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Nicosia, Cyprus - On Monday, a movement known as FreeGaza.org held a press conference in Nicosia, Cyprus, in which a group of 40 people from around the world announced that they would board two small boats to travel by sea to Gaza to "break the siege" that Israel has placed upon Gaza. There was no acknowledgement that in June of 2007, the Hamas regime took over Gaza and formalized a total state of war against Israel with the aim of liberating all of Palestine and using Gaza as a stepping stone to recoup any and all land ruled by the Jewish state. With increasing boatloads of Iranian military hardware landing on the Gaza coastline, the Israeli navy was forced to impose an embargo of goods coming into Gaza. Israel offered to oversee goods and services for humanitarian needs in Gaza, by allowing specified supervised land crossings for supply to Gaza. The press conference, held at “Journalist House” in Nicosia, was launched with an opening statement by an Israeli American Jerusalem resident, Jeff Halper, who alleged that Israel was behaving in defiance of international law by closing shipping lanes to Gaza. He also claimed that the people of Gaza faced a severe shortage of milk and medical supplies. By coincidence or not, pro-Palestinian movements around the world have designated this Friday and Saturday as a time of solidarity with their cause. Indeed, an international Palestinian solidarity conference will convene this coming weekend at Wyndam Ohare Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, where a coalition of fifty Arab groups will gather under the umbrella of the first “Palestinian Popular Conference in North America.” The theme of the conference, promoted in all of their publicity, leaves no room for the imagination: “Ending Zionist occupation and colonization of Palestine.
This weekend, the “Popular Palestinian Conference 2008” will be held in Chicago, and if past is prologue, a slew of anti-Israel propaganda will be part of the repertoire. The organizers make no effort to conceal their nefarious intentions, titling one of the workshops [emphasis added], “Inserting Palestine into High School Curricula in the US & Empowering Students to Challenge Dominant Narratives” and subtitling the conference, “Palestinians in the US: Reclaiming Our Voice, Asserting Our Narrative.” Unfortunately, this “narrative” is a false one in which Israel is the oppressor, the Palestinians its perpetual victims, and the United States an accomplice in crime. Various Middle East studies academics will be on hand to help propagate this fictitious narrative. UC Berkeley lecturer Hatem Bazian, a skilled propagandist for Palestinian victimhood in the classroom and a radical activist outside it (he called for an “Intifada in this country!” at a 2004 anti-war rally in One of them, former University of South Florida computer science professor Sami Al-Arian, who pled guilty in 2006 to conspiring to provide goods and services to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and who awaits an August 13 trial for criminal contempt, will be represented on the panel by his daughter, Laila Al-Arian. Al-Arian has enjoyed unstinting support from the Middle East studies establishment, particularly founding director of Georgetown University’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, John Esposito. Unmoved by the murder of innocent civilians by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Esposito penned a letter last month to the presiding judge urging that Al-Arian be granted bond and describing him as “a man of conscience with a strong commitment to peace and social justice.” Al-Arian’s radicalism is nothing new: at a 1991 commemoration of the Palestinian Intifada featuring Islamic Jihad spiritual leader Abdel-Aziz Odeh, he called Jews “apes and pigs.” Wayne State University anthropologist Thomas Abowd will moderate the “political prisoners” panel. This is fitting, for Abowd fashions himself the victim of what his supporters call “right-wing Zionist elements on campus.” But Abowd is hardly impartial. He is affiliated with the radical group Anti-Racist Action (ARA-WSU), whose members have accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing” and pro-Israel groups at Wayne State of practicing “white supremacist politics,” along with defending the use of a swastika to equate Israel with Nazi Germany at one of their rallies. Abowd spoke at “Palestine Awareness Week,” an anti-Israel event at the University of Michigan in February 2008. Several students who attended Abowd’s lecture described in a Michigan Daily op-ed his hostile and dismissive attitude towards a student who dared ask a challenging question. Abowd, as they put it, “smirked and glared” and “used scare tactics to intimidate and to alienate the student and to negate the importance of his question.” The conference ends with the panel, “One-State Solution to the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict.” The so-called one state solution is really just a fig-leaf for the destruction of Israel. There’s no evidence that the Palestinian political leadership has any inclination towards the sort of multi-religious, multi-ethnic democratic nation envisioned by “one-state solution” proponents. The pathological hatred towards Jews, persecution of Christians, advocacy of Sharia law, indoctrination of children, and violence among rival Palestinian clans and terrorist