Followup: Subjugating American Muslims to Israel

And Connection to Columbia Unbecoming

by Joachim Martillo (ThorsProvoni@aol.com)

 

Kate Frazer was the Political Affairs Officer at the Israeli Consulate when Charles Jacobs and the David Project led a conspiracy against the rights of American Muslims to assemble freely to practice their religion. (See Subjugating American Muslims to Israel.) On July 5th she replied to a LinkedIn message I sent her when I was investigating David Project activities.

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

 

Frazer's connection with the David Project, with the Israeli Consulate and with the conspiracy appears to have become a sensitive issue for her.

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.

Her email to the David Project was sent from the Israeli Consulate Political Affairs Account during working hours on Sept. 24, 2004 and is critical evidence of racist Jewish Zionist activity against Muslims, and I certainly won't take it down off the web.

 

I have to assume the Boston Israeli Consulates's Guide to Speakers on Israel 2004-2005 correctly identified her as Political Affairs Officer at the Consulate General of Israel to New England.

 

While Frazer's involvement in Zionist misdeeds seems minor, American Jewish Zionist intelligentsia and the Israeli government have been putting the basic framework both to normalize Islamophobia and also to marginalize Arab and Muslim Americans in place for a long time.

 

In his Acknowledgements section (September 1989) to The Rushdie Affair, Daniel Pipes, who comes from the same extremist Zionist Newton Jew subcommunity as Charles Jacobs, references Floyd Abrams and Steve Emerson:

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.

Steve Emerson (mentioned in Frazer's email) and Floyd Abrams played important roles in the David Project's anti-Muslim activities. The publisher was Basic Books and was owned by Rupert Murdoch, who suddenly found obtaining business loans and locating co-investors for his media ventures much easier once he changed his approach to Muslim and Arab issues.

 

In his April 4, 2005 Response to Ad Hoc Grievance Committee Report, Joseph Massad describes Floyd Abrams' approach to the accusations made by the David Project in the movie Columbia Unbecoming.

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.

Abrams has effectively been an unofficial collaborator in Zionist anti-Muslim anti-Arab activities that go back almost 18 years and certainly should not have been on the Ad Hoc Committee because of his close association with people connected with the David Project or Charles Jacobs.

 

The Zionist program to subjugate American Muslims and Arabs to Israel (really to Judonia) has been in effect a long time with many covert participants.

 

 

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Removing an Islamophobe's soapbox

Boston Muslims Forgive Israel Advocates
Karin Friedemann
karima4483@aol.com

Many celebrated the construction of New England's largest mosque as proof of "the Muslim community coming into its own." Yet not everyone celebrated. In 2004, the City of Boston was sued for selling the land to Muslims. Racist commentators whipped up public hysteria against the mosque.

"Muslims are very upset," said Mushtaque Mirza, who has lived in Boston for 30 years. "The mosque is always depicted as [supporting] terrorism."

 

The lawsuit against the City was dismissed in 2007, but irreparable damage had already been done. Donations slowed to a trickle, the mosque only half built.

 

When in 2005, mosque directors Dr. Yousef Abou Allaban and Ossama Kandil sued Fox News and the Boston Herald for defamation, analysis of discovery materials exposed a professionally coordinated network of pro-Israel organizations, mass media, Islamophobic academics, and real estate developers. The directors accused a growing list of defendants, including Steven Emerson, the David Project, and Citizens for Peace and Tolerance (CPT), whose president is Dennis Hale, of "a concerted, well-coordinated effort to deprive ... members of the Boston Muslim community of their basic right of free association and the free exercise of their religion."

 

The Jewish community

 

Some Jewish groups kindly distanced themselves from this conspiracy to deprive Muslim Americans of their constitutional rights, which is a federal crime, but Nancy Kaufman, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston, whose stated mission includes minimizing the political influence of groups feared hostile to Israel, stated, "None of those organizations [who signed statements supporting the mosque] are members of the organizations of the JCRC. We don't consider them to be a part of the mainstream Jewish community."

 

Who is Charles Jacobs?

 

In 2006,  Dr. Yousef Abou-Allaban, chairman of the board of the Islamic Society of Boston, addressed Charles Jacobs, president of the David Project, in an open letter that was quoted in the Boston Globe.

 

"We would like to know why you and others at the David Project appear to be so intent on inflaming relations between our communities," Abou-Allaban wrote. "Do you really hate us that much?"

 

Charles Jacobs, like Charles Krauthammer and Richard Perle, earns his living through a speakers' bureau called Benador Associates, which specializes in pro-Israel campus events focusing on Islam and terrorism. Fareeha Iqbal, a student at MIT, attended one of his lectures.

