[Tikun Olam-תקון עולם] ANTI-GOLDSTONE CAMPAIGN CREATES FAKE NGOS, HUMAN RIGHTS WEBSITE

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Cartoon Summarizes Zionist Christmas Wishes contains a whole list of blog entries describing the Aish haTorah/HonestReporting/Clarion Fund/Obsession imbroglio that Richard references.

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ANTI-GOLDSTONE CAMPAIGN CREATES FAKE NGOS, HUMAN RIGHTS WEBSITE

October 22nd, 2009

Just after the Goldstone Report was released the Israeli foreign ministry began an online ad campaign offering the “facts” about Operation Cast Lead. Clearly, someone feels this campaign was too straightforward and perhaps ineffective. Now a new online ad campaign has been created by a hazy group of right-wing pro-Israel sources. The ad, discovered by reader John Dickerson to be running at at least one progressive website, Antiwar Newswire, features a link to UN Goldstone Gaza Report. This is a fairly straightforward hasbara site offering media analysis and Israeli government rebuttals of the Report.

But there are several other interesting aspects of the site. First, nowhere does it identify the specific organization behind this effort. It does credit the Richard and Rochelle Maize Foundationfor financial support. The Maizes are wealthy Los Angeles Jews with real estate interests whose foundation supports mainly white bread Israeli projects like the Maccabiah. This page on their site under the “human rights” section describes their visceral distaste for Goldstone. They link to the hasbara site I mentioned above plus a second site, the Association for Human Rights in Israel.

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