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An eye on the groups that try to stifle free debate about Palestine

NGO Monitor creates fake controversy over EI articles in attack on Democrat think-tank

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sat, 12/31/2011 - 03:05

NGO Monitor, the Israeli far-right group that wages campaigns of defamation against organizations that don’t toe their anti-Palestinian line, has launched a new campaign against the Center for American Progress, a Washington think-tank tied to the Democratic Party.

The campaign has also been joined by Commentary, the far-right publication notorious for its anti-Palestinian sentiment.

Complaint filed over secret donors to "friends of Israel"

Submitted by david on Wed, 12/28/2011 - 17:33
Electoral Commission in UK asked to investigate omissions in financial information for influential Zionist groups.

Commentary encourages students to accuse faculty who criticize Israel of "pedagogical intimidation" (UPDATED)

Submitted by Abraham Greenhouse on Tue, 12/27/2011 - 18:29

In an oped published Friday, Commentary magazine, the leading journal of neoconservative political analysis, offered advice to anti-Palestinian activists on “how to handle” professors who criticize Israeli policies.

"When they rape you don't object": Israeli "satire" show incites hatred of Muslims, Europeans

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Tue, 12/27/2011 - 11:33

The popular Israeli web-based satirical show LatmaTV has released a musical video containing crude anti-Muslim stereotypes and mocking Europeans as “dummies” for supposedly allowing their countries to be taken over by Islam and turned into “Eurabia.”

In one sequence, a Norwegian father tells his blonde daughter about Muslims: “When they rape you don’t object for that is politically incorrect.”

Anti-Palestinian group StandWithUs attempts to smear me but ends up with egg on its face

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Fri, 12/23/2011 - 23:19

StandWithUs, the anti-Palestinian group that works closely with the Israeli government to smear, sue and censor the Palestine solidarity movement, attempted to smear me today but instead ended up with egg on its face.

The secret CST documents that smeared anti-Zionist Jews as extremists

Submitted by Asa Winstanley on Wed, 12/21/2011 - 21:12
Containing the full documentation, this blog entry is a companion piece to my special report on the CST: “UK charity with Mossad links secretly denounced anti-Zionist Jews to government”.

Is UK "friends of Israel" group breaking law on political funding?

Submitted by david on Mon, 12/19/2011 - 20:23
Labor Friends of Israel refuse to disclose where they get their money.

Israel's Reut Institute claims "price tag" attacks on EI, Irvine 11 and Palestine Return Centre

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Thu, 12/15/2011 - 19:05

Israel’s Reut Institute, which notoriously called on Israeli government agencies to “sabotage” and “attack” the Palestine solidarity movement – and then tried to conceal it – is claiming credit for “price tag” attacks on The Electronic Intifada, the Palestine Return Centre, the Irvine 11 and others.

Israel as a spurned Facebook friend: the worst propaganda video ever?

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sun, 12/04/2011 - 18:23

A new Israel propaganda video uses a Facebook motif to present Israel as the eternal victim of unremitting violence and enmity while skipping over Israel’s record of ethnic cleansing, occupation, colonization, violence and official hatred against Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims.

Hollywood actors to visit Israel on a trip co-sponsored by AIPAC

Submitted by Nora Barrows-Fr... on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 04:26
Hollywood actors and industry executives are due to take part in an Israeli propaganda delegation this week, as the Israeli government and US lobbies continue to attempt to stifle the arts and culture boycott against Israeli apartheid.

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