"Dr. Jacobs' talk expressed blatantly racist and anti-Islamic views. In fact, I have never seen Islamophobia exuded so blatantly at a public forum at MIT, nor such racist views aired at a panel discussion on human rights."

 

A pioneer in the technological aspects of mass-marketing hate, CAMERA, which Jacobs co-founded in 1982 to enforce pro-Israel bias in the news, email blasts tailored "action alerts" to huge databases of specific target groups.

 

This Polish immigrant, armed with only a BA from Rutgers and a Masters in Education from Harvard has proven exceptionally effective in manipulating the US government and major American institutions into following policy blueprints created by his Israel advocacy organization, the David Project.

 

The David Project

 

The David Project is an affiliate member of the Israel on Campus Coalition (ICC), a network of national Jewish organizations, founded in partnership with the Jewish student organization Hillel and the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation. (The three organizations share a building in Washington.) It is essentially an Islamophobia franchisor complete with manuals and training videos.

 

In October 2003, the David Project funded a film, produced by Ralph Avi Goldwasser, to slander professors Rashid Khalidi, Joseph Massad, Hamid Dabashi, and Georges Saliba of Columbia University's Department of Middle East studies. Joseph Massad became known as one of the most dangerous intellectuals on campus. Calls for the professor's dismissal were issued by Congressman Weiner and by the editors of the Daily News and the New York Sun, and the propaganda film was shown in Israel before a government minister at an anti-Semitism conference.

The David Project regularly places racist anti-Arab and anti-Muslim speakers on Harvard campus, but its first major accomplishment was blocking a $2 million donation from the late president of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, for a chair in Islamic Studies at the Harvard Divinity School. The Project's 2003 smear campaign, coordinated with the ADL, sought to exclude Arabs and Muslims from developments at Harvard University.

Charles Jacobs and former Harvard Divinity School student Rachel Fish, who was secretly working for the David Project, orchestrated a smear campaign against Shaykh Zaid's donation to Harvard. In order to diminish the impact of critics of Israel, the David Project demonizes all Muslim and Arabs that contribute to charities, educational institutes, or political campaigns. In effect, the David Project recapitulates the racist program of 19th and 20th century anti-Semites to make suspect all moneys that originated with Jewish individuals or organizations with the substitution of "Muslim" for "Jew" and "Islamophobe" or "Arabophobe" for "anti-Semite" in the David Project version of the classic hate-mongering.

Anti-Sudan Campaigns

The David Project's alter ego organization the American Anti-Slavery Group(*) spearheaded the campaign to vilify the Islamic Republic of Sudan, and provided huge quantities of lurid, both popular and pseudo-academic material, in which Sudan is described as a "terrorist, genocidal" state engaged in a "holy war." Charles Jacobs' carefully designed "PR puff pieces" about "slavery" in Sudan have managed to secure national media coverage.

While pro-Palestine activists have long struggled to halt public funding of Israel, the dishonest "Save Darfur!" campaign, put together by DP friends and trainees, is the quickest divestment success in history. Sudan divestment resolutions have become law in Iowa and are in the process of approval in 12 states. The JCRC coordinating with the David Project has further poisoned human rights discourse with this effort to turn Arab and African Americans against each other.

 

ISB Settles Lawsuit

 

The furor over the Roxbury mosque has exposed the ways Israel advocacy groups pollute discourse on US foreign and domestic policy, which have until now remained mostly invisible to American political scientists.

 

Two lawyers that were originally helping the David Project, Jonathon Leffel and Jacob Feinberg, apparently had a change of heart and handed over to the Islamic Society of Boston damning evidence against the David Project.

 

The ISB had always made clear that they would settle if the David Project stopped challenging their right to build the mosque. On May 29, 2007 the David Project offered to withdraw notice of Policastro's appeal, and on May 30, 2007, the Muslim American Society announced that Kandil and Abou Allaban agreed to dismiss their defamation lawsuits.

 

Every time Jacobs, Kaufman, or Goldwasser look out of the top floor window of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies in downtown Boston, they will see the dome and minaret despite their best efforts to prevent its completion.

Note

(*) Just as the religious Zionist Jewish group Aish Hatorah presents a secular less Jewish face through HonestReporting, Jacobs has been a founder of several Israel advocacy racist anti-Arab anti-Muslims groups that market their messages of hate to different audiences. These organizations include CAMERA, the American Anti-Slavery Group, and Citizens for Peace and Tolerance. Joe Kaufman, who like Jacobs is associated with FrontPage Magazine, follows a similar marketing strategy.

Karin Friedemann is editor of World View News Service in Boston, focusing on the Islamic world. Please visit http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/wvns/.

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