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Today's
Stories
October 15,
2005
Alexander Cockburn
Ayatollahs
of the Apocalypse
October 14,
2005
Farrah Hassen
A
Somber Ramadan in Syria
Ron Jacobs
The
Black Panthers: They Haven't Forgotten; Neither Should We
Sasha Kramer
USAID
and Haiti: the Friendly Face of Imperialism?
Katrina Yeaw
The Student Struggle in Italy
Nicole Colson
Bird Flu: Militarizing Health Care
Raúl Zibechi
Survival and Existence in El Alto
Nikolas Kozloff
Hugo
Chávez and the Politics of Race
Website of the Day
LA Filmmakers Collective
October 13, 2005
Jeremy Scahill
Mr.
Bush Goes to Tikrit (Sort Of)
Jeff Birkenstein
A
Thoreau for Our Time: Why Cindy Sheehan Matters
Brendan Smith / Jeremy Brecher
Harriet Miers: Bush or the Constitution?
Stan Cox
Did You Know This About Iraq?
Anis Memon
The Curious Case of Russ Feingold
Gary Leupp
Miller, Libby and the June Notes
Dave Zirin
A Tribute to August Wilson
Matthew Koehler
America's Endangered Forests
Werther
The
Two-Headed Monster
Website of
the Day
Hurricane Song
October 12, 2005
Omar Waraich
Britain
and the Quake: Mean and Stingy
William Cook
Voices
Behind the Entombment Wall
Phil Gasper
Countdown
to a Legal Lynching
Dave Lindorff
Impeachment Now and Then: Clinton, Bush and the Polls
Matt Vidal
Capital, Power and Class
John Gautreaux
New Orleans will Never be the Same
Diana Johnstone
Srebrenica
Revisited: Using War as an Excuse for War
Mark Weisbrot
The IMF Has Lost Its Influence
Brian J. Foley
Gitmo Tribunals Endanger Public Safety
Website of
the Day
Columbus Day Lies
October 11,
2005
Roger Morris
/ Steve Schmidt
Strategic
Demands of the 21st Century
Lila Rajiva
Live from New Orleans: Abu Ghraib
Bill Quigley
New
Orleans: Leaving the Poor Behind Again
Paul Craig Roberts
Natural Born Liars
Dave Lindorff
Recruiters in Schools: No Lie Left Untried
Dr. Teresa Whitehurst
Suspect Thy Neighbor
Mitchel Cohen
Showdown at Chuck E. Cheese
Tariq Ali
Pakistan will Never Forget This Horror
Website of
the Day
L'Heure Americaine
October 10,
2005
Cindy and Craig
Corrie
Rachel's
Words Live
Joshua Frank
Washington's War Dems
Gideon Levy
The Beautiful Life Without Arafat
Alan Wallis
The Fight for Free Speech at Union Square
Mickey Z.
In Defense of Liars
CounterPunch News Service
Vermont Independence Convention
Paul Craig
Roberts
The
Police State is Closer Than You Think
Website of the Day
Dylan's Chronicles
October 8 /
9, 2005
Alexander Cockburn
Rhetoric
and Reality in the Business of Getting Rid of Black People
Ralph Nader
Katrina
and the Growls of Greed
Jennifer Van Bergen
New American Law: Legal Strategies in the Dharfir Case
Saul Landau
An Oily Religious Dream
Jeff Halper
Setting Up Abbas
Lenni Brenner
The Millions More Movement and Zionism
Nikolas Kozloff
Bird Flu and Bush
Brian Cloughley
Training Soldiers in Iraq
Alice Slater
A Nobel Prize for Chernobyl?
John Gautreaux
A View from Cajun Country
Fred Gardner
Does the Controlled Substances Act Mean What It Says?
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
The Leveethan Approach
M.G. Piety
Rot in the Ivory Tower: Collusion, Cover-Up and Kierkegaard
Tom Gorman
The Hitchens Doctrine
Mike Whitney
Bunker Days with George
Aseem Shrivastava
Beyond the Wasteland: Lessons from Afghanistan
Ben Tripp
Religion, an Epistle
Poets' Basement
Albert, Engel and Ford
October 7,
2005
Larry Johnson
The
Plame Case: the Real Issues
Will Youmans
Why
Do We Hate Our Freedom? Recruiters and Thugs on Campus
Dave Lindorff
Bird Flu: Evolution or Intelligent Design?
