Groups set to protest Saudi Arabia in Los Angeles

The last time I posted about this upcoming protest against Saudi Arabia , several Saudi website referrals popped up on my stat page. Let's see if the same rats come sniffing around for this update from UAC:

A coalition of organizations spearheaded by the United American Committee is set to protest against Saudi influence in America and against Saudi support of terror according to the groups. The protest will occur this Saturday August 2nd at 4:00 PM in front of the Consulate of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia located at 2045 Sawtelle Blvd. Los Angeles, CA.

With growing animosity and suspicion toward Saudi Arabia, several groups involved in what is being called the anti-jihad resistance are planning a protest with goals to bring awareness of Saudi Arabia's questionable usage of dollars earned by the latest spike in the cost of petroleum.

The primary source of outrage among protesters is what they call Saudi support of terror through the Kingdom's funding of radical mosques and Islamic schools known as madrassas throughout the world which follow the Saudi fundamentalist view of Islam known as Wahabism.

Groups such as the United American Committee state that when one traces the trail of virtually any Muslim terrorist in the world, it almost inevitably leads back to a Saudi funded mosque or school that the terrorist has been trained in.

“When we fill up every time at the pump they are turning our dollars against us in order to kill us.” remarks protester Jim Horn, Vice Chairman of the U.A.C., a non-profit organization with goals to educate Americans about the threat of radical Islam.

“They have learned our laws and our ways of life and are now using them against us, something which the terrorists have learned is far more effective than bullets or physical attacks,” Horn continued, also referring to the Saudi lobbyist efforts which influence American politicians, another item which is a primary target of this coming Saturday's protest.

In recent years through the growing use of internet weblogs and other alternative medium, Saudi interference in American school systems have greatly come to light, stirring a great deal of unrest among parents and educators.

In 2007 the UAC released 10,000 pamphlets to its members with various facts on Saudi influence in Western education.

These facts listed such items as Saudi Arabia's funding of mid-east study programs which teach Saudi style views on Islam in American Universities such as Georgetown which received $22 million, or the University of Arkansas which received $20 million.

Such programs are notably set up by Saudi Arabia in universities with almost no Muslim student body to speak of. Once the initial Saudi money runs out to fund these programs, they are then often subsidized by American tax dollars.

The UAC report also mentioned Saudi influence at elementary school levels including notebooks given to teachers such as the “Arab World Studies Notebook” in which children are led to believe that Jews control American foreign policy and that the Koran is superior to other religious texts.

The protester's aims are to awaken the nation and let American politicians know that the citizens of America are beginning to view Saudi Arabia to radical Islam in the world today as the Soviet Union was viewed to stand for Communism in the world during the Cold War.

All concerned Americans are urged to attend this important protest Saturday at 4:00 PM in front of the Saudi Consulate located at 2045 Sawtelle Blvd. in Los Angeles, CA.

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Ford Foundation Still Funding Anti-Israel Groups

From Ford Foundation Still Funding Anti-Israel Groups:

Many of the anti-Israel activists at the UN anti-racism conference in Durban, South Africa, in 2001 were egged on by Ford Foundation-backed, pro-Palestinian groups. Hoping to head off a similar debacle, Ford says it will not pay for any organization to participate in the follow-up conference to Durban, slated for April in Geneva. Yet Ford today is funding several organizations that engage in the "Durban strategy" - to paint Israel as a "racist, apartheid" state and isolate the Jewish nation through boycotts, divestment and sanctions - according to a months-long JTA investigation.

A 2008-09 Ford grant for $305,000 went to the Arab NGO Network for Development, which features a map on its Web site that fails to note the existence of Israel.

Beneficiaries of Ford funds include the Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, Muwatin: Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy, The Palestinian Center for Human Rights, and Miftah: The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy.

All these groups signed onto boycott and divestment petitions against "Apartheid Israel."

Backstabbers at the UN

From UN Peacekeepers Salute Hizbullah Terrorists:

Israel is calling for removal of two UN soldiers from Lebanon after photographs surfaced of the soldiers saluting the coffins of Hizbullah terrorists during a prisoner exchange last week. Israel's ambassador to the UN, Dan Gillerman, said he was "shocked and horrified" by the photograph and that it was time for the saluting soldiers to go. "I think they should be recalled and be sent back to whichever country they came from....They are there as peacekeepers with a very clear mandate to disarm Hizbullah - they're not there to honor terrorists," he said.

U.S. Taxpayers Fund Grants for "Palestinian Studies"

US taxpayers fund "palestinian" mythology and its fraudulent culture, which never existed prioer to 1964, in spite of the empirical evidence that the land that Israelis now inhabit was bought and paid for legally, and the legitimacy of Israel was voted imprimatur by the United Nations. From U.S. Taxpayers Fund Grants for "Palestinian Studies":

For more than a decade, the allocation of hundreds of thousands of dollars in U.S.-funded doctoral and post-doctoral grants on Palestinian issues has been decided by a group of Middle Eastern Studies professors that includes some of the most polarizing and radical figures in the field.

The Bethesda, Maryland-based Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) receives Title VI funding from the U.S. State Department and Department of Education for "Palestinian studies."

Under the aegis of the U.S. government, PARC then gives out grants of $3,000 to $8,000 for activism in the name of academia.

U.S. Aid to Palestinians to Total $550 Million

Via U.S. Aid to Palestinians to Total $550 Million:

The U.S. government will provide $550 million in direct financial support to the Palestinian territories in 2008, Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt said Wednesday in Bethlehem.

NGO Monitor Releases Groundbreaking Report on EU Funding of NGOs

NGO Monitor has released its report examining European Union (EU) funding of political NGOs in the Arab-Israeli conflict.

The fifty page report, "Europe's Hidden Hand," reveals for the first time that between 2005 and 2007, the EU provided tens of millions of Euros from public money to NGOs whose activities directly contradict EU policy.

The report also details the lack of transparency and accountability in EU funding of NGOs.

The analysis has already begun to have an impact, as a Member of the European Parliament has utilized the report to press the European Commission to explain the inconsistencies in their NGO funding policy and process.

Read the executive summary in Hebrew or English.

Read the full report, Europe's Hidden Hand - EU funding for political NGOs in the Arab Israeli conflict: Analyzing processes and impact.

EU Releases 300 Million Euros in Aid for Palestinians

Funding Jewicide. The European Commission released 300 million euros ($467 million) in aid for the Palestinian territories Tuesday. Last week, the U.S. granted $150 million to the PA.

