shmuck is a shmuck is a shmuck.

St. Peter: Ok, guys, Basta. That's enough. Vittorio, I've got a nice dorm room for you with Arafat and Mugniyah. You can all masturbate together while repeating
"I am a Peace activist...kill the Jews...I am a peace activist...Destroy Israel..."

Vittorio: Really? Sounds nice. Where is the room?

St. Peter: It's in the basement. Some call it HELL. But since you like to use euphemisms as part of the ISM, let's just call it summer vacation in Cancun. We even have a summer cruise to take you there on our summer cruise ship, the Mavi Mamara."

ISM ACTIVISTS ARE JUST PLAIN SICK

2011-04-17T08:36:00.000-07:00

In case anyone noticed, the three comments to my blog message below all call me names such as "bigot", "murderer" etc...because I express no sympathy for the Italian garbage that was Vittorio Arrigoni, killed by the same Arab terrorists he worked so assiduously to help kill Jews in Israel.

It really takes a sick mind to tell people one is a "peace activist" in order to cover the fact that one supports terrorists who murder innocent people. Huwaida Arraf, who wrote the ISM manual, tells ISMers to use this Big Lie technique. The ISM of course changed its tactics as I revealed this. In the past they would claim they were peace activists then in the next sentence recognize as "legitimate" the right to use violence against Jews in Israel. Now they just lie and say they are peace activists. But peace activists do not take sides and do things for the civilians on both sides. The ISM only works for the Arabs, the same Arabs who passed out candy and cheered the brutal murder of the Fogel family in the West Bank. An Arab terrorist, a "valiant martyr" in ISM lingo, drives a knife into the heart of a three-year-old boy. It takes a special kind of animal to do that. Arrigoni was no better than that animal. He pranced around with terrorists in Gaza, assisted and encouraged Hamas in the killing of Jews. He aided the smuggling of weapons to Gaza from Iran by sea and was a human shield for Hamas leaders in combat. One of those smuggled weapons killed 16 year-old Daniel Vific. These are the facts.

I'm no bigot. If someone wants to use the word "murder" for Arrigoni's death, recognize it is a favorite Arab pass time. Polls in the PA show the "civilians" all favor terror attacks on Jews. They pass out candy. They celebrate the murderers. Arrigoni as a European sought to give these behaviours legitimacy. He fed the crocodile and it ate him. He was a fool. Not a pacifist, not a humanitaria, but a fool.

If you belong to the ISM, take a lesson and grow up. The Arabs will only use you and you may end up dead or even raped as also happened to other ISM activists in Hebron. You are only a propaganda tool. The fact is, we need more Arrigonis to die by the hands of the Crocodiles. Rachel Corrie's slime ball parents are making a living out of promoting the cause of the same Arabs who put her daughter into harm's way because Hamas had an Arab hadnler guiding the ISM "activists" in front of bulldozers that day. When the parents of ISM activists take their kinder and stop them being useful idiots for Arab murderers, then mabe peace will be possible. Right now, these so-called ISM "peace activists" mean there will be "peace" when Israel is no more.

Arrivedercci, Arrigoni. May your fellow ISM activists follow on the same path you ended up on as a "peace activist." Wise people do not volunteer with the ISM to help a fascist Arab movement develop the next Iran. Arrignoi's mother hass expressed no umbrage at the fascist Arabs who really helped kill her son. If any mothers of ISM activists read this, tell your silly children to stay home. Playing anarchist like Arrigoni and supporting fascism, and Arab irredentism is not a human rights pursuit.

The VITTORIO ARRIGONI CLOWN CIRCUS

2011-04-16T21:07:00.000-07:00

The ISM are falling all over themselves since the death by torture and strangulation
of ISM meatball and useful idiot Vittorio Arrigoni. Arrigoni was killed by the Arabs in an inter-terrorist dispute as he was so busy trying to aid the killing of Jews because Hamas had imprisoned some other Arabs who felt that Hamas was too liberal (really!)

Since the Arabs have always been into hostage taking, they seized Arrigoni to hold him for the release of one of their own, but being Arabs, they could not resist killing him so beat him near to death, strangled him and left him hanging in a public street.

In classic ISM lingo, of course, even after the Arabs took credit for killing the Italian sausage head, it had to be blamed on Israel, and even by extension against yours truly, namely moi.

In 2006 during Operation Cast Lead, I posted on Stop the ISM photos of ISM activists who were being human shields for terrorist leaders in Gaza along with a phone number to the IDF. At the top of that list was good ol' Vittorio. The little bastard had been deported twice earlier from Israel and sailed into Gaza on the flotilla ships. He was doing all he could to aid Hamas in their quest to kill Jews and Vittorio loved the terrorists so much he became a Palestinian citizen, his even posing with Hamas leaders for a photo op.

Anyway, Vittorio was fingered during a war because he was aiding enemy conmbatants. He was not targeted for "murder" as the ISM clowns write on the Internet. Nor was he killed by the Mossad, or me by my "Israeli website."

Arrigoni was no peace activist, either. On his Facebook page he ran a sign that read
"No Israelis or dogs". Hmmmm...In any case, if you want some laughs, google my name and Vittorio Arrigoni then read the ISM clown circus. As for Vittorio: Arrivederci,
Arrigoni, ya little bastardo. You worked to aid Hamas to kill Jews and were, as they say, hoisted on your own petard. Good riddance. If this keeps other ISM volunteers from going over there to interfere with the IDF then Arrigoni's death won't have been in vain. Visit Stop the ISM for some commentary..

STOP AL JAZEERA CONFERENCE A ROUSING SUCCESS

2011-04-01T22:09:00.001-07:00

At this writing I am in Washington, DC leaving to return to the Bay Area. The press conference at the National Press Club was a rousing success; we all spoke to a full house
of reporters. What is more, we were attended by a film crew from Russia TV, another news media outlet that is promoting anti-US and anti-Israel propaganda on US airwaves worthy of the most regressive of Arab states.

Why is Al-Jazeera a threat if allowed to broadcast all ovcer the US? Because it is part of the worldwide jihad network and also because it has become a mouthpiece for the ISM, the human shileds for Palestinian terrorism.

During the event I had the pleasure of meeting Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs. Ms. Geller is a beautiful and energetic woman and she's no dummy; the blogosphere has vilified her as being a bigot and anti-Muslim which she is not. She is, however, anti-jihad. People should read her new book. I know I will.

I spoke about the ISM and as usual when I asked the packed room of bloggers and reporters how many had heard of the ISM less than five raised thier hands. After this conference though, the word will finally get out.

I urge people to go to the America's Survival website and read my latest report on the ISM and information about the next flotillas that are helping to promote endless war in the Middle East. Just google "America's Survival + Al Jazeera Conference." Many thanks to Cliff Kincaid.

One thing is for certain, the meeting also persuaded me to put more time into this blog. I've neglected it because I realy did not like blogs, considering self-published gossip in most cases. However, that is changing. Look for changes here also. Now, go read the report!

I'LL BE APPEARING AT THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB, WASHINGTON D.C. APRIL 1st TO DISCUSS AL JAZEERA AND THE ISM

2011-03-25T09:26:00.000-07:00

April 1, 2011. National Press Club
First Amendment Lounge - 12-4:00 p.m.
529 14th Street Northwest
Washington D.C., DC 20045

Topics:
The activities of the Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S. and its influence on the Obama Administration.
How Al-Jazeera television functions as a mouthpiece for the Muslim Brotherhood and a homeland security threat to the United States.
How American tax dollars are being funneled to Al-Jazeera.
The involvement of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn in the Al-Jazeera- supported "International Solidarity Movement" in the Middle East.
Open to the press and the public.
Light lunch and refreshments will be served.
Advance registration requested by contacting:
Phil Kent 404-226-3549
Email: philkent@philkent.com
www.usasurvival.org

(The first 50 who register and attend receive a free copy of Pamela Geller's explosive book on President Obama, The Post-American Presidency, at the end of the conference.)
Speakers include:

Pamela Geller, author of The Post-American Presidency, led the campaign against The Ground Zero Mosque. She is the founder, editor, and publisher of Atlas Shrugs.com and co-founded Stop Islamization of America.

Pamela Geller
Cliff Kincaid, the President of America's Survival, Inc., and veteran investigative journalist , has urged Rep. Peter King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, to investigate Al-Jazeera as a national security threat and determine whether it should be officially classified as a global terrorist entity and prohibited from operating in the U.S.

Cliff Kincaid
Charles K. Ortel, Managing Partner of Newport Value Partners, L.L.C., has been warning that many initiatives launched by the Obama Administration seem to constitute a "War on Capitalism." He believes the problems in the Middle East represent a major threat to America and its allies.

Charles Ortel
Jerry Kenney, an independent television producer, has uncovered evidence of public television stations illegally turning over their airwaves to foreign propaganda channels, including Al-Jazeera and Russia Today (RT) television. He has filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over this illegal activity

Jerry Kenney
Lee Kaplan, an investigative journalist, Is the nation's leading authority on the so-called International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a coalition of anti-American and anti-Israeli organizations accused of working on behalf of foreign terrorist organizations.

Lee Kaplan

Related:

Press Release: Al-Jazeera Exposed as Homeland Security Threat; Rep. Peter King Urged to Hold Hearings
Dr. Judea Pearl statement in opposition to expansion of Al-Jazeera English in the United States
Statement by Konstantin Preobrazhensky, former Soviet KGB officer, on the impact and purpose of Russia Today (RT) television
Letter to Comcast CEO Brian Roberts on Al-Jazeera
Public TV Hijacked by Foreign Propagandists
Read the FCC Complaint Against Al-Jazeeera, etc. Over Foreign Propaganda Channels in U.S. Media Markets (PDF)
EXPOSED!!! Al-Jazeera is the Muslim Brotherhood Channel

SAN JOSE'S DIRTY LITTLE SECRET FOR HEZBOLLAH: SABA ACADEMY

2011-03-03T22:39:00.000-08:00

With all the hue and cry about Islamophobia, here's a tale that goes unreported. The Shia Association of Bay Area Mosque preaches that Jews and Christians are lacking in moral character and that their religions are corrupt.

How do I know this? A Shia who has attended the mosque told me.

The SABA Mosque boasts that its "acacemy" instills in its students "a high moral character". But what do they mean by "high moral character"? Apparently it means
considering Islam, and Shia Islam at that, as the only moral path.

A couple of weeks ago one of the executives at the Mosque began his sermon reading from the Hadiths. He prefaced his remarks by commenting that Jews today "do not practice their true religion" which lost its direction and the Jews descended into materialism. Now, translate that to mean the Jews began worshipping money and you have the vision of the money worshippin' Jew. This guy continued that "Christianity
was supposed to correct what the Jews lost, but Christianity had no moral purpose behind it."

Get it? Christians are immoral unlike the Muslims. SABA Mosque Muslims of "high moral character." I guess the ten commandments (acutally over 300) contained no moral precepts for Jews or Christians like the concept of jihad. In any case, the next time you hear the whine about "Islamophobia", understand there really is something to fear and worry about when it comes to what's going on inside a mosque
like the one SABA runs in San Jose. Right now, the Mosque is also trying to get homeland security to reverse the refusal to allow a SABA religious leader back into the US because of suspected links to Hezbollah. You know Hezbollah, that group of high moral character who murdered 241 US marines in 1983 in Lebanon on a peace mission, and that ntroduced suicide bombing to Arab culture.

I'll discuss the SABA Mosque's imam in coming weeks. "High moral character", my ass...

THE ISM HAS INFILTRATED CONGRESS: MORE ON THE UNTOUCHABLE HUWAIDA ARRAF

2011-01-05T09:40:00.000-08:00

The news media has missed that Huwaida Arraf, co-founder of the Hamas support group
ISM (International Solidarity Movement) has been a "legal intern" for the US House of Representatives. The scummy Ms. Arraf, also lists herself as the legal adviser for the Free Gaza Movement and a former intern for the Center for Constitutional Rights. The CCR is funded by Gulf Sheiks to get the Guantanamo detainees that kill American soldiers released through US courts. See http://www.linkedin.com/pub/huwaida-arraf/8/a04/550.

Arraf was a legal intern allegedly to advise US Congressman James P. Moran (D-Va) on how to get the Gitmo detainess released. She also allegedly went to law shcool from 2004-2007 at American University in DC. Conveniently, Arraf's ISM co-founder husband Adam Shapiro has been a PhD student at American University for the last seven years with no degree in site. Homeland Security and the FBI should take a hard look at American University. Is it fronting for the terrorist support group? Arraf and Shapiro were both low level US State Department employees in Jerusalem when they co-founded the ISM with Arafat in the Mukata surrounded by IDF troops. She then became a human shield for Hamas and other terrorists held up in teh Church of the Nativity. That apparently didn't keep her from being a "legal intern" for a congressman. Something really smells.

There's a curious thing about Huwaida Arraf. She alleges, and the Palestinians (who would never tell a lie), claim she was and still is a Professor of Humanitarian Law at Al Quds University in East Jerusalem (that's a Palestinian university run by Sari Nusseibeh who did hard time in Israel for spotting for Scud missiles to fall on Israel for Saddam Hussein during the First Gulf War. Nusseibeh is against terrorism, or so he says, not because it kills Jews in Israel, but because it's not effective in trying to ultimately destroy the Jewish state. Ms. Arraf is never there at Al Quds, she's usually in Washington or at Durban organizing anti-Israel activity, or on the Gaza Flotilla boats she helped organize to bring material aid to Hamas in Gaza. From 2004-2007 when she allegedly attended law school she was writing the ISM's London manual and traipsing all over the world. Somehow she managed we are to believe to be in law school cracking the books and attending classes at the same time.

About her law degree: Allegedly she earned this at American University in D.C. in "Humsn Rights Law." Arraf attend classes when I wonder? While she was in Durban? On the high seas with the Flotillas? At a party getting a medal from Hamas with the other flotilla bastards? How about during the myriad conferences given across the country in the US? How abut during the riots in the West Bank (Judea and
Samaria) she led with the ISM? Has she been admitted to the Bar?

I have Arraf on a recording admitting at the Georgetown Divestment Conference in 2006that the ISM openly works with Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the PFLP.
Ms. Arraf even wrote the Washington Post back then after I wrote about it that her
statements were true. She claims she is "nonviolent" herself, so it's ok to give all manner of human shield support to the likes of Hamas and other terror groups.

This using the euphemisms of "peace activists" and "human rights workers" when they are clearly human shields for the terrorists is outlined in the ISM training manual.
The Amit Counter Terrorism Center in Israel recently came out with an intelligence report on this available at their website where I am cited as a key source.

If you need a project to work against terrorism in the US, contact Representative Peter King (R) and ask him why Huwaida Arraf had access to the US House of Representatives and is still running around. If you want to be involved, contact me at StoptheISM@att.net and I'll help you. Meanwhile, we roll merrily along in this country once again assisting Hamas. God save us...

YES< THERE ARE JEWISH WHORES AND BIMBOS TOO: ANNA BALTZER

2010-12-07T20:10:00.000-08:00

The renamed International Solidarity Movement (Palsolidarity in the US), now known as the US Campaign to End the ISraeli Occupation has announced its new leader in
Washington D.C. is one Anna Baltzer.

I've written about Anna Baltzer before. She's a very pretty woman of Jewish ancestry--and a total whore for Arab fascists and anti-Semites who masquerade as "peace activists" and "human rights workers", but who really work for the end of Israel and the annihilation of the world's Jews by doing human shield work for terrorist groups.

Anna knows what she is; while appearing on Jon Stewart's Show she was asked by the host if she believed Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state-she did not reply--no doubt because her benefactor, Arab Jew-hater and PLO embezzler Mustapha Barghouti wouldn't like it. He accompanied Anna on the show.

Anna spoke before a Presbyterian Church crowd in Berkeley once where she gave the qaudience a bullshit story of an Arab woman who lost twins while she was in labor at a checkpoint because Israeli soldiers wouldn't let her go to the hospital. "They said they were just following orders," claimed Anna Banana, the ISM bimbo, as she tried to present the IDF as a bunch of Nazis. What the hell, it's an easy way to make a living when you ahve no principals and want to be treated like a prize cow.

Anna claims her grandparents are Holocaust survivors. I'd like to know who they are
and what camp they allgedly were in. This pretty, but stupid, woman sees no problem in lying to try and de-legitimize Israel and has even tacitly excused violence against Israelis with the pat training line of the ISM "If someone invaded your home wouldn't you pick up a lamp or something to hit them with in self-defense?" She shows
a photo next of an Arab child throwing rocks at IDF soldiers. This woman is a dirtbag.

OK, so Anna has a neat new job. She can make speeches, recount propaganda and l,ies for the Arabs, even call herself an author of a book Eyewitness Palestine with stories she did not eyewitness but were told her by ISM aparatchicks (like the lost twins story). Who cares about being Jewish? Who cares about the Arabs setting up another Shariah law state? Who cares about the truth? Anna "Bimbo" Baltzer has found a neato sinecure among the biggest totalitarians in the world.

VIEW MY INTERVIEW ON ARUTZ SHEVA TV

2010-10-26T11:46:00.001-07:00

You can view the interview outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem
that I had on Sunday here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9b32l9JmeA . There
were two other interviews on Israeli TV that should appear shortly. The main message
is the need for Israel to finally prosecute and punish at least the Israeli traitors
in the ISM who help to injure Israeli soldiers and border police. There is also a message for President Obama: Stop aiding the flotillas then blaming Israel for protecting itself.

One error on the A7 interview, my foundation is DAFKA.org not davka.org. I understand they are correcting this error. If you are Israeli and reading this,
be sure to write the PM's office as well as members of the Knesset to start prosecuting Huwaida Arraf the next time she brings another flotilla of radicals
to aid Hamas. She belongs in jail as does Paul LaRudee in the United States.

The wheels of justice grind slowly, but ultimately the ISM's leadership will find themselves in jail.

I'M IN ISRAEL TO EXPOSE THE LIES OF CINDY CORRIE AND THE RACHEL CORRIE FRAUD

2010-10-22T21:14:00.000-07:00

Article by Toby Greenwald from an interview with Lee Kaplan in Israel

Is the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) composed of non-violent peace activists or supporters of terrorism?

The answer is clear to Lee Kaplan, investigative journalist, Senior Intelligence Analyst and Communications Director for the Northeast Intelligence Network, who is currently in Israel to consult to the Israeli Justice Department on the involvement of the ISM in the cases of the flotilla and Rachel Corrie. The trial has already determined that Rachel Corrie was not protecting a house as earlier claimed. Cindy Corrie, Rachel’s mother, is still claiming her daughter also served as a human shield to “protect” Palestinian water wells and municipal water workers from the IDF. Kaplan says those wells were in fact weapons smuggling tunnels and those workers were Hamas terrorists. Corrie, he says, was trying to help kill IDF soldiers as well as civilians in Israel.

Kaplan began his examination of the ISM seven years ago. He monitors their activities and fundraising and tries to alert both the American and Israeli governments to their activities in advance, he says, “to save Israel problems.” Both U.S. and Israeli security officials have used his reports to undertake legal action against ISM activists in Israel and the United States.

According to Kaplan, the ISM has consistently shown itself to be on the side of terrorist movements that prolong the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and prevent peace. At the same time, he says, Israel ’s fear of creating international incidents has prevented her from cracking down on foreign nationals who are trained to work in solidarity with Arab terror groups.

Kaplan cites sources statements made by ISM leaders at national conferences in the US and even a letter to the Washington Post in which ISM leaders such as Huwaida Arraf and Paul LaRudee, both well known ISM leaders, have openly stated they work with Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and even Hezbollah. This new effort on the part of the ISM, says Kaplan, is being organized to deliberately help the Hamas terrorist regime recruit more ISM activists again for Gaza to break Israeli control of seaports that can be used to smuggle weapons and terrorists into Gaza.

Kaplan says, “The ISM poses a greater threat to Israel ’s existence than the armed terrorists do. It is funded by Saudi Arabia, the PLO, Hamas, organized originally by the PFLP. They are the revolutionary communist party wing of the PLO and the ISM follows that line. This is one reason that they’re aligned with communist and anarchist groups in the US and Europe, for example, International ANSWER or its parent, the International Socialist Organization that calls for a violent overthrow of the US governmentto create a dictatorshop of the proletariat. They march in support of Hamas and all the terrorist groups, like Columbia’s FARC, and others. They are in close contact with all the terrorist groups in the US too.” He refers one to his website: www.StoptheISM.com.

Improbable activist

Kaplan’s revelations about the movement and how they train volunteers to be supportive of terrorists are chilling. And how Kaplan fell into this role is a story of its own. In his youth, he worked out of college as a writer and editor, eventually becoming the owner of a successful jewelry business, one of whose stores was located on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley.

The change in his life occurred as he watched the growing presence of Hamas and similar groups on campus. But the watershed came in 2003 when, “I had gone over to the campus to participate in the Holocaust Day memorial ceremony. I was wearing a jacket with an Israeli flag on the back and reciting the names of the dead, and a young woman, from the Hillel organization, came over to me and asked me to not participate in the Yizkor service because of my Israeli flag jacket.
‘I asked her if she was joking and she said that it offended the ‘Jews for Palestine’ and pointed over to Sproul Plaza, the campus commons, where that group was having a demonstration for the Students for Justice in Palestine, targeted against Israel. I noticed that on the Pro-Palestinian side they had megaphones and signs and all kinds of displays and on the Jewish side they had nothing. I said to the pro-Israel demonstrators, ‘Doesn’t Hillel provide you any kind of support?’ and they said that Hillel didn’t give them any help at all. ‘I’ve got some money,’ I told them, because I had just sold my business.’I’m going to help you fight back.’
It was then that he created DAFKA (www.dafka.org ). It is, he says, “A perfect name. It’s an acronym for ‘Defending American for Knowledge in Action’ but it also means, in Hebrew, ‘in your face’ and ‘in spite of everything’.”

“It also refers to the time manna fell from heaven and saved the Jews when they were their most desperate, a most fitting name.”

“We were enormously effective,” says Kaplan. “We had Jewish students coming up and crying and thanking us for being there. We screened videos by the PLO and Palestinian television. The Muslim and Palestinian students would rant and rave and we’d say, ‘Show us one thing on the table not from your media,’ and they had nothing to say. One woman came up wearing a chador and she screamed, ‘You’re prejudiced against the Muslim people, and I’m going to complain,’ and I told her, ‘Take everything on the table into the office and complain’ and she did, and I didn’t hear anything after that because it was all from their own media.”

But Kaplan says, “We did not have as many problems with the Arab students as we did with the Jews.” DAFKA and the ZOA were voted out of theHillel Jewish student union because of leftists within conspiring against them and radicals of Jewish descent who really were helping the Palestinian group. “When they held the vote to vote us out, they didn’t notify us so our student leader did not attend, so it was a kangaroo court.”

Kaplan became immersed in investigative journalism, including working for Front Page Magazine, and he was hired by its editor, David Horowitz, as a campus organizer for Students for Academic Freedom. While he worked for that foundation, he began doing research on anti-Israel activism on the campus and on Middle East studies abuses on the part of the faculty, and on the part of campus organizations such as Students for Justice in Palestine.

A fly on the wall of ISM training

“While working freelance, I wrote an article called ‘Solidarity with Terror’, published in 2004,” says Kaplan. “I had found out that was having a training session on going to Israel. I was already identified as a pro-Israel activist, but when I was in my 20’s I had been an actor in film and TV, so I dyed my hair and eyebrows and colored my skin and made myself up to be a Pakistani and I went to the meeting.”
Kaplan infiltrated an ISM training session - the same sort of training that Rachel Corrie underwent -- and has the printed training manual to prove his points. At the ISM, he says, they were given instruction on how to falsify documents, how to lie to Israeli officials, and how to violate Israeli law by deceiving border guards about the nature of their visit, their destinations inside Israel, their identities and more. “Everything we were instructed to do in the course of our training while we were in Israel would involve some form of breaking Israeli law,” he says. Furthermore, he says, the ISM training manuals contain articles by radical groups including War Resisters League, Act Up, Direct Action and several “anti-global” organizations all that promote revolutionary violence and adhere to the concept of “by any means necessary” as voiced by Malcolm X which means violence.

ISM Complicity with Terror

The ISM website is filled with expressions such as “legitimate resistance” or support for “legitimate armed struggle as well as this ISM motto “by any means necessary.”

However, says Kaplan, documented ISM complicity with terrorism and cooperation with terrorists has included from all major newswires:

· Hiding terrorists such as Shadi Sukiya, arrested in an ISM office in the West Bank.
· Hiding of an arms cache that was also found in an ISM office
· Facilitating the entry to Israel of suicide bombers who gained entry for their murderous agendas under the auspices of the ISM. These Pakistani Muslims from Great Britain entered Israel through Jordan as clients of the Alternative Tourism Group, an operation set up by Andoni to aid ISM volunteers coming to Israel. They then met with the ISM at their offices for an entire day in Gaza before proceeding on to Tel Aviv where they bombed a popular beach bar, Mike’s Place, killing three people.
· According to ISM founder Adam Shapiro, the ISM has Palestinian “handlers,” or undercover supervisors at all demonstrations against Israel. These supervisors direct attacks against the West Bank security fence and IDF soldiers. One of the handlers is Hisham Jamjoun, a member of the PLFP who also manages the Faisal Youth Hostel in Jerusalem. “That’s ISM Central according to ISMer Joseph Carr who maintains he was with Corrie when she died. I wrote about the Hostel in my article ‘The ISM-Terror Connection,” he says. See: http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=2601

· ISM leaders speak openly of their desire to bring about the demise of the State of Israel in favor of a Palestinian State from the river to the sea. Yet ISM officials and volunteers have been photographed in the company of known terrorists, sometimes holding AK- 47 assault rifles. Some volunteers disguise themselves as Jews living in the West Bank. See: http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/kaplan091406.htm
Rachel Corrie

On March 16, 2003, 23-year-old Rachel Corrie from Olympia, Washington, was killed by an IDF bulldozer. As a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement, Rachel was in Gaza supposedly opposing the bulldozing of Palestinian homes by the Israeli army. The ISM released photos showing Corrie in clear view of a bulldozer, then a second photograph reported to have been taken moments later with Rachel having been killed.

However, a careful examination of the photos showed that the scenes were staged with different tractors and at different times. See: http://www.israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=1676&q=1
One photo with a superimposed tractor in the foreground and Corrie superimposed with another ISM activist in front of a “doctor’s house,” when enlarged, not only revealed the superimposition techniques, but that the ISM (or ISMer Joe Carr and others who doctored the photos) left off the feet of the two ISM activists.
See: http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/editordetail.php?id=345

ISM and Palestinian sources claim that the home Rachel Corrie was trying to save belonged to a Palestinian doctor and his family.

Rachel Corrie wrote the following in emails home to her mother who is now suing the IDFl in a wrongful death suit, indicating that she knew that the Palestinians she was supporting were using violence: "Think about the relative positions of the fighters and occupiers in this monumentally unequal struggle.... the few young fighters have NOTHING BUT THEIR WEAPON (and this not the most modern) - no helmet, bullet proof vest, radio contact or other protection. No back-up, no plane, helicopter, tank, APC, searchlight, dogs, flares, ambulance or refuge... every time the Israeli Command terrorizes Nablus, more Martyrs are ready to defend the honour of Palestine and fight for the freedom of surely the most gentle, generous and peaceful people on earth." ( New Zealand Herald, 10 February 2003) [ http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0302/S00049/courage-and-more-martyrs.htm ]
"The internationals recognized symbols and banners from numerous school and community-groups, Fatah, DFLP, FIDA, PFLP, Hamas and many individual demonstrators among those marching" (private email admitting that Corrie’s gang was involved in bringing out bodies from smuggling tunnels in an ISM media report).
According to Kaplan, one ISM activist, Joe Carr, while employed by Christian Peacemaker Teams in Rafah said the following on the death of Rachel Corrie in an interview in a Washington State newspaper, The Stranger:
“The spirit that she died for is worth a life. This idea of resistance, this spirit of resisting this brutal occupying force, is worth anything. And many, many, many Palestinians give their lives for it all the time. So the life of one international, I feel, is more than worth the spirit of resisting oppression.”
Another quote was made by an ISM co-founder from the Alternative Information Center who also operates an office in Pasadena, California to recruit “tourists” for the ISM (the Mike’s Place bombers entered the country as “Alternative Tourists.”
"If some of these foreign volunteers get shot or even killed, then the international media will sit up and take notice." - George Rishmawi, Director of the Solidarity Movement.

"Her death serves me more than it served her. Her death will bring more
attention than the other 2,000 martyrs." - quoted by Hamas member in The Stranger at Corrie’s mock funeral in Gaza as a “martyr.”

ISM Training: Be ready for Violence

Kaplan says, “At an ISM training session, I asked ISM trainer Brian Molvany, ‘But what if we see kids throwing stones at tanks or putting themselves in danger. Shouldn’t we tell them not to and urge them to stay away? Molvany responded, ‘We can’t tell kids not to throw stones!’ Obviously the same rule applied to suicide bombers as we were advised that we might be used as human shields inside houses slated for demolition by the Israeli army because they were used as bomb making factories.

“Later, trainer Mary Erwin told me that our allies from the Israeli anarchist and communist movements were ready to lie to the border guards on our behalf to verify false stories given in order to get the ISM volunteers into Israel".

“Not once all day, in any way, did members of our group - trainers or trainees - express a negative word about suicide bombings, or the shooting of women and children by Palestinian terrorists. But we were told repeatedly not to tell the Palestinians how to ‘resist.’

