Open Letter: ATFP President Asali

This blog has occasionally covered the American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP) mostly because ATFP Senior Fellow Hussein Ibish likes to fling accusations of anti-Semitism at anti-Zionists.

Because I just noticed that ATFP President Ziad Asali recently endorsed a book by Zionist subversive and fanatic Jewish racist Ziad Asali, I sent him the following letter.

Dear Dr. Asali,

I am aghast that you would endorse a book by Matthew Levitt.

In From Epistemic to Bureaucratic Islamophobia, I pointed out:

Although Ehrenfeld is a clown that has made a career of scaremongering and defaming Arabs and Muslims, Congress continues to take her testimony as if she has actually has information of value. In contrast, the efforts of Neocon Zionist Matthew Levitt in the Bush administration have been far more dangerous and insidious. He served President Bush as Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis. He developed a logically specious formalism, which is described in detail in his book entitled Hamas, Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad. Levitt worked hard to indoctrinate Treasury and Justice Department officials with the idea that practically any Muslim charitable giving can be equated to material aid to terrorism because nothing is more fungible than money, and his text has been an important Zionist tool to demonize Islamic finance or charity just as Raphael Patai's book The Arab Mind served Zionists as means to spread a false understanding of Arab culture or society.

Levitt worked closely with Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Stuart Levey, who has been retained by the Obama administration to the delight of Zionists inside and outside of government and who has received many accolades from the AJCommittee. By background, Levey is a lawyer specializing in the defense of white collar financial criminals. Thus he knows a tremendous amount about framing accusations of financial crime in the strongest way possible. Levey has slavishly implemented Levitt's program by adding Muslim charity after Muslim charity to the list of officially designated terrorist organizations. Yet despite the extraordinary history of Israeli military terrorism, he failed to add the IDF and charities or individuals giving to the IDF to the list of officially designated terrorist organizations even though the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has been added to the list without any comparable history of terrorism.

Matthew Levitt was instrumental in obtaining a conviction of good decent, patriotic Arab and Muslim US citizens in a political prosecution that undermined the US legal system: [khaleej times] us charities paying for sending aid to Palestinians.

You don't have to take my word that Levitt's politics and thinking are problematic. Read the review of Levitt's book by Harvard Senior Research Scholar Sarah Roy: BOOK REVIEW.

Sincerely yours,

Joachim Martillo
President
Ethnic Ashkenazim Against Zionist Israel

Here is a recent appearance of Dr. Asali on the BBC.

Responsible Arab and Muslim American leaders need to show some awareness that American Judaism is a major vector of Arabophobia and Islamophobia.

Not only are subversive Zionists like Matthew Levitt desperate to make sure that Israel and its supporters will be able to continue to parasitize the USA, but as extremist Jewish racists they are the enemies of every single Arab and Muslim American citizen as well as every single Arab and Muslim in the world.

Here is an example of modern American synagogue Islamophobia. (Item 6 below is a doozy. Item 4 is historical delusion. See Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews by Albert S. Lindemann.)

"Saving Israel" Expert says American Jews key to Israel's survival

By Fredric Leder
Published: Thursday, December 10, 2009 12:45 PM EST

WESTPORT - A standing-room only crowd of close to 300 people filled the small sanctuary at The Conservative Synagogue in Westport on Sunday, Dec. 6 to hear Dr. Daniel Gordis, senior vice president of the Jerusalem-based research and educational institute, The Shalem Center, discuss the future of Israel, Zionism and the U.S.-Israel alliance. The author of "Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win A War That May Never End" delivered a message that was a mixture of hope and warning; a message that stressed the key role of American Jewry in ensuring the survival of the Jewish state.

Here are some of Gordis' key points:

1. Israel has survived all conventional military attacks and frustrated their aims, and Israel has reduced terrorism to a minor threat.

2. There is one potent attack by the Arabs against Israel that is capable of succeeding and against which Israel has no defense:. That is the direct assault that Israel is now under by the Arabs via appeals to the world community. This coordinated effort aims to delegitimize the Jewish state and cause it to be treated as an international pariah, whose products and scholars will be boycotted and ostracized from the international community.

3. In order to survive this new attack American Jews must fight it in the halls of Congress and on the American campuses. This means getting involved with organizations willing to present Jewish arguments, e.g. the American Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC).

4. If Israel were to be destroyed, American Jewry would be reduced to the bleak existence they experienced years ago in Poland or Russia.

5. Israel cannot accept a nuclear-armed Iran because the basic Zionist ethic was to relieve Jews of existential threats. The Iranian threat could easily have been stopped by Presidents Bush or Obama, via bombings by the United States Air Force. Since, clearly, this didn't and won't happen, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) will have to do it. [Gordis noted that his prediction was not based on any special inside information, but on his own analysis of the situation.] In the event of such an attack, it is likely that Hezbollah, Hamas and Iran would retaliate with massive rocket assaults on the Jewish state.

6. We are at war with Islam and any denials to the contrary may be politically correct, but are wholly inaccurate. Of course, there are Muslims who are not Jihadists, but they represent a small percentage and are irrelevant. Militant Islam is succeeding in Europe, the Middle East and is coming to America.

Fred Leder is a retired oil company executive living in Westport who writes periodically for the Ledger.

I don't know much about the Westport Connecticut synagogue, which seems to be far more focused on Israel than on God, but I have attended presentations of this sort of Islamophobic nonsense in Newton Massachusetts at Temple Emanuel, to which several local billionaire Jewish Zionists belong. (See Report on Robert Spencer and the Boston Anti-Islamic Controversy. Spencer is closely associated with racist Jewish Islamophobe David Horowitz.)

American Jewish synagogues and community centers are the main disseminators of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab racism in the USA today.

[Why is Ahavath Torah Synagogue Inviting Wafa Sultan? provides another example of synagogue Islamophobia from the Boston area.]

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