U.S. AID for Terror

From U.S. AID for Terror:

Since 1994, the CIA armed and trained thousands of Palestinian "security forces," who subsequently joined every Palestinian terrorist organization. CIA Palestinian training success is best described by a member of the PA chairman's own security unit - Force 17 - officer Abu Yusef: "The operations of the Palestinian resistance would [not] have been so successful and would not have killed more than 1,000 Israelis since 2000, and defeated the Israelis in Gaza without [American military] training," he boasted in August 2007.

Cross-posted on Stop Raping Israel.

Saddam Collected Information from PA on Potential Targets in Israel

The truth always comes out. Saddam Hussein was the lead behind Muslim terror against innocent Jews in Israel. From Saddam Collected Information from PA on Potential Targets in Israel:

Saddam Hussein's intelligence service collected information on dozens of sites in Israel, including airports, other transportation centers, as well as scientific and religious centers that were thought to be potential targets for attacks. Among the sources providing intelligence to Saddam's regime was Force 17, the security force of Yasser Arafat, which planned and carried out attacks against Israeli targets from its Ramallah headquarters. This information emerged following the release of documents captured during the American invasion in 2003. The captured documents also detail a 2001 plan to release jailed Iraqis if they agreed to volunteer to carry out attacks on Israeli targets.

Hamas Funds Gaza Regime with Taxes, Help from "Islamic Friends"

A look at the different ways Muslims fund the genocide of Jews. From Hamas Funds Gaza Regime with Taxes, Help from "Islamic Friends" via DailyAlert:

Gaza's Hamas government is funding its bureaucracy and rocket-launchers through fees on license plates, birth certificates and the like; taxes on smuggled cigarettes and other items; and aid from Islamic and Arab allies. Cigarettes smuggled through tunnels are taxed at $3 a pack, increasing the price to $5. Hamas also charges a levy of $3,000 from each of 150 underground- tunnel operators. Hamas has also taken over sales of one thing that dune-abundant Gaza has plenty of - sand. Construction companies, which use sand for cement, used to harvest it free. Now, Hamas sells it.

U.S. to Transfer $150 Million to Palestinians

Let's all watch as the Whitehouse funds Jewicide. This brokered deal also coincides with the Muslim hudna. The Muslims set the terms of the ceasefire long enough to get re-armed and will be able to accomplish this now that the U.S. agrees to transfer $150 million in budgetary support to the Palestinian Authority as part of past pledges to boost Mahmoud Abbas' government. Via U.S. to Transfer $150 Million to Palestinians.

Qatar Seen Bankrolling Hamas

Qatar is funding Jewicide. From Qatar Seen Bankrolling Hamas:

"Qatar gives Hamas millions of dollars a month [on average]," a senior Abbas aide said Tuesday on the sidelines of the Rice-Abbas meetings in the West Bank city of Ramallah. "They say the money is for the people of Gaza, but Hamas steals it, and some of it may be used to buy weapons." Qatar is a major U.S. ally in the Gulf and hosts a large number of American troops.

Hamas Using U.S. Weapons Against IDF

From Hamas Using U.S. Weapons Against IDF:

According to Palestinian sources in Gaza, most of the gunmen fighting the IDF over the past few days are members of Hamas' armed wing, Izaddin Kassam, with 15,000 members divided into four brigades. The Hamas gunmen were using many American-made arms seized from the Fatah-controlled PA security forces in June. Other groups involved in the fighting include Islamic Jihad, the Popular Resistance Committees, and some splinter factions of Fatah's Aksa Martyrs Brigades, operating in coordination with Hamas. Altogether, these groups have fewer than 1,500 gunmen in Gaza. Hamas is hoping that once the fighting is over, it will be able to declare "victory, as Hizbullah did after the war in 2006," said a Palestinian source.

David Landau, editor of Ha'aretz, calls for the rape of Israel

Last Wednesday, New York's Jewish Week, reported that the editor of Israel's self-described "newspaper of record", David Landau, asked the US secretary of state to rape his country and told her that his erotic fantasy is to watch America rape Israel.

CAMERA reports:

At a private meeting of some 20 journalists with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in September, 2007, Ha'aretz Editor David Landau urged the U.S. to "rape" Israel — to force a settlement on the country. In a December 26 story on the incident, Jewish Week editor Gary Rosenblatt quoted Landau saying: "'I told [Rice] that it had always been my wet dream to address the secretary of state' on these vital matters."

Despite expressions of dismay by other commentators -- including Jerusalem Post columnist Isi Leibler, who termed Landau's conduct "unconscionable" and "unacceptable," and leading broadcast and print journalist Ehud Yaari who called the comments "embarrassing" -- Landau told Rosenblatt he is actually pleased with his performance.

The Ha'aretz editor's objectionable statements are indicative of a striking lack of judgement generally by an individual who has also refused to correct serious factual errors in his newspaper, falsehoods that cast Israel as racist, oppressive and unjust in its treatment of Arabs.

In response to repeated calls by CAMERA for redress of inaccurate reporting, Landau has taken the highly unprofessional measure of insisting his staff not address the organization's inquiries regardless of the merit of the issue.

Together with Ha'aretz's like-minded publisher, Amos Shocken, Landau has promoted an extreme political position, characterizing Israel as "apartheid" in both the news and editorial pages. Moreover, a number of the paper's contributors go so far as to participate in radical anti-Israel activity outside the country, and figures such as Danny Rubenstein and Gideon Levy denounce Israel in extreme statements at one-sided United Nations meetings.

The promulgation of the apartheid slander, like Landau's comment to Rice, is part of the use of the paper as a tool to cudgel Israel down Ha'aretz's preferred political path.

Readers in Israel and around the globe, as well as other journalists who cite the publication, may want to consider the bizarre views expressed by senior figures guiding the paper and the disconnect with an Israeli mainstream that does not seek to be "raped" but, as with any normal, self-respecting people, seeks an equitable and prudent resolution of a difficult conflict.

David Landau also supports the New Israel Fund, which allocates grants to such anti-Israeli NGOs as Hamoked, I'lam, and Ittijah.

As you might recall, NGOs' promote politically and ideologically motivated anti-Israel agendas and they lend a false credibility to the notion that Palestine is even a real nation. Don't be scammed. NGO's, like the United Nations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Ford Foundation, International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) New Israel Fund, Miftah, Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), Physicians for Human Rights - Israel (PHR-I), LAW, Christian Aid, and the Advocacy Project each collect funds for a variety of projects and areas from generous donors, philanthropic institutions, and government budgets, but they themselves are not democratic institutions and have no democratic accountability. An NGO is only accountable to its particular funding organizations and members.

Click here to read more about the New Israel Fund. Click here to read on NGO's and Islamic NGOs. Click here to read more about David Landau and if you are a subscriber to the print edition, send a note to Ha'aretz and request that your subscription be cancelled at once.

