Kate Frazer wrote:
Hello Joachim,
I no longer do consulting for political writing.
Also, I googled your name and found that you are the author of a blog with all kinds of misinformation about me and my so called involvement with the David Project. I did what was no more than a summary of articles for them five or so years ago as a freelancer - a far cry from the "conspiracy" you say I was part of ! I do not appreciate being attacked in such a way or to have personal information about me posted.
I pretty much only write about the environment now because that is the issue closest to my heart. It really saddens me that extremists on both sides of Israeli/Arab issues derail all hope of progress - so much that I pretty much want nothing to do with writing in that arena anymore. It also saddens me that people would post utterly false information about others without checking the facts.
Please take the content referencing my name and my personal information down from your blog. Is the whole ISB vs. David Project stuff even going on anymore? Frankly, I don't know and could care less. I helped the DP summarize some newspaper articles years ago - who knew it would be blown so far out of proportion! I want nothing to do with any of it - please respect this request to remove the content from your site. If you have questions, I am happy to give you honest answers after you remove the untruths.
Sincerely,
Kate
On 3/8/08 3:43 AM, Joachim Martillo wrote:
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Kate,
I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. I may need a consultant for some political writing in the near future.
-Joachim
While Frazer's full profile no longer references the Israeli Consulate, the (Israeli) public entity that employed her certainly cannot be the David Project, which is a relatively small Boston outfit. There is no evidence that Frazer ever worked on Jacobs' dime. If she were contracting at the Consulate, and the Consulate lent her to one of Jacobs' racist projects, she would still be a member of the conspiracy albeit on a "work for hire" basis.
When the ayatollah posthumously induced the original publisher of the book to cancel the contract (on which, see the Appendix), I depended heavily on Floyd Abrams, Steve Emerson, Paula Roberts, and Judith Shapiro for counsel.
The Committee makes no attempt to relate Shanker's allegations to two of its own findings: first, that those testifying before the Committee agreed that I conducted my class in an inclusive manner, both in terms of allowing everyone to ask questions and that I set no limitations on the questions that could be asked. How then was the allegation that I sought to exclude, whether directly or through a heated exchange, a student who disagreed with me found credible? And, second, that I and my class were already the target of an organized attempt at espionage and intimidation when Shanker claimed to recover her memory suddenly because of hearsay by another student interviewed in "Columbia Unbecoming." Let me move now to the report's attempt to establish facts. The report never claims that it established Shanker's claim as true beyond a reasonable doubt, rather that it found it "credible." What this suggests is that at best the evidence was not persuasive enough to establish the claim as a solid incontrovertible fact but rather as "credible." Still, the report never explains the basis on which the committee found Shanker's claim and her witnesses more "credible" than my denial and that of my witnesses. Floyd Abrams, the advisor to the committee, responded to my public query by telling the Chronicle of Higher Education "That's what juries do all the time."10 Mr. Abrams seems to elide the fact that the ad hoc committee is not a court and that unlike the ad hoc committee, a real court and a real jury listen to real testimony, not from volunteers, but from all who were determined to be present when an incident occurred, and that the witnesses are subjected to cross-examination. These important elements, which escaped the attention of our esteemed lawyer, did not apply to the Ad Hoc Grievance Committee, as it is not a court of law, evidenced by its failure to accord me due process. Indeed, the committee's conclusion of the credibility of Shanker's claim stands undefended by facts, logic, or argumentation, all of which are absent in relation to this finding.