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American Zionist Leaders Become Radioactive
by Joachim Martillo (ThorsProvoni@aol.com)
On July 29th the David Project announced the departure of founder Charles Jacobs from the organization. (See The David Project Announces Change in Leadership [Press Release] and Charles Jacobs to depart from The David Project [Boston Jewish Advocate].) Tactically, a change of leaders makes sense for the organization because Jacobs in the minds of many leading Jews and non-Jews had become radioactive as fanatic supreme at a Jewish hate group despite the continued support of a very wealthy segment of the Jewish community for his various campaigns.
New leadership at the David Project may be a sign of a new strategy under development by US Israel advocacy organizations and by the State of Israel itself.
The Israeli government has long attempted to maintain direct control of international perceptions of the nature of Zionist movement, of the ethnic cleansing of most of Palestine in 1947-8 and of the brutality of occupation after the 1967 War.
The State of Israel has tried to escape its obligations under international law by claiming that it is no longer an occupying power both in areas of Occupied Territories controlled in theory by the PA and also in Gaza from which Israeli settlements have been removed.
Israeli government spokesmen and professional American Israeli advocates try to foist responsibility onto the international community or onto Arab and Muslim nations. (See Bashir's Willing Accomplices.) Generally outside the USA no one takes such Zionist claims seriously, and even in the USA many Americans are beginning to realize the magnitude of Israeli government lies.
In the USA Israel advocates have generally resorted to direct confrontation tactics in attempts to prevent academics from obtaining tenure when they like Norman Finkelstein, Nadia Abu el Haj, Joseph Massad, Rashid Khalidi, Juan Cole and many others diverge from or disagree with Zionist orthodoxy..
Because Zionists are in panic that Arab and Muslim Americans are beginning to participate fully in the public discussion of American Middle East policy, organizations like the David Project, StandWithUS, StopTheMadrassa, etc. use scare-mongering to demonize and to marginalize Arab or Muslim American citizens or conspire criminally to deny them their constitutional rights as US citizens.
These tactics have lately brought diminishing return on effort invested because they tend to create internal conflict within the American Jewish community while many non-Jews have developed increasing scorn for Jewish-Zionist attempts at thought-control. In the case of the David Project's attack on the Islamic Society of Boston, the ISB found friends it never knew it had while the David Project stoked animosity that had been ignited by the Newton Jew effort to stop the Somerville Divestment Project.
The outing of Neoconservatives as a Jewish special interest group that has harmed the USA for the sake of the State of Israel has created tremendous skepticism of other obviously Jewish Zionist disinformation campaigns like Save Darfur or the ongoing incitement for an attack on Iran.
In this new political climate of impatience with Jewish Zionist manipulation, Israel Advocacy groups and individuals are using indirection as an evolved form of Fabian tactics.
Because the David Project provoked such anger among Christian interfaith organizations, it seems to have abandoned all direct confrontation with Palestinian-sympathetic churches.
Nowadays, Sister Ruth Lautt and her organization Christians for Fair Witness is almost certainly being funded directly or indirectly by The David Project or its main contributors. On Religion - Lawyer-Turned-Nun Rises to Israel's Defense .... indicates all sorts of interesting connections, and the placement of such an article in the NY Times may be an indication of the hand of David Project agent provocateur Rachel Fish.*
The Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Christians for Fair Witness contain two important David Project operatives, whose association with Charles Jacobs is omitted from their biographies on Christians for Fair Witness web site:*
Dr. Dennis Hale, Secretary /Treasurer
Prof. Hale is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston College. He is a Lay Eucharistic Minister at Grace Episcopal Church in Medford, Massachusetts where he previously served as Vestryman and Treasurer. He is also a founding member and director of the Episcopal Jewish Alliance for Israel.
Mr. Dexter Van Zile
Mr. Van Zile is a layman in the United Church of Christ. He is Christian Media Analyst for the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA). He received his M.A. in Political Science/Environmental Studies from Western Washington University and his B.A. in Politics and Government from the University of Puget Sound. In the 1980s, he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Zaire, now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
The rising political cost of the Khalil Gibran International Academy conflict from the standpoint of the mayor and of the NY Board of Education led to the termination of Debbie Almontaser with subsequent civil court battle between Almontaser and the City of New York instead of the criminal prosecution of the leaders of the StopTheMadrassa for Conspiracy Against Rights.
