[lit-ideas] Re: If Americans Knew
- From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:49:41 -0400
Sorry, there was also this sentence about Alison Weir.
"An article by Alison Weir claimed that Israelis beat American activists
for walking Arab children to school in Gaza (with no proof that the
thugs were Israelis, since the assailants were hooded and robbed the
victims). "
Ursula (trying to stay on the correct side of correct)
Ursula Stange wrote:
This is even worse than the first site you sent us to, Stan.
First, this is all it said about Weir:
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When I arrived at the conference, I looked over the information
tables. One table offered what can only be described as anti-Israel,
anti-U.S. propaganda in the guise of scholarly and professional
research society materials. On the bulletin board was a business card
for Alison Weir’s IfAmericansKnew.org, an anti-Israel *Web site*
<http://www.ifamericansknew.org/> claiming that America’s support of
Israel should be terminated, and that a Palestinian state should
replace Israel. The site uses misleading statistics to push its
hateful message. For instance, the chart depicting American aid to
Israel and the Arab world ignores the fact that, while Palestinians
receive less U.S. aid than Israel does, the Arab world as a whole gets
much more; in addition, aid to Israel is reciprocated through new
technology. Also, the Web site’s statistics on Palestinian casualties
include suicide bombers and armed combatants as “civilian casualties.”
Weir has also distorted history in the past. She once called a
massacre of 60 yeshiva students in Hebron in 1929 by Arabs an “Arab
uprising” against Jewish oppression – even before Israel existed.
Manipulation of statistics to advance political goals for foreign
dictatorships should not be welcome at an academic conference.
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The first paragraph is half cribbed from the first site you sent us
to. And the second paragraph is nonsense. You don't have to be a
'state' to oppress someone.
If this is the best you can do to refute the IfAmericansKnew website,
I'm not impressed.
U.
Stan Spiegel wrote:
In the article on 'If Americans Knew' in Wikipedia, several external
links are given. One is by "Scholars for Terror," which gives a
pretty scary view of Alison Weir, the freelance journalist behind "If
Americans Knew." I suggest you take a look at that.
Stan Spiegel
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