“At the conclusion of our session, Jamie used her training as a social worker to prepare us to deal with long term trauma once we returned to the Bay Area. I thought it was an interesting lesson for people going to the Middle East to engage in ‘nonviolent’ activities for peace. ‘Be ready for lots of violence,’ she said.
ISM volunteers at that meeting included:

-Arlene, a 62-year-old Jewish woman from Oakland. She expressed grief for the Israeli execution of Sheik Yassin, the former head of Hamas who was responsible for the murders of over 350 people inside Israel. She spoke of sabotaging IDF army vehicles and how she entered Israel once to help hewr enemies by using her parents' own funeral as a ruse to enter. She mentioned going to North Vietnam during the their was with US and being told by "the comrades" to go back to America and fight the war from within. Clearly, she was a 60's commnist revolutionary retread. Kaplan dubbed her "Hanoi Arlene" in his article Solidarity With Terror."
From the ISM training manual
“Some pacifists are uncomfortable with property damage. For myself...I see it as a great tool.”
“[Some] settle for tactical nonviolence, but given the right historical circumstance, armed struggle would be justified...”
“When VIOLENCE is mentioned, say RESISTANCE or RESISTANCE TO INJUSTICE.”
“When TERRORISM is mentioned, emphasize STATE TERRORISM.”
“Instead of OCCUPATION say MILITARY OCCUPATION to make people think the occupation is a MILITARY DICTATORSHIP.” The only military dictator in Israel and the West Bank is Yasser Arafat. The page this appeared on was supplied by the Muslim Public Affairs Council, yet another purportedly Muslim “civil rights group” like the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.

Paul LaRudee

Paul LaRudee is a leader of the Northern California branch of the ISM. He has been deported from Israel more than once for disrupting IDF activities and endangering himself and others, and has visited Lebanon to act as a "human shield for Hezbollah" against IDF fire. LaRudee said in an interview on June 15, 2005, with Khalil Bendib, "Although we are totally dedicated to non-violence. We recognize that not everybody that we work with in the Palestinian community is necessarily devoted to non-violence. And under international law it is permitted for oppressed and occupied peoples to resist, using armed resistance. This is permitted and we recognize their right to do so. However, we do not participate in it in any way, so our devotion is to non-violence."
(http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/15494 )

At a recruiting meeting in Berkeley, LaRudee was asked if they would smuggle guns to Hamas. He said if the Israeli navy stopped them and found guns they would just say the Israelis planted them or that they did not belong to the ISM.
In an e-mail reportedly sent out by Huwaida Arraf in September, 2002, Paul LaRudee, in an essay titled, “Sleeping in the Bed of a Suicide Bomber”, writes, I do not see wild-eyed religious fanaticism as the reason for the attacks. I see instead a resilient people without other means of resistance, pushed to desperation by the increasing pressures of ethnic cleansing, while their cries for help are ignored. Is there a proud people anywhere that might not be driven to such measures to defend themselves?

Conclusion

According to Kaplan, the ISM has played a role in facilitating the Hamas takeover in Gaza. For years Israel tried to prevent weapons smuggling tunnels from Egypt that brought arms and missiles into Gaza to be used to kill Israelis. “The border area with Egypt, the town of Rafah, and the border area that is known as the Philadelphi Corridor became hangouts for ISM anarchists and communists from foreign countries to interfere with anti-terrorist operations and avowed anarchists like Rachel Corrie,” says Kaplan, “to garner enough adverse publicity in worldwide media that Israel eventually relinquished control of the Egyptian border under pressure from the Europeans and the US State Department. ISM activist and anarchist Joseph Smith, a.k.a. Joseph Carr, who was intimately involved in developing propaganda during the deaths of both those young people, who said Corrie’s death was ‘well worth the price of the revolution,’ is still an ISM member. Carr’s photos and contributions can be found on the Free Gaza recruiting website.”

The ISM eventually accomplished the goal of forcing Israel to open the Egyptian border to new flows of weapons and terrorists. Israel ’s attempts to simply try to protect its citizens resulted in diplomatic pressure being brought to bear by the Quartet and Condoleeza Rice to open up that border enabling the smuggling of Kassem rockets now falling on the heads of Israeli civilians.

Kaplan says that, “It appears that newer restrictions on ISM activities, by Israeli security services in the West Bank, have finally slowed down the effectiveness of this organization. It is in the interest of all Western countries, and of the State of Israel in particular, to use all legal tools and means to expel ISM activists to their home countries and to ensure they cannot continue their perfidious work masquerading as "peace activists" when they are human shields for terrorists that murder Israelis."

THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED

2010-07-15T00:12:00.000-07:00

Zahi Damuni, one of the co-founders of the pro-Hamas terrorist group Al Awda, the Palestine Right of Return Coalition, could scarcely contain his excitement in an email he sent the membership announcing that British rock stars and even model-actress celebrity Kate Moss had performed at a “charity benefit for Palestine” in the UK.

Al Awda’s motto, used in its worldwide campaign against Israel, is “From the River to the Sea” –in other words, all of Israel is to be “Palestine,”. The organization speaks of terrorism as “legitimate resistance.”

Singer Tom Jones was the special guest at the event. Given the UK climate of anti-Israel actvism and support for terrorists whose charters call for the annihilation of Jews and the destruction of Israel, not peace, such an event marks a new low in the once great Welsh singer’s career.

Other rock stars appearing included Pink Floyd guitar stars David Gilmour and Roger Waters, both of whom have been mentioned repeatedly by the International Solidarity Movement as being strong supporters of the Gaza Flotilla boats designed to enable Hamas to bring in weapons from Iran. One ISM communiqué even suggested that the guitar masters might be on the boats.

The event took place at the home of a woman of Jewish descent, Jemima Khan, the former Jemima Goldsmith, daughter of a wealthy British Jewish industrialist. Although she was raised in the Protestant faith, she reportedly converted to Islam during a brief marriage to another British celebrity, Imran Khan. Jemima Khan took to wearing
the veil and lived for a while in Lahore Pakistan with Imran Khan’s family, ultimately returning to the UK with two sons because she could not tolerate the Islamic lifestyle of a Pakistani woman. Independently wealthy, she spends most of her time today arranging charity events.

While this particular “charity event” is billed by the Hoping Foundation as being for “Palestinian children,” it should be noted that fundraisers in the UK and the US that generate money for the likes of Hamas are always billed as charitable events for “Palestinian children.” This is because such funds, once they reach the Middle East,
are fungible and nearly impossible to trace.

Don't be confused--this was not a charity event to also help the Israeli children of Sderot who have had missiles fired at their schools for years and as a result have experienced a near epidemic of juvenile onset diabetes. Why were they excluded? The message of this “charitable” event, if anything, is that the celebrities involved are only interested in helping the Palestinian movement, Otherwise, the event might have been classified as being for all “Middle East children” and sent a real message of peace.

Wealthy attendees placed auction-style “bids” for rock stars to sing their favorite ballads. The Pink Floyd duo garnered 50,000 British pounds from one wealthy donor for singing one of their classics. Other British rock stars included Nick Cave and Jamie Hince. Also in attendance was film actor James Fox. 400,000 British pounds were raised at the event, which is about $600,000 US.

The International Solidarity Movement and Al Awda’s leadership that includes Zahi Damuni have launched a deliberate campaign of trying to get rock stars to boycott Israel. At their last West Coast conference in the US, Al Awda’s leadership crowed that rock star Elvis Costello and the rock group the Pixies had canceled scheduled concerts in Israel in support of “Palestine.” On the other hand, R&B star Missy Elliott has just arrived in Israel and both British rock superstar Elton John recently played to a sold out crowd in Tel Aviv saying he would not support a boycott and rock star Madonna performed to tens of thousands in the Jewish state. Her recently divorced husband, British director Guy Ritchie, appeared at the Jemima Kahn fundraiser with his new girlfriend.

Israel should arrange its own charitable event and bring in rock stars to perform and help the Jewish children of Sderot and other endangered areas in Israel, The world has gone mad when entertainers and rock music artists use their fame to support groups who seek the destruction of the Jewish state while claiming they are concerned about children.

One can only wonder if Tom Jones-or any of his misguided celebrity friends-have seen the way these Arab children are educated towards violence and hatred of Israel and its children.

One can only wonder if Tom Jones-or any of his misguided celebrity friends- think about whether he will bear some of the responsibility when of those “children” in Hamasland that he sings for so uncritically grow up to be suicide bombers the likes of which carried out the 7/7 bombings in London.

NEW EVIDENCE FOUND ON FLOTILLA PASSENGERS THAT THEY KNEW THEY WERE VIOLATING US ANTI-TERRORISM LAWS

2010-06-30T18:25:00.000-07:00

For more information on this visit the Stop the ISM homepage today June 30, 2010. There's a lot of info there including a manual written by Huwaida Arraf about the Flotilla and what they really set out to do: http://www.StoptheISM.com

THE NEW ANTI-SEMITISM: AN AMERICAN JEW MAKES FUN OF A MURDERED JEW

2010-06-15T04:04:00.000-07:00

I was floored. Here it was Sunday night, I had just put the garbage out for collection Monday a.m. and I kicked back to watch cable television for a few laughs before bed.

Showtime is a major cable network in the US and was premiering a new show titled “The Green Room,” hosted by a comedian named Paul Provenza. The show was actually in a talk format with five comedians in a semicircle who discussed their careers and how their acts were received not only in America but in the UK.

Stand-up comedians can sometimes be vulgar to break up an audience and supply some laughs, and compared to what I’ve heard on cable television and in live comedy clubs the show was fairly mild.

That was, until the very end.

One of the guest comedians was Larry Miller. Oh, you’ve seen him before in comedy films produced in the US. He usually plays the harried campus administrator or foil for
the hero who is trying to get the girl. Oh, one other thing: he’s Jewish.

As the show ran out of time and came to an end, Larry Miller made a quip to his fellow comedians and the millions of people worldwide who watch Showtime. He said, “Let’s
go out for a drink. We can have one called a Leon Klinghoffer—it’s two shots and a
splash.”

Most of the audience on screen didn’t laugh, not because the joke wasn’t funny (it wasn’t), but because most of them had no idea who Leon Klinghoffer was.

Leon Klinghoffer was an elderly Jewish man who was in a wheelchair on the Achille Lauro cruise ship when it was hijacked by members of George Habash’s PFLP under orders of Yasser Arafat. The terror attack had been partly arranged back then by Machmud Abbas, the current head of the PLO-terror-state-in-the-making. Abbas was caught fleeing Egypt by the US Navy but released by the Italian government after US forces forced his plane to land on Italian soil.

Arafat personally gave the order to the hijackers to shoot Klinghoffer in his wheelchair
and dump him overboard. Two US state department employees were also murdered in the Sudan under Arafat’s direct orders that same day as part of the PLO “operation.” The US
state department actually recorded Arafat giving the order by radio.

Klinghoffer’s wife, who was on the ship with her husband and who watched the grisly execution, died shortly after her husband’s death due to the stress of what she witnessed.

Most young people, even American Jews born after 1980, have no idea who Leon Klinghoffer was. So why on earth would a comedian like Miller even use such a joke?
Had he made a joke about lynching a black man in the Jim Crow south of the US the joke
would surely have been edited out during the final cut of the show taping. But apparently executives at Showtime saw nothing wrong with a joke about murdering an elderly Jew in a wheelchair and dumping him at sea because he was a Jew. The joke could have been edited out of the final taping but was left in.

In all likelihood the executives at Showtime themselves had no idea who Leon Klinghoffer was or what happened to him. But what is disturbing is after I wrote to
Robert Greenblatt (yes, a Jew yet) who is in charge of programming for the cable network giant about the event, I received absolutely no response.

Anti-Semitism is back even in America to such a degree that killing Jews has become
something to joke about. I’m no prude and I believe in freedom of speech, but can any
one of us believe had a similar joke even been made about Muslims that it would be played on air? This is the face of growing anti-Semitism in America.

If you agree with this, write Robert Greenblatt and see if you get a response. That such a joke would be made during the Gaza Flotilla yet is something every Jew, Israeli or in the Diaspora, should really think about: Robert.greenblatt@showtime.net.

TWO NEW RADIO INTERVIEWS THIS MONTH

2010-06-11T11:17:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I was on the Tovia Singer Radio Show on IsraelNationalNews.com giving out information on the Gaza flotilla raid not found in mainstream media. There were al Qaida and Hamas agents on the Turkish boat who attacked the IDF soldiers. The intrview is archived so can be found by going to the INN home page then clicking on radio and scrolling down to Tovia Singer's show where it should be archived.

I did a similar interview last week on the Fred Thompson Show found at www.FredTHompson.com. That is also archived. Fred and I discuss the flotilla and how our government is suborning terrorism rather than fighting in. Both shows are worth a listen.

I HAVE BREAKING STORY AT HOMELANDSECURITYUS.COM:

2010-05-27T04:43:00.000-07:00

Obama administration officials to speak at Hamas support group’s convention
By Lee Kaplan, Communications Director

26 May 2010: Mainstream media has completely overlooked a national conference that will be held June 4-10, 2010 in Washington D.C., where officials of the Obama administration will speak and rub elbows with Arab-Americans who openly support and work for the goals of Hamas, and who encourage the violation of US laws.

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) presents itself as a civil rights group protecting Muslims and Arab-Americans from discrimination. However, the group is a front for supporting Hamas and promotes the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement against Israel, and through its associations, supports the same enemies our troops are fighting against in Afghanistan and Iraq.

According to the website Militant Islam Monitor, “The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee is known for openly supporting Hezbollah, and Hamas. One of its members, Souheil Elia of the Florida chapter, has supported suicide bombings in it forums and in interviews, stating that …”their bodies are the only weapons they have…” In 2004 Elia spoke at an ADC event called Palestine- Perception and Reality- which was an Israel and American bashing fest.

This week, the ADC sent out e-mail announcements for the convention and is promoting featured guests that include Rick Wade, Senior Adviser and Deputy Chief of Staff for Barack Hussein Obama’s Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

The ADC openly works with anti-Israel organizations such as Al Awda and the Students for Justice in Palestine as well as the Muslim Student Union chapters on US college campuses to promote the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel. In addition, the ADC serves as a support mechanism for the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) by providing facilities and funding to send activists to the Middle East to support Hamas and act as human shields for the terrorist organization. Jess Ghannam, head of the ADC is San Francisco and a co-founder of Al Awda and ISM organizer was recently part of the Viva Palestina Tour that illegally entered Gaza last year to bring funding and supplies to Hamas.

The Secretary of Commerce has an Office of Anti-Boycott Compliance that is responsible for enforcing US trade laws passed by congress making it illegal for American companies to discriminate and boycott Israel. Obviously, both the Bush and Obama administrations have chosen to ignore and violate the rule of law. The BDS Movement as encouraged and supported by Al Awda and the ADC also encourages the boycotting of American businesses that are either owned by Jews or have Jewish management, a clear violation of U.S. Civil Rights Laws.

Oddly enough, Wade’s appearance is supposed to “… highlight the economic viability of minority-owned businesses and the opportunities for collaboration in areas of commerce, both domestically and internationally,” according to the announcement sent out by the ADC.

Apparently, the Commerce Secretary’s Office sees nothing wrong with encouraging business among an Arab advocacy group that discriminates against American and Israeli companies and Jews. Oddly enough, the ADC announcement also cites as the theme of the conference as being “Thirty Years of Advocacy and Achievement: Strengthening the Voice for Equality and Justice.” The ADC has always supported the boycotting and divestment of Jewish and Israeli businesses in the US and abroad.

The conference also includes as guest speakers Clovis Maksoud, the diplomatic head of the Arab League that created the Boycott against Israel originating in 1949, as well as Azmi Bishara, a former Arab-Israeli member of Israel’s parliament who fled the country after it was revealed he had been spying for Hezbollah. Hezbollah is on the US State Department’s list of illegal terrorist groups and was responsible for murdering 241 US marines in Beirut in 1983.

Even more disturbing is another high-level guest from the Obama Administration—Attorney General Eric Holder who is scheduled to speak to “A Keynote Civil Rights Luncheon” at the Conference on June 4th.

So here we have the highest law enforcement officer in the US speaking as a guest at an event given by an organization that discriminates against Jewish Americans in violation of US Trade Laws and that hosts as an honored guest someone who has worked as a spy for a known terrorist organization that has murdered US servicemen.

The Obama administration should be ashamed and cancel these scheduled appearances immediately. There is no excuse for this as it shows support for an organization that is the complete antithesis of American values and honesty.

CAMPAIGN TO END THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION UP TO SAME TRICKS AND LIES

2010-04-12T12:00:00.000-07:00

US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation lying again on Google search of my name:

They're at it again. Thanks to the Internet, smearing and lying one's way around for anti-Semitic and terrorist groups is just so easy. The latest google search under my name apparently leads to an image and link of a "cease and desist" letter from Huwaida Arraf's and Josh Ruebner's anti-Israel ISM propaganda campaign in Washington where they claim I misrepresented them. You see, these people are inveterate liars for Arab and particualrly Saudi money. I really don't like blogging. This site came into existence from what once was another anti-Israel activist's smear site called Lee Kaplan Watch. I sued the creator and collected monetary damages as well as this blog.

Anyhoo, the ISM gang thinks that by pushing their phony "cease and desist" letter up the ranks of the Google search that they can discredit me. Below is a reprint of my response to that letter. Feel free to email me at leekaplan@dafka.org if you wish to comment:

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Thursday, September 6, 2007
A REPLY TO THE US CAMPAIGN TO END THE ISRAELI OCUPATION'S "CEASE AND DESIST" LETTER

The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation recently sent me a
"cease and desist" letter due to my exposure of them as part of
the ISM and how they will be holding another Jew hatefest at
George Mason University. You can read their letter at:
http://www.endtheoccupation.org/downloads/responsetoleekaplanarticle.pdf

Below is my response:

US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation

P.O. Box 21539

Washington, DC 20009

RE: “Your cease and desist” letter:

Dear Sirs:

The article of mine, that appeared on The American Thinker web log, "George Mason University to Host Next ISM Conference” (http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/07/george_mason_university_to_hos.html) that the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation refers to, as written, is neither inaccurate nor defamatory, unless you consider the activities of your organization as defaming itself. I, on the other hand, consider your letter as a threat and attempt at intimidation to my rights of free speech.

The American people are not fools, but certain organizations do seek to fool them. When an organization such as yours presents itself as seeking “peace” but in fact supports and works closely with myriad organizations that openly advocate for war on and the destruction of the democratic and pluralistic state of Israel, I feel it is my journalistic duty to alert the public to these events.

Your claims notwithstanding on your website that you only seek to end the “occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem” are belied by both your organization’s actions, as well as the actions and admitted positions of your own representative leadership and close affiliates as I will expose in this letter. I submit that your leadership and organization are guilty of something known as “lying by omission,” or leaving out just enough information to convey a false impression while presenting a kernel of truth in a statement. In this regard, the authors of your letter, particularly Mr. Ruebner, do not mention they support unconditionally the Arab “Right of Return” in addition to the creation of a Palestinian state, a concept whereby 5 million Arabs would be allowed to move within Israel’s 1949 borders so as to demographically overrun the Jewish population and dismantle the state. You can read more about Mr. Ruebner here:

(http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2111 ).

Responding to your bullet points:

Bullet point number 1:

You take issue with the statement that the International Solidarity Movement is “scheduling” your conference.

According to the personal explanation of Adam Shapiro, who Lee Kaplan personally interviewed at the 2003 Ohio State Divestment Conference and the husband of your chosen leader, Huwaida Arraf, both of whom are co-founders of the ISM, The International Solidarity Movement is the name used by the Palestine Solidarity Movement (PSM) when it operates in the West Bank and Gaza and is comprised of myriad anti-Israel groups (one of which is yours). The ISM and PSM are not official groups or corporations, but represent all of these groups working in unison-“solidarity” toward a common goal in opposing Israel’s existence as a Jewish state and replacing it with Arab-dominated “Palestine.” Among these groups are many who call themselves ISM, but also groups such as Al Awda, SUSTAIN, Students for Justice in Palestine, Women In Black, as well as the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.

Shapiro explained that the ISM is an umbrella organization. As such, if one segment is closed down by the authorities, the others can continue operating. In addition, if one arm of the umbrella makes statements such as was done by Charlotte Kates (See: http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=944)
who I believe is affiliated with your organization as well, and who stated that Israeli children are “fair game” for terrorist attacks, the others can deny she speaks for them. Hence, the fact this conference is an organizational meeting of the multiple layers of leadership of the ISM, be it under the name US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation or not, it is still an ISM organizational meeting according to the attendees. In fact, you bill it as a National Organizer’s Conference meeting in solidarity to promote divestment against Israel, an ISM program.

By your own admission in your letter, your elected leader and President is in fact a self-admitted co-founder and current leader of the ISM, Huwaida Arraf, who has admitted she works in cooperation with Hamas. The Hamas charter calls for the annihilation of Israel as a Jewish state and the expulsion of all Jews from what is today the state of Israel. See: http://www.mideastweb.org/hamas.htm .

Nice company you keep.

Other individuals who belong to the ISM, yet curiously are also listed as members-at-large in your organization include Ms. Kates, Abe Greenhouse, Joseph Carr and others who have been exposed as higher level activists within the ISM.

Regarding earlier conferences held by your organization: (See: http://www.adl.org/Israel/israel_protest_calendar_2004.asp )

From an announcement of a conference held by your organization in Kansas City, Mo.

Saturday, November 13, 2004 - University of Missouri--Kansas City, Missouri
Regional Conference to “End the Occupation”

Sponsored by the U.S. Campaign to the End the Occupation and the International Solidarity Movement .

Background:

Citizens for Justice in the Middle East, a regional anti-Israel group based at the University of Missouri—Kansas City, is bringing the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, the International Solidarity Movement and other anti-Israel activists together for a regional conference devoted to changing U.S. policy toward Israel. The event will feature speakers who support divestment from Israel, the elimination of U.S. aid to Israel and contesting Israeli security measures. Notable speakers include Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies, Huwaida Arraf of ISM and the U.S. Campaign’s Josh Ruebner.

I note the following statement from your own website about your first conference (see:

http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=29 ):

“Coordinating with the work of the ISM…” An activity your organization has done
since its alleged inception per your website.

Following are some of the activities of the ISM with whom you “coordinate”:

(1) The ISM says openly that it has direct contacts with Foreign
Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) as defined by the U.S. State Department
(2) The ISM says openly that it recruits American college students in
the hope of getting them hurt or killed in confrontations with Israeli
military forces, for propaganda purposes (e.g. Rachel Corrie).
(3) An ISM affiliate (Al-Awda) have allegedly solicited acts of
terroristic violence on the Internet: specifically the suicide bombing
of Ariel Sharon's hospital room.
(4) The ISM has provided "safe house" assistance for actual terrorists.

(1) The International Solidarity Movement has direct contacts with
Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other terrorists. We direct your
attention to "Huwaida Arraf" on the Steering Committee of U.S. Campaign
to End the Occupation. Note that this is from their own Web site.

http://www.endtheoccupation.org/downloads/2006conferencereport.pdf says,

Current Steering Committee members of the US Campaign, followed by the
year in which their terms end, are:
* Huwaida Arraf (2007) - International Solidarity Movement
* Phyllis Bennis (2009) - Institute for Policy Studies
* Felicia Eaves (2009) - Black Voices for Peace
================================
Now we have Huwaida Arraf's letter to the Washington Post (February 2007)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/16/AR2006021602027_2.html

Eric Adler and Jack Langer disparaged the
International Solidarity Movement(ISM),a movement
that I co-founded in the spring of 2001
in the occupied territories of the West Bank,
the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem to help draw
attention to the human rights abuses suffered by
Palestinians as a result of Israel's occupation.
The ISM also is a resource for Palestinian nonviolent
resistance to the occupation. The ISM believes that
average civilians can bring about change, and it tries
to unite Palestinians, Israelis and other people in
nonviolent resistance to Israel's occupation policies.

When I "acknowledged" that the ISM
"cooperates with Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad
and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine,"
I was offering concrete examples of the ways
in which these groups were engaging in nonviolent resistance.

Both the ISM and the Palestine Solidarity Movement
advocate nonviolent resistance to Israel's human rights abuses
-- the ISM through organized action in the occupied territories
and the PSM by promoting international divestment from
companies that profit from occupation.

HUWAIDA ARRAF

Washington
====================================

(2) The International Solidarity Movement recruits
American college students for the purpose of getting
them hurt or killed in confrontations with the
Israeli Defense Forces. This is what happened to
Evergreen College student Rachel Corrie in
March 2003. Two ISM members stated openly that
they had a motive for wanting her dead. While GMU
students are legal adults, is this an activity to
which GMU really wants to expose them?

http://www.standwithus.com/news_post.asp?NPI=85
"Recently, the Director of the Solidarity Movement,
George Rishmawi, explained to the San Francisco Chronicle
that the recruitment of American student volunteers
is useful to the Palestinian Movement because
'if some of these foreign volunteers get shot or
even killed, then the international media will
sit up and take notice.'"

Joseph Smith, a.k.a. Joseph Carr, who was present
when Corrie died, and whose highest priority was
apparently to take pictures, said
(see: http://www.freepalestinecampaign.org/Stranger%20article.htm)
"The spirit that she died for is worth a life.
This idea of resistance, this spirit of resisting
this brutal occupying force, is worth anything. And
many, many, many Palestinians give their lives for
it all the time. So the life of one international,
I feel, is more than worth the spirit of resisting
oppression." (Rachel Corrie's life, as opposed to his
own, of course.) Read more on Joseph Smith/Carr here:
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/JosephSmith

A Hamas terrorist said openly that Rachel Corrie
was worth more dead than alive.
"'Her death serves me more than it served her,' said one
activist at a Hamas funeral yesterday.
'...Her death will bring more attention than
the other 2,000 martyrs.'" Making of a Martyr
(http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/3-22-2003-37821.asp)
by Sandra Jordan, Guardian Newspapers. Ms.Arraf,
your elected President, admits to working with Hamas.

(3)An ISM and US Camapign to End the Israeli Occupation
affiliate(Al-Awda) has allegedly solicited acts of terrorist
violence on the Internet: specifically the suicide bombing
of Ariel Sharon's hospital room.

A member of Al-Awda (Right of Return), an International Solidarity
Movement affiliate, allegedly posted a solicitation for a "martyr" to
bomb the Hadassah Hospital in Israel, where Ariel Sharon is being
treated for a stroke. (This was, incidentally, forwarded to law
enforcement when we saw it.)

From: raja chemayel

Sender: Al-Awda@yahoogroups.com
Mailing-List: list Al-Awda@yahoogroups.com
; contact Al-Awda-owner@yahoogroups.com

Delivered-To: mailing list Al-Awda@yahoogroups.com

List-Id:
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 19:35:29 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [AL-AWDA] open letter to the next Suicide-Bomber
Reply-To: Al-Awda@yahoogroups.com

Open letter to
the next
Suicide-Bomber

Dear Abou el Fidda' ,

If you are next Martyr on the waiting list
get started and pack your heavy-stuff ,
kiss the hand of your mother
kiss goodbye you bothers and sisters
kiss the hand of your father
put on that heavy-jacket.......

Take the Express-Bus to Jerusalem-Central
and then take bus Nr. 17 which takes you to Haddasah
then step out at the Bus-Station called the :
"Hospital for War Criminal"

Show you Fake-Press-Card to the Security
and speak with an American-accent
walk slowly and do not attract attention......
Enter the main-Hall and walk straight to the VIP- elevator
tell them Mr. Wolf Blitzer has sent you.....!!

Go up to the seventh floor........
look for the room 714........ (intensive care)
and then slowly but surely hold on to that detonator
under your jacket.......

Once you reach that very-well-guarded-room # 714
stop and turn left.....
you will see a large "VIP-Waiting-Hall"
with the many Dignitaries from many countries
including ,unfortunatly, some Arab-countries......
who came to pay their respect to their dying-Hero.

Show again your fake-Press-Card and start
interviewing those "well-wishers".........
and ask them what made this man a Hero ??
and how come he became a "Man of Peace"

Then , order for yourself a cup of coffee,
sit down , rest and think for a while.......

If by then ,
you are still not convinced by the arguments you have heard
from those well wishers.....
then release that detonator !!

This man under intensive care will anyhow die,
with or without your suicide , my brother ,
your real enemies are
those who have called him a "Hero"
and could not convince you why.
( nor me)

Raja Chemayel
8th of Jan.06

Al Awda’s founder, Mazen Qumsiyeh was quoted at the Duke ISM Conference as saying that Jews who live in Israel are “a disease” and “must all leave.” Qumsiyeh
is on the steering committee for the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
and, according to ex-PLO terrorist Walid Shoebat, Qumsiyeh is a former member of the PFLP, recognized as a terrorist group by the US State Department. He was also
denied tenure at Yale after sending out what was deemed an anti-Semitic email on
the universitys servers. See: http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=1158

(4) The ISM has provided "safe house" assistance for actual terrorists.

http://home.comcast.net/~jat.action/ISM_info.htm
"Susan Barclay, the
ISM organizer deported by Israel after she hid Islamic Jihad terrorist
Shadi Sukiya in the ISM office in Jenin, told the Seattle Post
Intelligencer that, "she knowingly worked with representatives from
Hamas and Islamic Jihad— terrorist groups that sponsor suicide bombings
and exist, according to their charters, to demolish the Jewish state
entirely." (Seattle Post Intelligencer, Thursday March 20, 2003,
"Activist's death focuses spotlight on Mideast struggle," By Sam
Skolnik, Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter.)

http://israelbehindthenews.com/Archives/Jul-04-03.htm#agitate
"Days before a British suicide bomber detonated an explosives belt in
Mike's Place, a bar in suburban Tel Aviv, the bomber and an associate
took tea with members of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a
pro-Palestinian group that promotes non-violent resistance to Israeli
occupation."

http://home.comcast.net/~jat.action/ISM_info.htm
"The immediate goal
of the ISM is to hamper the ability of the IDF to prevent terrorist
attacks on civilians." "The ISM sees itself as working in tandem with
the terrorist organizations: Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Al Aksa Martyrs
Brigade. Those organizations use violent means, while the ISM undertakes
such aggressive non-violent actions as blocking the progress of Israeli
soldiers on their way to arrest terrorists. The intention of the ISM in
these actions is to protect terrorists from interference by the IDF."

