The latest Carter smear and Anti-Arab racism
Posted on January 26 2007 by Cecilie Surasky under Foundation for the Defense of Democracies , Jimmy Carter.Not content to just call him an anti-Semite, a plagiarist or a liar, now the shock
troops of the necon revolution are accusing our most favorite former president of selling himself to — who else? — the Arabs.
Did Jimmy Carter do it for the money? That’s the question making the rounds about Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, an anti-Israeli screed recently written by the ex-president whose Carter Center has accepted millions in Arab funding.
So begins Claudia Rosett in the outrageous The Question of Carter’s Cash in the latest National Review. Who is Claudia Rosett? And why does she shamelessly use anti-Arab racism to make her attack? (They use the photo above to make you afraid. Very afraid.)
Rosett is a paid “journalist” for the prominent Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. The group’s friends and advisors read like a who’s who of the neconservative universe, with everyone from Newt Gingrich, James Woolsey and Jeanne Kirkpatrick (now deceased) to William Kristol, Richard Perle and Gary Bauer.
According to Sourcewatch, FDD started out as Emet: An Educational Initiative, Inc., “to offer Israel the kind of PR that the Israeli government seemed unable to provide itself.” (As though one more hasbara group could really solve Israel’s image problems.) But they fell apart, and after 9/11 were reborn as the FDD, with a new identity but a similar more covert mission. Rightweb has even more in-depth information.
It’s one thing to defend Israel…
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February 3rd, 2007 at 10:54 am
It’s time for AIPAC to be “outted” as the modern mafia that it truly is… a NON-registered foreign agent such as AIPAC is subversive to the United States of America. Frankly, AIPAC is also hurting Israel . All peaceful peoples must “out” AIPAC so that it loses its Non-Profit Organization and tax exempt status.
February 3rd, 2007 at 1:18 pm
[…] We reported earlier on the story being peddled by the neoconservative Foundation for the Defense of Democracies that Carter was bought and paid for by Arab donors. For anyone who knows anything about the Nobel-peace-prize-winning-Habitat-for-Humanity-promoting-Sunday-school-teaching ex-president, that theory makes absolutely perfect sense. Of course he wrote Palestine: Peace not Apartheid for the 2.7% of Carter Center donations that come from Arab donors (74% of which go towards environmental programs in Africa and elections in Palestine , rest going to the Carter Center’s endowment and building costs). That is SO like Carter. […]
February 9th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
[…] (By the way, he was invited to UC by the campus chapter of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, which as we reported earlier, is part of the “Carter was bought by Arabs” smear campaign.) […]
March 1st, 2007 at 12:10 am
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) is just a re-incarnation of PNAC ! These “war mills” oughtta be RICO’d !