Posted on 07/10/2003 7:48:40 PM PDT by Vigilant1
Before Jeanne Butterfield became director of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, she was the executive director of the Palestine Solidarity Committee?a front group for the terror gang known as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, or PFLP.
You may recall that it was Ms. Butterfield who said, just after a group of young men on student visas flew planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, "I don't think that the events of last week can be attributed to the failure of our immigration laws."
To understand Ms. Butterfield's history is to understand the newer and downright irresponsible positions taken by AILA. Before she was elected director of AILA, Jeanne Butterfield was executive director of the Palestine Solidarity Committee, the group that acted as a front for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in much the same way that Sinn Fein acted as a representative of the Irish Republican Army -- but without participating in electoral politics and representative government as Sinn Fein has.
Instead, the Palestine Solidarity Committee seems to have devoted its efforts to apologizing for the PFLP and campaigning to isolate Israel, specifically U.S. aid to Israel.
But its defense of terror did not stop with the action of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. David Horowitz noted in a 1991 National Review article that the Palestine Solidarity Committee was "one of the few groups in the world supporting Saddam's rape of Kuwait."
The Palestine Solidarity Committee was formerly known as the November 29th Committee for Palestine (November 29th is the "International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People"). The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (search) said the following in a 1983 report: "Close observation and analysis of the activities of the November 29 (committee) indicates that it appears to be a de facto alliance between U.S. adherents of the Popular Front...and the (Trotskyist) Workers World Party (of New York)..."
by Charles at 03:15 PM PST
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