How much money is enough to fund the systematic slaughter of Israeli Jews?

I'd say, you'd need around $7.4 billion, or thereabouts. And quite honestly, I'm not too far off the mark. Yesterday, 87 countries and international organizations pledged at a one-day conference in Paris $7.4 billion in aid to palestinian Arabs who live on land they stole from Israel during their 100 year-long war against the Jewish people. The United States pledged $555 million for 2008, up from $75 million this year. The European Union, the largest aid donor to the palestinians, pledged $650 million for 2008. Separately, European nations made three-year pledges, including France and Sweden at $300 million each, Britain $500 million, Norway $420 million, Spain $360 million and Germany $200 million.

I don't think that 87 countries ever, anywhere, pledged that much money to those who were starving in Biafra - which actually did exist for around one and a half years - unlikfe the manufactured nation of palestine which never existed - ever. Or to the Indonesians who suffered tremedous losses during the tsunami. Or to the Turks or Mexicans who suffered during their catastrophic earthquakes. We must divest from those countries mentioned as donors above. We must ask our financial advisors and our fund managers which countries our international stocks and money market funds are invested in - and divest from those terror-funding nations and states.

Here is a list of companies that do business with state sponsors of terrorism or investment funds that invest in those companies, from the Divest Terror Initiative. Click here for Facts About Terror-Free Investing:

Foreign wealth funds eye US assets
Reuters Nov 28, 2007

The bank behind Iran's missiles
Bloomberg Sep 20, 2007

Hitting Iran where it hurts
Breit Bart Aug 30, 2007

Iran threatens German banks over pullout
Reuters Aug 23, 2007

Congressional terror investments
CNSNews.com Aug 02, 2007

US tightens financial squeeze on Iran
Asharq Alawsat Jul 30, 2007

Pelosi invests in Iran-linked company
FOX News Jun 29, 2007

US Congress quietly outlaws aid to Saudi Arabia
World news Jun 25, 2007

Divest Terror testimony
Ohio state government Apr 26, 2007

Radio interview by Ohio Rep. Shannon Jones
55KRC Radio Apr 26, 2007

Divest Terror radio interview in Ohio (4/11/07)
WTAM Radio Apr 12, 2007

Transcript of CNBC Divest Terror segement
CNBC Mar 30, 2007

‘Terror free’ investing gains ground in US
Christian Science Monitor Mar 26, 2007

What you can do about Iran
FrontPageMag.com Mar 23, 2007

U.S. cautions foreign companies on Iran deals
New York Times Mar 22, 2007

Invest terror-free!
CSP Decision Brief Nov 13, 2007

Treasury affirms dangers of business with Iran
CSP Press Release Oct 25, 2007

Islamic Finance or Financing Islamism?
CSP Occasional Paper Oct 22, 2007

Give me your pension
Human Events Aug 31, 2007

Divest Iran
RealClearPolitics Aug 27, 2007

Bankrupting Iran is not enough
CSP Security Forum Aug 15, 2007

Terror-free on campus
National Review Online Jul 31, 2007

Divest Terror breakthrough? Or a bait-and switch?
CSP Decision Brief Jul 26, 2007

Progress for terror-free investment index
CSP Press Release Jul 17, 2007

SEC Announces Divest Terror Tool
SEC Press Release Jun 25, 2007

Will Honda put the ayatollahs ahead of America?
CSP Blog Jun 18, 2007

Divest Terror makes the front page
CSP Press Release Jun 15, 2007

Gaffney testifies about financial warfare
CSP Press Release May 24, 2007

Gaffney testifies on financial warfare
CSP Congressional Testimony May 24, 2007

Frank Gaffney to testify on Divest Terror
CSP Press Release May 23, 2007

We must divest from the entity calling itself palestine and in order to preserve the Zionist-Jewish character of the legitimate and sovereign nation of Israel, Israel must also divest herself from the insidious Arab populations that contaminate her from within.

We must divest from the entity calling itself palestine all financial holdings until the entity calling itself palestine ends its system of systematic genocide against the Jewish people of Israel.

It is high time to deconstruct the myths of palestinian victimhood and start constructing the truths about palestinian aggression and genocide against the Jewish people.

Global bankrolling funds Jewicide

While world powers gather in Paris to bankroll a terrorist Arab Muslim state referred to as "palestine" , Jewish children are being brutalized and tortured with the same blood money. A rocket fired by Arab Muslim militants from Gaza scored a direct hit on a house in Kibbutz Zikim, an Israeli communal farm less than a mile from Gaza, wounding a 2-year-old boy. The toddler was hit by shrapnel and taken to hospital, and his mother was being treated for shock. With that same blood money, Arab Muslims in Gaza fired a Kassam rocket that slammed into a kibbutz factory near Gaza on Friday evening. The plant normally operates 24 hours a day, but fortunately was empty at the time. It destroyed equipment, but there were no casualties. Shrapnel was scattered throughout the coffee corner, where workers take their breaks.

With that same blood money, about 200,000 Gazan Arabs rallied in support of Hamas on Saturday, the 20th anniversary of its founding, in a significant show of force. It was as large as one a month ago for its rival, Fatah, on the anniversary of Arafat's death. Central Gaza City was filled with green flags, and a large banner reading "We will not recognize Israel" adorned the stage.

And with that same blood money, Muslim Arab children on Hamas Al-Aqsa TV aired on Dec. 3, 2007 vow to kill Jews, one-by-one:

Boy: Let me tell you how the Al-Aqsa Mosque will be returned, how we shall rescue it from the shackles of the occupation, from the shackles of the Zionist entity. Will it be through conferences? No, not through conferences, but by means of force.

Girl: To Al-Aqsa, to Al-Aqsa - we shall unite our ranks. We will wipe out the people of Zion, and will not leave a single one of them.

There is no law on earth that requires the Jewish people to accept their own demise merely because Arab Muslims and their Jew-hating supporters say we should. Maybe Islam is the root of the problem. The fact that there are currently 30 conflicts around the world and 25 of them involve Islam proves my point.

Who is Raeed Tayeh?

From Discover the Networks:

• Former Executive Board member of the Islamic Association for Palestine
• Former research fellow for the United Association for Studies and Research
• Spoke at a 2001 rally along with Sami Al-Arian and George Habash
• Worked for Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney
• Official of the Muslim American Society
• “Islamists refuse to recognize the legitimacy of Israel or the peace agreement made with it, and vow to return the Holy Land to the Muslim nation.”

An American-born Palestinian activist, Raeed N. Tayeh was formerly an Executive Board member of the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP) and a research fellow for the United Association for Studies and Research. He also has had connections to American Muslims for Jerusalem.