groups all demonstrate the danger to Israel that lies down this path. Yet some scholars advocate the “one-state solution” in spite of these glaring obstacles. Jennifer Loewenstein, associate director of the Middle East studies program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be one of the conference panelists doing just that. In a March 2008 article for the rabidly anti-Israel, far-left publication Counterpunch with the ridiculous title, “Gazan Holocaust,” Loewenstein asserts that “Israel and its U.S. Master have long since resided in the lowest circle of Hell for betraying the name of humanity.” No word from Loewenstein on the betrayals of humanity by the Palestinians, both towards Israelis and each other. Another panelist, Tomis Kapitan, chair and professor in the Department of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University, displays a similar blind spot. In a 2004 paper on the Arab-Israeli conflict, Kapitan waxes philosophically about the “reciprocal” nature of Arab terrorism, calls the suggestion that “cultural or religious beliefs” motivate suicide bombings “incredible,” and concludes that “the maximalists in charge of Israeli policy and their supporters in the United States and elsewhere, are chiefly to blame for the ongoing cycle of violence.” Panelist Seif Da’Na, professor of sociology and international studies at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, takes a Marxist, populist approach. In a 2001 Media Monitors Network article, Da’Na calls for a “Palestinian liberation strategy” and urges activists to view the “Palestinian struggle against Israel…in the larger context of the struggle to bring human dignity and social justice to the world.” Surely “human dignity” and “social justice” would first need to be established within before serving as some sort of shining beacon to the world, but Da’Na overlooks this minor matter. So too do conference organizers, who, as part of pushing their “narrative,” bemoan the 60th anniversary of “al Nakba,” the Arabic word for “catastrophe” used to describe the creation of the modern state of Israel in 1948. But the “60 Years of Catastrophe” trumpeted at the conference website would more appropriately be placed upon the heads of Palestinian and regional Arab leadership. They have perpetuated a constant state of victimhood and refugee status while fomenting chaos and violence. Palestinians are the second largest per capita recipients of foreign aid in the world, yet precious few resources have been dedicated to the building of a functioning civil society. In fact, rising levels of violence can be directly correlated to rising levels of aid. The current civil war between Fatah and Hamas and the resultant human rights abuses are just the latest examples. If the Palestinians in the U.S. that conference organizers profess to represent, and Middle East studies academics sympathetic to their cause, truly wanted to effect a just resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, they would start looking within for answers. Instead, such conferences simply peddle propaganda intended to demonize Israel. Those seeking the truth would do well to steer clear. See photos of the newest ISM recruits: http://www.rachelgolem.com:80/mossad.htm FLASH!!! U.S. Neutrality Act Violated by Gaza Boat Organizers Shurat HaDin Warns California AG Do your part to put Paul LaRudee in jail for assisting terrorists! Stop the ISM! If you want peace in the Middle East, that will help do it. Stop Hamas! FLASH!!!! Paul LaRudee of Norcal ISM, deported from Israel due to our efforts in 2006 is now trying to get a flotilla together of as many ISM creeps as possible in order to enter Gaza by sea against the Israeli Navy in order to open up the shipping lanes for the importation of more weapons to kill Israelis by Hamas. The scheduled date for setting sail is August 5th from Cyprus. Riad Hamad, in the story below, the head of Palestine Childrens Welfare Fund was found murdered in Texas on July 14th. Hamad, who appointed LaRudee his fundraising chairman for this flotilla as probably killed by Hamas for attracting to much attention for the FBI over money laundering for Hamas. LaRudee, whose pathology against Israel is a complete mental illness, has been running around like a brass monkey promoting this flotilla. It is up to all Americans, Israelis and people for democratic free societies worldwide to stop LaRudee and his terrorist support gang that is really run by the Palestinian Arabs. These are some of the ISM creeps who plan to be on this journey: Huwaida Arraf, Patrick Connors, Greta Berlin, Adam Shapiro, Dorothy Naor, Brian Malovany, Lisa Nessan, Hedy Epstein, among other professional ISM activists. Many of these have been deported already from Israel. Of course, the simplest and best solution would be for one missile to sink this ship and get rid of the ISM all together, but we realize thats not going to happen. So we are asking all of those concerned to contact the Embassy of Cypress in Washington, D.C. and New York City and demand that this ship not be allowed to use Cypriot ports to make this jounrney to aid Hamas. At the same time, call the Diplomatic Security Service division of the US State Department and tell them about this and demand the US passports of participants also be held back from travel to Cyprus or Egypt because this group aims to aid Hamas. Likewise, contact your congresspeople and demand that they do something