Post details: Sabeel, Lies and Seething Hate

28/10/07

Permalink 07:41:32 pm, by liz Email , 250 words, 371 views   English (UK)
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Sabeel, Lies and Seething Hate

Here is a first hand account by Guide to the Perplexed of the Sabeel Conference in Boston: The cult of Israel-hatred.

The hatred was obvious, but what of Sabeel's dishonesty? Well, here's a sample:

I sat down in a pew near the front and opened the folder of conference materials. The back page of the official program was entitled “Apartheid?” and was filled with quotes and maps aimed at proving the Israel-apartheid analogy. They had a line from Jimmy Carter, a line from Archbishop Desmond Tutu (the conference’s keynote speaker), and a line from—no, wait, really?—Nelson Mandela:

“Apartheid is a crime against humanity. Israel has deprived millions of Palestinians of their liberty and property. It has perpetuated a system of gross racial discrimination and inequality. It has systematically incarcerated and tortured thousands of Palestinians, contrary to the rules of international law. It has, in particular, waged a war against a civilian population, in particular children.”

Sounds rather damning, doesn’t it? And who could disagree with Nelson Mandela? There’s only one problem: Nelson Mandela never said, wrote or endorsed those words. They are the creation of an Arab journalist named Arjan El Fassed. When I exposed El Fassed's fraud earlier this year, he claimed: “There is no possible basis for Pollak to say I intended people to believe the memo was written by anyone other than myself.”

Via Open Antisemitism at Boston's Old South Church at Little Green Footballs, where the watchers of anti-semitism never sleep.

Comments:

Comment from: Shlomo [Visitor] Email
If anyone wants to learn more about Sabeel and others they should visit the NGO Monitor site:
http://www.ngo-monitor.org/index.php
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