Obama's Woods Fund.... $75,000 to ANNN, Where Khalidi condone the killing of armed Israelis.

Obama Served On The Board Of The Woods Fund When It Contributed $75,000 To Mona Khalidi's (AAAN) At Whose Conference in June, 2002 Rashid Khalidi said “…Killing civilians is a war crime. It’s a violation of international law.They are not soldiers. They’re civilians, they’re unarmed. The ones who are armed, the ones who are soldiers, the ones who are in occupation, that’s different.That’s resistance.”

"The New York Sun has obtained an audio recording of a speech Mr. Khalidi gave on June 7, 2002, at a conference of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. "

"While condemning violence against innocent civilians, which Mr. Khalidi said “means condemning Israel,”he appeared to condone the killing of armed Israelis in the next breath. "

“…Killing civilians is a war crime. It’s a violation of international law.They are not soldiers. They’re civilians, they’re unarmed. The ones who are armed, the ones who are soldiers, the ones who are in occupation, that’s different.That’s resistance,” Mr. Khalidi said.

"The text of Mr. Khalidi’s speech is posted on the Web site of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee with the above remarks omitted. "

From: SAID CHAIR AT COLUMBIA ALSO BACKED BY SAUDIS By ADAM DAIFALLAH Staff Reporter of the Sun http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2003/07/23&ID=Ar00103

"Obama Was A Director Of The Woods Fund Board From 1999 To Dec. 11, 2002, According To The Fund's Website. According To Tax Filings, Obama Received Compensation Of $6,000 Per Year For His Service In 1999 And 2000." (Aaron Klein, "Obama Served On Board That Funded Pro-Palestinian Group," The Jewish Press, 2/27/08)

NOTE: Khalidi Was A Member Of The Woods Fund Board. "Like Ayers and Obama, Khalidi was a member of the Woods Fund board..." (Edward McClelland, "The Crazy Uncles In Obama's Attic," Salon, 3/18/08)

" In 2001, The Woods Fund ... Provided A $40,000 Grant To The Arab American Action Network, Or AAAN, At Which Khalidi's Wife, Mona, Serves As President. The Fund Provided A Second Grant To AAAN For $35,000 In 2002." (Aaron Klein, "Obama Served On Board That Funded Pro-Palestinian Group," The Jewish Press, 2/27/08)

It's for that reason that I'm hoping that, for many years to come, we continue that conversation -- a conversation that is necessary not just around Mona and Rashid's dinner table,' but around 'this entire world.'" (Peter Wallsten, "Allies Of Palestinians See A Friend In Obama," Los Angeles Times, 4/10/08)

"At this point, Mr. Khalidi boiled over: “By God, I say that the participation of the sons or daughters of the Arabs in the plans and affairs of this institute is a huge error, this Israeli institute in Washington, an institute founded by AIPAC, the Zionist lobby, and that hosts tens of Israelis every year. The presence of an Arab or two each year can’t disguise the nature of this institute as the most important center of Zionist interests in Washington for at least a decade. " Rashid Khalidi

“I very much regret the participation of Arab officials and non-officials and academics in the activities of this institute, because in fact if you look at the output of this institute, it’s directed against the Palestinians, against the Arabs, and against the Muslims in general. Its products describe the Palestinians as terrorists, and in fact its basic function is to spread lies and falsehoods about the Arab world, of course under an academic, scholarly veneer. Basically, this is the most important Zionist propaganda tool in the United States.” Rashid Khalidi

By MARTIN KRAMER Mr.Kramer is editor of the Middle East Quarterly. (www.martinkramer.org) http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2004/01/06&ID=Ar00901

On December 11, Al-Jazeera’s program “From Washington” held a discussion on Middle Eastern studies in America. Chief guest: Professor Rashid Khalidi, the newlyseated incumbent of the Edward Said Chair in Arab Studies at Columbia University, and director of that university’s (government-subsidized) Middle East Institute. He said little that was original or surprising — until the end, when he blew a gasket and uttered the sort of thing he would only dare to say in Arabic. It happened like this.

At one point in the discussion, Khalidi criticized think tanks “that don’t want true dialogue with people whose views differ from their own, but who want to force their opinions on American citizens and the world.” He mentioned, by way of example, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, which he labeled “the fiercest of the enemies of the Arabs and the Muslims.”

The moderator,Hafiz al-Mirazi,played devil’s advocate. Hadn’t the institute often hosted Arabs and others holding diverse views? It had provided a podium for Nabil Amr, Palestinian information minister, as well as Egyptian presidential adviser Osama al-Baz. Just recently, Washington Institute mainstay David Makovsky had written a joint op-ed with an Egyptian writer from Al-Ahram (the reference was to Dr. Hala Mustafa, a visiting fellow),on democracy promotion in the Arab world.