to prevent this "voyage" from occuring. The question also arises where the money came from for this event. Paul LaRudee has claimed he needed $300,000 to charter a boat. Last time he spoke about it he claimed to raise only $50,000. Where is the extra $250,000 coming from? Money was first to be sent to Riad Hamad's Palestine Children's Welfare Fund then later everything was sent to Paul LaRudee's home address in El Cerrito, California. The IRS in all its wisdom gave non-profit status to NorCal ISM last December without realizing the money was going for such a support- for -Hamas event. IN turn, readers here are urged to write the IRS criminal investigations unit and file a complaint for charities fraud, as well as the California Attorney Generals Office as well for the same purpose. FLASH!!!! RIAD HAMAD, the head of ISM NGO front Palestine Children's Welfare Fund was found murdered today, July 17th, 2008 in Texas. Hamad had tried suing various news agencies that identified the support of his organization for terrorism and suicide bombings but ended up paying over $50,000 in sanctions for his frivolous lawsuit. More details below: AUSTIN, Texas -- Police on Thursday identified a man who was found bound with duct tape in Lady Bird Lake in East Austin. Parkgoers discovered the body of Riad Hamad, 55, Wednesday afternoon just east of the Interstate 35 bridge near Festival Beach. Hamad was a computer teacher at Small Middle School and had been planning a trip to Palestine to teach children there. Witnesses who found Hamad said the man had duct tape on his face, and his hands were tied. Police have called the death suspicious. Investigators on Thursday said family and other sources have told them that Hamad was suicidal... Hamad ran the Palestine Children's Welfare Fund (PCWF), a radical Gaza-based "charity" that helped children by teaching them to hate Jews. He sued a number of people and entities like David Horowitz, NGO Monitor and others, lost big and had to pay court costs. On January 17, 2007, a Texas Federal Court judge dismissed as "wholly frivolous" and "baseless" Palestine Children's Welfare Fund (PCWF) Riad ElSolh Hamad's defamation suit against NGO Monitor, Frontpage Jerusalem, the Center for Study of Popular Culture and others. Hamad charged the organizations had defamed him and violated his constitutional and civil rights linking him and his charity in newspaper and Internet articles to Islamic fundamentalist terror. In addition to dismissing Hamad's claims as "groundless", United States District Court Judge, Sam Sparks, leveled Rule 11 sanctions against Hamad and ordered him to pay defendants' attorney's fees and costs totaling almost $60,000 as well as a $1000 fine to each defendant for Hamad's repeated violation of court orders... NGO Monitor's report on the PCWF: ...these worthy goals are being undermined by the promotion of an atmosphere of hatred and violence. There is no humanitarian justification for publishing drawings by small children depicting the burning maps of the State of Israel. The T-shirt on sale with the poem alluding to martyrdom only helps to push Palestinian children deeper into more misery. The message board includes outrageous claims that reflect the propaganda of those wishing to pursue the conflict without end. On the basis of this evidence, one can conclude that this NGO raises its funds on false premises, and that its activities are a far cry from the purely humanitarian mission claimed in its mission statement. According to Discover the Networks: ...Hamad has said, "Britain allowed several hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to land in Palestine, despite the opposition of the original inhabitants. In our opinion, [the Jews] arrived illegally and will be deported to their nation of origin...sooner or later." He has also suggested that it is a misconception to assume "that most of us Arabs recognize the right of Israel to exist." The FBI has investigated Hamad on a number of occasions. His resume includes being fired from Austin Community College for allegedly "making racist slurs and sexist jokes in the classroom." In Hamad's version of the event, however, he explains that he was in fact fired for "making statements against the U.S. government." Hamad is currently an instructor at a different school, in his words, "till I get fired again." Or he's murdered, apparently [Update: See below]. More about PCWF in this piece at FrontPage by Joe Kaufman. Update: The Texas Scribbler links to the police press release [PDF] noting that: ...tape was found around the eyes, and the hands and legs were loosely bound. The bindings of his hands and legs and placement of the tape were consistent with Hamad having done this to himself. Detectives know that Hamad walked from his vehicle to the water on his own based on evidence retrieved from the scene. Perhaps he was on the target list for Hamas due to his failure and exposure? It should be noted that Hamad also was organizing the upcoming Gaza Flotilla by the ISM and was accepting donations for this. FLASH!!!!! Our story begins with one, Richard David Hupper, who was already serving time for passport fraud -- looks like he tried to get a new passport under a false name ( standard ISM tactic) in order to get back into Israel after he was banned for his activities with the International Solidarity Movement -- then they dragged him out of his cell and charged him with "giving about $20,000 to a