On June 21, 1999, Tayeh expressed his contempt for Israel on the Friends For Palestine (FFP) website, an extremist site run via the University of Memphis Web server, which posted diatribes against Jews and featured a map of Israel with the Palestinian flag superimposed on it. “Very nice Website,” wrote Tayeh. “I am very proud of the FFP, keep up the good work. It is our duty to return Palestine, ALL OF PALESTINE. I suggest that if any of you really want to get involved, to join the Islamic Association for Palestine -- IAP, they have chapters all over North America, and if you don’t have a chapter, I will help you start one. You should also read the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. This is one of your best sources for fair news about the Middle East.” [Tayeh was the Chicago correspondent for this vehemently anti-Israel publication.]

On November 29, 1999, Tayeh wrote a story for Islam Online -- a website that has published religious/legal opinions in support of suicide bombings -- about the Third Annual IAP Convention. In that piece, Tayeh stated, “Islamists refuse to recognize the legitimacy of Israel or the peace agreement made with it, and vow to return the Holy Land to the Muslim nation.” He also praised Issa Nakhleh as “a distinguished Palestinian Christian historian.” Nakhleh had called Yasser Arafat “an honorable Palestinian leader”; had called Ariel Sharon “an irresponsible terrorist, murderer and war criminal”; and had excused suicide bombings as understandable responses to “Israeli crimes.”

In his poem titled “Who Am I?” -- which originally appeared on the IAP website -- Tayeh says, "Oh how I dream of that wonderful day, when our flags are raised, and when the marching bands will play. When the young will cheer, and when the old will cry. When the refugees return, and when Zionism will die."

In November 2000 Tayeh was the spokesman for a group protesting against the Chicago Sun Times for having published an editorial blaming Yasser Arafat for Middle East violence.

In February 2001 Tayeh was the contact -- along with the pro-terrorist Palestinian activist and writer Hatem Abudayyeh -- for a solidarity march organized by the Coalition for Justice in Palestine.

On April 7, 2001, while he was still with the IAP, Tayeh was a featured speaker at a rally in New York City that included Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) leaders Sami Al-Arian and Mazen Al-Najjar. The rally also featured a statement by George Habash, founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Also in 2001, Tayeh was hired as Communications Director for Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. But on November 28 of that year, he was forced to resign from McKinney’s staff when it was learned that he had written a “letter to the editor” questioning the loyalty of Jewish members of Congress. He stated in that letter: “What is more disturbing to me is that many of these pro-Israeli lawmakers sit on the House International Relations Committee despite the obvious conflict of interest that their emotional attachments to Israel cause. . . . The Israeli occupation of all territories must end, including Congress.”

At IAP’s 5th Annual Convention in December 2001, Tayeh was again a featured speaker along with Sami Al-Arian.From February 2002 to September 2002, Tayeh was the Washington Director of American Muslims for Global Peace and Justice (AMGPJ). During this period, he issued a press release “condemning” the U.S. government for conducting raids on northern Virginia Islamic organizations that were being investigated for their role in terrorist financing.

Tayeh was also the promoter of a boycott against Starbucks Coffee -- a campaign initiated in response to Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s “support for various Jewish charitable organizations and his warnings about rising anti-Semitism around the world.”

Tayeh authored a book titled A Muslim’s Guide to American Politics and Government. It was published by the Muslim American Society (MAS), and its foreword was written by MAS President Souheil Ghannouchi.

Since September 2002, Tayeh has worked as the Public Affairs Director for the MAS Freedom Foundation. On April 26, 2003, Tayeh gave an MAS-sponsored “activist training seminar” with the organization’s Communications Director, Randal Todd “Ismail” Royer, who would later be sentenced to prison on firearms and conspiracy charges in relation to a group associated with al Qaeda.

The MAS 2003 annual convention was co-sponsored by the Islamic Circle of North America. Tayeh was a featured speaker at this event, along with: Mustafa Abu Sway, who the Israeli government has labeled “a known activist” in the Hamas terrorist movement; Siraj Wahhaj, who was named as a possible co-conspirator to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center; Zulfiqar Ali Shah, CEO of the Universal Heritage Foundation; and the neo-Nazi William Baker.

In February 2004, MAS sent Tayeh to the Cleveland Mosque to assist Fawaz Damra, who had recently been arrested for concealing his links to anti-Israel terrorist groups. Damra in 1991 had said that “[Muslims should be] directing all rifles at the first and last enemy of the Islamic nation, and that is the sons of monkeys and pigs, the Jews.” Four years later, Damra was named as a possible co-conspirator to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

During an August 2004 appearance on CNN, Tayeh made the following remarks:

• “The United Nations needs to stop passing resolutions and start enforcing the ones that are on the books, namely returning to the 1967 borders and allowing Palestinian refugees the right to return to their homes.”
• “The Palestinians ... fighting the people who have occupied their land, who have stolen their land …”
  “Well, the United Nations, in 1947, came up with a plan to divide Palestinian [sic], giving the Jews the majority of the country and the Palestinians the minority. The Palestinians rejected it because they said, hey, we live here. This is 100 percent of our land.”
• “Jews can have their land, but the Palestinians didn't commit the Holocaust. That was Germany under the Nazis. Why not create a state in Germany?”
• “Jews live in Arab countries and in some countries they live very well, and they're protected.”

Audit Finds U.S.-Funded Palestinian University Linked to Terrorism

More White House betrayals. From Audit Finds U.S.-Funded Palestinian University Linked to Terrorism via Daily Alert:

U.S. government officials authorized giving nearly $1 million in foreign aid to the Islamic University in Gaza, a Palestinian university with links to the terrorist group Hamas, according to a government audit. Hamas' prime minister sits on the Islamic University's board of trustees. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) asked USAID's inspector general to conduct the audit after a Washington Times report detailed some of the aid payments to Islamic University earlier this year.

The Ford Foundation perpetuates its dislike of Jews

I drive a Ford now - we bought a Ford because I wanted to "buy America" - but after learning how the Ford Foundation supports the entity calling itself "palestine" and the entity's export of human murderers who thrive on killing Jewish men, women, and children, it will be the last Ford that I will ever own. Ever. From NGO-Monitor:

The Ford Foundation’s 2006 grants to NGOs involved in the Israeli-palestinian conflict may reflect some changes from 2005.

But overall, Ford (in cooperation with the New Israel Fund) continued to support many problematic NGOs in 2006. These include major international organizations like Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) as well as palestinian NGOs such as the DWRC and PHRO, which promote the anti-Israel boycott movement. These organizations conduct some productive programs, but often exploit human rights rhetoric as part of the Durban strategy of demonizing Israel, while opposing a two state solution. This report aims to draw the Ford Foundation’s attention to the fact that continued funding for these radical political NGOs fuels the conflict and impedes the compromises necessary for a settlement.