At this point, Mr. Khalidi boiled over: “By God, I say that the participation of the sons or daughters of the Arabs in the plans and affairs of this institute is a huge error, this Israeli institute in Washington, an institute founded by AIPAC, the Zionist lobby, and that hosts tens of Israelis every year. The presence of an Arab or two each year can’t disguise the nature of this institute as the most important center of Zionist interests in Washington for at least a decade.

This is the intimidating language of Arab boycott, aimed against an institution with entirely American credentials. The Washington Institute is directed by Ambassador Dennis Ross, who was the chief Middle East peace negotiator in the presidential administrations of Presidents George H.W. Bush and Clinton. He has always been a model of balance (unlike Mr. Khalidi, whose forays into politics have always been to advise Yasser Arafat). The Washington Institute is run by Americans, and accepts funds only from American sources. (Contrast that with the donors of Mr. Khalidi’s chair,whose precise identities Columbia still refuses to reveal.)

And it is outrageous for Mr. Khalidi to denounce the Arabs who have come to the Washington Institute as blundering dupes. I was there in the fall, when the institute brought to the nation’s capital a group of Palestinian Fatah activists associated with the Tanzim (an invitation for which Mr. Ross took a lot of flak. While in Washington, D.C., these Palestinians said things that could hardly be squared with “Zionist propaganda.” Who is Mr. Khalidi to tell them they made a “huge error”? For its annual fall conference, the institute flew in three members of Iraq’s governing council, whose country would still be under Saddam Hussein’s iron rule if Mr.Khalidi had had his way. Who is he to tell them they made a “huge error”? The year before last, my stay coincided with that of Ali Salem, the Egyptian playwright who has faced down Egypt’s entire literary establishment, and who once was detained for his collaboration with a democracy activist, Saad Eddin Ibrahim. Who in the world is Mr. Khalidi to tell him that he made a “huge error”? I doubt these steel-belted Arabs would ever allow themselves to be intimidated by a pampered professor enjoying the full Columbia treatment.

I note that Mr.Khalidi has never made a comparable statement in English, probably for this reason: It would damage his reputation as a bridge-building moderate. To maintain that image, he’s even shared podiums with members of the Washington Institute (see his smiling mug with David Makovsky). However, Khalidi in Arabic,on Al-Jazeera,is someone else altogether. There he is the bridge-burner, the zealot who would warn other Arabs away from the Washington Institute because it is “Israeli,” and a “Zionist propaganda tool.”Behold, Arab-style McCarthyism.

Mr. Khalidi’s crude outburst won’t stop the caravan, but it does put yet another question mark alongside his name. I have never called him an apologist for terrorism, and I respect some of his historical scholarship. However, I once heard him speak to a predominantly Arab audience, and it alarmed me. This latest statement confirms something I’ve suspected ever since: He isn’t all he appears to be. Caveat emptor — buyer beware. (Too late for Columbia, but not for the rest of us.)

And speaking of Columbia, what has Mr. Khalidi done to promote what he calls “true dialogue” since his September enthronement in the Edward Said Chair? Two Israelis — academic post-Zionists — spoke at his institute this past semester. He and they would have nodded in agreement over Israel’s alleged misdeeds. I don’t think that’s good enough, and it leaves me wondering (again) why his institute receives what the Washington Institute doesn’t: a $400,000-a-year Title VI handout from the American taxpayer. It’s a dubious mechanism that puts such a hefty subsidy at the disposal of an Arab boycotter. It really should be fixed.

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NEED HELP!!! Need help to find out if Obama was in attendance at this ANNN conference on June 7, 2002 when Khalidi made these remarks! Anyone add to this report as soon as possible before the election!!! Thanks

4 posted on 11/01/2008 12:24:18 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)

Thanks,..been looking at a couple of the articles on Axelrod. ..there...good site..

FR thread with links on Ayers:

AYERS Link Page [Vanity/no chitchat please]

ALERT!!!!

My mistake! Article Title should read AAAM

Arab American Action Network | aaan.org

The Conference where Rashid Khalidi spoke on June 7, 2002 was at AAAM Conference NOT ANNN!

I was in too much of a hurry when I posted the article title, sorry!

11 posted on 11/01/2008 2:56:37 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")

Said referred to himself as a "Christian wrapped in a Muslim culture". He experienced a crisis of identity growing up and was quoted as saying that:

With an unexceptionally Arab family name like Said connected to an improbably British first name (my mother much admired the Prince of Wales in 1935, the year of my birth), I was an uncomfortably anomalous student all through my early years: a Palestinian going to school in Egypt, with an English first name, an American passport and no certain identity at all.
[From Wikipedia]
So it is natural to find two totally mixed up individuals sitting at the same table.

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