group he knew supported Hamas.": Local man aided Hamas A York County native who traveled to the war-torn Middle East to work with Palestinians will be sentenced in federal court this month for aiding a terrorist organization. Richard David Hupper, 32, was charged with giving about $20,000 to a group he knew supported Hamas, the Palestinian military and political organization, according to court documents and his defense lawyer. It is a crime to give money to Hamas, or to groups that support it, because it is considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. government. Hupper pleaded guilty in May. The Leader Heights, York Township, native likely will be sentenced to about five years, his lawyer said. Hupper's defense attorney, Neal R. Lewis, a Reading native who works in Florida, said the charges stem from Hupper's donations to a nonprofit agency that, in turn, supports Hamas. He saw his mission as a humanitarian cause and wanted his donations to support the families of Palestinians who had been detained or killed, Lewis said... ...The charges against Hupper came more than a year after he pleaded guilty to attempting to obtain a passport using false information, a case that is related to his work with the Palestinians, Lewis said. Hupper had been in Israel working with Palestinians, but the Israeli government kicked him out. He wanted to go back, so he tried to get a passport using someone else's name, Social Security number and a forged birth certificate, and he was arrested, according to court documents... ...Hupper, who last lived in York County about six years ago, decided to involve himself in the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis while he was in Alabama working as a machinist, Lewis said. While in Alabama, Hupper was injured at work, and he spent much of his time off watching TV, including international news, Lewis said. Hupper decided he wanted to travel to the Gaza Strip with the goal to help the Palestinian people... ...Hupper traveled to Israel, where he actively worked with a non-governmental agency to aid Palestinians impacted by the Middle East conflict, Lewis said. He was eventually ordered to leave Israel and returned to Florida after a stop in Jordan. After spending some time in Florida, he decided he wanted to return to his work with Palestinians, and that's when he applied for the passport with false information. Prosecutors agreed to recommend a light sentence on the passport charges, according to court documents. Hupper, who is in a Miami federal prison, was sentenced to serve a total of 24 months for those charges. His release date is set for November. With the latest charges, Hupper faces more time in prison -- a maximum of 15 years -- and $250,000 in fines. But because he has admitted to his crime and pleaded guilty, it's likely he will be sentenced to about five years, Lewis said. Unemployed machinist donates $20k to group working with Hamas...OK... But who are the non-profit and the NGO mentioned in the article? Who was he working with? Well that's where the International Solidarity Movement comes in. You remember Paul Larudee, the "piano tuner"...oh, and also big-wig with the ISM? (He was also, BTW, one of the last people to speak [see Larudee comment] to Riad Hamad before his suicide.) Well he provides more information, courtesy of an exchange over an ISM email list. Looks like the ISM itself plays in here, and may be either an unindicted co-conspirator in the case, or -- dare we hope -- perhaps something more. Photo of LaRudee available in our Rogues Gallery Attached is a proposed letter to send to mailing lists, which can also be adapted for email lists. It refers to information coming out of a case reported in the Leader Heights Daily Record, shown at the end of this message. Tom Nelson, the lawyer for ISM-Northern California and the Free Gaza Movement, has managed to get some additional info, including the fact that ISM is the "nonprofit agency" referenced in the article, and that at least one individual in ISM-Palestine has been named. ISM-Palestine is doing its own research on this, and it is best if we do not ask them to report back to us until they are ready. It seems that the convicted individual, Richard David Hupper, may have joined ISM as a volunteer and been later asked to leave because his actions were inconsistent with ISM principles, but even that is uncertain. Nevertheless, it seems likely that the U.S. is considering action against ISM, probably with Israeli prodding. The Free Gaza Movement suspects that this is the latest in a series of attempts (the fifth, to be precise) to thwart and discredit its project to send boats to Gaza. The objective would be to time the placement of ISM on the terrorism sponsor list at the time the boats sail, in order to discredit the effort. [As if the US government would take such a step just to stop their idiotic boats. -S] Tom suggests that a good way for us to deal with this in the U.S. is to mobilize public pressure on Congress. Hence the attached letter, which has been drafted by him, Greta Berlin and myself. ISM-Northern California is having a Newsletter mailing session Wednesday evening, so I suggest we try to complete discussion of this in time to be able to send out the letters at that session. List member Patrick Connors didn't think it was a good idea to talk about this: ...I really strongly request that none of this information not be shared any further at this