Many of these NGOs may also be planning to participate in the 2009 Durban conference, called as a follow-up to the 2001conference in which Ford-funded groups led the demonization of Israel.

Contents:

Introduction: Ford Foundation’s Grantees

Ford’s 2006 Funding to NGOs:

General Grants
Palestinian Human Rights Organization (PHRO)
Democracy and Workers Rights Center (DWRC)
Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center (JLAC)
Muwatin: Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy
International Peacebuilding Alliance (Interpeace)
New Israel Fund (NIF)
Designated Grants
PANORAMA: The Palestinian Center for the Dissemination of Democracy and Community Development
Save the Children – UK (SCF)
Human Rights Watch (HRW)
International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
Conclusion

Introduction: Ford Foundation’s Grantees

The 2001 Durban conference revealed that many of the Ford-funded NGOs purporting to be apolitical human rights activists were in fact promoting a clear anti-Israel bias. Following intense criticism, including 2003 Congressional hearings on Ford funding for radical NGOs like the Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights (LAW) and Al Mezan, Ford released new funding guidelines. A memorandum released on 8 January 2004 stated: “By countersigning this grant letter, you agree that your organization will not promote or engage in violence, terrorism, bigotry or the destruction of any state, nor will it make sub-grants to any entity that engages in these activities.” Ford also clarified in this memo that “this prohibition applies to all of the organization’s funds, not just those provided through a grant from Ford.”

NGO Monitor's report on allocations for 2005 detailed a number of Ford-funded NGOs whose "activities are primarily political, and… [which] exploit human rights rhetoric to delegitimize Israel, while undermining efforts towards a peaceful end to the conflict." While many high profile 2005 recipients were not listed in 2006, including the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), Al Haq, Miftah, and the Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, this may reflect multiple year grants in 2005 which are carried over and therefore not listed again for 2006. If funding has indeed ceased, this is a marked improvement in avoiding reducing Ford’s support for the most virulent “Durban strategy” NGOs that focus primarily on demonization of Israel However, highly political NGOs such as PCHR , Al-Mezan, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN), Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA), and Ir Amim continued to list Ford as a funding source on their websites, although they were not included in Ford’s 2006 report.[1]

Three 2006 grantees reviewed in this report also received grants in 2005: Human Rights Watch (for programs in Mexico and Brazil), International Commission of Jurists (general grant in 2005; directed grant in 2006 to the African Court on Human and People’s Rights), and the New Israel Fund (a five-year partnership). Despite the Ford Foundation’s pledge to stop “support[ing] organizations whose conduct is antithetical to our objectives of promoting peace, justice, tolerance and understanding,” in 2006 Ford continued to support several other NGOs that promote an anti-Israel agenda under the guise of human rights advocacy.

2006 Ford Foundation Grantees:

General Grants

Palestinian Human Rights Organization (PHRO)

The PHRO, a member of the EMHRN and FIDH (both of which are heavily involved in the demonization of Israel, as detailed by NGO Monitor), received $150,000 from the Ford Foundation in 2006 “to promote and protect the human rights of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon through legal aid, research, education and training.” The PHRO calls itself “a non-partisan institute” that dedicates itself to “monitoring and documenting human rights violations, education and training on human rights, research, advocacy and lobby, dialogue and legal aid” for Palestinians in Lebanon. PHRO is listed as having participated in the 2001 Durban Conference and continues to promote the NGO strategy adopted there: The document produced by this conference accuses Israel of “apartheid and ethnic cleansing,” as well as “perpetration of racist crimes against humanity including…acts of genocide,” and calls for “complete and total isolation of Israel.”

A PHRO report on the 2006 Lebanon War, published in July 2006, denounces what it terms a repeat of the “Quana genocide” by the Israelis against the Lebanese. While the authors recognize that the war was conducted in response to the kidnapping of two IDF soldiers, PHRO neglects to condemn this as a crime. The report calls on Hezbollah to cease firing rockets from populated areas in Lebanon to protect Lebanese civilians, but, it does not denounce the rocket fire aimed exclusively at Israeli civilians. Furthermore, the report argues that “civilians especially children” were the “non-neutralized target” of the IDF and accuses Israel of “crimes against humanity.”

Another example of demonization was the PHRO-hosted Palestinian Debate Meeting, “What Do Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon Want?” which took place in Beirut in October 2005. The statement issued by the meeting advocated the “right of return” for Palestinians to all of Israel (equivalent to opposing a two-state peace agreement), and discussed the need to “organize Palestinian arms – to be considered as a political weapon.” Through this funding, Ford violated its post-Durban pledge, which promises to “never support groups that promote or condone bigotry or violence, or that challenge the very existence of legitimate, sovereign states like Israel.”

Democracy and Workers Rights Center in Palestine (DWRC)

Ford provided the DWRC $200,000 “for training, networking and legal aid on protection and promotion of labor rights in Palestine and the Arab Region” in 2006. The DWRC is active in promoting labor rights for Palestinians, but often includes a rejectionist anti-Israel agenda that fuels the conflict. For instance, the DWRC is part of the PNGO network that signed a “call for a comprehensive academic boycott of Apartheid Israel” in May 2005. The DWRC uses inflammatory language to describe the situation of the Palestinians, referring to the community’s current status as an “unrelenting tragedy.” The constructive work that the DWRC does in the area of labor rights does not justify Ford funding an organization that promotes demonization.

Throughout 2007, the DWRC is co-sponsoring a program on women’s rights in the workplace with the Palestinian Working Woman Society for Development (PWWSD). This program (funded by both Ford and the European Union) represents some of the DWRC’s beneficial work in the community. The Legal Aid and Human Rights program within the DWRC focuses on challenges and weaknesses in the Palestinian legal system. The program’s goal is to “support and convince Palestinian policymakers that establishing a socially just Palestinian society in which employers respect employee rights in accordance with internationally recognized human rights principles bolsters Palestine’s credibility and influence, and thus enforces Palestine’s legitimate place in the world.” In this area of its work, the DWRC endeavors to empower marginalized groups, protect workers’ rights, reinforce the rule of law, and develop further human rights awareness.