Paul LaRudee of Norcal ISM, another affiliate of your campaign, was arrested
and deported by Israel for suspected links to Hamas. LaRudee, who like Joseph Carr
has admitted to entering Israel more than once under an assumed name has boasted about sleeping in the bed of a suicide bomber and most recently was a human shield for the Hizballah in Lebanon during the last war. (See: http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6233 )

The suggestion that people should view your conference as a Jew Hate Fest is accurate. As part of the Boycott Israel campaign, the Palestine Solidarity Movement, of which your organization is a part, held workshops identifying various Jewish-American organizations to be boycotted as well allegedly for their support of Israel. Since all groups and individuals participating at these conferences agree to the same points of unity and solidarity with the same goal, it certainly applies to your organization as well. I am aware the three of you, or at least two, who wrote the letter may be of Jewish descent, however, this does not mitigate activities that are targeted against Jews. The Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto were rounded up by the Nazis by the Jewish Police and many Jews were turned in by fellow Jews known as “Jew catchers” by the Nazis for money. In addition, you state your campaign is “committed to organizing an anti-racist framework and working to counteract manifestations of racism in all forms.” This flies in the face of your chosen leaders willingness to work with Hamas as she has freely admitted to. We recommend you read the Hamas Charter. It specifies the annihilation of Jews in Israel and propagates the blood libel of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. If you were unaware, then would you please write us that you condemn Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be closed down and ask Ms. Arraf to resign as the “President” of your organization? In addition, I can find no condemnations of Jews in Israel being murdered via terrorism or suicide bombings on your website.

You state that your organization was not founded by Huwaida Arraf, but others in 2002. Can you produce for me corporate documents to that effect? Ms. Arraf herself announced the opening of your offices in Washington DC as well as your new website whereas your previous offices were in New York. Prior to your receiving nonprofit corporate status in 2006, were you ever a legal entity? Please send us proof of your incorporation as a legal entity in 2002. While you are at it, can you send me your foundation’s grants records and other sources of funding

Your organization promotes divestments and boycotts of Jews in Israel through starving them out financially. These activities of yours and your ISM and associated anti-Israel allies result in 30% of Israel’s children and the elderly going to bed hungry at night or forced to eat in soup kitchens. This is indeed hatred of Jews and the same tactic of economic boycotts of Jews was the first tactic of the Nazis in 1933 that ultimately led to the Holocaust. The code talk you use is fairly obvious and we at The American Thinker do not fall for it.

If someone using the same technique were to say Black people cannot live in Washington, DC where your offices are, yet does say they can live anywhere else in the world, and that they should be boycotted and starved until they leave, it does not make them any less racist against Black people. The same applies to your organization’s alliances and support for a campaign to starve out, dispossess or even kill the Jews residing in Israel or in the disputed territories of the West Bank, while claiming you will embrace Jews who will help you dismantle the Jewish state.

One of your authorized representatives has openly spoken out for the destruction of Israel. Noura Erekat, who is listed on your website as an official “grassroots organizer”and legal advisor (see: http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=1307 )for your campaign sent another email out recently stating that all of Israel even within the 1948 armistice lines is “occupied” and should be dissolved and asks for volunteers to help her do so. See( http://www.stoptheism.com/?M=&T=200). Do you intend to force her resignation along with that of Ms. Arraf as a result these revelations? Mr. Erekat can also be viewed on You Tube at these addresses: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw89UDZay4M&mode=related&search and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtsbZ8LZ0m8 where she refuses to condemn a call by Bin Laden to kill Jews and is introduced as your campaign’s “legal advisor” (also listed as such on your website (see: http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=1307 ).

At the same time you mention Al Awda as a “member organization” of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. Al Awda advocates nothing less than the end of Israel. In addition, Al Awda was recently revealed to have connections to the Aryan Brotherhood,an anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi organization by me that resulted in UC Riverside canceling their “international” conference there. Do you intend to demand their removal from your “non-racist” organization? (See: http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:VmdIG-pddAEJ:www.al-awda.org/alert-eoc.html+US+CAMpaign+to+end+the+ISraeli+occupation+%2B+AL+Awda&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=us ).

We also note that your elected President, Ms. Arraf, has spoken on behalf of the Council for the National Interest that is openly known to be anti-Semitic and run by Paul Findley.

Your organization has also opposed congressional action to try and stop Palestinian terrorism: (see: http://www.endtheoccupation.org/modinput4.php?modin=92 ).

Your website was indeed registered to a Nadil Ghaith from the UAE at the same time Ms. Arraf announced the organization’s offices were opening in Washington DC in 2005. Originally registered at www.endtheoccupation.com , (see: http://www.omdurman.org/columns/NidalGhaith.doc ) your organization deleted that domain name on April 7, 2005, only days before creating the new domain name www.endtheoccupation.org with Radical Designs (see: http://www.expiresoft.com/domains/available/2007-04-07-288.htm ) Mr. Ghaith lists his residence in the UAE but has also turned up in Jerusalem. If your organization was originally involved with someone in the UAE who registered the domain name, and also represents the interests of the Palestinian Authority, then you definitely should be registered as foreign agents. I speculated in my article that Suleiman Ghaith, a top level al Qaeda operative, may belong to the same clan as Nadil Ghaith .

You deny that your organization undertakes strident attempts at promoting a boycott of American Jewish groups and to economically cripple Jewish businesses. Yet on your website you single out the Estee Lauder company, Ron Lauders’ business for a boycott among several other American Jewish-owned businesses. Your “member organizations” (your own description) also held a seminar at Duke University given by Mr. Abe Greenhouse outlining American Jewish businesses to be boycotted or even infiltrated as part of a campaign against Israel.

You state in your letter to us that you respect international law, yet do not condemn terrorism against Israelis. International law per Resolution 242 does not make the Jewish communities in the West Bank illegal, yet you recommend boycotting Jews and Jewish businesses in the US and abroad to force these Jews to lose their homes as somehow being necessary per international law. Eugene Rostow who helped author the resolution has stated the Israeli communities in the West Bank and Gaza are not illegal per his own resolution. We were wondering where you all earned your degrees in International Law and if you were aware of these discrepancies?

We note you take exception to our stated opinion that the activities of your organization only serve to make the Israeli/Palestinian dispute an unending affair. We note that in his official capacity as a leader in the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, Josh Ruebner is mentioned as being on the steering committee of Leslie Cagan’s United for Peace and Justice Coalition (see: http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=1757 ). UFPJ is in fact the revamped Communist Party USA (see: http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6166 ) and Mr. Rubener seems to have had more than a passing association with over the last several years. The Communist Party USA platform is against the existence of Israel and its replacement by an Arab- dominated state called Palestine.

The above information, merely scratching the surface, reveals both the inaccuracies of your letter to me and facts that you do not seem to want the American people to know.

Finally, your website and organization falsely states that Israel is an “apartheid state” like South Africa used to be. Apartheid in South Africa was based on racial laws, Blacks were forced to live in certain areas and had fewer civil rights than Whites. This is not the case with Israel where all minorities have equal civil rights by law. Israeli Arabs enjoy the same civil rights as Jews and even have affirmative action programs giving them more rights than some Israeli Jews. At the same time, in the Palestinian Authority it is a death sentence to sell land to a Jew and Sharia Law is part of the constitution the same as in Saudi Arabia or Iran. While 20% of Israelis are Arabs with equal rights, the Palestinian Authority insists the West Bank and Gaza must be “Jew-free.” That is the only true apartheid going on in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, and your organizations twisting of these facts only further reveal an attempt at deception among those whose opinions you seek to sway against Israel. We at American Thinker find your racist attitudes against Jews residing in the Middle East objectionable and reveal deception in your alleged anti-racist platform.

Given the above information, and the plethora of other information I have, I must reject your request for an apology and retraction. However, I would like to know since given the information I have provided you, if you intend to do any housecleaning in your own organization?

Sincerely,

Lee Kaplan

www.StoptheISM.com
Posted by Lee Kaplan at 10:05 AM
1 comments:
Winged Hussar 1683 said...
Re: "At the same time you mention Al Awda as a “member organization” of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation." Contrary to the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation's claim that it seeks only to end Israel's "occupation" of the West Bank and Gaza, Al Awda maps show "Palestine" as extending "from the river to the sea."

The difference between "Where's Waldo?" and "Where's Israel in the Al-Awda maps?" is that Waldo is actually IN those pictures somewhere, while Israel appears nowhere on Al Awda's maps. This is simply one of many pieces of evidence that the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation is lying.

As for boycotts...I have a screenshot of a page in which the US Campaign advocates an "international boycott of Israel." Another of their Web pages says they might try to coordinate these efforts with the Arab League. "Boycotts and divestment: It was felt that we should work for CAT-free-zones all over the country, pushing boycotts and/or divestment on every entity that builds/owns stock. There was also support for approaching Arab and Muslim contractors here and abroad, as well as the Arab League and various governments to boycott CAT equipment."

"In cooperation with a foreign government" might violate antiboycott laws and be cause for revocation of their tax exemption.
Posted by Lee Kaplan at 8:56 AM

UNDERCOVER REPORT OF AL AWDA CONFERENCE NOW AVAILABLE ON HOMELAND SECURITY WEBSITE

2010-03-19T11:07:00.000-07:00

For details of what went on inside at the Fifth Annual Al Awda Regional Planning Conference go to http://homelandsecurityus.com/archives/3590 and read my report.

The Northeast Intelligence Network suplies a lot of intelligence material to US law enforcement and decided to run my article. Please visit their website and link to it for the future.

Meanwhile. Al Awda is planning its next International conference in Anaheim for end of April, beginning of May. EMail the manager there Dominic Acolino to not let them hold yet another Jew hate fest at a Hilton Hotel. Incredibly, Hilton Hotels is on
Al Awda's boycott list. Ah, well, anything for a buck, eh?

Acolino's email address: Dominic_Acolino@hilton.com

You can also EMail Hilton's President who likes to leave the decision up to Acolino.

THE AL AWDA JEWISH HATE FEST AND LA MESA'S SOT OF A MAYOR

2010-02-15T23:05:00.001-08:00

La Mesa, California Mayor Art Madrid sees nothing wrong with hosting Jew-haters and groups that fund terrorism for "planning conferences" in his city. Students for Justice in Palestine who sponsored the event, openly have praised terrorist murderers like Leila Khaled pictured here:

Read about PFLP terrorist Leila Khaled here:

www.freedomarchives.org/.../Leila_Khaled.html

Less than 50 people showed up for the event at the La Mesa Community Center after SDSU gave them the boot. Meanwhile, this was the SECOND TIME Madrid has allowed the Hezbollah-Hamas-Taliban-Iran supporting group to use city facilities for strategy and planning sessions in time of war after they were kicked off a California campus. It was only last month that Al Awda's co-founder Jess Ghannam was in Gaza bringing cash to aid Hamas. The divestment and boycott strategies to be used against Jews planned at Al Awda events smack of the same divestment and boycott schemes that the Nazis in Germany first used in going after the Jews.

I was undercover this weekend at the Al Awda West Coast Planning Conference. I'll have a detailed report and videos from the event to reveal what went on inside. Meanwhile, I want to comment about La Mesa's "City Manager" or Mayor, Art Madrid, who allowed this obnoxious event to go forward in La Mesa's community center. Madrid, an ex-marine himself, saw nothing wrong with giving a venue to an organization that openly supports and praises Hezbollah that murdered 241 US marines in Beirut in 1983 and openly supports the Taliban and Iraqi insurgents who kill our soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Students for Justice in Palestine at SDSU who sponsored this event also have praised Leila Khaled who murdered US Navy diver Robart Stethem during an airplane hijacking by the PFLP in Beirut. The administration at San Diego State where they were kicked out from before going to La Mesa looked at my proof that Al Awda 1) Is anti-Semitic and has worked with the US Nazi Party 2) Has been proven to as recently as last month giving money and material aid to Hamas, a known terrorist organization 3) Supports the activities of terrorists like Leila Khaled 4)seeks boycotts against American and Israeli businesses that employ Jews 5) seeks to get US universities to discriminate against Jews as subterfuge and to promote war on Israel.

Madrid, it seems, was once found lying drunk in the middle of the road in La Mesa by the police department. It figures. This is the guy who obviously did not look at the copious documentation I sent him about Al Awda or chose to ignore it entirely. It's
because of people like Madrid that the War on Terror goes on forever. I asked Madrid if he would allow a similar meeting held by the Ku Klux Klan calling for boycotting African-Americans in La Mesa's community center and he replied that he absolutely would!!! I believe him because he is intellectually lazy and stands on no pinciples at all, least of all those of our patriotic marines. Hopefully, the voters of La Mesa will recall this event during the next election there. And thank God the administrators at SDSU had the good sense to read everything. For more on that, see my previous posts.

Of those who did show up to protest, there were two women who were accosted by Zahi Damuni and Jess Ghannam outside and denied admittance to learn just what was being said inside. These two men are co-founders of Al Awda along with Mazen Qumsiyeh, a PFLP acolyte presently living in Beit Sahour in the Palestinian Authority.

Zahi Damuni

Jess Ghannam

One of the women was driven to tears as Damuni and Ghannam yelled at her, "You're not wanted here" and ordered the Arab-American students present to not speak to her. Were this only an event related to free speech like Madrid, the street sleeper, tried to suggest, then why the secrecy behind closed doors at a taxpayer-paid facility? The answer is simple: At one point two of the Arab-American students present asked if given Al Awda's goal of taking ALL OF ISRAEL back, if it was achieved, what would happen to the Jews living there, Damuni refused to answer the question because he knew the answer: they are to all be killed or deported.

Al Awda is no different than the German-American Bund before World War II. They support America's enemies while we are at war and even raise money for them. Art Madrid told the woman who protested this event that I had "personal reasons" for trying to get this event canceled in La Mesa after getting it canceled previously at SDSU and UC Riverside.

He didn't tell her what "personal reasons" meant, but I can explain them: I am a Jew and a patriotic American. To an obtuse personality like Madrid, taxpayer-funded faciltiies can be used by those who attack a minority group and give succor to the enemies our soldiers fight in the middle of a war. Disgraceful.

Be sure and read the touching emails below from the women who confronted Madrid and the fascists at the Al Awda conference. Their last names were removed for privacy issues. I'll have a more detailed report on the Conference with recordings and videos later this week:

I went to Al Awda today. I saw the devil with my own eyes. I spoke with the members from SDSU, only children, but hating America. I saw the professors who came to speak. I heard them yelling and demeaning my country. One by one, men came and yelled at me as I stood.... alone. One woman, one mother, one wife, one daughter and my police stood against me - THEY TOOK MY CHAIR as I stood alone. I saw the depth of our problem, how far we have strayed. I asked my policeman, "Whom shall I trust?" I am ashamed to say, I broke down and cried. I felt afraid and I could not return to my car.

But while all this was happening, I talked to the children.... for hours. These things were but interludes, hindering my work. The students, maybe 6 in number, talked to me. They saw what happened and while they spewed evil about my beloved country, if I listened attentively, they'd listen right back at me. I was able to give one a pocket Constitution. They each admitted that they could not name five founding fathers, yet were attending college. They listened as I told them what makes America great. I told them so many things and.... it was good.

Except for the others. They were getting angry at me but, I had my rights with me and I had the Creator who gave them to me.

These students, they knew every evil taught them, they were predicatble. They watched as their heros came and attacked me with lies and they knew they were lying about saying I was doing things I was not. And... it was good. We talked about it between each evil interloper who would come to yell at me hoping to intimidate or scare me into leaving. They watched as men stood inches away from me in stand-offs, demanding that I leave, "I was not welcome." Truly, they thundered at me.

The students watched as I stood alone and told these men, each as he boomed at me, "I am not leaving, I have a right to be here. STOP TALKING TO ME AND GET AWAY FROM ME." But, I did not move. These men were angry. They hated our country. They were planning. They had a box for donations with words I'm not going to type. No cursing but, I just don't want to type them. The students did not like what they saw... no, not at all. And I used it. Eventually, the students were ordered not to speak to me. Yet, I could still speak to them. This worked out better than I could have dreamed. I told them, "Can't you see these are angry people? Why do they hate me? Is it because my hair is blonde?" They could not answer. I used it some more. I told them, "I am sorry you aren't allowed to talk to me." They would smile. "I've never been around people before who weren't allowed to talk to me."

Then I told them of these men's hearts. I told the students that they were so nice to me and how I enjoyed talking with them. Told them they were nice. But the adults inside, most especially two specific men, the meanest, their hearts were hardened, I told the children. We must look at our foundation and what was so good about America that men traveled from all over the world to come here. So many died. They sought freedom. America, the beacon to the world. I even got in some 500 Year Leap material!

I did not get home until 3:00 p.m. because there was no one else to do it and I felt it had to be done. Everyone at the seminars, even our own university professors will not forget me. Neither will the children. Not for some time anyway. An impact was made.

Maybe there was one child that learned something in those hours. Maybe one will be saved. I wanted so much to go to I-Caucus but I guess I have to trust that I was where I was supposed to be on this day because as much as today was a profoundly disturbing & heartbraching experience for me, God has a plan.

I just wish he'd tell it to the cops. Oh, I should add that by the end, one of the cops told me that they (3) had a discussion about me and were all talking about what big _ _ _ _ I have. So that's good!

IN GOD WE TRUST,
Chris
Psalm 121

Below are email exchanges between Mayor Madrid and the other woman present that day prior to the event being held on February 13th, 2010.

Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 11:45 AM
To: 'Art Madrid'
Subject: RE: Al Awda

Mayor Madrid,

Your response to my inquiry was quite disturbing for a number of reasons which I have detailed here.

After this response to your writing, I have listed specific questions which I ask you to address.

You stated that your response to my email was delayed because "... (you were) having extensive discussions with our City Attorney, City Manager, Police Chief, who in turn has talked to Homeland Security. As much as (you) personally dislike any organization that promotes hate, every one of those (you) counseled with agreed that they, Al Awda, have first amendment rights that need to be protected." It is irresponsible at best to advocate that our first amendment is somehow designed to protect those who have declared war against us and our allies.

I would like to know if they are aware of the organization's stated purpose and and goals. Might they find cause to disallow the group access to taxpayer funded facilities for the purpose of organizing against the United States and our allies during a time when an attack on us is "imminent?" It seems that each of these public servants would be well advised to remember that the mass-murders at Fort Hood could be reasonably foreseen and were therefore preventable.

I would also like to draw your attention to the first paragraph of your response again where when referring to Al Awda you stated, "As much as I personally dislike any organization that promotes hate..." I appreciate that we are in agreement here that this organization promotes hate. We might also agree, with some investigation on your part, that this organization whether directly or through their chosen affiliations, promotes torture and murder: murder of citizens of the United States of America including those living in La Mesa. This intent has been clearly stated and documented and, as I mentioned, it is quite disturbing that the individuals you consulted with seem unaware of this fact especially when you mention Homeland Security who has informed our nation of an "imminent" coming attack.

Hate speech is not a "first amendment right that needs to be protected." In fact, small children can be expelled from their schools for hate speech - without intent.

You repeatedly mentioned Mr. Lee Kaplan in your response to me. I do not know Mr. Kaplan but was quite curious that you mentioned his appeal to you to cancel this hate group's upcoming training session "for his own personal reasons." When reading this, I wondered what personal reasons this man might have. Was his son one of the United States Marines murdered by Al Awda's known affiliate, Hezbollah, in Beirut in 1983? Or did you simply mean "personal reasons" believing it unusual that other Americans would disapprove of hate groups who promote terror against us?

You also mentioned that this Mr. Kaplan has "taken credit" for having this particular hate group expelled from San Diego State University but that you called the president's office and found they did not hold their conference there because of costs. I was shocked and saddened at your choice of words as they displayed not only your animosity toward this man but of the result to prevent this group from fueling hatred and murderous intent amongst our students in a school and taxpayer funded facility.

While much of your response to me was directed at the illusive Mr. Kaplan, I will greatly appreciate your focus on this writer.

You also wrote that "... the city has done an extensive investigation into our ability to refuse Al Awda, or anyone else we don't agree with..." I did not advocate your refusal to grant the use of our publicly funded facilities to "anyone we don't agree with." I specifically pleaded for your refusal to grant the use of our taxpayer funded facilities to a known hate group that is part of the International Solidarity Movement proven to be funders of the terrorist organizations known as Hamas and Hezbollah.

Further, you stated "It seems to me that if there is any disturbance, it will be caused by Mr. Kaplan..." whom, again, I do not know. This has caused further curiosity. Is this Mr. Kaplan a known enemy of the state? Has this Mr. Kaplan been found guilty of funding terror? Is this man a murderer of American Soldiers? Why is this man the target of your assaults in your response to me when I have directed your attention toward a group that promotes terror, murder and mass destruction?

Not stopping there you went on to show a disregard for this mother's appeal by stating, "... he (Kaplan) has either called the other council members or had some of his followers call and voice strong objection to Al Awda's use of our facility." It seems as if you have diminished my appeal by linking me to these "followers" as you call them. On the other hand, you have also notified me that there are others who have appealed to you in your capacity as Mayor to protect the citizens, our families and our community from known terror networks during a time when our country has been targeted for destruction. Did you respond to each of these other individuals by repeatedly attacking a third person and alleging that they were one group, worse than the hate/terror group they asked you to consider?

You wrote, "This is no different (than) if Mr. Kaplan wanted to rent the facility to promote his organization and Al Awda asked the council to cancel his request..." Be advised, it is very different. Unless of course, Al Awda was a peaceful organization that respected the right of people of the United States of America to exist and thereby the citizens of La Mesa, and this Mr. Kaplan was a known fund raising arm of multiple terrorist organizations who were known to have killed United States Marines and issued known threats against our country and our allies. See the difference?

In another insult to my plea you wrote that I may stand before the city council to voice my concerns "so that (I) or any of the others who he (Kaplan again) has contacted..." Again, I do not know Mr. Kaplan. Is it so unbelievable for you that a situation as grave as that discussed here might entice me to seek your help in keeping my children and myself safe? Remember, our federal government, at the highest levels, has advised us that we can expect an attack against us, from known terror groups, in the next six months!

You also wrote that this Mr. Kaplan (again) "... assured (you) that he would be here on the 13th and request(ed) police protection. (Your) response was that we could not provide it. One can not instigate civil unrest and then ask for protection." Wow, Mr. Madrid. Again, I am left to wonder who this Kaplan man is. Does this man pay taxes in these United States? Does he contribute to our police forces? Is he entitled to protection simply because he's a citizen?

Why choose to pervert the First Amendment by allowing terror groups to grow and flourish, on American soil, during a time of war but, refuse to protect the rights of citizens?

And, who exactly is instigating civil unrest?

Again, could the murders at Fort Hood have been prevented by coupling facts with common sense? And do you, Mayor Art Madrid, have certain knowledge that could prevent even one attack on one American at any time in the future?

Finally, no. You did not answer my questions. Today, my specific questions are outlined and numbered as follows:

1. Are there any publicly funded public service entities that have found ways to prevent Al Awda from using taxpayer subsidized facilities in La Mesa from using such venues to promote hate and terror against the United States of America and/or her allies?

2. Will there be any publicly funded public service entities present during Al Awda's presentation and the surrounding conference to monitor any promotion of hate and/or murder?

3. Will you or any members of the La Mesa City Council be present during the entirety or any portion of this event?

4. Is it possible for me to attend this conference?

5. Is it possible for any publicly funded public service entities to provide protection for myself and my children if we are near the La Mesa Community Center on the day of this "event?"

6. Will my first amendment rights be protected by publicly funded public service entities if I or my children are attacked by any person attending this hate seminar?

7. If you were provided with exact steps to be taken to prevent the advancement of terror through Al Awda's networks using La Mesa as a platform, and there would be no violations of law, would you use those steps to prevent this conference?

8. Do you personally believe that the murders at Fort Hood could have been prevented?

9. Are there any other organizations, known to be affiliated with known terror organizations currently scheduled to use any taxpayer funded or subsidized facilities in La Mesa at this time? And if so, what organizations, where and when?

10. At this time, Mr. Kaplan is an imaginary third person to me, do you have knowledge of this man hurting any Americans?

11. Assuming number 10 above reveals this man is not violent in any way, please advise me as to how I may contact this Mr. Kaplan.

Please direct your response to each question using the corresponding number above to ensure clarity.

Thank you,

Alicia and Rob, concerned citizens and parents
-----Original Message-----
From: Art Madrid [mailto:amadrid@ci.la-mesa.ca.us]
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 8:58 PM
To: Rob and Alicia
Cc: David E. Witt
Subject: RE: Al Awda

Mrs. ----, I was not avoiding responding to your e-mail, I was having extensive discussions with our City Attorney, City Manager, Police Chief, who in turn has talked to Homeland Security. As much as I personally dislike any organization that promotes hate, every one of those we counseled with agreed that they, Al Awda, have first amendment rights that need to be protected.

This organization used our facility last year and I’m informed that there were no disturbances. Mr. Lee Kaplan has been insisting that I cancel their use of the community center for his own personal reasons. He has also taken credit and claimed he was responsible for “kicking them out” of two Universities, including San Diego State. I spoke with the President’s office at SDSU and they did not kick them out, they left because the fee structure quoted to them, by both universities, is more than they could afford.

Please be assured that the city has done an extensive investigation into our ability to refuse Al Awda, or anyone else we don’t agree with, the use our public facilities.

We can’t legally do so with out breaking the law.

It seems to me that if there is any disturbance, it will be caused by Mr. Kaplan who assured me that he was calling individuals in the city/region to come and picket the community center. To my know, he has either called the other council members or had some his followers call and voice strong objection to Al Awad’s use of our facility. He assured me that he would make sure that there would be a protest.

Every council member is aware of the Al Awda’s request to use the center. They also disagree with what this group stands, but acknowledges they are entitled to their 1st. Amendment rights. This is no different that if Mr. Kaplan wanted to rent the facility to promote his organization and Al Awda asked the council to cancel his request because they didn’t agree with his views.

I would encourage you to come to our council meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, and during public comments express your objection or views so that you or any of the others who he has contacted feel free to express your objection. I extended that same courtesy to Mr. Kaplan, and he was not sure if he could attend, but assured me that he would be here on the 13th and request police protection. My response was that we could not provide it. One can not instigate civil unrest and then ask for protection.

I hope this answers your questions. I will also be making copies of this e mail to all council members and appropriate department heads.

Art Madrid

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From: Rob and Alicia
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 3:36 PM
To: Art Madrid
Subject: RE: Al Awda

Mayor Madrid,

I have had no response to my email below nor any response to my phone message left for you. Your lack of response leads me to believe that you support the La Mesa Community Center being used by the terrorist group Al Awda. Al Awda is a Palestinian group that is part of the International Solidarity Movement that was recently proven to be funding the terrorist organization, Hamas. In addition, Al Awda supports Hezbollah a group responsible for killing 241 US Marines in Beirut in 1983. They also supported Sadaam Hussein and they support Iran against the United States. Our elected officials have a solemn responsibility to protect citizens and that protection STARTS HERE AT HOME. By my email and phone message, you are personally aware of the intent of a known terrorist support network to enter our city and speak to our citizens. We, the people are watching like never before and you will be held personally accountable for your decisions. A mistake here, will NOT be tolerated.

Alicia

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob and Alicia
Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 10:06 AM
To: 'Amadrid@ci.la-mesa.ca.us'
Subject: Al Awda
Importance: High

As a business owner in La Mesa, I object to a taxpayer-supported facility being used by a propaganda and funding arm of Hamas and Hezbollah. I will show up and protest if it should be used for this planning and strategy session against the Jews as will hundreds of my fellow Americans.

Please cancel this event and do not allow the fine city of La Mesa to be tainted by this hate group.

Alicia M.

POST COMMENTARY:

Let's hope the city of La Mesa tosses Madrid in the next election.

And for the record, the Al Awda leadership verbally acknowledged at the conference they were kicked out of SDSU because of me, Lee Kaplan. For reasons of saving face, SDSU gave other excuses. However, they, like Madrid, know the real reasons. I explained this to Madrid in one of our phone conversations, so his replies in the above emails are disingenuous. Keep coming back here for my full report.

LA MESA, CA WIMPS OUT AND ALLOWS AL AWDA CONFERENCE BUT...

2010-02-08T16:02:00.000-08:00

According to La Mesa Mayor Art Madrid, an ex-marine, the city of La Mesa is going to allow the Al Awda Conference to take place this Saturday. This means protestors should be out in force on February 13th a La Mesa Community Center and others should go in and document what Al Awda is doing. There is no difference between this event and one in whcih the Klan made arrangments to discriminate against and support violence against African-Americans. It should be noted that Mayor Madrid said he would even allow the Klan to hold such a meeting in his taxpayer-supported facility.

If you ever wonder why the Middle East conflict is unending, it's because of thugs like in Al Awda who perpetuate the end of Israel as the only solution. Jess Ghannam thinks he's a revolutionary and "by any means necessary." I encourage people who wish to protest this to go inside and dispute false information. And remember, they not only are raising money for Hamas, but they support the Taliban and Hizbalah who ahve killed American soldiers. Let's get a good turnout to oppose this. The WIMPS OF THE YEAR AWARD go to the city staff of La Mesa, Ca. Nearby marines at Camp Pendleton take note of this also. There will be many groups coming from as far away as LA, PAsadena and Arizona to protest this event. Please join us.