point - the article, this draft letter, etc. - on listservs or with anyone else. And I think it was not a good idea for Paul to have sent this email. Sharing this information on lists about this sensitive information contradicts previous email discussions about holding off until we have more info, and I am troubled to see that people have taken unilateral actions on this nonetheless. Again, people are gathering information on this at this point, and I request that everyone hold off on any actions or even on emailing on this sensitive topic, especially to email lists, until more information is collected... Oops. Larudee disagrees: This is not a unilateral action and in fact it's not an action at all. It's a proposal for action, which is being presented for consensus. Except for two items of information, it is all in the public domain, i.e. published in a newspaper. The remaining two items are that ISM was named, which is essential information that is likely to soon be public anyway, because it was given to me by a reporter, and that a person was named, which is about as vague as it is possible to get... He clearly thinks ISM is at risk of being put on the terror sponsor list: ...we do not have the kind of information needed to refute allegations, so we shouldn't try to. However, we definitely want to have the opportunity to refute allegations before ISM is designated a terrorism sponsor, not after, and that is what the proposed letter and the campaign is intended to accomplish. All it asks is for ISM to be permitted to remain off the list until an investigation includes ISM testimony, which would include the kind of information that Pat wants to have. There's nothing controversial about this request, and our experience with members of Congress in the Bay Area is that they will not have a problem asking for this... I frankly think it's a bit much to hope for, but you never know. Here is a PDF copy of the letter they circulated, note that the file name is theirs: ISM in grave danger.pdf We at Stop the ISM await further developments. We have always felt that a case could be made for naming ISM as a terror sponsoring group, or whatever the legal term of art is, but questioned whether anyone in government felt it was worth bothering with. Hopefully, if it happens, they'll have all of their evidentiary ducks well in a row. Stay tuned. By the way, Paul LaRudee admitted to engaging in passport fraud in the summer of 2006. Call your local offices of the Diplomatic Security Service and the FBI and demand he be arrested for the same crimes as committed by Hupper. Read about The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation (the new name for ISM-USA with same leadership) and thier cease and desist letter to Lee Kaplan of Stop the ISM:
ISRAELI POLICE INEPTITUDE CONTRIBUTES TO THE ISM's SHENANIGANS. READ THIS IMPORTANT ARTICLE BY CAROLINE GLICK: Anatomy of a massacre FLASH!!! Adam Shapiro, key founder of the ISM is now in Israel under assumed name working to assist terrorist groups. Shapiro, banned from Israel for at least five years, somehow managed to elude the border control, now in the country illegally.
Above is Shapiro with ISM co-founder/wife "Heidi " Huwaida Aaraf. Shapiro plotting against Israel at ISM media office Shapiro claims he is nonviolent but supports armed resistance against Israel. He has also said he no longer considers himself a Jew, but claims he is one in attacking Israel's existence. ---------------------------------------- Barbara Lubin of Middle East Childrens Alliance, the main money launderer for the ISM in the US throught the A.J. Must Foundation is also in the Judea and Samaria right now working and plotting with her associates in the Dheshieh Camp. Her associate Mona al-Farrah has said all her patients are terrorists. These are bad people running around in Israel and they probably changed their names to get in. ---------------------------------------- For those of you who care about stopping the Arab fascist attempt to destroy democratic Israel by subterfuge, please write the IRS Criminal Investigations Unit at the address below and demand they investigate why Paul LaRudee and his ISM Support Group in Northern California were given non-profit tax exemption to raise money that is going to finance a flotilla to help the Hamas by trying to run the IDF Navy blockade of Gaza to help smuggle weapons in for Hamas. LaRudee was deported from Israel for Hamas connections and has openly worked to aid Hizballah, all known Foreign Terrorist Organizations. No doubt he lied on his application and he is also violating anti-terror laws in the US by training individuals to go abroad and aid terrorist groups. Write to: IRS- EO Classification 4910 DAL 1100 Commerce Street Dallas TX 75242-1198 Attn: Criminal investigations UC Police look the other way at ISM guns on campus. Violation state, federal law By Lee Kaplan Wednesday, May 14, 2008
For the full text of the statute, scroll to the bottom of the link by clicking here: Moreover, University of California code 40.10 states that “University
properties shall be used only in accordance with federal, state, and
local laws and shall not be used for the purpose of organizing or
carrying out unlawful activity." Another code 70.50 adds that registered student groups (including Students for Justice in Palestine and Muslim Students Association) must respect state and Federal law.
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