Other DWRC programs, however, require further scrutiny by Ford to ensure compliance with the post-Durban guidelines. In February 2006, the Democracy and Workers Rights Center launched an emergency job creation project “in response to massive unemployment among the Palestinian labor force after the beginning of the Al-Aqsa Intifada on 28 September 2000 due to Israeli military closures and economic measures aiming at preventing Palestinian workers from working in the Israel labor market and disrupting the Palestinian economy.” Here, the DWRC fails to acknowledge that these measures were implemented as a result of Palestinian terror and violence and ignores the effects of Palestinian corruption and infighting on their economy.

Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center (JLAC)

The Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center received $100,000 “for a program of advocacy and legal aid in Jerusalem and the West Bank” in 2006. Established in 1974, JLAC’s vision is “a liberated Democratic Palestinian Society governed by the rule of Law.” However, according to a more detailed version on the FIDH website:

The JLAC offers legal advice and representation to Palestinians facing the consequences of the ongoing battle for political, economic and demographic control. That battle is waged, particularly in Jerusalem, through policies of arbitrary arrest and detention, house demolition, identity card confiscation, denial of residency rights, land seizures, and other measures which essentially violate the inalienable right of Palestinians to live, develop and prosper in their homeland.
JLAC has been a signatory to a number of letters submitted to the UN and the international community, including the May 2005 boycott letter mentioned above. For example, a 3 October 2006 letter to the “Representatives of the International Community” blames Israel for the infighting between Hamas and Fatah factions: “It must be recognized that the current crisis stems from the almost 40-year-long Israeli occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip…[this letter was written after Israel's disengagement from Gaza]. ”

Another such letter dated 21 November 2006 to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights signed by several Palestinian NGOs including JLAC describes the current situation in the Palestinian Authority with inflammatory and biased language: “The current reality in the OPT is one of gross and systematic violations of international human rights law, as well as serious and grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention, amounting to war crimes.” The same letter describes the separation barrier as the “Annexation Wall.” This language and exploitation of international legal terminology defy the Ford Foundation’s new funding guidelines, which restrict Ford from funding any organization which promotes or engages in “bigotry.”

Muwatin: Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy

Muwatin received $180,000 from Ford in 2006 “for policy studies and research informing debate on the issues of democracy, Islamism and secularism and for public education on the performance of the Palestinian Legislative Council.” Muwatin claims to “promote the study and development of democracy in Palestine and in the region” and publishes a bi-monthly newsletter entitled Parliamentary Horizons, a “critical newsletter focusing on the work of Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), and Other Critical Issues.”Muwatin was a signatory of the aforementioned May 2005 letter from the PNGO network that called for an academic boycott of “Apartheid Israel,” which violates Ford’s post-Durban prohibitions.

The summaries of Muwatin’s books on its website shed light on its political agenda. In its most recent book, Where Now for Palestine: The Demise of the Two-State Solution, Muwatin characterizes “Palestine” as “The Last Colonial Issue” in the book’s introduction. This book discusses the “illusory” nature of the two-state solution. Another book, State Formation in Palestine, “challenges the widely prevalent view that the Palestinian Authority collapsed because of its internal governance failures, its lack of commitment to democracy and its failure to control corruption.” The authors concede that “while there were indeed internal failures of governance, the institutional architecture set up by the Oslo agreements established an asymmetric Israeli control over the emerging Palestinian state and this was responsible for many of the most serious failures of governance.” In essence, this book blames Israel for the failures of the Palestinian Authority. Another book, Liberation, Democratization, and Transition to Statehood in the Third World examines South Africa as a model for the future Palestinian state, which compares Israel to the Apartheid South Africa regime. The clear bias present in these books promotes the Durban Strategy and counters the Ford Foundation’s mission to “strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation, and advance human achievement,” and contradicts Ford’s new funding guidelines.

International Peacebuilding Alliance (Interpeace)

In 2006, the Ford Foundation granted the International Peacebuilding Alliance, or Interpeace, $160,000 “for two parallel processes of dialogue aimed at articulating a common vision of the future for Palestinian and Israeli societies.” This organization “assists societies torn by war to overcome conflict and to build lasting peace. It does this by promoting processes of consultation, research and analysis with all sectors of society, including international assistance agencies and donors.” Interpeace conducts field programs in Guatemala, Peru, Central African Gangs, Rwanda, Burundi, Guinea-Bassau, Israel, and the Palestinian Territories. Interpeace seeks to carry out this mission through dialogue between the affected groups of people, particularly those with minority positions in a conflict.

Despite Interpeace’s claims to be promoting constructive dialogues, the information on its website contains notable biases that are not consistent with this goal. Its Palestine Program section, uses language that reinforces Palestinianian victimization myths: “For Palestinians, the last 100 years have brought colonisation, expulsion and military occupation.”

In addition, the claims regarding the “dialogue programs” are not verifiable. Between November 2004 and July 2005, Interpeace claimed to have facilitated a dialogue between Gaza settlers and “left-wing activists” from southern Kibbutzim. After eight months of dialogue, the sponsors contended that “all of the settlers who took part in the meetings, left their homes peacefully… [and] the left-wing participants agreed to help the settlers together after the evacuation [of Gaza].” No further details are given about participants or program content.

Another dialogue program allegedly facilitated meetings between the National Committee of Local Arab Authorities in Israel and the SHAS party (the Association of Torah-Observant Sephardis) . Since September 2005, Interpeace has worked with the National Committee of Local Arab Authorities to develop a common standpoint on the future constitution of Israel, in order to help the Arab-Israeli community define their role in Israel. Through its work with the SHAS party, Interpeace aimed “to bridge some of the internal divisions within the party and clarify its geopolitical vision for the future of Israel and its relations with the Palestinian people.” The ultimate goal of this project is to enable the SHAS party to “engage with other sectors of Israeli society to develop a common agenda for peaceful coexistence with the Palestinian people.” The details of this dialogue, however, could not be verified and the content of neither dialogue program is available for outside scrutiny of potential bias.

New Israel Fund (NIF)

After the Durban funding controversy, the Ford Foundation announced a five-year partnership with the New Israel Fund with a $20 million grant to establish a new peace and social justice fund. This grant was renewed in September 2007. Its remit is to support organizations in Israel in order to achieve three main goals: “promoting civil rights and human rights in Israel; promoting equity and equal opportunities for the Palestinian minority in within Israel; [and] promoting a peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” The New Israel Fund is particularly active in funding many NGOs in the Arab sector in Israel.

Through its grant program, the NIF funds many NGOs and individuals that argue for the complete removal of the Jewish elements of Israel. Some of these NGOs go beyond the scope of their mandates in their use of inflammatory language to promote the destruction of Israel. Shmuel Rosner at Haaretz commented on this problem in his 4 April 2007 blog:

The New Israel Fund (NIF) gives a lot of money to organizations like Adalah which played a central role in the provocative document [The Future Vision of the Palestinian Arabs in Israel], and this fact compelled Garber [executive director of the American branch of NIF] to engage in verbal acrobatics. They played a role, he says, but this is not the main issue for which they exist. If they become an organization whose principal objective is to implement the manifest, the NIF will have to reconsider [funding them].