La Mesa Community Center
4975 Memorial Drive Feb 13 Sat 9:30am-6pm
La Mesa, CA 91942-9308
(619) 667-1307

PROTESTORS NEEDED STILL FOR AL AWDA WEST COAST CONFERENCE AT LA MESA COMMUNITY CENTER IN LA MESA, CALIFORNIA

2010-02-07T10:29:00.000-08:00

Now that we managed to alert the administration at SDSU of how Al Awda San Diego is a terrorism and funding support group so they canceled the event there, Al Awda still is scheduled to hold this obnoxious event at the La Mesa Community Center in La Mesa, California. People are stil needed to come and protest this event and loudly. Below are just a few samples of Al Awda's practices found on the Web only this morning:

Ahmed Yasin was the founder of Hamas and ordered the murders of 377 people among whom there were 38 Amrican citizens. He was killed by the Israel Defense Forces. Al Awda San Diego condemned his being killed. This is archived on their website:

http://web.archive.org/web/20041025135509/www.al-awdasandiego.org/press-sheik-ahmed-yassin.html

Students for Justice in Palestine at San Diego State U (listed as sponsors of the event in San Diego) has a photo of Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled on their facebook page. She is living in Syria at this time. Go here:

http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=44287477593 You can see the photo of her
here:

SJP San Diego State is sponsor of the Al Awda event at La Mesa Center. See 6th entry down:

Go down three more entries next and see fund raising for Viva Palestina and George Galloway by the same sponsoring group of Al Awda and SJP SDU. I provided proof in an earlier blog entry below that Galloway and Al Awda brought money to Hamas with Viva Palestina last week not as humanitarian aid but as aid to the Hamas terror infrastructure.

http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=44287477593#!/event.php?eid=96201905705&ref=share

Raising money for terrorist fronts like PCRF:

Al Awda lists PCRF (Palestine Childrens Relief Fund) as one of its affiliates and for whom they will raise money at the event in La Mesa (according to their websites):

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:sPxHfTsOwvIJ:www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/221+Support+Hamas+%2B+AL+Awda+SAn+Diego&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

The list can go on and on. This event is a fund raising event for terrorism and a planning session on how to attack Jews. They may have some Jewish radicals fronting for them, but they do not belong in a taxpayer-supported faciltiy in your town.

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:sPxHfTsOwvIJ:www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/221+Support+Hamas+%2B+AL+Awda+SAn+Diego&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

More on Al Awda San Diego:

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:DOgjWn75wP0J:www.opednews.com/articles/ADL-HOLOCAUST--NAZI-IMAG-by-Press-Release-090106-62.html+Support+Hamas+%2B+AL+Awda+SAn+Diego&cd=11&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

The list goes on and on...

Still more on the Al Awda idol Ahmed Yassin:

On Yasin: http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Terrorism+and+Islamic+Fundamentalism-/Sheikh+Yassin+killed+in+IDF+attack+22-Mar-2004.htm

Here is more about the Hamas's Charter that Al Awda supports:

http://www.mideastweb.org/hamas.htm

One of the most ominous aspects of the Charter however, is this Hadith :

Moreover, if the links have been distant from each other and if
obstacles, placed by those who are the lackeys of Zionism in the way
of the fighters obstructed the continuation of the struggle, the
Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to the realisation of Allah's
promise, no matter how long that should take. The Prophet, Allah
bless him and grant him salvation, has said:

"The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight
the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind
stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O
Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the
Gharkad tree, would not do that because it is one of the trees
of the Jews." (related by al-Bukhari and Muslim).

The implication is clear: Allah promised that the Jews will be murdered, and the Hamas "aspires to the realisation of Allah's promise, no matter how long that should take." This is what they mean by "The Return." They parade a few radicals of marginal Jewish ancestry among them as proof they are not anti-Semitic, but those individuals are usually more radically anti-Semitic than non-Jewish anti-Semites.
Abe Greenhouse is one of them and may be at the event.

Please come and protest this event in front of the La Mesa Community Center on February 13th from 9am to 6pm. Bring signs. In the meanwhile, while there's still time, email Mayor Madrid and demand he cancel the event and why:

Amadrid@ci.la-mesa.ca.us Here's the address for the event:
La Mesa Community Center
4975 Memorial Drive,
La Mesa, CA 91942

AL AWDA KICKED OFF SDSU CAMPUS!!!

2010-02-04T12:21:00.000-08:00

As Lincoln said, "You can fool some of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time".

San Diego State Unviersity booted the Fifth Western Regional Al Awda Conference out of Aztec Center this February 13th. If Al Awda's links to the US Nazi Party, its anti-Semitism, its support for those who murder our US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, their financial support for Hamas and love of Hizballah, aren't enough, the simple fact that this conference is a planning and strategy session to continue the war on Israel and especially the Jews, both Israeli and American Jews, was enough to get the administration at SDSU to cancel this obnoxious event.

Al Awda also willingly left, I am sure, because the administration required they not deny access to Jews and that cameras and recorders be allowed.

Nevertheless, our work is not over yet. Al Awda, in trying to get the taxpayer to foot the bill as usual, moved the venue to the La Mesa Community Center in the nearby town of La Mesa, California. Those of you who emailed Betsy KInsley at SDSU now need to email Mayor Madrid of La Mesa and voice your same objections. Our plans to protest this event should it take place in La Mesa should be the same as at SDSU and websites and message boards need to mention this change of venue. La Mesa is more easily accessed than SDSU anyway, so everyone should plan on going to the new
venue in La Mesa. Email the Mayor right away: Amadrid@ci.la-mesa.ca.us and tell him you object to his taxpayer-supported facility being used by a propaganda and funding arm of Hamas and Hizballah and that you plan to show up and protest if it should be used for this planning and strategy session against the Jews.

Anyone who wants to think Al Awda is just a charity or political opinion group needs to read my articles on the Web about these clowns. Of particular note historically, is the page from Radio Islam, a wing of Al Awda that had quotations from a US Nazi leader, Pastor Redfeairn, and speaks about the "Blood Orgy of the Jewish Devils". That page has been removed by Al-Awda but is archived on the Web from 2006-7 from when I got Al Awda kicked off the UC Riverside campus. You can view it at this link:

http://web.archive.org/web/20040910172809/http://radioislam.org/resistance/massacr.htm

URGENT! EMail Mayor Madrid and urge him not to let Al-Awda hold their event in the
La Mesa Community Center and tell him you will be there to protest should
they do so: AMadrid@ci.la-mesa.ca.us

THE TROLLS ARE OUT AND ALREADY WORRYING ABOUT THE SDSU AL AWDA EVENT

2010-02-02T19:29:00.000-08:00

The usual crop of geniuses planning to attend Al Awda's Fifth Western Planning Conference have already left some comments here on this blog. I noted this one:

"Your stupidity astounds me. Where are your citations that back your claim that this is a Hamas support group and is linked to the Nazi party? You are a sad excuse for an investigative journalist and have absolutely zero credibility. You are an idiotic lunatic."

Of course, Al Awda hid the evidence when this "sad excuse of an investigative journalist" outted them back in 2006-7 and got them kicked off the UC Riverside campus, but I can still show you their links to the US Nazi Party and support for Hamas. Go to this link:

http://web.archive.org/web/20060906204330/www.nsm88.com/index2.html

That is, of course, NSM88.com, the US Nazi Party website. Next scroll down on the left until you see Al Awda's offical logo for the boycott and divestment from Israel.
It's an Israeli flag with a stop symbol over it. Just below that see the words
"Boycott Israel" in blue. Click on them and VOILA!!!

You are immediately taken to the Boycott Israeli goods webpage where the first group
mentioned as sponsoring the website is.....Al AWDA!!!! Note we don't just have an innocent link here, we have Al Awda's offical logo on the Nazi website linking to Al Awda's offical boycott and divestment page against the Jews and Israel.Thank God for the Internet archive.

Actually, this "idiotic lunatic," (as opposed to a brilliant lunatic?) forgot about all this in alerting the administration at SDSU they are hosting an anti-Semitic planning conference put on by an organization that also funds Hamas and supports terrorist groups and Nazis. Since another genius named Aria wrote in the comments section here demanding "proof" (as if such proof would actually make her quit supportng Al Awda or even Hamas) here's more proof of Al Awda's support for Hamas:

http://www.investigativeproject.org/1453/ipt-report-documents-viva-palestinas-hamas-support

Al Awda delegates were of course major sponsors of Viva Palestina and part of the delegation to bring money to Hamas. Ah, yes..... Read more about the last west coast
conference of theirs I got booted from UC Riverside here:

97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=26569

Jess Ghannam was with the Viva Palestina gang by the way. He's a major west coast leader of Al Awda and will be at SDSU on February 13th.

Thanks to these two geniuses who commented here for reminding me of the links Al Awda has to the US Nazi Party because I forgot about the NSM88 website info. I'll be sending it to Betsy Kinsley, SDSU's President's Chief of Staff tomorrow to show her some more how her taxpayer institution is being used by an organization that gladly works with the US Nazi Party, Hamas, Hezbollah (that murdered 243 US marines in 1983)
and that still supports terrorism and murder.

Now that you, dear readers, know this also. Please be sure to email EKinsley@mail.sdsu.edu and urge her to cancel this obnoxious anti-Jewish hate fest that Al Awda is hoping the US taxpayer will foot the bill for. In any case, if it goes through, rest assured there will be more Zionist Jews inside than anti-Semites and we will make certain the planning and strategy sessions are nowhere near as fruitful as Al Awda was planning.

HAMAS SUPPORT GROUP AL AWDA PLANNING WEST COAST CONFERENCE AT SAN DIEGO STATE

2010-01-22T21:19:00.000-08:00

The Hamas supporting trolls of Al Awda are trying for another taxpayer-supported venue at San Diego State University. In 2007 I got this organization booted off the UC Riverside campus where they planned to hold the same West Coast conference after I showed their support for terrorism and links to the US Nazi Party. They moved their events to Hilton Hotels but that must have proved expensive since they are now two years later moving back to a public campus.

First, these guys are dirty when it comes to support for Hamas. The last conference invited a PFLP terrorism member as guest of honor. With the recent Viva Palestina fiasco they no doubt are working even more for the Hamas camp. Jess Ghannam is no doubt involved here also. Al Awda was active in bringing in money and support for the Hamas terror group along with George Galloway (thanks to the idiots in our own government, Galloway was allowed to raise 1.2 million dollars for Hamas in the US
with Al Awda's participation).

As a California taxpayer and even if you are just a US taxpayer you should be damned annoyed that SDSU is allowing this on campus. It is sponsored by Students for Justice in Palestine. Write to complain before February 13th to:

EKinsley@mail.sdsu.edu "Betsy" Kinsley is the Chancellor's Chief of Staff. Demand this be shut down.

LISTEN TO ME ON ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS/TOVIA SINGER SHOW JAN. 14, 2010

2010-01-14T13:16:00.000-08:00

I wil be discussing Turkey's new relationship with Israel and how this impacts the situaion with Iran. I will also discuss how the ISM is working with Turkey and Iran with the Free Gaza Movement and Viva Palestina. Be sure to tune in by going to Israelnationalnews.com and clicking on radio at the top. Then scroll down to the Tovia Singer Show.

I will explain why Israel's behavior is so schizophrenic related to Hamas in Gaza and what Israel has in store for its future. Whatever the government means to do, unless they close down the internationals in the ISM who have descended on Israel,
her enemies will win. Learn how and why Israel is like Serbia.

More later.

A CALL TO ARMS

2010-01-13T13:27:00.000-08:00

I know...I know...I haven't written on this blog for the last three months. Mea culpa. I don't like blogs because I prefer to write in mainstream media. The trolls
are at it again, this time making cartoons about my hair and, no, I don't wear a wig.

That said, I'm going to try and do at least an entry a week in here. The latest I want to discuss is the Viva Palestina convoy that should be renamed Hamas r us.
Turkey helped finance this gang of terrorist supporters and what's worse is the Turkish Navy provided a military sea crew to help them sail the Hamas aid to Gaza.
The new Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan is seeking a new Caliphate and supports Hamas against Israel. The Shayelet 13 (Israeli Navy Seals) should have boarded the boat,
arrested the crew and turned the ship back (the Turkish navy captain reportedly ignored IDF Navy warnings to turn back,a few shots off the bow could have prevented).
If the IDF can be cowed this way to permit aid to get to Hamas, what chance is there of getting Iran to recognize a bona fide threat against its nuclear program? Frankly, this isn't the Israel of old that survived for 60 years by not putting up with nonsense.

Viva Palestina is allied now with La Voz De Aztlan, Al Awda and other similar scumbag groups against the US and Israel. The organization openly gave cash to Hamas
during its previous two trips. Now they plan on another event in March through their affiliate in Free Gaza, aka Huwaida Arraf, Greta Berlin, Hedy Epstein, Anna Baltzer and other associated dirtbags. Steve Emerson has an excellent report of Viva Palestina and its links and material support for Hamas. Too bad our law enforcement agencies can't find the time to shut these terror-supporting creeps down. Go to:
http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/322.pdf .

Viva Palestina, Free Gaza and other ISM groups have become a big business in the US
thanks to our colleges giving them a network from which to work and expand. In March,
these ISM creeps will be back with a bigger campaign to boycott Israel. This is why I am making a call to arms for supporters of America and Israel (not a literal call to arms but one to get people off their duffs). In coming weeks I will explain how the average person can help Stop the ISM.

THE US CAMPAIGN TO END THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION IS AT IT AGAIN

2009-10-03T08:56:00.000-07:00

They're at it again. Thanks to the Internet, smearing and lying one's way around for anti-Semitic and terrorist groups is just so easy. The latest google search under my name apparently leads to an image and link of a "cease and desist" letter from Huwaida Arraf's and Josh Ruebner's anti-Israel ISM propaganda campaign in Washington where they claim I misrepresented them. You see, these people are inveterate liars for Arab and particualrly Saudi money. I really don't like blogging. This site came into existence from what once was another anti-Israel activist's smear site called Lee Kaplan Watch. I sued the creator and collected monetary damages as well as this blog.

Anyhoo, the ISM gang thinks that by pushing their phony "cease and desist" letter up the ranks of the Google search that they can discredit me. Below is a reprint of my response to that letter. Feel free to email me at leekaplan@dafka.org if you wish to comment:

Lee Kaplan's Blog
Investigative journalism, foreign policy, Israel, Iraq, the Middle East, Homeland Security and the War on Terror. Exclusive material to read. News unseen in mainstream media but needed to know in a dangerous world.

Thursday, September 6, 2007
A REPLY TO THE US CAMPAIGN TO END THE ISRAELI OCUPATION'S "CEASE AND DESIST" LETTER

The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation recently sent me a
"cease and desist" letter due to my exposure of them as part of
the ISM and how they will be holding another Jew hatefest at
George Mason University. You can read their letter at:
http://www.endtheoccupation.org/downloads/responsetoleekaplanarticle.pdf

Below is my response:

US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation

P.O. Box 21539

Washington, DC 20009

RE: “Your cease and desist” letter:

Dear Sirs:

The article of mine, that appeared on The American Thinker web log, "George Mason University to Host Next ISM Conference” (http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/07/george_mason_university_to_hos.html) that the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation refers to, as written, is neither inaccurate nor defamatory, unless you consider the activities of your organization as defaming itself. I, on the other hand, consider your letter as a threat and attempt at intimidation to my rights of free speech.

The American people are not fools, but certain organizations do seek to fool them. When an organization such as yours presents itself as seeking “peace” but in fact supports and works closely with myriad organizations that openly advocate for war on and the destruction of the democratic and pluralistic state of Israel, I feel it is my journalistic duty to alert the public to these events.

Your claims notwithstanding on your website that you only seek to end the “occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem” are belied by both your organization’s actions, as well as the actions and admitted positions of your own representative leadership and close affiliates as I will expose in this letter. I submit that your leadership and organization are guilty of something known as “lying by omission,” or leaving out just enough information to convey a false impression while presenting a kernel of truth in a statement. In this regard, the authors of your letter, particularly Mr. Ruebner, do not mention they support unconditionally the Arab “Right of Return” in addition to the creation of a Palestinian state, a concept whereby 5 million Arabs would be allowed to move within Israel’s 1949 borders so as to demographically overrun the Jewish population and dismantle the state. You can read more about Mr. Ruebner here:

(http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2111 ).

Responding to your bullet points:

Bullet point number 1:

You take issue with the statement that the International Solidarity Movement is “scheduling” your conference.

According to the personal explanation of Adam Shapiro, who Lee Kaplan personally interviewed at the 2003 Ohio State Divestment Conference and the husband of your chosen leader, Huwaida Arraf, both of whom are co-founders of the ISM, The International Solidarity Movement is the name used by the Palestine Solidarity Movement (PSM) when it operates in the West Bank and Gaza and is comprised of myriad anti-Israel groups (one of which is yours). The ISM and PSM are not official groups or corporations, but represent all of these groups working in unison-“solidarity” toward a common goal in opposing Israel’s existence as a Jewish state and replacing it with Arab-dominated “Palestine.” Among these groups are many who call themselves ISM, but also groups such as Al Awda, SUSTAIN, Students for Justice in Palestine, Women In Black, as well as the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.

Shapiro explained that the ISM is an umbrella organization. As such, if one segment is closed down by the authorities, the others can continue operating. In addition, if one arm of the umbrella makes statements such as was done by Charlotte Kates (See: http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=944)
who I believe is affiliated with your organization as well, and who stated that Israeli children are “fair game” for terrorist attacks, the others can deny she speaks for them. Hence, the fact this conference is an organizational meeting of the multiple layers of leadership of the ISM, be it under the name US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation or not, it is still an ISM organizational meeting according to the attendees. In fact, you bill it as a National Organizer’s Conference meeting in solidarity to promote divestment against Israel, an ISM program.

By your own admission in your letter, your elected leader and President is in fact a self-admitted co-founder and current leader of the ISM, Huwaida Arraf, who has admitted she works in cooperation with Hamas. The Hamas charter calls for the annihilation of Israel as a Jewish state and the expulsion of all Jews from what is today the state of Israel. See: http://www.mideastweb.org/hamas.htm .

Nice company you keep.

Other individuals who belong to the ISM, yet curiously are also listed as members-at-large in your organization include Ms. Kates, Abe Greenhouse, Joseph Carr and others who have been exposed as higher level activists within the ISM.

Regarding earlier conferences held by your organization: (See: http://www.adl.org/Israel/israel_protest_calendar_2004.asp )

From an announcement of a conference held by your organization in Kansas City, Mo.

Saturday, November 13, 2004 - University of Missouri--Kansas City, Missouri
Regional Conference to “End the Occupation”

Sponsored by the U.S. Campaign to the End the Occupation and the International Solidarity Movement .

Background:

Citizens for Justice in the Middle East, a regional anti-Israel group based at the University of Missouri—Kansas City, is bringing the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, the International Solidarity Movement and other anti-Israel activists together for a regional conference devoted to changing U.S. policy toward Israel. The event will feature speakers who support divestment from Israel, the elimination of U.S. aid to Israel and contesting Israeli security measures. Notable speakers include Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies, Huwaida Arraf of ISM and the U.S. Campaign’s Josh Ruebner.

I note the following statement from your own website about your first conference (see:

http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=29 ):

“Coordinating with the work of the ISM…” An activity your organization has done
since its alleged inception per your website.

Following are some of the activities of the ISM with whom you “coordinate”:

(1) The ISM says openly that it has direct contacts with Foreign
Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) as defined by the U.S. State Department
(2) The ISM says openly that it recruits American college students in
the hope of getting them hurt or killed in confrontations with Israeli
military forces, for propaganda purposes (e.g. Rachel Corrie).
(3) An ISM affiliate (Al-Awda) have allegedly solicited acts of
terroristic violence on the Internet: specifically the suicide bombing
of Ariel Sharon's hospital room.
(4) The ISM has provided "safe house" assistance for actual terrorists.

(1) The International Solidarity Movement has direct contacts with
Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other terrorists. We direct your
attention to "Huwaida Arraf" on the Steering Committee of U.S. Campaign
to End the Occupation. Note that this is from their own Web site.

http://www.endtheoccupation.org/downloads/2006conferencereport.pdf says,

Current Steering Committee members of the US Campaign, followed by the
year in which their terms end, are:
* Huwaida Arraf (2007) - International Solidarity Movement
* Phyllis Bennis (2009) - Institute for Policy Studies
* Felicia Eaves (2009) - Black Voices for Peace
================================
Now we have Huwaida Arraf's letter to the Washington Post (February 2007)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/16/AR2006021602027_2.html

Eric Adler and Jack Langer disparaged the
International Solidarity Movement(ISM),a movement
that I co-founded in the spring of 2001
in the occupied territories of the West Bank,
the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem to help draw
attention to the human rights abuses suffered by
Palestinians as a result of Israel's occupation.
The ISM also is a resource for Palestinian nonviolent
resistance to the occupation. The ISM believes that
average civilians can bring about change, and it tries
to unite Palestinians, Israelis and other people in
nonviolent resistance to Israel's occupation policies.

When I "acknowledged" that the ISM
"cooperates with Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad
and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine,"
I was offering concrete examples of the ways
in which these groups were engaging in nonviolent resistance.

Both the ISM and the Palestine Solidarity Movement
advocate nonviolent resistance to Israel's human rights abuses
-- the ISM through organized action in the occupied territories
and the PSM by promoting international divestment from
companies that profit from occupation.

HUWAIDA ARRAF

Washington
====================================

(2) The International Solidarity Movement recruits
American college students for the purpose of getting
them hurt or killed in confrontations with the
Israeli Defense Forces. This is what happened to
Evergreen College student Rachel Corrie in
March 2003. Two ISM members stated openly that
they had a motive for wanting her dead. While GMU
students are legal adults, is this an activity to
which GMU really wants to expose them?

http://www.standwithus.com/news_post.asp?NPI=85
"Recently, the Director of the Solidarity Movement,
George Rishmawi, explained to the San Francisco Chronicle
that the recruitment of American student volunteers
is useful to the Palestinian Movement because
'if some of these foreign volunteers get shot or
even killed, then the international media will
sit up and take notice.'"

Joseph Smith, a.k.a. Joseph Carr, who was present
when Corrie died, and whose highest priority was
apparently to take pictures, said
(see: http://www.freepalestinecampaign.org/Stranger%20article.htm)
"The spirit that she died for is worth a life.
This idea of resistance, this spirit of resisting
this brutal occupying force, is worth anything. And
many, many, many Palestinians give their lives for
it all the time. So the life of one international,
I feel, is more than worth the spirit of resisting
oppression." (Rachel Corrie's life, as opposed to his
own, of course.) Read more on Joseph Smith/Carr here:
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/JosephSmith

A Hamas terrorist said openly that Rachel Corrie
was worth more dead than alive.
"'Her death serves me more than it served her,' said one
activist at a Hamas funeral yesterday.
'...Her death will bring more attention than
the other 2,000 martyrs.'" Making of a Martyr
(http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/3-22-2003-37821.asp)
by Sandra Jordan, Guardian Newspapers. Ms.Arraf,
your elected President, admits to working with Hamas.

(3)An ISM and US Camapign to End the Israeli Occupation
affiliate(Al-Awda) has allegedly solicited acts of terrorist
violence on the Internet: specifically the suicide bombing
of Ariel Sharon's hospital room.

A member of Al-Awda (Right of Return), an International Solidarity
Movement affiliate, allegedly posted a solicitation for a "martyr" to
bomb the Hadassah Hospital in Israel, where Ariel Sharon is being
treated for a stroke. (This was, incidentally, forwarded to law
enforcement when we saw it.)

From: raja chemayel

Sender: Al-Awda@yahoogroups.com
Mailing-List: list Al-Awda@yahoogroups.com
; contact Al-Awda-owner@yahoogroups.com

Delivered-To: mailing list Al-Awda@yahoogroups.com

List-Id:
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 19:35:29 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [AL-AWDA] open letter to the next Suicide-Bomber
Reply-To: Al-Awda@yahoogroups.com

Open letter to
the next
Suicide-Bomber

Dear Abou el Fidda' ,

If you are next Martyr on the waiting list
get started and pack your heavy-stuff ,
kiss the hand of your mother
kiss goodbye you bothers and sisters
kiss the hand of your father
put on that heavy-jacket.......

Take the Express-Bus to Jerusalem-Central
and then take bus Nr. 17 which takes you to Haddasah
then step out at the Bus-Station called the :
"Hospital for War Criminal"

Show you Fake-Press-Card to the Security
and speak with an American-accent
walk slowly and do not attract attention......
Enter the main-Hall and walk straight to the VIP- elevator
tell them Mr. Wolf Blitzer has sent you.....!!

Go up to the seventh floor........
look for the room 714........ (intensive care)
and then slowly but surely hold on to that detonator
under your jacket.......

Once you reach that very-well-guarded-room # 714
stop and turn left.....
you will see a large "VIP-Waiting-Hall"
with the many Dignitaries from many countries
including ,unfortunatly, some Arab-countries......
who came to pay their respect to their dying-Hero.

Show again your fake-Press-Card and start
interviewing those "well-wishers".........
and ask them what made this man a Hero ??
and how come he became a "Man of Peace"

Then , order for yourself a cup of coffee,
sit down , rest and think for a while.......

If by then ,
you are still not convinced by the arguments you have heard
from those well wishers.....
then release that detonator !!

This man under intensive care will anyhow die,
with or without your suicide , my brother ,
your real enemies are
those who have called him a "Hero"
and could not convince you why.
( nor me)

Raja Chemayel
8th of Jan.06

Al Awda’s founder, Mazen Qumsiyeh was quoted at the Duke ISM Conference as saying that Jews who live in Israel are “a disease” and “must all leave.” Qumsiyeh
is on the steering committee for the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
and, according to ex-PLO terrorist Walid Shoebat, Qumsiyeh is a former member of the PFLP, recognized as a terrorist group by the US State Department. He was also
denied tenure at Yale after sending out what was deemed an anti-Semitic email on
the universitys servers. See: http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=1158

(4) The ISM has provided "safe house" assistance for actual terrorists.

http://home.comcast.net/~jat.action/ISM_info.htm
"Susan Barclay, the
ISM organizer deported by Israel after she hid Islamic Jihad terrorist
Shadi Sukiya in the ISM office in Jenin, told the Seattle Post
Intelligencer that, "she knowingly worked with representatives from
Hamas and Islamic Jihad— terrorist groups that sponsor suicide bombings
and exist, according to their charters, to demolish the Jewish state
entirely." (Seattle Post Intelligencer, Thursday March 20, 2003,
"Activist's death focuses spotlight on Mideast struggle," By Sam
Skolnik, Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter.)

http://israelbehindthenews.com/Archives/Jul-04-03.htm#agitate
"Days before a British suicide bomber detonated an explosives belt in
Mike's Place, a bar in suburban Tel Aviv, the bomber and an associate
took tea with members of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a
pro-Palestinian group that promotes non-violent resistance to Israeli
occupation."

http://home.comcast.net/~jat.action/ISM_info.htm
"The immediate goal
of the ISM is to hamper the ability of the IDF to prevent terrorist
attacks on civilians." "The ISM sees itself as working in tandem with
the terrorist organizations: Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Al Aksa Martyrs
Brigade. Those organizations use violent means, while the ISM undertakes
such aggressive non-violent actions as blocking the progress of Israeli
soldiers on their way to arrest terrorists. The intention of the ISM in
these actions is to protect terrorists from interference by the IDF."

Paul LaRudee of Norcal ISM, another affiliate of your campaign, was arrested
and deported by Israel for suspected links to Hamas. LaRudee, who like Joseph Carr
has admitted to entering Israel more than once under an assumed name has boasted about sleeping in the bed of a suicide bomber and most recently was a human shield for the Hizballah in Lebanon during the last war. (See: http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6233 )

The suggestion that people should view your conference as a Jew Hate Fest is accurate. As part of the Boycott Israel campaign, the Palestine Solidarity Movement, of which your organization is a part, held workshops identifying various Jewish-American organizations to be boycotted as well allegedly for their support of Israel. Since all groups and individuals participating at these conferences agree to the same points of unity and solidarity with the same goal, it certainly applies to your organization as well. I am aware the three of you, or at least two, who wrote the letter may be of Jewish descent, however, this does not mitigate activities that are targeted against Jews. The Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto were rounded up by the Nazis by the Jewish Police and many Jews were turned in by fellow Jews known as “Jew catchers” by the Nazis for money. In addition, you state your campaign is “committed to organizing an anti-racist framework and working to counteract manifestations of racism in all forms.” This flies in the face of your chosen leaders willingness to work with Hamas as she has freely admitted to. We recommend you read the Hamas Charter. It specifies the annihilation of Jews in Israel and propagates the blood libel of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. If you were unaware, then would you please write us that you condemn Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be closed down and ask Ms. Arraf to resign as the “President” of your organization? In addition, I can find no condemnations of Jews in Israel being murdered via terrorism or suicide bombings on your website.

You state that your organization was not founded by Huwaida Arraf, but others in 2002. Can you produce for me corporate documents to that effect? Ms. Arraf herself announced the opening of your offices in Washington DC as well as your new website whereas your previous offices were in New York. Prior to your receiving nonprofit corporate status in 2006, were you ever a legal entity? Please send us proof of your incorporation as a legal entity in 2002. While you are at it, can you send me your foundation’s grants records and other sources of funding

Your organization promotes divestments and boycotts of Jews in Israel through starving them out financially. These activities of yours and your ISM and associated anti-Israel allies result in 30% of Israel’s children and the elderly going to bed hungry at night or forced to eat in soup kitchens. This is indeed hatred of Jews and the same tactic of economic boycotts of Jews was the first tactic of the Nazis in 1933 that ultimately led to the Holocaust. The code talk you use is fairly obvious and we at The American Thinker do not fall for it.