Judith Scherr
Haiti's Children's Prison
Russell D. Hoffman
Nukes for Peace, Revisited?: Nobel Prize Debacle
Jared Bernstein
Katrina and Jobs
Jennifer Van
Bergen
New
American Law: the Case of Dr. Dhafir
Website of
the Day
FBI Witchhunt
October 6, 2005
P. Sainath
"Take
That, Tom Friedman": Indian Masses Reject NYT's Neoliberal
Idol Again
Scott Parkin
When Antiwar Activists Get Mugged
Paul Craig
Roberts
Blundering
into Syria
Andréa Schmidt
Haiti's Biometric Elections: a High-Tech Experiment in Exclusion
Dave Lindorff
Easy
Money in the Big Easy
Joshua Frank
In Defense of Lew Rockwell
M. Junaid Alam
Jackboots at George Mason
Matthew Koehler
Cock and Bull on the Bitterroot
Robert Pollin
Is
the Dollar Still Falling?
October 5,
2005
Heather Gray
Militarization is Not an Answer for
Reconstruction: the Case of the Philippines
Robert Jensen
Is
Bush a Racist?
Ramzy Baroud
Bush's Final Choice: America or
the Empire
Col. Dan Smith
Keeping Promises to Iraq: "Everything
is Bad"
Dave Zirin
Barry
Bonds Laughs Last
Paul Craig Roberts
Liberal Guilt? How the Neocons
Took Over
Alan Maass
Doing
the Right Wing's Dirty Work
October 4, 2005
Nikolas Kozloff
Shocking the Two Party System:
a Political Opportunity for Sheehan and the Antiwar Mvt.
Mike Roselle
Houston,
You've Got a Problem
Joshua Frank
The Scoop on Harriet Miers
John Chuckman
War
Porn: What the Gruesome Images Say
Alan Farago
Storm Warning for Jeb: Developers,
Hurricanes and the Keys
Mickey Z.
An
Interview with Thaddeus Rutkowski
Christine & Ethan Rose
Home Depot Exploits Hurricane Victims
Gary Leupp
An
Earlier Empire's War on Iraq: a Lesson from Roman History
Website of the Day
Rodney
Crowell on Bob Dylan
October 3,
2005
Vijay Prashad
Desperation at Holyoke
Paul Craig
Roberts
Condi
Rice: Gunslinger
Joshua Frank
An Interview with Cindy Sheehan
Seth Sandronsky
The
Hiring Crisis for Black Teens
Jeffrey St. Clair
The Great Green Scare
October
1 / 2, 2005
Cockburn
/ St. Clair
Democrats Sink Deeper into the Ooze
Dave
Marsh
A Direction Home: a Message from Bob Dylan
Ralph
Nader
Gutless, Spineless and Clueless
Flavia
Alaya
Showdown at Sheriff's Plaza
Uri
Avnery
The Gladiators: Sharon's Victory
Chris
Kutalik
The Battle at Northwest Airlines
Greg
Moses
Bill Bennett's Book of Cracker Virtues
Brian
J. Foley
I Gave My Copy of the Constitution to a Pro-War Vet
Nicole
Colson
Hunger Strike at Gitmo
Ray
McGovern
Abu Ghraib is a Command Responsibility
Fred
Gardner
Ricky Williams Takes a Late Hit
Justin
Felux
Save America from Crime: Abort Every White Baby!
Will
Youmans
"Free the P": Hip-Hop for Palestine
Mike
Ferner
What Else Shall We Do?
David
Krieger
The War in Iraq: a Broken Covenant
Agustin
Velloso
Samson Returns to Gaza
Saul
Landau
The Constant Gardener: Serious Cinema
Ben
Tripp
Right Down the Middle
Poets
Basement
Peddibone, Crowell, Engel and Albert
Website
of the Weekend
Holler If Ya Hear Me
September
30, 2005
Mary
Geddry
Why I Marched: They Made My Son Kill
Paul
Craig Roberts
Bush is Cooking Up Two New Wars
Dave
Lindorff
Judith Miller's Strange Voluntary
Jail Time
Gregory
Wilpert
"The Osama Bin Laden of Latin America"
Benjamin
Dangl
"Gringo, Go Home:" an Interview with Orlando Castillo
James
McMurtry
We Can't Make It Here Anymore
T.R.
Johnson
Return to the Ninth Ward
September
29, 2005
Sen.
Russ Feingold
Bush's Iraq War is Weakening America
Carl
G. Estabrook
Obama the Enabler
Ramzy
Baroud
Rhetoric and Reality of War
Dave
Lindorff
What Opposition Party?
Mike
Whitney
Brownie's Comic Opera
Jozef
Hand-Boniakowski
What Noble Cause?
Gary
Handschumacher
Getting Arrested with Cindy Sheehan
Winslow
T. Wheeler
No Leaders in Congress Against This
War: Lame Democrat and Tame Republicans
September
28, 2005
Dr.