By scaring the University of Michigan Press from continued distribution of Pluto Press books, the conflict over Joel Kovel's book Overcoming Zionism no longer appears as an attempt by StandWithUs and wealthy Zionist donors to the University of Michigan to squash free thought or expression. Instead Pluto Press must find a new American distributor while Pluto Press authors no longer have direct access to the American market.
The direct attack on Nadia Abu el Haj failed miserably while the David Project's foray into film making via Unbecoming Columbia has not only fallen short of derailing Joseph Massad's application for tenure at Columbia but also focused more attention on the David Project and a New York Jew conspiracy against free expression than it did on Arab and Muslim professors at that university.
The latest salvo against Massad and other non-Zionist professors is more subtle. Zionist organizations neither need to fight tenure battles nor stifle academic publications if professional journals begin to fear that every time an article from an Arab or Muslim American scholar appears in an issue the publisher will have to cough up $75,000 or more to settle a libel suit. (See Neutrals, Caught in the Crossfire.)
Scholars that can't publish won't receive tenure.
The drama of the Gaza Fulbright scholars shows the effectiveness of indirection as a means to achieve Zionist or Israeli government political goals.
As part of a strategy to strangle the Hamas government, the Israeli government imposed a siege that included denying Gaza students access to foreign academic institutions. Condeleeza Rice objected, and all but three Gaza Fulbright scholars were given leave to exit Gaza.
I pointed out to various senior American academic leaders that they would be hypocritical in continuing to oppose a boycott of Israeli academic institutions while Israel prevented Palestinian students from taking part in international scholarship. Shortly afterwards, the remaining three Fulbright scholars received permission to depart for the US, but then the Israeli government made new information available to the US State Department, which then canceled the visas of the three Fulbright scholars and also a high school student.
No longer was the Israeli government denying the students access to US academic institutions, for the US state department was doing Zionist dirty work.
Frequently, the US government officials act not as public servants but as agents of Israel advocacy, of the Organized Jewish Community (OJC) or of the Israeli government. The Office of Special Investigations represents the most egregious example, for it hunts down old men, who at 15 or 16 were janitors at German concentration camps during WW2 but ignores someone like Rahm Emanuel's father, who by law should be deported to the Hague, where he can be tried before the International Criminal Court for ethnic cleansing and genocide during the 1947-8 Zionist theft of western Palestine from the native population.
Developing reflexive Zionist behavior in US government officials has been a long term project of Judonia. The Harvard Wexner Israel Fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government is one element of the project. It brings middle level Israeli bureaucrats together with middle level US government officials so that US government employees can be enmeshed in the Zionist point of view.
The effects of Zionist enmeshment at this point are quite striking. US laws and regulations from the tax code, the SEC, and the FEC are almost never applied to Jewish or Zionist groups while the OSI never pursues Jews and the State of Israel rarely fulfils treaty obligations or requirements as a recipient of US aid.
Not only has subversion of the US government reached such a level under President Bush that a strategy of remote indirect manipulation of the political, economic and legal system may be successful at least temporarily in controlling political debate about the Middle East within the US government, but Jewish Zionist organizations no longer involved in direct confrontations over university professors, divestment, scholarly articles, books, or Palestinians students will probably focus on illegitimating Arab and Muslim American defense organizations as representing un-American special interests.
Note
* NY Times author Samuel G. Freedman is almost certainly a Zionist facilitator/gatekeeper and either lies or conveniently fails to fact-check when he writes:
In the rancorous and relentless debate on the Middle East conflict, Sister Ruth stands as a sui generis player. She has little contact with Jewish advocacy groups, none with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby. She disassociates herself from Christian Zionists of the theological and political right. Even while defending Israel's defensive measures, including the separation barrier, she openly criticizes its occupation of the West Bank and laments Palestinian suffering.
Ruth Lautt's lament for Palestinian suffering wholly blames Palestinians for their situation according to the liberal Zionist "compelling necessity" script, i.e, "If only the barbarism of Palestinians did not force the noble Israelis to take punitive action."
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