If someone using the same technique were to say Black people cannot live in Washington, DC where your offices are, yet does say they can live anywhere else in the world, and that they should be boycotted and starved until they leave, it does not make them any less racist against Black people. The same applies to your organization’s alliances and support for a campaign to starve out, dispossess or even kill the Jews residing in Israel or in the disputed territories of the West Bank, while claiming you will embrace Jews who will help you dismantle the Jewish state.

One of your authorized representatives has openly spoken out for the destruction of Israel. Noura Erekat, who is listed on your website as an official “grassroots organizer”and legal advisor (see: http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=1307 )for your campaign sent another email out recently stating that all of Israel even within the 1948 armistice lines is “occupied” and should be dissolved and asks for volunteers to help her do so. See( http://www.stoptheism.com/?M=&T=200). Do you intend to force her resignation along with that of Ms. Arraf as a result these revelations? Mr. Erekat can also be viewed on You Tube at these addresses: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw89UDZay4M&mode=related&search and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtsbZ8LZ0m8 where she refuses to condemn a call by Bin Laden to kill Jews and is introduced as your campaign’s “legal advisor” (also listed as such on your website (see: http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=1307 ).

At the same time you mention Al Awda as a “member organization” of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. Al Awda advocates nothing less than the end of Israel. In addition, Al Awda was recently revealed to have connections to the Aryan Brotherhood,an anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi organization by me that resulted in UC Riverside canceling their “international” conference there. Do you intend to demand their removal from your “non-racist” organization? (See: http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:VmdIG-pddAEJ:www.al-awda.org/alert-eoc.html+US+CAMpaign+to+end+the+ISraeli+occupation+%2B+AL+Awda&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=us ).

We also note that your elected President, Ms. Arraf, has spoken on behalf of the Council for the National Interest that is openly known to be anti-Semitic and run by Paul Findley.

Your organization has also opposed congressional action to try and stop Palestinian terrorism: (see: http://www.endtheoccupation.org/modinput4.php?modin=92 ).

Your website was indeed registered to a Nadil Ghaith from the UAE at the same time Ms. Arraf announced the organization’s offices were opening in Washington DC in 2005. Originally registered at www.endtheoccupation.com , (see: http://www.omdurman.org/columns/NidalGhaith.doc ) your organization deleted that domain name on April 7, 2005, only days before creating the new domain name www.endtheoccupation.org with Radical Designs (see: http://www.expiresoft.com/domains/available/2007-04-07-288.htm ) Mr. Ghaith lists his residence in the UAE but has also turned up in Jerusalem. If your organization was originally involved with someone in the UAE who registered the domain name, and also represents the interests of the Palestinian Authority, then you definitely should be registered as foreign agents. I speculated in my article that Suleiman Ghaith, a top level al Qaeda operative, may belong to the same clan as Nadil Ghaith .

You deny that your organization undertakes strident attempts at promoting a boycott of American Jewish groups and to economically cripple Jewish businesses. Yet on your website you single out the Estee Lauder company, Ron Lauders’ business for a boycott among several other American Jewish-owned businesses. Your “member organizations” (your own description) also held a seminar at Duke University given by Mr. Abe Greenhouse outlining American Jewish businesses to be boycotted or even infiltrated as part of a campaign against Israel.

You state in your letter to us that you respect international law, yet do not condemn terrorism against Israelis. International law per Resolution 242 does not make the Jewish communities in the West Bank illegal, yet you recommend boycotting Jews and Jewish businesses in the US and abroad to force these Jews to lose their homes as somehow being necessary per international law. Eugene Rostow who helped author the resolution has stated the Israeli communities in the West Bank and Gaza are not illegal per his own resolution. We were wondering where you all earned your degrees in International Law and if you were aware of these discrepancies?

We note you take exception to our stated opinion that the activities of your organization only serve to make the Israeli/Palestinian dispute an unending affair. We note that in his official capacity as a leader in the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, Josh Ruebner is mentioned as being on the steering committee of Leslie Cagan’s United for Peace and Justice Coalition (see: http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=1757 ). UFPJ is in fact the revamped Communist Party USA (see: http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6166 ) and Mr. Rubener seems to have had more than a passing association with over the last several years. The Communist Party USA platform is against the existence of Israel and its replacement by an Arab- dominated state called Palestine.

The above information, merely scratching the surface, reveals both the inaccuracies of your letter to me and facts that you do not seem to want the American people to know.

Finally, your website and organization falsely states that Israel is an “apartheid state” like South Africa used to be. Apartheid in South Africa was based on racial laws, Blacks were forced to live in certain areas and had fewer civil rights than Whites. This is not the case with Israel where all minorities have equal civil rights by law. Israeli Arabs enjoy the same civil rights as Jews and even have affirmative action programs giving them more rights than some Israeli Jews. At the same time, in the Palestinian Authority it is a death sentence to sell land to a Jew and Sharia Law is part of the constitution the same as in Saudi Arabia or Iran. While 20% of Israelis are Arabs with equal rights, the Palestinian Authority insists the West Bank and Gaza must be “Jew-free.” That is the only true apartheid going on in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, and your organizations twisting of these facts only further reveal an attempt at deception among those whose opinions you seek to sway against Israel. We at American Thinker find your racist attitudes against Jews residing in the Middle East objectionable and reveal deception in your alleged anti-racist platform.

Given the above information, and the plethora of other information I have, I must reject your request for an apology and retraction. However, I would like to know since given the information I have provided you, if you intend to do any housecleaning in your own organization?

Sincerely,

Lee Kaplan

www.StoptheISM.com
Posted by Lee Kaplan at 10:05 AM
1 comments:
Winged Hussar 1683 said...
Re: "At the same time you mention Al Awda as a “member organization” of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation." Contrary to the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation's claim that it seeks only to end Israel's "occupation" of the West Bank and Gaza, Al Awda maps show "Palestine" as extending "from the river to the sea."

The difference between "Where's Waldo?" and "Where's Israel in the Al-Awda maps?" is that Waldo is actually IN those pictures somewhere, while Israel appears nowhere on Al Awda's maps. This is simply one of many pieces of evidence that the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation is lying.

As for boycotts...I have a screenshot of a page in which the US Campaign advocates an "international boycott of Israel." Another of their Web pages says they might try to coordinate these efforts with the Arab League. "Boycotts and divestment: It was felt that we should work for CAT-free-zones all over the country, pushing boycotts and/or divestment on every entity that builds/owns stock. There was also support for approaching Arab and Muslim contractors here and abroad, as well as the Arab League and various governments to boycott CAT equipment."

"In cooperation with a foreign government" might violate antiboycott laws and be cause for revocation of their tax exemption.

HUWAIDA ARRAF: THE UNTOUCHABLE WARMONGER

2009-08-29T09:08:00.000-07:00

I've written before about Huwaida Arraf of the ISM. For some reason Ms. Arraf is untouchable by both the Israeli and US governments. After being arrested by the Israeli Navy during the last Gaza Flotilla effort to enter Gaza to aid Hamas, she was immediately released by Israeli authorities to start yet again. Now she in in the UAE attempting to raise money for a larger flotilla with so many boats the IDF Navy won't be able to stop them all.

Ms. Arraf has a good deal. Someone pays for her to jetset around the world for the Palestinians. She has a trumped up sinecure as a "law professor" at Al Quds University in Jerusalem but is never there. She heads a zillion anti-Israel groups
and stalks the halls of congress. Always well-funded.

Is Huwaida a US State Department shill? Or a part of the CIA? She should have been in jail years ago in both America and Israel especially after she admitted how she aids Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the PFLP.

I've long contended, you get rid of Huwaida Arraf, you help stop prolonging the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians because this woman's business is to shore up the terrorist groups at all costs and the US and Israel are both too stupid and lazy to put a stop to it.

Any readers out there who have information on Huwaida Arraf, feel free to send it to me at StoptheISM@att.net .

THE UNTOUCHABLE HUWAIDA ARRAF. IS SHE AN AGENT FOR THE CIA TO WORK AGAINST ISRAEL?

2009-07-03T08:11:00.000-07:00

Those who have been following the news about the waylaying and arrest of the Gaza flotilla crew need to understand that this trip for the Hamas supporters on those boats was a watershed moment. Israel finally grew up--just a little--boarded the boats and took the passengers, including the joke politician Cynthia McKinney back to Ashdod.

As soon as they landed , however, Huwaida Arraf, their leader and main ISM organizer was released. The others, including McKinney, were placed in detention pending deportation. McKinney, in the truest Israeli tradition of shooting themselves in the foot, was allowed to do a propaganda broadside by telephone from Ramle Prison.

The main question is Why was Huwaida Arraf released so quickly? Arraf has Israeli and US citizenship, so is considered an Israeli national despite her openness about destroying the Jewish state. She has admitted repeatedly even in media she works with Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the PFLP, all well-known terrorist groups. Without Huwaida Arraf, it's certainly possible there would be no Gaza flotilla movement at all.

Yet the Israelis released her ASAP.

I'm not a believer in conspiracy theories, and one reason I haven't written much in this blog is because I don't like blogs at all. They are generally not serious journalism but nonsense written by people in their pajamas. This blog came about as a result of a lawsuit, because earlier it was a smear blog attacking me that I took over. But in the interest of making good use of it, and also to get information out, let me do my own "blogging" here.

Huwaida Arraf was a human shield for terrorists more than once in the Holy Land. But before she did that, she was an employee of the US State Department in Jerusalem. She's from Michigan where she was born to an Israeli-Arab father and Palestinian mother and has US citizenship as well as Israeli citizenship. During the standoff in the Church of the Nativity, when armed terrorists were holding the priests hostage inside and defecating on Bibles there, Arraf with some ISM anarchists ran past the IDF and into the monastery with food and supplies that enabled the terrorists to keep up their terrorist activities inside. Weeks later, when a negotiation ended the standoff, IDF sappers had to defuse numerous bombs and booby traps left behind by the terrorists who were freed. Huwaida Arraf left the Church and was neither prosecuted nor did any jail time for literally assisting in a terrorist operation. What is more, since she was in the Church a good part of the time, on leaving she certainly knew that bombs had been placed to kill IDF soldiers when they entered the building. In my book, by not saying anything, she was also involved in attempted murder. She boasted later that she had put a crimp in the IDF's "plans."

But still the Israelis let her go immediately. She then wrote the ISM training manual to recruit anarchists worldwide to go to Israel and interfere with the IDF. She went to Durban. She organized corporate style conferences at major universities that would be the envy of IBM where she trained campus radicals in how to destroy a Jewish state.She went to the West Bank and assisted with riots against the IDF. She flew from the US to EU to Israel and back, toured the US and Canada continuously, managed to meet at numerous conclaves of the Saudi backed Washington Report on Middle East Affairs and the anti-Semitic neo-Nazi Council for the American Interest (also Saudi sponsored) and even made it into the halls of congress. All the time she was doing this, she was allegedly a law student at George Washington Law School majoring in "humantiarian law." Now she is supposedly a law professor at Al Quds University in Eastern Jerusalem, but she's never there either, always prancing around Cyprus organizing the Free Gaza flotilla and flying into Washington to organize divestment conferences and other attacks on Israel.

Yeah, right.

It turns out the law professor at GW's law school who heads the humanitarian law program there is an Arab and Pro-Palestinian activist. I come from an entire family of lawyers and law professors and we all know that law school requires a lot of time and effort and that none of us see how this young woman crisscrossed the world for the PLO and now Hamas all the while attending law school where one has to really crack the books.

That is, unless one is using a cover as a law professor and activist for "human rights" when she is really aiding terrorist groups to dismantle a Jewish state.

Ask yourself: How hard would it be for the state Department and CIA to set up an agent
under the guise of a political activist, later claim she is an attorney employed at Al Quds (where she never teaches)and have her work propaganda against a Jewish state you want dismantled? The US State Department and the CIA are currently building a Palestinian Arab army composed of the terrorists in the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade. In two years time, the US General Dayton who is training them warns, they will be ready to attack Israel if Israel does not conform to Palestinian demands that always become
US State Department demands. The amount of PR damage, financial damage done by Arraf and company in the ISM in astronomical. Who's to say it's not part of some grand US State Department plan to mold US opinion against a still wildly popular Israel?

Anyway, here goes a conspiracy theory: take it or leave it.

Huwaida Arraf is either an agent of the CIA that conducts clandestine projects for the US State Department, or she operates with tacit support of US State. How else can we explain her immunity to prosecution when she breaks Israeli law and has Israeli citizenship? She continuously violates US and Israeli law and she's the untouchable Huwaida Arraf.

Arraf is already planning the next Gaza flotilla trip. Her colleagues boast of their "excellent relations" with the US State Department. She in turn, is obviously untouchable by the Israeli government.

Israel has a policy of targeting the leadership of terrorist groups. So why would the Israeli government, both the Left and the Right, seize the Gaza flotilla boat, arrest everyone on board, but immediately release the leader and organizer who is prosecutable as an Israeli citizen? We all know she's going to do it all over again.

Anyway, the question remains: Is Huwaida Arraf a CIA agent or special agent of the US
State Department? I'm not saying it's so here, but the possibility certainly exists.
If anything she should have been required to register as an agent for a foreign government years ago that is also under the control of the State Department.

Maybe blogs do have their good side.

SHOEBAT AT WMU A BIG SUCCESS

2009-03-13T15:34:00.001-07:00

But for the few MSA members, some Arabs and radical leftists in the audience who refused to stand for the pledge of allegiance when guest host Gen. Gordon Cucullu asked the audience to do so, the Walid Shoebat, Kamal Saleem speaking event at WMU was met with enthusiasm by a capacity audience of 1,300 people who gave both men a standing ovation at the event's conclusion.

Just one week earlier, the MSA had tried to procure 150 seats in the center of the auditorium to disrupt the event en masse. A rule only allowing the purchase of no more than four seats together prevented this, as well as a warning handed to every member adivsing that any deliberate disruptions would be met with swift legal action. The simple truth is, that when speakers like Shoebat and Saleem are allowed to speak without being shouted down as is done in the dictatorships of the Middle East under controlled governments, the sloganeering and lies of the pro-jihadis on campus wither away.

The audience was a mixture of Conservative Christians, reform Jews, military personnel
police personnel and myriad students from WMU includng students from the MSA and the Arab Students Association that spent the previous week tearing down posters advertising the event on campus at every turn. Even the administration got the landscapers and campus police involved in tearing down the posters that were allegedly 2" too big. At WMU it seems it's ok for the MSA to invite anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers like William Baker, a Neo-Nazi , or even Siraj Wahhaj, a known conspirator in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and unindicted conpsirator in the Holy Land Hamas funding trial to speak, even allowing oversized posters to be plastered all over campus, but bring tow anti-terrorism speakers to campus and 2" cannot be tolerated even for five days before the event. Once the producers absorbed the loss of $1,000 for the original posters and printed another $500 in the new size, the administration then would only allow 45 on the entire campus of the 500 they knew in advance would be printed. Despite such odds, the event drew nearly a full house in the campus's Miller Auditorium even thought it was rainign cats and dogs that night and everyone was delayed 45 minutes as metal detectors searched for bombs at the entry doors.

The message was the same as at previous Shoebat events: to fight terrorismit is necessary to recognize what fundamentalist Islam is teaching about Jew hatred and the glories of martyrdom. Our campuses are being used as indoctrination centers to promote jihad and terrorism through the MSA and Arab gorups funded by the Middle East. Kamal Saleem summed it up best when he said, "I want to see Muslims running through the streets of America holding up the American flag and shouting Allah bless America!" He urged Muslim-Americans to love this country and not work in favor of its enemies to try and destroy it. It was a message that needs to be heard on every campus and had the entire audience enraptured.

If you'd like to sponsor Walid Shoebat and Kamal Saleem for a speaking appearance at your school, church, synagogue or mosque, feel free to email me at info@StoptheISM.com for details.

IF YOU'RE IN THE WESTERN MICHIGAN AREA, COME HEAR WALID SHOEBAT THIS MARCH 10th

2009-03-07T03:43:00.000-08:00

I've been doing the advance work on Walid Shoebat's upcoming appearance at Western Michigan University. This event is a "must-see." We already have over 1,000 people coming and the theater, Miller Auditorium, holds as much as 3,500, so feel free to show up on March 10th at 7pm and hear the remarkable life stories of Walid and Kamel Saleem.

The Muslim Students Association (the equivalent to the German Bund in the US prior to WW2) of course has been trying to silence us, as has the adminstration at WMU, first trying to defund the event, then trying to prevent advertising to please the MSA. MSA has consistently torn down our posters and sut yeserday tried to ge a blcok of 150 seats together to no doubt disrupt the event. This is part of the problem wit these Saudi inspired anti-Israel "clubs" on campuses in the US. They bring the same fascist "Komsomol" type demonstrations onto US campuses, the same garbage that makes the Arab fascist states what they are. Clerical fascism designed as "peace" and tolerance" to a naive Western audience. The administration laughingly tried to imply that mentioning the title of Walid's book, "WHY WE WANT TO KILL YOU" in our posters
conjures images of Virgina Tech's shooting incident (yeah, sure)and upsets the sensitivities of the MSA on campus (who don't mind inviting terrorists to campus to speak to them with the Unviersity's blessing). Of course, allowing constant anti-Semitism and anti-Israel boycott attacks on campus do not equate to the same sensitivity for Jewish students on campus at WMU.

It should be noted the adminstration at WMU has behaved unprofessionally in the case of this event. First, they denied the MSA was complaining to them and that they were trying to appease them. When defunding us didn't work, they tried to have our psters eliminated. It should be noted that Dean of Students Suzie Nagel and Student activity director Chris SLigh first sought to censor the posters, then having failed at that, they sought to srpress distribution. Nagel was then supported by Diane Anderson, Vice President for Student Affairs. Eventualy, they admitted the MSA was complaining constantly and they were appeasing them (as the MSA tore down our posters everywhere on campus).

The only thing they could do to us ultmately (after having the campus police tear down our posters also) was try to claim a violation of campus "guidelines" that our posers were 2 inches too big (we proved they were the same size the University uses). At first, they let us go then started again saying because they were "student" posters we cold not post them unless we redid them all at a cost of another $1,000. We did exactly that. 2" as a technicality failed to stop us, altough t did slow don the promotion of the event.

It should be noted that "Guidelines" implies a suggested format and not firm rules. Yet Suzie Nagel decided to claim otherwise( Go look it up in the dictionary). In any case, we are going forward full steam ahead with the support of the majority of students and locals in Kalamazoo, Michigan. We also have large support from the local Christian and Jewish communities and locallaw enforcement agencies.

Campus police tell us the MSA plans a major protest outside the event. You see, the MSA that supports Hamas and terrrism is very annoyed when this is pointed out in public. The WMU admin that doesn't mind MSA bringing the likes of neo-Nazi William Baker, a Holocaust- denier or Sira Wahhaj,unindicted co-consprator in the 1993 WTC terror attack to campus, only takes a hard line if we have posters 2" larger than recommended (Horrors!)that they think it should be grounds for canceling the event.

Yesterday we made the cover of the Kalamazoo Gazette and we're getting ticket requests like mad. The MSA is still tearing down our flyers. Despie this, look for another successful event exposing the jihadis on US campuses. If you'd like free tickets, email me at info@StoptheISM.com. See you there!!! If you know of any local church groups that wish to attend in Michigan, please advise them of our event. Check out Walid's websies too at www.ffmuorg.com or www.shoebat.com. Come and support America and Israel and show how the Saudi-inspired propaganda of the MSA on college campuses can be checked even in the face of pusillanimous and self-serving college administrators.

Patriotic Muslim-Americans are welcome too!

NEW WEBSITES SOON!

2009-03-02T21:25:00.001-08:00

Well, it took longer than expected, but the new Stop the ISM and DAFKA websites will be up in about a week. We will have streaming video and DAFKA TV as a new feature. As for the ISM we will have some real surprises. I'll be in Michigan doing peparation work for Walid Shoebat's speaking engagement at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. If you find yourself in Michigan on March 10th at 7pm at Miller Auditorium on campus. The admin at WMU tried to kill this event but failed, so it should be an exciting evening in the middle of Hamas country. Tickets are free and to get advanced reserve seating feel free to email me at stoptheISM@att.net.

Bye for now!

THE ISM'S ILLEGAL DOS ATTACKS ON STOP THE ISM'S WEBSITES

2009-01-31T10:22:00.000-08:00

My uncle once told me when I discussed irresponsible people that "That's why there are more horse's asses than horses." The fact is the ISM appeals to a lot of horse's asses. A DOS attack was just made on Stop the ISM's and DAFKA's websites that temporarily brought the sites down but they will be back. Just as with Israel,the animals of the Palestinian movement and their EU anarchist buddies can have their day, but the anarchists in Gaza with Hamas should be afraid to look up into the sky because the Israeli Air Force is coming to get them. Actually, a member of the ISM has provided invaluable information for the $25,000 reward we offered for information on how to target Vittorio Arrigoni and the other ISM tools there in Gaza and right now. Anther good note was the Gaza flotilla ship was also turned back by the IDF NAvy as it should have been from the start.

The little ISM creeps in Gaza right now are working with Hamas using ambulances to transport terrorists by being human shields for them. Of course, they attacked the Stop the ISM website trying to claim we incited violence (Laughable given their love for terrorists and terrorism)and supposedly "committing unlawful acts." Of course, we committed no unlawful acts but just spoke our opinion so the ISM then committed its own unlawful acts to bring our sites down. Never fear, we will be back and the ISM is still on its way out in Israel. After this war, count on legislation in Israel to ban the noxious group of cowards from Israeli soil.

It's Friday..it's shabat. You should see the anti-Semitic hate mail I'm getting from anti-Semites who proclaim they love Jews but just want Israel dismantled. Sick, sick people they are. I'll try to post some here later.

More next week.

P.S. It's hilarious the way they write to threaten to kill me, to burn my house down, call me a kike and revile the USA and say bin Laden was right, then embrace the
homosexual world presented through the late Sidney Lumet's eyes. Now they claim I am seeking to sow paranoia in their ranks. Well, if that was the case it obviously worked, however, they do have a real reason to be afraid of me in the ISM as I will continue to expose them to the world.

Back at ya soon. We'll have a newer bigger site very soon.
Posted by Lee Kaplan at 11:48 AM
Labels: ISM internet attack, ISM. TERRORISM
Posted by Lee Kaplan at 4:43 AM

THE ARAB INCAPACITY TO DISTINGUISH RIGHT FROM WRONG

2008-12-31T15:25:00.000-08:00

I was at the pro-Hamas rally across from the Israeli consulate last night. There you could find a lot of young Arab-Americans who were ranting for Hamas. I was carrying Israeli and American flags together and was approached by many of the Hamas supporters who yelled, "Shame!" at me, as if they thought I would somehow find shame in opposing Hamas.

Let's face something. These are supposed to be Americans, not Palestinian Arabs. They live in a democracy and not an Arab Islamic inspired dictatorship. Yet they love the Arab dictatorships of the Middle East. Other ethnic groups that immigrated to America in the last two and half centuries wanted to be Americans. They fought and died for this country. But among Arab-American youth, not every last one, but the vast majority, they are Muslim Arabs first, or Christian Arabs who are Pan-Arabists.

Many of them in the ANSWER Coalition are wannabe communists and Marxists, particularly the quislings of Jewish descent among them. They are primitive in their support of the primitive Arab societies of the Middle East. The fault for this lies in our own American educational system that is slowly being infiltrated by Muslim educators from the Middle East. More on this later, but if you'd seen the mob yesterday in downtown San Francisco, you'd understand what I mean.

MORE ON ANNA BALTZER, THE ISM'S EVA BRAUN

2008-12-23T14:56:00.000-08:00

Steven Stotsky at CAMERA has written an excellent review of the ISM/s Eve Braun, Anna Baltzer who tours American churchs and campuses on behalf of Hamas terrorists for the little commies in the IWPS. Anna says she's not a communist so we ahve to assume she's jsut a lying opportunist who has a nice sinecure. What's amazing is how a woman with such a low IQ can make a good living touring with a propaganda campaign such as hers with a straight face, telling everyone she is a "peace activist" while concluding her presentations always jsutifying terrorism and war against Israel. Anna also likes to say she's an "eyewitness" to Israeli abuses that apparently only scenarios given her by Lamis Andoni for her to repeat. Lamis Andoni is the daughter of the PFLP apparatchik Ghassan Andoni who helped found the ISM and recruit little Jewish wannabe communist revolutionaries to run around for the totalitarian Arabs.
Anna, have you no shame? Apparently not.

Chomsky Lite: Anna Baltzer Joins anti-Israel Campaigns
By Steven Stotsky of CAMERA

Extreme anti-Israel groups often feature like-minded Jewish individuals in their campaigns, events and writings. These voices provide a public relations fig leaf for organizations singling out the Jewish state for one-sided condemnation. The logic, obviously, is that if Jews themselves are leveling harsh criticism at Israel, the organization’s own assault must have merit. But what actually counts in statements about Israel, the Palestinians or any other topic are the facts of the issue – not the ethnicity, religion or personal psychology of the speaker.

Anna Baltzer is one such Jewish defamer, a relative newcomer who tours US campuses, churches and community venues denigrating Israel with baseless and propagandistic allegations. Her personal story has a familiar ring; she claims to have been raised on the Zionist dream but says "vacations" in Iran, Syria and Lebanon and an extended visit to the West Bank opened her eyes and transformed her into a determined opponent of "the occupation." Those well versed in the history and contemporary reality of the conflict will recognize in Baltzer’s presentation a re-packaged version of standard accusations against the Zionist state.

Equally predictable are her anecdotal descriptions of Palestinian hardship and alleged Zionist brutality. Likewise familiar is Baltzer’s invoking of her Jewish roots and grandparents lost to the Holocaust to establish her supposed moral authenticity.

But family aside, Baltzer’s ideological roots are firmly planted in the anti-Zionist movement. An acolyte of deceased Israeli radical, Tanya Reinhardt and Noam Chomsky, she is affiliated with the International Women’s Peace Service (IWPS), a group closely associated with the International Solidarity Movement. Her political message closely reflects the official Palestinian line claiming Israel is a foreign occupier guilty of ethnic cleansing and that the wrongs done to the Arabs can only be righted by reverting back to a mythological pre-Zionist Palestinian land.

False claims about land ownership

1) Baltzer builds her argument against Israel on key historical falsehoods. In a tactic of propaganda, she repeatedly asserts the falsehood that the West Bank and much of Israel itself belonged to the Palestinians as though it were commonly accepted truth. She claims Jewish settlements on the West Bank are illegal according to international law and the land "belongs to the Palestinians, [and is] internationally recognized as Palestinian land." None of this is true; in reality, UN Security Council Resolution 242 (and official United States policy) characterizes the West Bank and Gaza as disputed territories subject to negotiation. Many recognized legal experts (including Professors Julius Stone and Eugene Rostow) argue that the settlements are legal, irrespective of any political view about the advisability of building or removing them.

2) Baltzer perpetuates the falsehood that all land not already under Jewish ownership prior to 1948 belongs to the Palestinians. A series of maps on her Web site depict the annexation of Palestinian land by Jews. A map labeled 1947 shows eight percent under Jewish ownership, and incorrectly assigns the remaining 92 percent to the Palestinians. But most of the territory she assigns to the Palestinians was state-owned property under Turkish and subsequent British and Jordanian governments. In 1967, when Israel took control of the West Bank and Gaza in the context of a defensive war, state land came under the sovereignty of Israel, which is how it remains until a "final status" settlement is achieved.

3) Baltzer further confuses the land issue in alleging Israeli Arabs are discriminated against because they are barred from owning most of the land. In reality, within Israel itself, only 6.5 percent of the land is privately owned and although Arabs constitute 20 percent of the population they own roughly half of that private property. They have equal access to the remaining roughly 80 percent of land that is government-owned state land. In practice and under new court rulings Arabs also have access to JNF land which accounts for the remaining 14 percent.

4) Baltzer makes other bizarre claims about land in Israel. In her blog she quotes Dr. Salman Abu Sitta, whom she identifies as a former member of the Palestine National Council, who states,

78% of [Jewish Israelis] live in 14% of Israel. The remaining 22% of [Jewish Israelis] live in 86% of Israel's area, which is Palestinian land ...only 200,000 Jews exploit 17,325 sq. km, which is the home and heritage of 5,248,180 refugees, crammed in camps and denied the right to return home. (April 30, 2007)
This absurd assertion denies Jews the right to 86 percent of the land within their own internationally recognized borders. Tellingly, her repetition of Dr. Sitta’s claims suggests she sees nothing wrong with reducing Israel into densely populated "bantustans;" precisely what she accuses Israel of doing to the Palestinians.

5) Her recapitulation of the events surrounding Israel’s founding are standard revisionist mythology. She recounts how "the militant Zionist Irgun and Stern Gang systematically murdered more than 100 men, women, and children in Deir Yassin" and describes it as "part of a carefully planned and orchestrated process that would induce the flight of 70% of the native population to make way for an ethnically Jewish state." (Anna’s blog: April 30, 2007)

And in her DVD, "Life in Occupied Palestine," she asserts:

The majority of the people living on the land the UN designated for a Jewish state were not Jewish. Zionist forces expelled 750,000 Palestinians from their homes.
The charge of an orchestrated plan and process to expel Palestinians has been thoroughly refuted by serious scholars. Professors Efraim Karsh and Benny Morris, for instance, both reject the charge of an orchestrated expulsion, and conclude the overwhelming majority of Arabs who fled did so in the context of war – one launched by Arab armies and militias against the fledgling Jewish state. Their scholarship is supported by the admissions of Arab officials that the Arab population was urged to flee by its own leadership. According to various UN commission reports, between 472,000 and 726,000 Arabs fled the territory that became Israel. Only a small fraction of these were physically uprooted by Jewish forces, in most cases to insure critical roadways remained open during open hostilities.