Other politicized organizations and individuals receiving money from NIF are also involved in demonization and promotion of the boycott movement. Examples include Shamai Leibowitz, as documented in a previous NGO Monitor article, and the Mossawa Center which argues that only “Palestinian Arabs are the indigenous people of the country” ignoring Jewish historical ties to Israel and Jewish communal continuity. According to Mossawa, Israel cannot be both a democracy and a Jewish state, declaring Israel “inherently illegitimate.” The same document calls on Israel to grant Israeli Arabs and their descendents the right to return to the land from which they fled in 1948, and argues for the abolishment of Israel’s Law of Return. This “opposition to the existence of the State of Israel” contradicts Ford’s guidelines.

2006 Ford Foundation Grantees:

Designated Grants

Over the past year, the Ford Foundation also funded several other politicized organizations. Although these grants were designated toward specific programs, money is fungible and NGO budgets are at times diverted to other activities.

PANORAMA: The Palestinian Center for the Dissemination of Democracy and Community Development

Located in the Palestinian Territories, PANORAMA received $90,000 from the Ford Foundation “to enable participants in the second phase of the Palestinian-Israeli Young Political Leaders Program to engage in dialogue and address key contemporary issues to enhance peace in the Middle East.” PANORAMA advocates for a Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank with Jerusalem as a shared capital between Israel and the future Palestine. A signatory on the May 2005 academic boycott as part of the PNGO network, PANORAMA’s mission involves working “to contribute to community development…as a means to build a pluralistic Palestinian civil society.”

Despite the fact that the Palestinian-Israeli Young Political Leaders Program seems to be a constructive program, it is important to note that PANORAMA politicizes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by using biased language and unbalanced accusations. In its report on Israel’s disengagement from Gaza, entitled “The Israeli ‘Disengagement’ Plan: Gaza will be Vacated but still Occupied,” PANORAMA calls the disengagement “a colonialist strategy: the occupier gets to choose not only its own representatives, but those of the occupied as well, with no respect to political agreements or initiatives.” Israel’s plan, PANORAMA contends, “is no surprise to the Palestinians: it has always been that Israel destroys and the Palestinians pick up the pieces.” In a PowerPoint presentation denouncing Israeli settlements, PANORAMA distorts the conflict by using provocative language, referring to Jewish settlements as “colonies,” to Palestinian towns as “ghettos,” and to the security fence as “the annexation wall.” The presentation also argues that “Israel will keep finding excuses to blame Palestinians for not abiding by the performance based road map” and blames Israel for “destroying the Two-State Solution” by building the security fence. No mention is made of Hamas’s failure to reject violence or to recognize previous peace agreements. By supporting PANORAMA in spite of its politicized and accusatory language that fails to denounce Palestinian government-sponsored violence, the Ford Foundation supports “violence, terrorism, bigotry or the destruction of any state,” rather than abiding by its new guidelines.

Save the Children – UK (SCF)

The Save the Children Fund received two grants from the Ford Foundation in 2006: $50,000 was dispersed to support the prospective Save the Children China Foundation, and $200,000 was given to Save the Children to fund human rights education in Egypt, Lebanon, and Morocco. Save the Children “fight[s] for children in the UK and around the world who suffer form poverty, disease, injustice and violence, working with them to find lifelong answers to the problems they face.” While Save the Children does impressive work, its publications contain biases and omissions that should be recognized by Ford.

In Israel, Save the Children works through a partner organization, Al Tufula, “to address the psychosocial support needs of children who have witnessed violence and are exposed to great risk.” Al Tufula “is a non-profit independent organization founded in 1984 by Palestinian women citizens of Israel in order to develop Early Childhood Education for Palestinian children in Israel and to improve the status of Palestinian women.” This NGO “serves the Palestinian citizens of Israel and networks with regional Arab organizations as well as international groups on specific issues.” Within Israel, Al Tufula has partnered with several of the highly politicized NGOs watched by NGO Monitor, including Adalah, the Arab Association for Human Rights, and the Ma’an Network. Save the Children’s work in Israel focuses exclusively on Palestinian and Arab children in Israel and does not benefit the Jewish children who have also been affected by the ongoing violence. Accordingly, SCF fails to follow its own belief that “all children are equally entitled to human rights.”

On 11 July 2006, Save the Children published a brief update on “Living with the Wall.” In this article, Save the Children “urge[s] the Israeli government to heed the experience of Palestinian children, and…to immediately stop construction of the Wall and dismantle the sections of the Wall already in existence.” By doing so, SCF ignores the right of Israeli children to grow up without the danger of being killed by suicide bombers.

Human Rights Watch (HRW)

Human Rights Watch, a 2005 Ford grant recipient, received a $300,000 grant for an HIV/AIDS program and a $60,000 grant for a full-time researcher in Brazil in 2006. NGO Monitor has documented in detail the anti-Israel activities of this NGO including its participation in the Durban conference, and its disproportionate condemnations of Israel when exercising its legitimate right to self defense.

International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)

In 2005 ICJ received a general support grant for $325,000. In contrast, in 2006 it received $40,000 to organize a meeting to improve the African Court on Human and People’s Rights. These directed funds, however, still promote the ICJ, which continues to support its highly politicized anti-Israel affiliates, Al-Haq and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights. These organizations frequently distort the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and demonize Israel, which is counter to Ford’s prohibition of giving “sub-grants to any entity that engages in [violence, terrorism, bigotry or the destruction of any state].

Conclusion

The Ford Foundation released new guidelines after the 2001 Durban conference which state that its grantees “‘will not promote or engage in violence, terrorism, bigotry or the destruction of any state, nor will it make sub-grants to any entity that engages in these activities.’ This prohibition applies to all of the organization's funds, not just those provided through a grant from Ford.” It is impossible to know whether Ford has ceased funding for radical 2005 grant recipients, such as Al Mezan and others. And in 2006, Ford provided new or continuing grants to politicized NGOs with a strong anti-Israel and anti-peace agenda. This is inconsistent with Ford’s claimed objectives: to “strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation, and advance human achievement”. Furthermore, in the preparations for the planned 2009 Durban follow-up conference, the evidence presented in this report demonstrates that there is a very real danger that Ford-funded NGOs will again lead the demonization of Israel.

