How Obama?s church and associates link him to the International Solidarity Movement

Canada Free Press ^ | Tuesday, April 1, 2008 | Lee Kaplan

[Winged Hussar]

...an article has appeared on the ISM affiliated website Electronic Intifada (EI) by one of its co-founders, Ali Abunimah, in which Abumimah recounts his close past working relationship with Obama prior to the presidential campaign and how Abunimah believes Obama is merely giving lip service to the Jewish community to get elected, and that once in office he will work for the Palestinian cause. Abunimah lists himself and is mentioned in subsequent Obama articles in the mainstream press merely as a “Palestinian activist.” Abunimah insists that Obama will “come around” once elected.

But Ali Abunimah is more than just some “Palestinian activist” based in Chicago, the same location as Reverend Wright and the Trinity United Church of Christ. He is, in fact, one of the founders of the fiercely anti-Semitic ISM Arab group Al Awda, the Palestine Right of Return Coalition. Abunimah is a high level international leader of the ISM for the Arabs who travels extensively between Chicago, Europe and Ramallah.

Al Awda in Arabic means “The Return,” and the group not only calls for the complete destruction of Israel, even denying Israel’s current existence on its website and urging boycotts against not only Israelis, but American Jews and their businesses, but also calls for specifically supporting Arab terrorists in Iraq who kill US soldiers.

...Al Awda’s anti-Semitism has also linked to neo-Nazi groups in promoting the boycott and divestment from Israel on American campuses and in the US business community.

...In short, Obama saw no problem being lobbied in the past by someone who openly promotes terrorism and discrimination against Jewish-Americans.

[Winged Hussar]

Lee Kaplan's research is consistent with material hosted on Barack Obama's own Web site, my.barackobama.com, over which Obama exercises complete editorial control. See http://husaria.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/obama-web-site-hosts-the-final-solution-to-the-jewish-state-problem/ for but one example from Tony Wicher's "Blog for Peace," in which he advocates the elimination of Israel as a Jewish state.

Kaplan's research is also consistent with the Trinity United Church of Christ official bulletin hosting opinion pieces from a Hamas terrorist (http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=536), accusations that Israel worked with South Africa to develop an "ethnic bomb" to kill Black people and Arabs (http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=551 includes screen shot and a link to the TUCC bulletin), and Jeremiah Wright's placement of quotation marks around "state" of Israel, as in "so-called State of Israel"--the same position taken by Al Awda. (http://husaria.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/obamas-church-and-the-state-of-israel/ has a screen shot of "state" of Israel right over Jeremiah Wright's signature.)

Hey, Jeremiah Wright: God BLESS America: McCain '08

[Winged Hussar]

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A long but excellent article.

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