Demonizing Zionism and defaming Israelis

1) Predictably, Baltzer casts Zionism as a racist movement. She describes a Zionist as "someone who supports the idea of an exclusively Jewish state." This is a baseless distortion of mainstream Zionism. Israel is a democratic state that protects the rights of all its citizens to freely and openly practice their religions. According to Freedom House, an organization that rates political, religious and civic freedoms around the world, Israel is the only nation in the Middle East to be rated as "Free." Most of the region’s states were given the lowest rating of "Not Free." (See the Middle East portion of the Freedom House Map of Freedom reproduced on the left)
One is left to wonder how Baltzer’s "vacations" in Iran and Syria, nations controlled by repressive regimes that restrict speech, assembly and the rights of minority groups, somehow convinced her that Israel was the region’s most serious human rights violator.

2) Her account of the fighting in Jenin in April 2002 repeats the most outrageous propaganda disseminated by the Palestinian Authority in the days immediately after the Israeli incursion. She writes in her blog on November 24, 2003:

Jenin has a reputation for fighting back. Locals say that in April of 2002, it took 12,000 Israeli troops 8 days to capture one small section of the city because so many people fought to the death...
... Soldiers bulldozed homes indiscriminately, without regard to whether any civilians were still inside...

Israel used bulldozers to minimize soldier casualties, but no one knows how many Palestinians died in the attack... Shortly afterward, Israel announced 46 casualties, less than a quarter of their original estimates. Israeli soldiers’ and Palestinian civilians’ testimonies of unarmed men being executed and bodies being crushed suggest that this number is wildly inaccurate. Still, Israel maintains that a massacre never happened at all, and without access to the bodies, nobody can prove that those who went missing were actually killed.
At the time she wrote this entry, even HRW and Amnesty International, as well as the UN — all fierce critics of Israel — had repudiated claims that a massacre had occurred, counting 52 to 57 Palestinian dead along with 23 Israeli soldiers. Most of the Palestinian fatalities were identified as combatants. The relatively low Palestinian toll after eight days along with the uncharacteristically high toll of Israeli soldiers contradicts Baltzer’s narrative. Israel could have limited its own casualties by resorting to artillery and aerial bombardment, but in order to minimize Arab civilian casualties, went in on the ground and suffered notable losses.

3) She criticizes Israel’s security barrier, "the wall" in her terminology, but avoids any discussion of why it was built. Even Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Abdallah Shalah acknowledged the effectiveness of the barrier, stating:
"… For example, they built a separation fence in the West Bank . We do not deny that it limits the ability of the resistance to arrive deep within [Israeli territory] to carry out suicide bombing attacks, but the resistance has not surrendered or become helpless, and is looking for other ways to cope with the requirements of every stage [of the intifada]…" (Al-Sharq, March 23, 2008 ).
As an advocate of non-violence, she betrays no ambivalence in her opposition to the barrier despite the fact that it has saved both Israeli and Palestinian lives by reducing opportunities for violence to occur. Baltzer’s determined opposition to the barrier suggests that promoting the political agenda of "resistance" supercedes any concern for preserving Israeli or Palestinian lives.

Baltzer’s radicalism and ties to Islamic extremists

1) Baltzer’s rhetoric and writing are a window on the emerging nexus between the far-left and the Islamic extremists of Hamas. This is exemplified by her association with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a radical group whose members sheltered two British-born terrorists prior to their carrying out a suicide bombing of an Israeli nightclub in 2003 and who today are working on behalf of Hamas to undermine Western efforts to isolate that radical Islamic organization in Gaza.

In her blog, she reveals her participation in ISM strategy sessions and coordination with its activists. ISM’s claims to adhere to a non-violent creed are contradicted by the praise its co-founder, Huwaida Arraf, expressed for suicide bombers:

Nonviolent resistance is no less noble than carrying out a suicide operation... The Palestinian resistance must take on a variety of characteristics — both nonviolent and violent. But most importantly it must develop a strategy involving both aspects...
2) The relative calm in the West Bank since 2005 and on-going tenuous efforts by responsible governments to foster cooperation between the Abbas government and the Israeli government have reduced opportunities for extremists to instigate "resistance" activities in these areas. Professional agitators like Baltzer have thus migrated to more extreme opponents of compromise, like Hamas in Gaza. In 2007, she wrote:

Recently, perhaps the most paralyzing features of Israel's continued control over Gaza ... is the US and Israeli-led economic embargo against the Palestinian government since Hamas' victory last year....the United States, Europe, and Israel ... say they will only return the Palestinians' lifelines if Hamas agrees to three conditions: (1) renouncing violence, (2) accepting previous agreements, and (3) recognizing Israel. These conditions sound reasonable enough, but are painfully ironic for anyone living on the ground here. True, Hamas has not sworn off violence once and for all, but neither has Israel! In the past year, Palestinians have killed 27 Israelis, most of them soldiers. During that same period of time, Israelis have killed 583 Palestinian civilians (suicide bombers, fighters or others targeted for assassination are not included). Hamas has held fairly consistently to a unilateral ceasefire since January 2005, when they announced their transition from armed struggle to political struggle... Hamas says it reserves the right to resist violently, but has stopped attacking Israelis. Israel claims that all it wants is peace, yet the daily invasions and assassinations continue.

And finally, the last and crucial condition is that Hamas must recognize Israel. The question is, what exactly is meant by "Israel"?... Israel has an artificial Jewish majority that was created and is maintained through various forms of ethnic cleansing. Israel's very existence as a Jewish state is conditional upon the dispossession and either expulsion or bantustanization of the indigenous Palestinian population...
Hamas too has indicated that it would consider peace if Israel withdrew to its internationally recognized 1967 borders leaving Palestinians with just 22% of their historic homeland, but Israel says full withdrawal is out of the question. It is Israel who has yet to recognize Palestine's right to exist, not the other way around. (April 7, 2007)
Baltzer here adheres closely to Hamas’s narrative of the conflict. These excerpts from a lengthy blog entry are riddled with deceptive manipulation of terms. For instance, while Hamas accepts temporary truces it firmly rejects the right of the Jewish state to exist and refuses to disavow armed struggle. Recently, when an interviewer asked Hamas political chief, Khaled Meshal if Hamas could ever accept Israel. He answered,

No, the question of recognition is out. I have already said we would be able to sign a truce. There are other formulas, but we have already stated that recognition is not among them. (Euronews, July 11, 2008)
Nor has Hamas stopped trying to attack Israel despite Baltzer’s nonsensical claim that Hamas has adhered to the 2005 ceasefire. From January through August 2008 alone, 1087 rockets and 1218 mortar shells were fired on Israel from Hamas-controlled Gaza and Hamas has taken credit for a number of terrorist incidents inside Israel since 2005.

Her statistics on Palestinian casualties are misleading. Through careful cross-checking of Palestinian sources, CAMERA has demonstrated that the groups Baltzer relies upon for her figures play games with how they classify terrorists and militants as civilians or non-combatants. For example, the pro-Palestinian Israeli group B’Tselem categorizes known terrorists killed in Israeli air strikes as non-combatants so long as they were not carrying out an attack at the time of their demise. Another CAMERA study combed through the weekly reports of the Gaza-based monitoring group Palestinian Committee for Human Rights (PCHR) and calculated 58 percent of all Palestinian fatalities between April 2006 and April 2008 were identified as militants, resistance activists or members of Palestinian security forces by this partisan group. Israeli tallies indicate that the overwhelming majority of Palestinian fatalities are militants and terrorists.

Curiously Baltzer’s blog falls silent between April 29, 2005 and Jan 26, 2007, a time during which the main news focused on Israel’s decision to withdraw from Gaza and the chaotic results within Gaza afterward, including intensified internecine fighting between Hamas and Fatah.
In 2007, in the midst of an extended period of relative calm between Israelis and Palestinians on the West Bank, she exclaimed in her blog:

Injustice is unsustainable. It cannot be normalized, because there will always be resistance. The third intifada will come...If the third intifada does not succeed, there will be a fourth. And then a fifth… As many as it takes, until justice is served. (April 29, 2007)
Although Baltzer’s organization IWPS proclaims in its mission statement that it is "non-aligned and non-partisan and does not 'take sides' but supports any individual, group or organization who resist the Military Occupation of the West Bank in a nonviolent manner," she implicitly condones violence by urging endless intifadas. Surely she knows that Palestinian and Israeli blood would inevitably flow during the next and any subsequent intifadas.

Like others who have preceded her as roving agitators against the Zionist state, Baltzer feeds off the continuing conflict. Her agenda promotes resentment and holds out to Palestinians the unrealistic hope of reversing a century of Jewish growth and development of the land. This can only push prospects for a peaceful coexistence further away. With continuing attempts to forge a more cooperative and calm atmosphere in the West Bank, it is no surprise that Baltzer and others who share her agenda increasingly align their views and actions with the most determined opponents of compromise, like Hamas.

CODE PINK SHOWS ITS TRUE COLORS THIS WEDNESDAY IN LOS ANGELES

2008-12-16T00:40:00.000-08:00

Code Pink based in Berkeley, California, and run by the pro-Castro supporter Medea Benjamin has plans for tomorrow, Wednesday December 17th, that should forestall any doubt about whose side the radical leftist group is on in the War on Terror.

Code Pink already grabbed attention for its demonstrations to drive US Marine Corps recruiters out of Berkeley, a stunt that failed, but managed to get Benjamin even on conservative talk show host Bill O’Reilly’s cable news show with the deceptive title under her name of “peace activist.” Prior to the attack on the Marines, Benjamin also did her utmost to help the enemy against our forces when Code Pink sent $600,000 in “medical supplies” to the same forces that were fighting US soldiers in Fallujah at the height of the war in Iraq. Benjamin and her crew will do anything for attention and to harm the image of the United States abroad.

Now, Susie Benjamin (her real name since Benjamin changed her name to the mythological Greek mother who murdered her own children to spite her husband, Jason) has found another scene grabber of an event to show what a “peace activist” she is by organizing a demonstration to attack outgoing President Bush with symbolic “shoes” at the US federal building in Los Angeles. The confidential email below was broadcast to Code Pink supporters:

--- On Mon, 12/15/08, CODEPINK LA wrote:

From: CODEPINK LA
Subject: More Shoes for Bush!
To:
Date: Monday, December 15, 2008, 8:21 PM

December 15, 2008

Dear Lee,

Join us!

Wednesday, December 17th, 5:00--6:30 PM

More Shoes for Bush!

Join us at the Federal Building at the southwest corner of Wilshire Blvd. and Veteran Ave., in solidarity with the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at George W. Bush at a Baghdad press conference on Sunday. Peace activists will gather outside the Federal Building with shoes representing Iraqis and U.S. soldiers who have died since the Bush Administration's illegal invasion of Iraq.

We aim to show support for Iraqi journalist Muntader al-Zaidi, who hurled his shoes at President Bush while he spoke at the conference during his "surprise" visit to discuss the war. Al-Zaidi is currently being held by Iraqi police and questioned on his actions. The peace activists are calling on the Iraqi government to release al-Zaidi without charges. "It's outrageous that al-Zaidi could get two years in prison for insulting President Bush, when Bush is directly responsible for the deaths of 1.5 million Iraqis and 4,200 U.S. troops, and 5 million displaced Iraqis," says Jodie Evans of CODEPINK. "The one who should be in jail is George Bush, and he should be charged with war crimes."

Bring shoes to label with the names of Iraqi dead, and shoes to put on poles as they are doing in Iraq. Let's stand in solidarity with the Iraqis who have suffered at the hands of George W. Bush. Let's stand in solidarity for the "widows and orphans" he has created.

For more information and to RSVP, contact Audrey.

If you can't make it, please sign this petition that CODEPINK D.C. will be delivering to the Iraqi embassy.

See you in action,
Jodie, Susan, Linda, Patricia, Janna, Paris, and Audrey

Benjamin and her cronies claim they are showing support for a 25 year-old Iraqi journalist who insulted our president because he allegedly created “widows and orphans” when in fact it was Saddam Hussein who President Bush removed after Saddam created many more Iraqi women and orphans during his reign of more than 30 years in Iraq, no to mentioned starved children in his own country for meglamanical aims. What Code Pink’s event his Wednesday shows is that the phony “peace group” Code Pink is really on the side of America’s enemies in the War on Terror and wants no punishment for someone who assaulted the President of the United States. The irony is that it was during President Bush’s watch that Medea Benjamin and Code Pink were able to send funds to the very enemy our American soldiers were fighting during the war that America has now won in Iraq and were able to grow as an organization due to lax laws regarding the funding of subversive "non-profits" such as the Holy Land Foundation during most of the Bush presidential years.

The more people in our country know about Code Pink and Medea Benjamin, the more Americans will start to stand up to such a pernicious group.

HAS THE SJP SIGNED ITS OWN DEATH WARRANT AT CAL?

2008-11-21T09:33:00.000-08:00

The situation is clear. A week ago a Jewish visitor to the Cal campus was sucker punched from behind by an SJP leader in the student government offices on campus.
The Palestinian student group then went into classic lockstep and groupthink and began lying that the assault was the other way around.

The situation revolved around a pro-Israel hip hop concert on campus below the student government balcony where the Students for Justice in Palestine chose to hang PLO flags to negate the message. As one Jewish promoter of the event went upstais and tried removing the flags (set up without permission as required), a Husam of the SJP punched him in the back of the head knocking him down. This is sort of how the Arabs fight Israel too then cry victimhood and violations of legal norms when they get it back.

At any rate, the SJP students are holding fast to committing perjury in an attempt to have the Jewish victim charged with a hate crime and other Jewish student leaders on campus punished or expelled or recalled from student government. he pusillanimus
Student Activity Director at Cal, Jonathon Poullard who just loves the SJP students
is of course going after the Jewish kid who was hit and the Daily Cal newspaper has been trying to convince evryone that the SJP students were the victims. Nevertheless:

Let me just say that the SJP has put something in motion here that is going to come back and bite them on the ass. Stay tuned here for updates as the SJP buries itself more and more surrounding these events while thinking they have put one over on the Jewish community.

MORE ON ANNA BALTZER, SERIAL LIAR FOR ARAB TOTALITARIANS: THE ARABS' TOKYO ROSE

2008-11-21T09:28:00.000-08:00

Anna Baltzer found a nice sinecure for herself as the Jewess who is against the Jews in Israel. She travels around to churches in America and tells them that Israel
is committing fake atrocities, She concludes her speech with a call and excuse to violence that is subtly worded to suggested hitting an intruder to your house with a lamp. It sure beats working. Anna, who has a book, I Witness Palestine, recited claims of atrocities that she not only never verified or saw herself, but that were told her to say by her Arab handlers,Lamis Deek. Below is more info on Anna Baltzer:

October 10, 2008 by Steven Stotsky of CAMERA

Chomsky Lite: Anna Baltzer Joins anti-Israel Campaigns

Extreme anti-Israel groups often feature like-minded Jewish individuals in their campaigns, events and writings. These voices provide a public relations fig leaf for organizations singling out the Jewish state for one-sided condemnation. The logic, obviously, is that if Jews themselves are leveling harsh criticism at Israel, the organization’s own assault must have merit. But what actually counts in statements about Israel, the Palestinians or any other topic are the facts of the issue – not the ethnicity, religion or personal psychology of the speaker.

Anna Baltzer is one such Jewish defamer, a relative newcomer who tours US campuses, churches and community venues denigrating Israel with baseless and propagandistic allegations. Her personal story has a familiar ring; she claims to have been raised on the Zionist dream but says "vacations" in Iran, Syria and Lebanon and an extended visit to the West Bank opened her eyes and transformed her into a determined opponent of "the occupation." Those well versed in the history and contemporary reality of the conflict will recognize in Baltzer’s presentation a re-packaged version of standard accusations against the Zionist state.

Equally predictable are her anecdotal descriptions of Palestinian hardship and alleged Zionist brutality. Likewise familiar is Baltzer’s invoking of her Jewish roots and grandparents lost to the Holocaust to establish her supposed moral authenticity.

But family aside, Baltzer’s ideological roots are firmly planted in the anti-Zionist movement. An acolyte of deceased Israeli radical, Tanya Reinhardt and Noam Chomsky, she is affiliated with the International Women’s Peace Service (IWPS), a group closely associated with the International Solidarity Movement. Her political message closely reflects the official Palestinian line claiming Israel is a foreign occupier guilty of ethnic cleansing and that the wrongs done to the Arabs can only be righted by reverting back to a mythological pre-Zionist Palestinian land.

False claims about land ownership

1) Baltzer builds her argument against Israel on key historical falsehoods. In a tactic of propaganda, she repeatedly asserts the falsehood that the West Bank and much of Israel itself belonged to the Palestinians as though it were commonly accepted truth. She claims Jewish settlements on the West Bank are illegal according to international law and the land "belongs to the Palestinians, [and is] internationally recognized as Palestinian land." None of this is true; in reality, UN Security Council Resolution 242 (and official United States policy) characterizes the West Bank and Gaza as disputed territories subject to negotiation. Many recognized legal experts (including Professors Julius Stone and Eugene Rostow) argue that the settlements are legal, irrespective of any political view about the advisability of building or removing them.

2) Baltzer perpetuates the falsehood that all land not already under Jewish ownership prior to 1948 belongs to the Palestinians. A series of maps on her Web site depict the annexation of Palestinian land by Jews. A map labeled 1947 shows eight percent under Jewish ownership, and incorrectly assigns the remaining 92 percent to the Palestinians. But most of the territory she assigns to the Palestinians was state-owned property under Turkish and subsequent British and Jordanian governments. In 1967, when Israel took control of the West Bank and Gaza in the context of a defensive war, state land came under the sovereignty of Israel, which is how it remains until a "final status" settlement is achieved.

3) Baltzer further confuses the land issue in alleging Israeli Arabs are discriminated against because they are barred from owning most of the land. In reality, within Israel itself, only 6.5 percent of the land is privately owned and although Arabs constitute 20 percent of the population they own roughly half of that private property. They have equal access to the remaining roughly 80 percent of land that is government-owned state land. In practice and under new court rulings Arabs also have access to JNF land which accounts for the remaining 14 percent.

4) Baltzer makes other bizarre claims about land in Israel. In her blog she quotes Dr. Salman Abu Sitta, whom she identifies as a former member of the Palestine National Council, who states,

78% of [Jewish Israelis] live in 14% of Israel. The remaining 22% of [Jewish Israelis] live in 86% of Israel's area, which is Palestinian land ...only 200,000 Jews exploit 17,325 sq. km, which is the home and heritage of 5,248,180 refugees, crammed in camps and denied the right to return home. (April 30, 2007)
This absurd assertion denies Jews the right to 86 percent of the land within their own internationally recognized borders. Tellingly, her repetition of Dr. Sitta’s claims suggests she sees nothing wrong with reducing Israel into densely populated "bantustans;" precisely what she accuses Israel of doing to the Palestinians.

5) Her recapitulation of the events surrounding Israel’s founding are standard revisionist mythology. She recounts how "the militant Zionist Irgun and Stern Gang systematically murdered more than 100 men, women, and children in Deir Yassin" and describes it as "part of a carefully planned and orchestrated process that would induce the flight of 70% of the native population to make way for an ethnically Jewish state." (Anna’s blog: April 30, 2007)

And in her DVD, "Life in Occupied Palestine," she asserts:

The majority of the people living on the land the UN designated for a Jewish state were not Jewish. Zionist forces expelled 750,000 Palestinians from their homes.
The charge of an orchestrated plan and process to expel Palestinians has been thoroughly refuted by serious scholars. Professors Efraim Karsh and Benny Morris, for instance, both reject the charge of an orchestrated expulsion, and conclude the overwhelming majority of Arabs who fled did so in the context of war – one launched by Arab armies and militias against the fledgling Jewish state. Their scholarship is supported by the admissions of Arab officials that the Arab population was urged to flee by its own leadership. According to various UN commission reports, between 472,000 and 726,000 Arabs fled the territory that became Israel. Only a small fraction of these were physically uprooted by Jewish forces, in most cases to insure critical roadways remained open during open hostilities.

Demonizing Zionism and defaming Israelis

1) Predictably, Baltzer casts Zionism as a racist movement. She describes a Zionist as "someone who supports the idea of an exclusively Jewish state." This is a baseless distortion of mainstream Zionism. Israel is a democratic state that protects the rights of all its citizens to freely and openly practice their religions. According to Freedom House, an organization that rates political, religious and civic freedoms around the world, Israel is the only nation in the Middle East to be rated as "Free." Most of the region’s states were given the lowest rating of "Not Free." (See the Middle East portion of the Freedom House Map of Freedom reproduced on the left)
One is left to wonder how Baltzer’s "vacations" in Iran and Syria, nations controlled by repressive regimes that restrict speech, assembly and the rights of minority groups, somehow convinced her that Israel was the region’s most serious human rights violator.

2) Her account of the fighting in Jenin in April 2002 repeats the most outrageous propaganda disseminated by the Palestinian Authority in the days immediately after the Israeli incursion. She writes in her blog on November 24, 2003:

Jenin has a reputation for fighting back. Locals say that in April of 2002, it took 12,000 Israeli troops 8 days to capture one small section of the city because so many people fought to the death...
... Soldiers bulldozed homes indiscriminately, without regard to whether any civilians were still inside...

Israel used bulldozers to minimize soldier casualties, but no one knows how many Palestinians died in the attack... Shortly afterward, Israel announced 46 casualties, less than a quarter of their original estimates. Israeli soldiers’ and Palestinian civilians’ testimonies of unarmed men being executed and bodies being crushed suggest that this number is wildly inaccurate. Still, Israel maintains that a massacre never happened at all, and without access to the bodies, nobody can prove that those who went missing were actually killed.
At the time she wrote this entry, even HRW and Amnesty International, as well as the UN — all fierce critics of Israel — had repudiated claims that a massacre had occurred, counting 52 to 57 Palestinian dead along with 23 Israeli soldiers. Most of the Palestinian fatalities were identified as combatants. The relatively low Palestinian toll after eight days along with the uncharacteristically high toll of Israeli soldiers contradicts Baltzer’s narrative. Israel could have limited its own casualties by resorting to artillery and aerial bombardment, but in order to minimize Arab civilian casualties, went in on the ground and suffered notable losses.

3) She criticizes Israel’s security barrier, "the wall" in her terminology, but avoids any discussion of why it was built. Even Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Abdallah Shalah acknowledged the effectiveness of the barrier, stating:
"… For example, they built a separation fence in the West Bank . We do not deny that it limits the ability of the resistance to arrive deep within [Israeli territory] to carry out suicide bombing attacks, but the resistance has not surrendered or become helpless, and is looking for other ways to cope with the requirements of every stage [of the intifada]…" (Al-Sharq, March 23, 2008 ).
As an advocate of non-violence, she betrays no ambivalence in her opposition to the barrier despite the fact that it has saved both Israeli and Palestinian lives by reducing opportunities for violence to occur. Baltzer’s determined opposition to the barrier suggests that promoting the political agenda of "resistance" supercedes any concern for preserving Israeli or Palestinian lives.

Baltzer’s radicalism and ties to Islamic extremists

1) Baltzer’s rhetoric and writing are a window on the emerging nexus between the far-left and the Islamic extremists of Hamas. This is exemplified by her association with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a radical group whose members sheltered two British-born terrorists prior to their carrying out a suicide bombing of an Israeli nightclub in 2003 and who today are working on behalf of Hamas to undermine Western efforts to isolate that radical Islamic organization in Gaza.

In her blog, she reveals her participation in ISM strategy sessions and coordination with its activists. ISM’s claims to adhere to a non-violent creed are contradicted by the praise its co-founder, Huwaida Arraf, expressed for suicide bombers:

Nonviolent resistance is no less noble than carrying out a suicide operation... The Palestinian resistance must take on a variety of characteristics — both nonviolent and violent. But most importantly it must develop a strategy involving both aspects...
2) The relative calm in the West Bank since 2005 and on-going tenuous efforts by responsible governments to foster cooperation between the Abbas government and the Israeli government have reduced opportunities for extremists to instigate "resistance" activities in these areas. Professional agitators like Baltzer have thus migrated to more extreme opponents of compromise, like Hamas in Gaza. In 2007, she wrote:

Recently, perhaps the most paralyzing features of Israel's continued control over Gaza ... is the US and Israeli-led economic embargo against the Palestinian government since Hamas' victory last year....the United States, Europe, and Israel ... say they will only return the Palestinians' lifelines if Hamas agrees to three conditions: (1) renouncing violence, (2) accepting previous agreements, and (3) recognizing Israel. These conditions sound reasonable enough, but are painfully ironic for anyone living on the ground here. True, Hamas has not sworn off violence once and for all, but neither has Israel! In the past year, Palestinians have killed 27 Israelis, most of them soldiers. During that same period of time, Israelis have killed 583 Palestinian civilians (suicide bombers, fighters or others targeted for assassination are not included). Hamas has held fairly consistently to a unilateral ceasefire since January 2005, when they announced their transition from armed struggle to political struggle... Hamas says it reserves the right to resist violently, but has stopped attacking Israelis. Israel claims that all it wants is peace, yet the daily invasions and assassinations continue.

And finally, the last and crucial condition is that Hamas must recognize Israel. The question is, what exactly is meant by "Israel"?... Israel has an artificial Jewish majority that was created and is maintained through various forms of ethnic cleansing. Israel's very existence as a Jewish state is conditional upon the dispossession and either expulsion or bantustanization of the indigenous Palestinian population...
Hamas too has indicated that it would consider peace if Israel withdrew to its internationally recognized 1967 borders leaving Palestinians with just 22% of their historic homeland, but Israel says full withdrawal is out of the question. It is Israel who has yet to recognize Palestine's right to exist, not the other way around. (April 7, 2007)Baltzer here adheres closely to Hamas’s narrative of the conflict. These excerpts from a lengthy blog entry are riddled with deceptive manipulation of terms. For instance, while Hamas accepts temporary truces it firmly rejects the right of the Jewish state to exist and refuses to disavow armed struggle. Recently, when an interviewer asked Hamas political chief, Khaled Meshall if Hamas could ever accept Israel. He answered,

No, the question of recognition is out. I have already said we would be able to sign a truce. There are other formulas, but we have already stated that recognition is not among them. (Euronews, July 11, 2008)Nor has Hamas stopped trying to attack Israel despite Baltzer’s nonsensical claim that Hamas has adhered to the 2005 ceasefire. From January through August 2008 alone, 1087 rockets and 1218 mortar shells were fired on Israel from Hamas-controlled Gaza and Hamas has taken credit for a number of terrorist incidents inside Israel since 2005.

Her statistics on Palestinian casualties are misleading. Through careful cross-checking of Palestinian sources, CAMERA has demonstrated that the groups Baltzer relies upon for her figures play games with how they classify terrorists and militants as civilians or non-combatants. For example, the pro-Palestinian Israeli group B’Tselem categorizes known terrorists killed in Israeli air strikes as non-combatants so long as they were not carrying out an attack at the time of their demise. Another CAMERA study combed through the weekly reports of the Gaza-based monitoring group Palestinian Committee for Human Rights (PCHR) and calculated 58 percent of all Palestinian fatalities between April 2006 and April 2008 were identified as militants, resistance activists or members of Palestinian security forces by this partisan group. Israeli tallies indicate that the overwhelming majority of Palestinian fatalities are militants and terrorists.

Curiously Baltzer’s blog falls silent between April 29, 2005 and Jan 26, 2007, a time during which the main news focused on Israel’s decision to withdraw from Gaza and the chaotic results within Gaza afterward, including intensified internecine fighting between Hamas and Fatah. In 2007, in the midst of an extended period of relative calm between Israelis and Palestinians on the West Bank, she exclaimed in her blog:

Injustice is unsustainable. It cannot be normalized, because there will always be resistance. The third intifada will come...If the third intifada does not succeed, there will be a fourth. And then a fifth… As many as it takes, until justice is served. (April 29, 2007)Although Baltzer’s organization IWPS proclaims in its mission statement that it is "non-aligned and non-partisan and does not 'take sides' but supports any individual, group or organization who resist the Military Occupation of the West Bank in a nonviolent manner," she implicitly condones violence by urging endless intifadas. Surely she knows that Palestinian and Israeli blood would inevitably flow during the next and any subsequent intifadas.

Like others who have preceded her as roving agitators against the Zionist state, Baltzer feeds off the continuing conflict. Her agenda promotes resentment and holds out to Palestinians the unrealistic hope of reversing a century of Jewish growth and development of the land. This can only push prospects for a peaceful coexistence further away. With continuing attempts to forge a more cooperative and calm atmosphere in the West Bank, it is no surprise that Baltzer and others who share her agenda increasingly align their views and actions with the most determined opponents of compromise, like Hamas.

I'M APPEARING ON TALK RADIO THIS WEEK

2008-11-12T20:51:00.000-08:00

TONIGHT (WEDNESDAY, NOV.12th) I can be heard on the Radio Liberty Newtork at 9pm PST with Dr. Stanley Monteith to discuss the new President and his friend Rashid Khalidi.
Call in if you like: www.radioliberty.com.

THURSDAY MORNING (NOV.13th) I will be appearing nationally on the syndicated MANCOW SHOW out of Chicago at 7am. Although that is on the airwaves, if you google MANCOW you should be able to hear the show on the Web.

I also had a run-in with the Neo-Nazi website FreeAmerican.com but the outcome may have been to the good. This is a website that runs the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, but after coming up against the anti-Semitism on the website and proing it wrong to the host, there were some changes made. Alison Weir of the ISM and her If Americans Knew website that is both anti-Semitic and Nazi inspired like Weir herself had a link to them removed by the host. Sadly, the Protocols are still up and if I am invited back I intend to see they are removed.