Endnote:1. NGO Monitor contacted the Ford Foundation repeatedly throughout March 2007 to establish whether any 2005 grant recipients continued to receive support in 2006, through multi-year grants or dispersions of previous grants. Despite several attempts, however, Ford did not provide a substantive response.

Related NGOs:

NGO Index: New Israel Fund, October 25, 2006
NGO Index: Save the Children Fund, October 25, 2006
NGO Index: Human Rights Watch (HRW), October 17, 2006
NGO Index: International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), October 17, 2006
NGO Index: Ford Foundation, October 08, 2006

CAIR's targets and CAIR's supporters

What you don't know about CAIR might kill you. Excerpts from WND:

Although Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is a nonprofit organization, it does not disclose complete directories of its staff or advisory boards, and even refuses to make its federal tax filings readily available to the public. But a review of federal criminal court documents, past IRS 990 tax records and Federal Election Commission records detailing donor occupations, reveals that Washington-based CAIR has been associated with a disturbing number of convicted terrorists or felons in terrorism probes, as well as suspected terrorists and active targets of terrorism investigations.

As previously reported, three CAIR officials have been linked to terrorism. But WND has learned that at least 11 other CAIR officials have been caught up in terror investigations, bringing the total to 14.

CAIR denies supporting terrorism and continues to claim to be a "moderate" voice for Muslims in America. The group says its critics are the extremists, including radio personality Michael Savage, whom the group is now attacking with a boycott campaign. So far it has convinced Wal-Mart, OfficeMax, AT&T, JCPenney and other companies to stop advertising on Savage's popular show. Here are some more advertisers that have stopped airing, or have refused to air commercials on "Savage Nation":

AutoZone , Citrix , TrustedID , JCPenney , OfficeMax , WalMart , AT&T

Critics counter that CAIR has no legitimate voice to make such complaints, because the group is itself an extremist organization that has employed or appointed to its boards of directors and advisers an inordinate number of radical co-conspirators, suspected and convicted terrorists, and other criminals.

Muthanna al-Hanooti: The CAIR director's home was raided last year by FBI agents in connection with an active terrorism investigation. Agents also searched the offices of his advocacy group, Focus on Advocacy and Advancement of International Relations, which al-Hanooti operates out of Dearborn, Mich., and Washington, D.C. FAAIR claims to be a consulting firm raising awareness of Sunni grievances in Iraq, but investigators suspect it's a front supporting the Sunni-led insurgency.

Laura Jaghlit: A civil-rights coordinator for CAIR, her Washington-area home was raided by federal agents after 9/11 as part of an investigation into terrorist financing, money laundering and tax fraud. Her husband Mohammed Jaghlit, a key leader in the Saudi-backed SAAR network, is a target of the still-active probe.

Abdurahman Alamoudi: Another CAIR director, he is serving 23 years in federal prison for plotting terrorism. Alamoudi, who was caught on tape complaining bin Laden hadn't killed enough Americans in the U.S. embassy bombings in Africa, was one of al-Qaida's top fund-raisers in America, according to the U.S. Treasury Department.

Nihad Awad: For the first time, wiretap evidence from the Holy Land case puts CAIR's executive director at a Philadelphia meeting of Hamas leaders and activists that was secretly recorded by the FBI. Participants allegedly hatched a plot to disguise payments to Hamas terrorists as charitable giving.

Omar Ahmad: U.S. prosecutors also named CAIR's founder and chairman emeritus as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land case. Ahmad too was placed at the Philly meeting, FBI special agent Lara Burns testified at the trial. Prosecutors also designated him as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood's "Palestine Committee" in America. Ahmad, like his CAIR partner Awad, is ethnic-Palestinian.

Nabil Sadoun: A current CAIR board member, Sadoun has served on the board of the United Association for Studies and Research, which investigators believe to be a key Hamas front in America. In fact, Sadoun co-founded UASR with Hamas leader Marzook. The Justice Department added UASR to the list of unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land case.

Mohamed Nimer: CAIR's current research director also served as a board director for UASR, the strategic arm for Hamas in the U.S. (Tellingly, CAIR neglects to mention Nimer's and Sadoun's roles in UASR in their bios.)

Rafeeq Jaber: A founding director of CAIR, Jaber was the long-time president of the Islamic Association for Palestine. In 2002, a federal judge found that "the Islamic Association for Palestine has acted in support of Hamas." In his capacity as IAP chief, Jaber praised Hezbollah attacks on Israel. He also served on the board of a radical mosque in the Chicago area.

Rabith Hadid: The CAIR fund-raiser was a founder of the Global Relief Foundation, which after 9/11 was blacklisted by Treasury for financing al-Qaida and other terror groups. Its assets were frozen in December 2001. Hadid was arrested on terror-related charges and deported to Lebanon in 2003.

Siraj Wahhaj: A member of CAIR's board of advisers, Wahhaj was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The radical Brooklyn imam was close to convicted terrorist Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, and defended him during his trial.

Randall "Ismail" Royer: The former CAIR communications specialist and civil-rights coordinator is serving 20 years in prison in connection with the Virginia Jihad Network, which he led while employed by CAIR at its Washington headquarters. The group trained to kill U.S. soldiers overseas, cased the FBI headquarters, and cheered the space shuttle Columbia tragedy. Al-Qaida operative Ahmed Abu Ali, convicted of plotting to assassinate President Bush, was among those who trained with Royer's Northern Virginia cell.

Bassam Khafagi: Another CAIR official, Khafagi was arrested in 2003 while serving as CAIR's director of community affairs. He pleaded guilty to charges of bank and visa fraud stemming from a federal counterterror probe of his leadership role in the Islamic Assembly of North America, which has supported al-Qaida and advocated suicide attacks on America. He was sentenced to 10 months in prison and deported to his native Egypt.

Ghassan Elashi: One of CAIR's founding directors, he was convicted in 2004 of illegally shipping high-tech goods to terror state Syria, and is serving 80 months in prison. He's also charged with providing material support to Hamas in the Holy Land Foundation trial. He was chairman of the charity, which provided seed capital to CAIR. Elashi is related to Hamas leader Marzook.

Hamza Yusuf: The FBI investigated the CAIR board member after 9/11, because just two days before the attacks, he made an ominous prediction to a Muslim audience. "This country is facing a terrible fate and the reason for that is because this country stands condemned," Yusuf warned. "It stands condemned like Europe stood condemned because of what it did. And lest people forget, Europe suffered two world wars after conquering the Muslim lands."

Here's what you can do to help fight CAIR's censorship of Americans, from Brigitte Gabriel. If CAIR can succeed in this effort to silence Michael Savage, consider the chilling effect this will have on every talk radio host in America.

Meanwhile, the Jew-haters at Daily Kos root for CAIR.