I can also be heard any time via Podcast on my show The Islamic Agenda at www.jerusalempulseradio.com where I give you news and information on the War on Terror not normally heard in mainstream media. Try to listen in. ALso, evry Tuesday night from 8-10pm PST I appear on Utah's K-Talk.com, the Jim Kirkwood Show where I discuss the War on Terror and Homeland Security issues. That show is available on the Internet too.

SHOEBAT/ SALEEM SPEECH AT BERKELEY A ROUSING SUCCESS

2008-10-30T11:38:00.000-07:00

They had to turn away over 700 people due to lack of seating at Walid Shoebat and Kamal Saleem's UC Berkely event "Why We Want to Kill You." Attempts by the SJP and MSA to read prepared statements during the questions and answer period did not sway the majority fo the audience that understood what Shoebat and Saleem were saying: AMerican Muslims need to support america and not overseas terrorist states. Each time someone from the SJP tried to make an accusation, the speakers shot them down with facts. Last week, the anti-Israel academic fraud Norman Finklestein only garnered 150 attendees, most being students who Hatem Bazian FORCED to attend the lecture from his Arabic language class. Contrast this with the 1,450 people who came last night. This only proves that the majority of students at Berkeley support Israel and America, and that those who support the terrorists are just noiser. As Kamal Saleem said at one point about that problem, "Thank you Saudi Arabia."

There will be more changes like this at Berkeley and the adminstration should be on notice. Arab oil money should not buy UC Berkeley or its Middle East Studies department forever. I encourage you to visit my other sites www.dafka.org and www.StoptheISM.com because we will be returning to UC Berkeley in the near future.
Students interested in starting a chapter can email me at programs@dafka.org.

Walid Shoebat will be speaking tonight at the University of Reno if anyone who missed last nght can make it. To those who missed out, he'll be speaking at SFSU next year to an even bigger crowd.

COME HEAR WALID SHOEBAT AND KAMAL SALEEM AT UC BERKELEY TONIGHT AT 7:15 PM

2008-10-29T07:19:00.000-07:00

The event "Why We Want to Kill You" has already attracted hundreds of advanced ticket holders but you can still attend the event of free tonight at UC Berkeley's Wheeler Hall, just past Sather Gate on campus,at 7:15 pm. Free general admission seating will open up at 7 pm.

Tonight UC Berkeley Arab language instructor Hatem Bazian will be discussed along with Berkeley's conduct in looking the other way at a Middle East Studies Center funded by al Qaeda supporters,as well as the odious Students for Justice in Palestine ("Justice" of course being the end of Israel). Bazian recently forced his Arab language students to attend a speaking event given by Norman Finklestein, a pseudo-academic who has been fired from every academic position he held because of poor scholasticism. Finkelstein, with Bazian's arm twisitng of his students only garnered 150 attendees at his propaganda event bashing Israel (he's a Jewish quisling for the Arabs). In contrast, the Shoebat event already has nearly 400 seats already filled in Wheeler Hall with advance ticket reservations (and we didn't have to offer class credit to do so). Don't worry, we still have a few hundred seats for walk-ins but anticpate a full house. Walid and Kamal will be on the Armstrong and Getty Show on morning talk radio radio here in the Bay Area, so be sure to tune in and hear them if you can't make the event on campus. But do come if you can. We expect standing room only. And you can expect to hear the truth for once on the Berkeley campus from former PLO terorists who will tell you the truth about Israel and America and why they deserve your support in the War on Terror.
I had dinner last night with Walid Shoebat and Kamal Saleem and they are two articlulate and intelligent men. Tonight's event should be fascinating for those lucky enough to attend. For advance reservations email info@berkeleygop.com or just show up at the door. It will be an evening you don't want to miss. The SJP and MSA on Berkeley's campus will be exposed as the terrorist supporters they are.

WALID SHOEBAT TO SPEAK AT UC BERKELEY OCTOBER 29th

2008-10-10T13:21:00.000-07:00

Ex-PLO terrorists Walid Shoebat and Kamal Saleem will speak to a full house
at UC Berkeley's Wheeler Hall on October 29th at 7:15 PM. Doors open at 6:45 p.m.
Tickets are free at the door but getting advaedced tickets is recommended. For tickets email programs@dafka.org or contact the College Republicans at UCB.
More info later.

GAZA FLOTILLA IN HOT WATER WITH HAMAS

2008-08-24T15:25:00.000-07:00

Due to the pussilanimous attitude of Ehud Barak, the Gaza Flotilla was allowed to proceed to Gaza. But contrary to the ISM's habit of patting itself on the back, Hamas officials were less than thrilled when they found out that Huwaida Arraf and Paul LaRudee spent nearly $500,000 to ferry 40 ISM idiots to Gaza from Cypress for
"humantiarian needs" that consisted of 200 hearing aids that could have been mailed for $200 and--get this--5,000 balloons. Whoopee.

Do you readers realize how many Arab families could have been fed with that $500,000?
Also, since Arraf works primarily with Fatah, she is not considered fully on the Hamas team. Hamas recently murdered nine Fatah members in Gaza by pumping gasoline into their anuses until they died. These are lvoely people the ISM shields for, aren't they? A few weeks ago, I speculated that Riad Hamad who helped raise funding for the flotila was found bound and gagged and drowned in Ladybird Lake near Austin, Texas. I speculated that Hamas killed him for dipping into the funds his organization was raising, including the flotilla funds. Maybe Huwaida and Paul LaRudee can also meet the same fate after Hamas realizes they blew half a million bucks on a Greek isle getaway vacation.

The game is not over yet, though. The Gaza Flotilla has to go home to Cyprus and will need to pass again through Gazan waters. Paul LaRudee has violated Israeli law by entering territory under Israeli control after being banned earlier for links to Hamas. Huwaida Arraf holds an Israeli passport through her father and can be prosecuted. Let's hope the Israeli government (and Barak) wake up and smell the ocffee and practice common sense.

GAZA FLOTILLA: A FREE GREEK VACTION FOR ISM MORONS

2008-08-18T19:31:00.000-07:00

You can never underestimate Norcal ISM leader Paul LaRudee and his assistant, over-the-hill bottled blonde anti-Semite Greta Berlin from Women in Black in Los Angeles. They wanted a dream sailing vaction in the Greek Isles, and what better way to get one than to claim they have a "flotilla" (two rickety chratered sailboats) heading to buck the Israeli Navy and break the naval blockade of Gaza to facilitate the smuggling of more weapons to Hamas.

LaRudee had most of the $210,000 out of a goal of $300,000 in donations sent directly to his home in El Cerrito, California where there's a nice shiny new car in the driveway and he lives like most of his radical-communist-wannabe-revolutionaries-
spolied-brat ISM children could only hope to have. His co-partner in raising money for this trip was just found murdered in Texas. Seems he was dipping into the till. Those Hamas boys don't like it when you steal from them and the FBI might have turned LaRudee's partner toward state's evidence.

You gotta love Greta Berlin's hypocrisy. This woman hates the USA but she named one of the boats "LIberty" after the USS Liberty that was sunk by accident by the Israeli Air Force in a combat zone when it was mistaken for an Egytpian communications spy ship. Now, she's a great American patriot showing the world that Israel really killed the US sailors on board intentionally, and how those big bad Jews should be stopped from controlling the great humanitarians in Hamas.

These two turkeys, in their great humantiarian mission, plan to bring a few hundred hearing aids to the children of Gaza. That's the Gaza Flotilla's big humnaitarian gesture, you see.

So let me see here. They could ship this stuff to the Palestinian Arabs for maybe $200 but need to spend $200,000 + dollars to bring them in via smuggling lanes as an affront to the Israeli Navy. Sure, try and trump up some bullshit humaitarian cause to justify your Greek vacation in the Isles. Will these two seek tax deductions as well for their trips? This remains to be seen.

If you want to see what an anti-Semite Greta Berlin is, go to www.StoptheISM.com and click on Rogues Gallery. Find Greta's profile then scroll to the bottom and see what her stepdaughter says about her hatred for Jews. As for LaRudee, he was already deported from Isael for connections to Hamas. You see, he knows there's no way he will get back in since he tried going under a false identity and has worked for Hizballah later. So, what the hey, why not a pricey Greek vacation at the expense of his revolutionary movement for the Order of the Perpetual Whiners, the Palestinians?

Oh, yeah. We shouldn't forget Hedy Epstein, fake Holocaust survivor. Hedy's parents were anti-Zionist idelogues in Nazi Germany who refused to emigrate to Palestine when they could so sent their teenage daughter before the war to the UK where she never went hungry a day in her life. Her parents, however, perished in the camps in Aushwitz.One wonders if as they died they said to themselves, "Well, we don't care, because we don't believe in a Jewish homeland or Jewish self-determination and we hope our daughter (who was nearly an adult at the time) will carry on for us and aid the Nazi allied Arab governments and their Grand Mufti who aided and encoruaged our extermination." Hedy makes a living now at this anti-Israel, anti-Zionist stuff and as a phony "Holocaust survivor." Ah, anything for a buck in the ISM.....

Also there's what's-her-name Tony Blair's sister-in-law wanna-be Christiane Amanpour-- type journalist. Tony Blair's sister-in-law is another piece of work. Blair doesn't support her trip, but hey, if she can get herself in the news to look like a legitimate reporter, why not? Besides, Arab oil money can always make her look like a real journalist if they finance and pay to print her tripe.

The rest of the assorted losers and Arabs on the voyage aren't worth a cup of warm spit. Meanwhile, a lot of them went into personal debt for this trip (unlike LaRudee and Berlin who got a Greek Isles acation out of it). Nothing like a good shtup on a sailboat under the stars in the Mediterranean rather standing for Tibet for the people in Darfur...

The Hamas recently took some captured Fatah members and pumped gasoline into their anuses until they died. Yup, Hamas is a worthy charity for these ISM creeps. As for people starving in Gaza, it ain't realy true as UNWRA makes sure they are fed. You don't see Gazan children walking aroudn without clothes or shoes or with distended bellies as in Africa. They don't all live rich, just the crooks at the top of the Arab food chain.

It was the ISM with thier constant crap and with the deaths of Rachel Corrie and Tom Hurndall, two useful idiots, who managed to open the Rafah Crossing. What did that net Israel? More missiles and more dead Jews. So why shouldn't they try the same tack to open the sea lanes to Gaza. Think of all the missiles and guns that they can smuggle.

Here's hoping the IDF sinks this flotilla. The comedic version of Ship of Fools.

DID HAMAS KILL RIAD HAMAD?

2008-07-21T23:49:00.000-07:00

For those unfamiliar with the ISM, Palestine Children's Welfare Fund in Texas is one of their affiliates. The charity claims to raise money for Palestinian children, but on its website it used to extoll terrorism and suicide bombers. Paul LaRudee, of Norcal ISM whoI got deported from Israel in 2006 has been working with PCWF collecting money for a chartered boat to try and break IDF naval control of Gaza to facilitate smuggling in more weapons by sea to attack Israel.

Fundraising for this flotilla was being raised through PCWF with LaRudee listed as a fundraising coordinator for the event, funds being sent to Larudee's home address in El Cerrito, CA. The FBI has been looking into PCWF's fundraising, especially since monies raised by PCWF were disburded in Palestinian refugee camps run by UNWRA that is run by Hamas. Riad Hamad as the head of PCWF may have contributed to his own demise by ticking off Hamas leadership.

Hamad sued writers David Horowitz, Daniel Pipes and Joe Kaufman for libel and defamation in a lawsuit where I was also mentioned in a brief. The suit was declared frivolous by the judge and Hamad was forced to pay out over $60,000 in legal expenses and sanctions to the defendants. Hamad, a schoolteacher, probably had to pull that money from PCWF funds that were destined for Hamas via the UNWRA camps.
That plus growing scrutiny by the FBI of PCWF fundraising may have made Hamad a liability for Hamas fundraising in the USA (40% of Hamas fundraising is estimated to be coming from the US and UK illegally). The Gaza flotilla on the PCWF site also contained an invite from a high level Hamas official. The Holy Land Foundation trial, also in Texas where PCWF is based also is looking into Hamas funding through
fake charitable donations to children.

Hamas may have felt that Hamad was about to be exposed by the FBI, or they may have been ticked off at $60,000 lost due to the frivolous lawsuit, or they may have feared Hamad turning state's evidence for the FBI. In any case, Hamad was found drowned in Ladybird Lake in texas. The Austin Police said it was suicide but his hands and feet were bound and he was gagged with masking tape.

The pro-Arab whackos are running around claiming this was a Mossad of FBI hit, but no way. Hamas probably killed Hamad because he knew too much and his flamboyant style was calling attention to his fundraising activities on their behalf. If Hamad pulled the $60K in court sanctions from Hamas destined funding, that too may have been a death warrant for Hamad.

At the same time this is occuring, in the West Bank the IDF has raided numerous Hamas
offices where records of money laundering from the US may have been turning up. Hamas may have feared that Hamad's involvement was about to be exposed.

In any case, GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD RUBBISH.

ADAM SHAPIRO IN ISRAEL UNDER FALSE IDENTITY

2008-06-23T22:25:00.000-07:00

Adam Shapiro, key founder of the ISM is now in Israel under assumed name working to assist terrorist groups. Shapiro, banned from Israel for at least five years, somehow managed to elude the border control, now in the country illegally.

For more information visit www.StoptheISM.com

Shapiro claims he is nonviolent but supports armed resistance against Israel. He has also said he no longer considers himself a Jew, but claims he is one when attacking Israel's existence.

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Barbara Lubin of Middle East Childrens Alliance, the main money launderer for the ISM in the US, through the A.J. Muste Foundation is also in the Judea and Samaria right now working and plotting with her associates in the Dheshieh Camp. Her associate, Dr. Mona al-Farrah, has said all her patients are terrorists in refusing to sign a US State Department agreement not to use USAID funds to aid terrorists.

These are bad people running around in Israel and they probably changed their names to get in.

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WRITE THE IRS CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT ABOUT PAUL LARUDEE'S ISM SUPPORT GROUP HAVING TAX-EXEMPT STATUS TO RAISE MONEY TO AID HAMAS

2008-06-03T20:47:00.000-07:00

For those of you who heard the John Loftus show and the Jim Kirkwood Show on K-TALK.com tonight (June 3rd), please write the IRS Criminal Investigations Unit at the address below and demand they investigate why Paul LaRudee and his ISM Support Group in Northern California were given non-profit tax exemption to raise money that is going to finance a flotilla to help the Hamas by trying to run the IDF Navy blockade of Gaza to help smuggle weapons in for Hamas. LaRudee was deported from Israel for Hamas conenctions and has openly worked to aid Hizballah, all known Foreign Terrorist Organizations. No doubt he lied on his application and he is also violating anti-terror laws in the US by training individuals to go abroad and aid terrorist groups.

Write to:

IRS- EO Classification

4910 DAL

1100 Commerce Street

Dallas TX 75242-1198

Attn: Criminal investigations

I WILL BE ON JOHN LOFTUS'S RADIO SHOW ON JUNE 3, 2008

2008-06-02T23:06:00.000-07:00

I will be on the John Loftus Report on TalkLineCommunications.com radio on June 3, 2008 at 8pm P.S.T.to 9 p.m. Be sure to tune in at the above url to this important show where I will outline how are government has allowed tax violations to occur by pro-terror groups. This show should be an eye-opener. From 9 pm P.S.T. until 10pm I will be appearing on the Jim Kirkwood Show in Salt Lake City, Utah on the same date. You can listen to me on the Web at www.ktalk.com if you click on the Listen Now sunburst in the upper right hand corner of the webpage. You can listen to me any time on www.Jerusalempulseradio.com on my own show, The Islamic Agenda. Please tune in.

To my readers, I'm sorry for delay in commenting here. I intend to start doing so more regularly in the near future.

AL AWDA PETITION GATHERED ONLY 550 SIGNATURES

2008-06-02T23:02:00.000-07:00

How sad that only 550 people signed the petition for Hilton Hotels not to host a Jewish hate fest. Al Awda not only is anti-Semitic, but also praises the killing of our US soldiers in Iraq. Spinelss..spinless..spineless. On a good note, apparently Al Awda's event was not exactly the big to do they intended. Ah, well, theres always next year. Nevertheless,w e are confident that Hilton will think twice before having them back. Anti-Semitic hotelo director Dominic Acolino should be ashamed of himself.

HILTON AL AWDA PETITION GATHERS 250 SIGNATURES FIRST DAY

2008-04-11T19:30:00.000-07:00

The petition created to boycott Hilton Hotels unless they cancel the 6th International Al Awda Conference at Hilton's Embassy Suites Hotel in Garden Grove got off to a smashing start with 250 signatories, many of whom were owners of Hilton Rewards cards. Also learned today, the American Nazi Party website Stormfront has links to Al Awda's website endorsing the Arab organizaton's boycott of Jews and Jewish businesses in the United States, the same Al Awda list and tells readers where to go on teh Al Awda website to support such attacks on Jews in America. Hilton management is aware of all this and still persists in going forward with the Al Awda Jew hate fest. If you haven't signed the petition yet, please do so, and visit the home page of www.StoptheISM.com for more information. The link to the petition is in the article below that also cointains more information.

SIGN THE PETITION TO BOYCOTT HILTON FOR HOSTING THE 6th INTERNATIONAL AL AWDA CONFERENCE

2008-04-09T20:35:00.001-07:00

http://www.petitiononline.com/alawda2/petition.html

It's time to fight these Arab front groups for Hamas and Hizballah in the United States. They only prolong the war in their mantra to destroy Israel. Please send the above link to your lists.

HOW OBAMA'S CHURCH AND PASTOR LINK TO THE ISM

2008-03-31T14:07:00.000-07:00

How Obama’s church and associates link him to the ISM
By Lee Kaplan

Some media pundits have tried suggesting that Barack Obama’s recent speech about his association with Reverend Jeremiah Wright and the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago is comparable to the Gettysburg Address in calling for national “unity.”

But if one parses some key statements by Obama in that speech, one can see how Obama poses more of a threat of creating disunity in America and how he will probably use racism as a vehicle do so.

Some liberal Jewish groups have begun an email campaign trying to persuade American Jews concerned by Jeremiah Wright’s comparison of the black American experience with that of the Palestinians in the Middle East as not being compatible with Barack Obama’s views. Led by Democratic Florida Congressman Robert Wexler (D) Florida, Obama’s Jewish supporters have claimed that after meeting with members of AIPAC, the Israel Lobby, Obama stated that the Palestinians must renounce the right of return, the Catch 22 used by the PLO and its front group, the International Solidarity Movement, that prevents a ny other solution to the Middle East conflict other than the dismantling of Israel as a Jewish state. In addition, the email claims, Obama stated that the missiles fired on Sderot are unacceptable and that Israel should have a right to defend itself. But that same email also contains the tired (and untrue) old leftist platitudes that so many Israelis would not have been murdered by Arab terrorists since Oslo were it not for the Likud Party in Israel that has refused to give away unconditionally Israel’s security in exchange for empty promises from the terrorist warlords in Fatah and Hamas. Both terrorist groups agree in Arabic the only acceptable real end game is the dismantling of the Jewish state, something that is always glossed over by lefties when someone euphemistically talks about “peace.” “Peace” to the Arabs is newspeak for Israel becoming Palestine.

Obama’s statements, were, for the untrained ears of pampered Jewish leftists in the Democratic Party what might be classified as being “so far so good.”

However, without losing a beat, an article has appeared on the ISM affiliated website Electronic Intifada (EI) by one of its co-founders, Ali Abunimah, in which Abumimah recounts his close past working relationship with Obama prior to the presidential campaign and how Abunimah believes Obama is merely giving lip service to the Jewish community to get elected, and that once in office he will work for the Palestinian cause. Abunimah lists himself and is mentioned in subsequent Obama articles in the mainstream press merely as a “Palestinian activist.” Abunimah insists that Obama will “come around” once elected.< /SPAN>

But Ali Abunimah is more than just some “Palestinian activist” based in Chicago, the same location as Reverend Wright and the Trinity United Church of Christ. He is, in fact, one of the founders of the fiercely anti-Semitic ISM Arab group Al Awda, the Palestine Right of Return Coalition. Abunimah is a high level international leader of the ISM for the Arabs who travels extensively between Chicago, Europe and Ramallah.

Al Awda in Arabic means “The Return,” and the group not only calls for the complete destruction of Israel, even denying Israel’s current existence on its website and urging boycotts against not only Israelis, but American Jews and their businesses, but also calls for specifically supporting Arab terrorists in Iraq who kill US soldiers. Among its more than 130 chapters across the US and Canada, Al Awda’s New Jersey chapter is led by a young woman named Charlotte Kates who has called Israeli children killed by suicide bombers “fair game.” The ISM’s Al Awda openly supports terrorism as “legitimate resistance” in ISM revolutionary lingo.

Al Awda’s anti-Semitism has also linked to neo-Nazi groups in promoting the boycott and divestment from Israel on American campuses and in the US business community. It became so virulent that the group was booted by the UC Riverside campus administration from holding an international conference on that campus last year. Ali Abunimah, even today, is featured on the Al Awda website supporting terrorism against Israelis because he considers that “nonviolence is overrated.”

In short, Obama saw no problem being lobbied in the past by someone who openly promotes terrorism and discrimination against Jewish-Americans.

Al Awda is commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe of the creation of Israel) this coming May thanks to the willingness of the management of Hilton Hotels to overlook anti-Semitism in its facilities to make a buck. A new petition is in the works to get Hilton to stop this. Al Awda’s scheduled guest of honor will be a PFLP terrorist member named Khalida Jarrar , and their website recently gave an homage to the late PFLP founder George Habash. Al Awda wants convicted Islamic Jihad financier/terr orist Sami al Arian released, a murderer of over 100 people abroad, some of them Americans, from terrorist attacks.

If Barack Obama didn’t know about Abunimah’s writings (and Abunimah says he did), the same as his claims of being unaware of Reverend Wright’s remarks after 20 years, then Obama is not competent to be our President. Abunimah likes to lie and claim Al Awda has nothing to do with the ISM or Electronic Intifada, though plenty of evidence exists on the website the homepage at www.StoptheISM.com showing the contrary.

But Obama’s association with the ISM through his church and lobbying in Chicago goes even deeper than just his past links to Al Awda and Ali Abunimah. His pastor, Jeremiah Wright, and the Trinity Union Church of Christ in Chicago, are both equally involved with the ISM.

Since 2001, the ISM has been tasked by the PLO and other Arab irredentist groups with getting new generations of American college kids to consider democratic Israel as somehow a violator of human rights, all the while as the Palestinian Arabs who practice open anti-Semitism, honor killings, and the murders of their own people as well as Jews, as commendable practices. At their 2003 national organizing conference at Ohio State, ISM activists set out to deconstruct American narratives about Israel as a democratic state with firm support from secular radical Americans of Jewish ancestry. In one workshop set up to discuss ways to put a good face on suicide bombings, ISM activists spoke of new ways of reinterpreting the Bible so Israel did not belong to the Jews, but to the Palest inians.

In working with the Saudi funded Muslim Students Association in campuses across the US, the ISM has managed to cloud the image among American youth through disinformation and propaganda campaigns against Jews and Israel in order to try and make American students believe Israel is an apartheid state like South Africa was in the 1980’s. At the same time, these same Palestinian groups like Al Awda insist the West Bank and Gaza must be Jew-free. Since this campaign has been largely successful in organizing anti-Israel attitudes on campuses all over America, and since Jewish organizations in America have been slow to react, the ISM moved on to another program to do the same thing only this time alienating US churches, particularly evangelical churches that have a long-term sense of Biblical support for the Jewish state. Thus was born the Sabeel Ecum enical Liberation Theological Society created as part of the ISM to do in US churches what various ISM groups succeeded to do in American colleges.

At the same time, a foothold already existed to a small degree in the American black religious community such as is led by Louis Farrakhan.

The mainstream ISM leadership is made up of Palestinian Christian Arabs who are also communists/anarchists and pan-Arab nationalists first, that hold to the philosophy of the Popular Front for The Liberation of Palestine, the second largest faction of the PLO. Using communist revolutionary practices of “solidarity,” it has been these Palestinian Arab Christian “revolutionaries,” aligned with Jewish- American communists and anarchists, that have been working so well on the campuses in the US and the UK.

Now, it has become the ISM’s time to deconstruct religious dogma of Israel belonging to the Jews as is preached in US churches and to increase the number black churches in America that are working in “solidarity” with this program. Jeremiah Wright’s church is one of them. Even though the national synod of the United Church for Christ rescinded a boycott and divestment plan against Israel, a wing of the UCC church keeps trying to get it reinstated. That wing includes Reverend Wright’s Trinity UCC Church in Chicago. Few people know also, that there are many Muslim members of Reverend Wright’s “Christian” church, a close ally of Sabeel.

Led by a Palestinian Christian pastor named Naim Ateek, Sabeel’s purpose is as part of the ISM to especially convince churches in America that the diminishing Christian population in the West Bank, particularly Bethlehem, is not due to persecution by the Muslim majority in the Palestinian Authority against Christians caused Christian flight, but because of Israel’s Jews and “the occupation.” In order to achieve this, Sabeel practices something called “replacement theology “ which aligns itself closely with the ideas of its Muslim fundamentalist allies.

Replacement theology advanced by the ISM and Sabeel holds that Jesus was not a Jew, but a Palestinian. It also holds that the fulfillment of scripture is not Jews returning to the land of Israel, but Palestinian Arabs taking control of Israel from Jewish oppressors to become Palestine. In replacement theology, Abraham’s son, Isaac, was not to be sacrificed before God, but it was rather Ishmael, the father of the Arab people. This is also the Muslim interpretation of the Torah in the Koran. Yasser Arafat always claimed that Jesus was a Palestinian, not a Jew. Arafat, though a secular Muslim, also saw the value of his allies in the PFLP in recruiting pan-Arab revolutionaries and Arab communists to achieve his goals.

Why should a Christian Arab pastor like Naim Ateek teach such things? He does so because his religious teachings are based more on politics than anything else, and it gives him a power base and funding as a religious leader he could only dream of among the Christian Arab minority population.

Sabeel has been actively working in cooperation with Chicago’s Trinity UCC among certain other politically active churches in America to promote anti-Israel and even anti-Semitic beliefs that can erode American Christian support for Israel and hasten Israel’s destruction. And Pastor Jeremiah Wright, pandering to his majority black congregation, has been teaching his own replacement theology, only this time its called “black replacement theology.” Jesus was not a Jew, says Wright, but a “black man.” Trinity UCC’s relationship with the anti-Semitic Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam (funded by anti-Israel Libya) fits in nicely with this formula also. The Christian religious icon is no longer a Jew, but a black man and to accept this interpretation is the way to salvation for the black man. This not only deconstructs

American church views of the legitimacy of Israel, but has a nice foothold with the likes of the Nation of Islam in the US black community.

In his speech, Obama actually tried to give some credibility to Wright’s speech claiming it portrays the real experience for black Americans without saying what specific parts of Wright’s diatribes he was referring to. By accusing the US of bombing innocent people of color at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, of America infecting black American with AIDS, or of “chickens coming home to roost” for 9/11 (ignoring that plenty of black Americans died in those attacks), were more than just blanket “issues” that Obama called them and said he does not agree with “totally.”

But does this all really link back to Obama? Can’t he still get by, saying that his pastor Wright and church of 20 years, and Ali Abunimah also do not bespeak his personal opinions?

To the contrary, in his speech about Wright, Obama said he does believe such things when he said he cannot disavow them from Reverend Wright or disassociate himself from the demagogical pastor any more than from the black community. He just did it in veiled language. He just spoke about his close family-like relationship with Wright and then suggested Wright speaks to the black experience in America.

Here is the most important parsed line from Obama’s speech (and it’s no Gettysburg Address):

“The man I met more than twenty years ago is a man who helped introduce me to my Christian faith, a man who spoke to me about our obligations to love one another; to care for the sick and lift up the poor.”

So the man who “introduced” Barack Obama to his “Christian faith” also teaches that Jesus was not a Jew, and that the white Jews exploited the “black Palestinians” in the Bible, and who espouses ISM and Sabeel religious terminology among his fellow Christians, particularly blacks, even against the wishes of his own synod.

Jeremiah Wright certainly knows his market.

That is the Christianity of Jeremiah Wright and based on Obama’s speech, the same Christianity that Wright introduced Obama to, and one the presidential candidate still believes and won’t disavow no matter what it costs him.

True, Obama mentioned how Wright taught him to be kind unto others. But according to Wright’s interpretation, that “kindness” has more to do with fighting “white oppression” than urging nonviolence and brotherly love among all races. Wright’s church even praised Hamas in the past, and has always touted it as an Islamic charity organization showing such social kindness despite its charter calling for unyielding murder and expulsion of Jews in the Middle East.

The ISM’s training manual says that international ISM volunteers in the West Bank should not tell people they are human shields for terrorist groups but “peace activists” because it deceives people from their real purpose of attacking Israel any way they can to the benefit of their Palestinian handlers. So, too, does Barack Obama talk about loving one another as taught to him by a pastor who then accuses America of murdering innocent people of color at Hiroshima and Nagasaki over 50 years ago. The American servicemen whose lives were spared back then by ending the war quickly were also black men, Latinos and others who were fighting Japanese racists who murdered Chinese, Filipinos a nd other “inferior” people on a regular basis, who ran experimental death camps for American and British prisoners-of-war, and who were allied with a Nazi Germany that was allied with the same Arab nationalist leadership that is still trying to destroy the Jews today.

“I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community,” said Obama. So then it is clear that Obama believes that Wright’s ideas represent the black community and black experience in America when they represent only the radicalized fringe of black America that wants to aid America’s enemies abroad. It is doubtful many black Americans who served proudly in the US military feel the same as Wright on this issue.

What is more, militant Islamists see a potential to sow internal problems and promote their fascist goals in the US by trying to divide the American black community against the US government. Whereas blacks have been exploited in the past, this is now seen as a way to achieve the goals of expanding the Muslim ummah inside the US from in the Middle East. That is why Libya gives money to Farrakhan and why the ISM and Sabeel work with Reverend Wright whose personal interpretations of Christianity are entrenched in Obama’s mind as the True Word of Christianity. Wri ght actually visited Mohammar Ghaddafi in Libya with Farrakhan in the past.

I attended an AIPAC (Israel lobby) conference two years ago where another black candidate for congress, Barbara Lee (D) Oakland, was in attendance as the representative for Oakland/Berkeley. Ms. Lee sat very respectfully as she was fawned over by a crowd of Jewish Israel supporters and acted as if she was really concerned about Israel. Ms. Lee even smiled at me personally as she left. Meanwhile, she was the only member of Congress who voted against going after Bin Laden after 9/11 in Afghanistan and also supports groups like Hamas, Hizballah and Al Awda in their anti-Semitic goals. Congressman Wexler needs to understand that what Obama says to a meeting of Jews will not translate into what he does o nce he is in office. In that regard, Ali Abunimah of Al Awda is probably right about Obama going to work for the Palestinians once in office Obama’s staffers certainly suggest the same.

The question is if we want a man in the White House who will regularly give his ear to the likes of a Reverend Wright, his and Sabeel’s replacement theologies, and pro-terrorist propagandists like Ali Abunimah on a regular basis? In one sense, Obama could be considered the ISM’s Manchurian candidate.

HILTON SIDES WITH TERRORISTS--AGAIN

2008-03-07T23:17:00.000-08:00

Last year I got Al Awda's international conference kicked off the UC Riverside campus by revealing the blatant anti-Semitism and links to neo-Nazis by the Arab irredentist group. Al Awda went to Embassy Suites in Garden Grove instead. Now they are planning to stage the same event again at the same location with open arms by Embassy Suites manager Dominic Acolino. Al Awda is already mentioning they have invited a PFLP terrorist and others involved with Hamas. Stay tuned for a boycott petition against Hilton coming up.

UC BERKELEY BECOMES SAUDI U

2008-03-07T23:09:00.000-08:00

Why am I not surprised?

A committee of CAL's academic senate has approved UC Berkeley opening a satellite branch of the University in Saudi Arabia. On the same campus that disallows the student store to sell certain clothing or Nike products because they are allegedly produced in sweat shops overseas, sees no problem in giving its name to the medieval feudal kingdom of Saudi Arabia that still practives slavery, misogyny, child abuse, religious intolerance and other human rights violations (not to mention not allowing Jews inside the country).Currently, I'm trying to find out who was on the academic committee because I'll bet it is made up of Arab professors from UC Berkeley's Center for Middle East Studies (also funded by the Saudis).

More on this later, but check out our petition at www.DAFKA.org that requires unviersities in the US to divest from and not accept any money from the Evil Kingdom.

I CAN BE HEARD ON THE LAURIE ROTH SHOW AT THE NORTHEAST INTELLIGENCE NETWORK WEBSITE

2008-02-16T13:40:00.000-08:00

I just completed a two hour interview on the Laurie Roth Show and urge you to tune in. You can listen on he Web by going to www.homelandsecurityus.com and clicking the icon to her show on the left side of the homepage. While you're at it, check out the Club Cruz video that tells the truth about Rachel Corrie that is also featured on the NEIN website.

News is coming out that both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have dispatched foreign affairs advisors to meet with Bashir Assad in Syria. This will have troubling repercussions for Israel as it displays once again the Iraq Study Group's advice to open "diplomatic channels" with Syria and Iran. Given the current field of candidates in both parties, the next presidential election should be a real "hold your nose and vote for who stinks less" proposition. McCain might not be too bad, but his position on health care suggests nothing that will help the average American.
Obama has campaign people with Che Guevara on the wall, and I still can't forgive Hillary for inviting fake rabbi Michael Lerner to the White House and kissing Arafat on the lips. Sigh...what's a voter to do? Look out Israel, they're gonna put you on teh chopping block regardless of who gets in.

At UC Berkeley today they are featuring the Israeli-Palestinian Confederation in a
"debate" about how to make peace in the region. I attended their conference at UCLA a while back and the whole thing is a scam, not a debate, since its speakers are all endorsers of personal injury attorney Josef Avesar's scheme to create a legislature outside of the Israeli and PA governments that's going to elect representatives divided into districts that will serve both Jews and Arabs alike. Avesar never discusses terrorism in his scheme,or the fact the Arab and Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem are intertwined. I wrote about this organization that I think is a scam to get money from Saudi donors as the organizers are asking for $6.5 million to implement a peace plan that cannot work. The sessions usually disintegrate also into the usual "end the occupation" rhetoric by the Arabs and the entire scheme is to dismantle Israel as a Jewish homeland over time. You can read more about the IP Confederation here: www.bruinalumni.com/articles/ipc.html. Of note,one of the guest speakers is fake Rabbi Michael Lerner (who was ordained by a Buddhist Rabbi in Colorado (yeah, right). What fascinated me last time was one of the board members of the IP Confederation was campaign manager for the Greens Party presidential candidate who advocates for the complete dismantling of Israel to create an Arab dominated state called Palestine in its place. Things are not what they seem, folks.

Kudos to SF Voice for Israel for showing up every weekend across the street from the ISM affilaite Women in Black in downtown Oakland. If you ever want to see some dried up sixites commies from Berkeley, you can see the freak show every Saturday. The SF Voice crowd has US and Israeli flags and the WOBs wouldn't be caught dead with a US flag. Well, at least somebodys getting some sun on a Saturday.

Have a great weekend!

A WONDERFUL CHANGE FOR THE BETTER AT UC BERKELEY

2008-02-07T04:34:00.000-08:00

This week UC Berkeley's terrorist supporters on campus are conducting "Israeli Apartheid Week" demonstrations. I was on hand with some community supporters of Israel to witness something amazing:

Nearly one hundred Jewish and non-Jewish students turned out to support Israel as the Israel haters gave their traditional rants against Israel. Sproul Plaza was filled with Jewish students who sang Israeli songs and called for peace who bathed the area in a sea of Israeli flags.

"They (the Israelis) cut off more electricity in Gaza today," wailed from a microphone to her fellow acolytes from the Students for Jsutice in Palestine and assorted Marxist waanbe groups on campus. "Can you imagine not having any electricity," she wailed. Of course, the fact that 2,000 missiles have been fired into schools, day care centers and elsewhere in Sderot were not mentioned. As students walked by on campus, nobody was buying the spiel from the anti-Israel speakers who also declared their undying support for the Iraqis who kill US soldiers.

Resident Berkeley witch Barabara Lubin also spoke in support of America's enemies and in favor of those warm loving Arabs in the PA who handed out candy and flowers after a woman was murdered in Dimona just days ago.

The new Hillel director did not want the Jewish students to counterdemonstrate at all, as usual. But the students had had enough of a campus where anti-Semitism masked as intellectual discussion has become commonplace. Of the students who were just passersby, their receptions of the Jewish students' flyers and materials were clearly better received. Most ignored the anti-Israel activists on Sproul Hall steps and their rants against America and Israel.

But what carried the day was there were actually a number of students, Jews mostly, who for once stood up proudly for Israel and their presence completely muted the attempt to rule the campus today. Maybe there is some hope for Jewish youth in this country on US campuses after all.

ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF HOW THE US CAMPAIGN TO END THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION LIES TO THE PUBLIC

2008-02-01T21:19:00.000-08:00

Last year, Josh Ruebner, a quisling of Jewish ancestry who fronts for the ISM with the US Campaign to End the Israseli Occupation attempted to intimidate one of my publishers by sending him a "cease and desist letter." Among the lies in the letter were that the USCEIO has no affilaition with the ISM and that they are only interested in ending the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, not taking all of Israel for the Arabs. That letter is still posted on the INternet even though it has been proven that everything I wrote about the campaign was absolutely true on their own website. Now the "campaign" is advertising the following on their
homepage at www.endtheoccupation.org/:

"The year 2008 marks the 60th anniversary of the Nakba ("the catastrophe"): the expulsion and dispossession of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes and land in 1948.

The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation is soliciting entries for a commemoration of the Nakba through personal expressions in the form of visual arts, essays, poetry, music, video, and digital media.

Learn more about the competition and how you can participate."

1948 was, of course, when the United Nations created Israel and established it as a state on land that was legally purhased by Jews and mandated by the British government. Ruebner and his pals claimed in their letter the camapign only applies to the "occupation" of the West Bank and Gaza, retaken by Israel in 1967, and that they are not against the existence of a Jewish state, or anti-Israel in any way.

So why is the campaign soliciting donations and art exhibits to commemorate "the catastrophe" on the founding of Israel in 1948? The fact is, the campaign's goals are to destroy Israel.

This same tactic of lying and misrepresentation is a classic ISM revolutionary dogma. Sadly, the Arabs take some disgusting people of Jewish descent who couldn't give a fig about being Jewish or the Jewish people, but consider themselves Marxists and revolutionaries instead, and uses them as stooges to suggest Jews are opposed to a Jewish state. Ruebner and his co-signatories to the letter are, of course, whores to the Arabs the same as Jewish kapos who worked in cooperation with the Nazis in the death camps.

If you are Jewish or a peace activist, understand that these whores who work to support terrorist anti-Semitic groups like the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation try and convince people the opposite of what they are doing as subversives and anti-Semites, and are little more than human garbage, not "human rights workers" (that term also is an obfuscation).

For more information on the campaign's true purpose and how they lie to deceive, go to
http://www.omdurman.org/columns/uscampaign.html and

http://www.omdurman.org/columns/uscampaign1.html

By the way, a co-founder of the ISM is the chosen leader of the USCEIO: Huwaida Arraf.

SETTING THE RACHEL CORRIE STORY STRAIGHT ON YOUTUBE

2008-01-28T17:26:00.000-08:00

If you go to the links below you can view part of the television show I hosted in 2005 about Rachel Corrie and the false accusations she was murdered by the IDF. Photos were doctored by Joseph Smith aka Joseph Carr of the ISM and Christian Peacemaker Teams to add to the lie. Reuters used those photos, then retracted them. We'll have further proof the photos were doctored in upcoming videos.

We will be showing on You Tube several of the Club Cruz Shows where we debunk the lies of ISM activists, many times right in front of them on the show. Keep an eye out for them. Meanwhile, for the truth about Rachel Corrie, visit the links below:

part one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY2ohOsxQIU

part two

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54AvAZkbLgk&feature=related

part three

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_vlJo3g0Ys

Next up: The lies told by Scott Kennedy of Santa Cruz and his Eschaton Foundation, the Parents Circle scam, and more...

ON THE GATHERING STORM RADIO SHOW AGAIN ON FRIDAY JANUARY 17, 2008

2008-01-17T23:10:00.000-08:00

I'll be on the Gathering Storm radio show again this Friday January 18th to discuss Lionheart's situation as well as to dicuss the worldwide jihad. Please tune in. Showtime is 12:30-2:00PM. Just google THE GATERRHING STORM BLOG RADIO for the location on the Web. The show is archived to listen to later.

Listen to my latest show about Malaysia and how it fits into the worldwide jihad against the West on my show The Islamic Agenda on Jerusalem Pulse Radio (www.jerusalempulseradio.com).

If you'd like to help Arthur Samuel who I discuss in that show, feel free to email edwardpastor@googlemail.com who is in the UK and trying to drum up support for Samuel. He is asking people to please mail letters of condemnation to the Malaysian Consulate 550 South Hope Street, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90071. Fax: 213.892.9031

NEWSFLASH FOR JAN.8TH

2008-01-11T11:05:00.001-08:00

STOP THE ISM'S LEE KAPLAN WILL BE ON THE GATHERING STORM RADIO SHOW
JAN. 11th, 2008 FROM 12:30 PM-1:00 PM TO DISCUSS LIONHEART WHO IS BEING THREATENED WITH ARREST IN THE UK FOR "HATE CRIMES" FOR STARTING A BLOG ABOUT MILITANT ISLAMISTS IN THE UK. LIONHEART WAS THE STOP THE ISM VOLUNTEER WHO BROUGHT OUT PHOTOS OF ISM LEADERS WIELDING
AK-47 RIFLES IN THE PRESENCE OF AN AL AKSA MARTYRS BRIGADE TERRORIST.

TUNE IN AT: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/the-gathering-storm AND GOOGLE
THE ISM-TERROR CONNECTION BY LEE KAPLAN FOR MORE INFO. You can listen anytime to podcast in archive.

I'LL BE ON THE GATHERING STORM RADIO SHOW, FRIDAY, JAN 10TH

2008-01-10T19:02:00.000-08:00

On the Internet tune into http://www.blogtalkradio.com/the-gathering-storm and listen to my interview at 12:30 pm west coast time. I'll be discussing Rachel Ehrenfeld's lawsuit problems with Saudi billionaire bin Mahfouz who has been judge shopping in the UK to silence Ehrenfeld's book showing the Saudi family member's involvement in funding terrorism. I will also be discussing Lionheart in the UK, currently under threat of arrest and facing 7 years in jail for "hate crimes"for speaking his mind about militant Islamists in the UK. It should be an interesting and informative show. Has Britian succumbed completely to the worldwide jihad?

George Bush, chief ass-kisser of the Saudi royal family and the UAE has been in Israel this week where he is sending messages that nobody, least of all American Jews, want to take seriously. First, his Secretary fo State, Condi Rice equates Machmoud Abbas with Martin Luther King and she compares the checkpoints to prejudice sustained in the Jim Crow south. I warned American Jews not to vote for Bush back in 2001, that he would ultimately screw Israel and now its all coming true. Bush has been insisting that "Palestine" also be a contiguous state. Everyone thinks he means all of the West Bank, but watch how later he will insist the southern half of Israel be ceded to Palestine along with East Jerusalem. He has one year to fulfill the Saudi dream then reap the rewards of lucrative consultancy contracts from the oil stinky Saudis for the rest of his life. Every day I get emails from Jewish Republicans praising George W. Bush. Well, to be sure Obama and Hillary won't be any better, but in my book if you have someone in power who stinks, you replace him and take your chances. Watch as GWB creates the next Iran in the Middle East.

By the way, if anyone saw Charlie Wilson's War, take note of those scenes of the missiles given to the mujahedeen to "level" the playing field against the Russian attack helicopters and thus win the war. The Bush administration is supplying armored vehicles with anti-aircraft machine guns to Abbas's "police" (read Al Aksa
Martys Brigade terrorists) that will ultimately be used to shoot down Israeli Apaches
to "level" the battlefield for the Arabs. Right now the Apaches target the terrorist leaders, giving Israel a military advantage. This administration in Washington regards Israel as a banana republic that needs to be brought down a peg to fulfill state department goals (and once again get those Saudi consultancy arrangements on retirement). Believe it or not, folks, the Bush admiinstration is at war with Israel
by other means. This also may account for the State Department's protection of the ISM. Huwaida Arraf and Adam Shapiro both worked for the US State Department before the ISM was created and neither Israel nor the US seems inclined to stop the viscious
terrorist support group from its activities on US campuses and in the West Bank.

Time will tell.

The PBS documentary about the history fo Jews in America for unknown reasons has made Tony Kushner a speaker and representative of American Jewry. Kushner is a curious choice as he is anti-Israel and on the Board of Directors of the Arab front group Jewish Voice for Peace. Kushner has claimed Israel was founded in "sin" and actively works for divestment and boycotts against Israel. What sicko chose him to represent Jews in America? Was this in part so he can later claim American Jews do not support a Jewish state? Amy Guttman, the chief bureaucrat at U Penn also was featured. Ms. Guttman caught flack when she was photographed at a university soiree for Halloween with an asshole dressed up as a suicide bomber. Ms. Guttman can be seen laughing and smiling. Maybe thats part of the problem; American Jews who don't really know more about Judaism than ordering a sandwich in a deli and spouting a few Jewish words. Why are Jews in America so stupid? By the way, Kushner's Jewish Voice for Peace is frequently on the WMREA.org website rubbing elbows with organizations like al Awda and even David Duke that want to see Jews dead. WMREA is funded deceptively by Saudi Arabia to look like an impartial website and magazine, but is part of the worldwide jihad against Israel and America.

More later...

LISTEN TO THE ISLAMIC AGENDA ON JERUSALEM PULSE RADIO

2007-12-30T09:13:00.000-08:00

Not sure what you understand about the War on Terror and what's going on in the Israeli/Palestinian dispute? Tune into my new show, The Islamic Agenda at
www.JerusalemPulseRadio.com. I'll give you insight and analysis into the conflict you won't see in mainstream media. Another new show is in the works concerning intelligence matters that will be called the JPR Inside Report. Please tune in.

Christian persecution by Muslims in Bethlehem is at an all time high. At the same time, the PLO and Hamas are now engaing in a major propaganda campaign in US churches to make people think that it is Israeli persecution and the Security Fence that is causing Bethlehem's Christian population to flee. I've written here before about Anna Baltzer of International Womens Peace Service. This one woman kapo team is touring American churches trying to get them to Boycott Israel and aid the terrorist organizations by claiming it's the Jews who are persecuting Bethlehem's Christians and not the Muslim Palestinian Arabs. IWPS, and Christian Peacemaker Teams, both affiliates of the ISM, are anti-Semitic leftist front wings of the Christian church working to attack Israel with the same lies and ferocity as the Muslim Arabs. Ms. Baltzer elicits gasps (and sells books) with tales of Israeli soldiers causing Arab women to miscarry bbabies (but she can't even provide a last name for the victims, relying on Arab hearsay). If you want to do some good, write to the Israeli Foreign Ministry and ask them to deny her reentry into Israel when she finishes her current tour of US churches propagandizing against Israel. If she appears at a church near you, write the pastor and raise your objections. People of Jewish descent like Baltzer are now finding lucrative sinecures as the Jews against a Jewish state. They do not work to create a secular state where Muslims and Jews can live as equals (actually they already do in Israel), but only want people to think they are fighting for equality as they act as Jewish mouthpieces for the Muslim
factions of the PLO. This is Anna Baltzer.

The DIGUSTING PARENTS OF THE YEAR AWARD goes to Cindy and Craig Corrie, the parents of Rachel Corrie. While the ISM and PLO try to play up this miserable girl as a "peace activist," she was in fact a self-avowed anarchist who was busy aiding the Palestinian terrorists by serving as a human shield for them. Only two weeks before she died playing chicken with an IDF bulldozer the size of a two story building, she sent home emails to Cindy Corrie explaining how she helped remove a dead terrorist's body from a weapons smuggling tunnel. That means she had access to those tunnels and obviously was in touch with the weapons smugglers, the same people who killed Israeli children like 4 year-old Afik Zahavi in his day care center.

The Corries are slimballs and should not be immune to criticism because of the death of their revolutionary wannabe daughter. Instead of urging the parents of other children who might be duped into volunteering with the ISM from going to the Middle East to aid terrorist groups, they now tour America for the terrorists' cause. There's money to be made as no doubt they have received money from the PLO. I saw these two slimeballs at a church in Berkeley claim that "Rachel was protecting Palestinian water wells" while in Gaza. You know something? It's bullshit (sometimes a crude word is necessary) and what's more I think the Corries know this. Gaza gets its water from the Israeli Interior Ministry. IDF soldiers do not shoot at "Palestinian municipal water workers" for sport. Rachel was acting as a human shield with other ISMers for Arabs who were working on tunnels to
transport weapons supplies like the Kassem missiles being fired on Sderot in the Negev that killed little Afik. Rachel even wrote home to momma praising the martyrs and mentioning how she brough a dead terrorist's body out of one of the tunnels.
Duh, Cindy Corrie, your daughter was a SLIMEBALL and given your going about promoting the terrorist thugs of the PA like Abbas (who also killed American Leon Klinghoffer and arranged the Munich massacre) shows the apple did not fall far from the tree.

Making money off one's dead daughter isn't half as bad as encouraging other people's children to go risk their lives for Arab terrorists. Stupid people can be excused for being just plain stupid. The Corries aren't stupid, they are slimeballs.

THE UNTOUCHABLE PAUL LARUDEE. For some reason the US government just can't bring itself to put this bastard in jail despite his openly flaunting anti-terrorism provisions and tax laws of the United States. LaRudee in the past has openly trained ISM "volunteers" to act as human shileds for terrorist groups. He boasted about sleeping int he bed of a suicide bomber. I got him arrested and deported as he tried to enter Isael under a fasle identity to meet with Hamas. Once deported, this degenerate went to Lebanon to aid the Hizballah, the same Hizballah that killed 231 US marines in 1983 in a terrorist attack. Now he's back, trying to raise funds for
a flotilla of ships to break the IDF naval blockade of Gaza so Hamas can bring in weapons by sea. Actually, he's not so untouchable as I got him deported from Israel. But why the federal authorities in the US don't put this terrorist-supporting creep in prison is becoming increasingly annoying. More on this creep later when I have time...Thanks for tuning in.

A NEW RADIO SHOW ON JERUSALEM PULSE RADIO

2007-12-04T10:39:00.000-08:00

I have a new radio show on Jerusalem Pulse Radio titled the Islamic Agenda and will alternate it weekly with the JPR Inside Report on intelligence matters. You can listen in here: http://www.jerusalempulseradio.com/show/4 on the Web. I've been a little neglectful with this blog, as I prefer writing on mainstream news websites.
I'm hoping to remedy that with the new radio show and then do follow-ups here on this blog. Feel free to write me here if any of you want a particualr show done as a topic, or have questions you wish to pose to me.

PAUL LARUDEE OF ISM PLANNING TO RUN ISRAELI CONTROL OF GAZAN WATERS FOR HAMAS

2007-12-03T14:50:00.000-08:00

A year ago from last June I got Paul LaRudee of Norcal ISM caught as he tried to enter Israel under a false identity to aid Hamas. He was ultimately deported by the Israelis but then went to Lebanon where he worked to aid Hizballah in last summer's
war. Now LaRudee is working to build a flotilla to sail from Cyprus in the Mediterranean to the shores off Gaza to break the Israeli naval blockade to prevent the shipment of weapons to Hamas by sea. Anyone who follows the newswires knows that after Israel did a complete withdrawal from Gaza, the Jewish state has been pounded daily by Kassem rockets aimed at schools and other community centers. LaRudee's friend in the ISM helped facilitate these weapons transfers through the Philadelphi corridor in Rafah and are now trying to open up the sea lanes.

A campaign to stop this action needs to take place and soon. LaRudee has been lying and saying the Department of Justice told him it was not illegal to aid Hamas the way he is doing it, however, it is illegal to aid Hamas. Hamas is the govcernment in Gaza and the US Treasury Department has classified priovate citiznes working with the Hamas in Gaza as engaing in illegal activity.

In the coming days I will inform my readers about how to put a stop to this flotilla by Mr. LaRudee, who should ahve been jailed in the United States long ago. Paul LaRudee once boasted I could not keep him out of Israel as he went there to aid terrorists and he even boasted about sleeping in the bed of a suicide bomber. Well, I showed him I could. Now, it is up to all of us to have this man jailed for aid and support to terrorists overseas for this attempted flotilla. Come back to this blog in the next few days for advice and how to pursue a course of action.

LEE KAPLAN ON TOVIA SINGER TONIGHT

2007-10-30T18:31:00.000-07:00

Lee Kaplan will be on the Tovia Singer Show tonight as a new spokesman for www.israel-academia-monitor.com. Please tune into the show at www.toviasingershow.com. Broadcast time is 9:15 pm California time, or the show will be archived all week long on Israel National News radio at www.israelnationalnews.com. Tune in for this important show.

THE OTHER EVENT DURING ISLAMO-FASCISM AWARENESS WEEK AT UC BERKELEY

2007-10-24T17:40:00.000-07:00

UC Berkeley sinks to a new low: Leila Khaled
By Lee Kaplan

A day after Nonie Darwish spoke amidst constant interruptions and jeers at UC Berkeley about the subjugation of women in the Arab-Muslim world for the start of Islamo-fascism Awareness Week, another event was presented on the San Francicsco Bay Area campus the very next day that received no critical attention from the mainstream media.

The following announcement was put out with the cooperation of the University of California, a taxpayer-supported state institution:

Women, Resistance, and Political Participation
Film Screening of Leila Khaled: Hijacker and Panel Discussion
Tuesday, October 23, 7pm
10 Evens Hall, UC Berkeley

Sunbula: Arab Feminists for Change invites you to a film screening of Leila Khaled: Hijacker by Lina Makboul. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion of women, resistance, and political participation in the context of liberation struggles. The panel will include Professor Nada Elia, Katrina Socco, Bay Area Coordinator of the Gabriela Network and Lena Meari. Sunbula is a Bay Area grassroots organization of radical Arab feminists working for equality, social change and gender justice. Affirming the diverse experiences of Arab and Arab-American women, the members of Sunbula seek to dismantle all forms of oppression by promoting awareness of women's issues. Visit www.sunbulawomen.org.

Co-presented with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of California,
Berkeley, and the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC).

Who is Leila Khaled?

In September, 1970, Leila Khaled, a member of the “Che Guevara Commando Unit” of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine took part in hijacking four commercial airliners over Europe (ever wonder where Osama bin Laden may have gotten his ideas for planning multiple airline hijackings on 9/11?).

Khaled had actually been involved in another hijacking just a year earlier of an airplane on a flight from Rome to Athens that was supposed to have then Israeli Ambassador to the US Yitzhak Rabin on board, but when it was learned the future Israeli Prime Minister was not on the aircraft, it was flown to Damascus and blown up while Khaled was allowed to go free. Only a year later she would repeat her tactics.

Already dubbed the “first woman terrorist hijacker,” Khaled and her team then hijacked a TWA Boeing 747 from Frankfurt that was bound for New York, a Swissair Douglas DC-8 departing from Zurich, a Pan Am Boeing 747, and an El Al Boeing 707 all at the same time. Khaled was on board and in charge of the El Al flight hijacking that just left Amsterdam when an Israeli security agent shot and killed her American co-hijacker, Patrick Arguello, and retook control of the airplane. Kahled, who was armed with pistols and a hand grenade, was also wounded. The plane was forced to land at Heathrow Airport where Khaled was arrested by British authorities. As she was taken off the airplane on a stretcher she screamed, “Palestine! Palestine!”

The PFLP sent an ultimatum to the United Kingdom, West Germany and Switzerland to release all Palestinian and Baader-Meinhoff gang prisoners held for terrorism in Europe. 251 men, women and children, many of them Americans, were then held hostage in Amman by the PFLP. After six days, the PFLP got a notice that the terrorists were released, including Khaled, but in despite of that, the passengers still remaining on the aircraft were evacuated to Amman and the 3 aircraft were blown up. Fortunately, none of the passengers died.

Khaled has been a revolutionary superstar amongst the Palestinians and communist revolutionaries ever since then. She allegedly is under “house arrest” in Jordan, but speaks frequently in support of terrorist activities and is still a member of the Palestine National Council.

The organizers of the event at UC Berkeley, Sunbula, a.k.a. Arab Feminists for Change, list as their mission statement that it is an “organization of radical Arab feminists working for equality, social change and gender justice. Affirming the diverse experiences of Arab and Arab-American women, the members of Sunbula seek to dismantle all forms of oppression by promoting awareness of women's issues.” The film and panel event about Khaled on the Cal campus was not to condemn what she did in any way, but to laud it as an achievement by an Arab woman who could show she could be just as much a terrorist as any man.

The key panelist was Nada Elia, a member of the (National Women’s Studies Association) and professor at Antioch University in Washington State. She is co-founder of RAWAN (the Radical Arab Women’s Activist Network) and did her undergraduate work at Beirut University College, then earned her M.A. at the American University of Beirut and a Ph.D in Comparative Literature at Purdue. RAWAN claims it is a “peace” group but calls for the eradication of Israel “from the river to the sea” and declares American military actions after the attacks on 9/11 as without justification.

One of her co-panelists is Katrina Socco of the Gabriela Network (Grabnet) , a Marixst Filipina organization that affiliates with International Answer and United For Peace and Justice (US Communist Party). Some of Grabnet’s members are on a terrorism watch list used by the Phillipine government for potential links to al Qaeda (The Phillipines are currently battling Abu Sayyaf, a wing of al Qaeda and Grabnet calls for the withdrawal of US forces in the Phillipines fighting Abu Sayyaf). Lean Meari, an anthropology PhD candidate from UC Davis who writes about suppression of Palestinian women, rounds out the panel. All three panelists only support women’s rights in terms of how they can be applied to making revolution.

Students of history know that The Muslim Brotherhood that metastasized into al Qaeda began on the University campuses of Egypt and the Middle East. Hamas , the Muslim Brotherhood in the Holy Land, grew on the university and college campuses built by the Israelis for the Palestinian population in the West Bank and Gaza. Now California taxpayers are funding an event and allowing space to what is in fact an ally of al Qaeda and other Islamic terrorist groups at one of our major universities.

For UC Berkeley to have hosted an event praising a terrorist because she is an example of the capabilities of any woman to “make revolution” every bit as good as a man is disgraceful. The Khaled event needs to be seen for what it was: little more than a propaganda screed in praise of “resistance” and in support of terrorism against America, Israel and the West. At the same time, the Cal administration giving a pass to the disruption and threats against another Arab woman, Nonie Darwish, who spoke out against persecution of Arab women in the Middle East and against terrorism should give the California taxpayers pause as to where their tax dollars are going in what is supposed to be support of higher education.