Eyad Serraj
Letter from Gaza: What Disengagement
Sounds Like
William
A. Cook
Bush's Security Barrier
Liaquat
Ali Khan
The Invention of Porno Torture
Mike
Whitney
Apartheid Justice in America
Joshua
Frank
Sheehan and the Democrats: Anybody Home?
CounterPunch
Wire
New Orleans Prisoners Abandoned to Floodwaters
Chris
Genovali
Cutting the Bears Out of the Great Bear Rainforest
Linn
Washington, Jr.
White Affirmative Action: How
John Roberts Got to the Top
September
27, 2005
Forrest
Hylton
Political Murder in Puerto Rico: a
Matter for Our Movement
Jason
Leopold
The Decline and Fall of Bill Frist
Jennifer
K. Harbury
Torture is US Policy, Not an Aberration
Ray
McGovern
Torture and Cowardice: Why are American Religious Leaders Silent?
Mike
Ferner
Bringing the War Home: Arrested at the Pentagon
Antony
Loewenstein
When the Truth Comes to Town: What You Can't Say About Israel
in Australia
Harry
Browne
Live from Hollywood: the IRA Disarms
September
26, 2005
Rafael
Rodriguez Cruz
Assassination in Puerto Rico: the FBI
Murders a Legend
Joshua
Frank
Democrats Flee Peace Protests
Lamis
Andoni
The Railroading of Taysir Alony
Mike
Marqusee
Those Pesky "Urban Intellectuals":
Blair, Spiro Agnew and the Antiwar Movement
Rep.
Cynthia McKinney
They Can't Fool Us Anymore
Ron
Jacobs
A Small March for Me, a Giant March
for the Antiwar Movement
Norman
Solomon
The Media and the Antiwar Movement
John
Chuckman
Bush in a Bottle
Paul
Craig Roberts
America is Running Out of Time
September
24 / 25, 2005
Kathy
and Bill Christison
Polluting Palestine: Settlements
& Sewage
Ralph
Nader
Stealing the Moment: How Corporations Cashed in on Katrina
Saul
Landau
The Terrorist Resumé of Luis Posada
Greg
Moses
A Movement Gathers Power on the Sorrow Plateau
Roger
Burbach
Hugo Chávez's Mission
Vijay
Prashad
America's Shame
Laura
Carlsen
After NAFTA
Robert
Fisk
When Man and Nature Conspire to Expose the Lies of the Powerful
Dave
Lindorff
A Gusher Called Katrina: They Fix Oil Prices, Don't They?
Kirkpatrick
Sale / Thomas Naylor
Secession from the Empire: the Middlebury Declaration
Maj.
Anthony Milavic
The US Military and Torture: the View of a Former Interrogator
Brian
Concannon, Jr.
Haiti: the Time for Action is Now
September
23, 2005
CounterPunch
News Service
In Which, Phil Donahue Demolishes
Bill O'Reilly
Diane
Farsetta
Katrina and Right-Wing Think Tanks
Robert
Sandels
Militarizing the Market
Christopher
Brauchli
Bush: the Good Samaritan for Corporations
Alan
Farago
Bird Flu Takes Flight
Dave
Zirin
When Sports & Politics Collided: Redeeming the Olympic Martyrs
of 1968
Maxine
Conant
A Simple Test for Bush
David
Price
Workers Get Hit Twice: Katrina and
Davis-Bacon Profiteering
September
22, 2005
Smith,
Wood, Leas, and Greenfield
Which Way Forward for the Green Party?
a Report from Tulsa
Patrick
Cockburn
Iraqis: This Government has No Authority
Manuel
Garcia, Jr.
Thinking is Religious Freedom
Lucia
Dailey
Trial of the St. Patrick's Four: Day One
Mokhiber
/ Weissman
Are You a Speed Freak?
Russell
D. Hoffman
The Nukes in Rita's Path
Kona
Lowell
God's Hurricane?
Jason
Leopold
GOP Fiscal Policy and Katrina
Website
of the Day
Robert Pollin on the Global Economy
September
21, 2005
Jorge
Mariscal
Military Recruiters: Counselers
or Salesmen?
Linda
S. Heard
Double Standards in Iraq: Basra Brit Jailbreak
Joshua
Frank
NYPD Unplugs Cindy Sheehan
Eric
Ruder
"The Problem in Iraq is the US": an Interview with
Camilo Mejia
Pierre
Tristam
The Struts and Bull Presidency
Dave
Lindorff
The Real Story of the German Elections
Mike
Ferner
Sit Down in DC
Missy
Comley Beattie
Bush's Katrina Bling Bling
Jeffrey
St. Clair
W Marks the Spot
Website
of the Day
New Orleans: Survivor Stories
September
20, 2005
Steve
Breyman
Toxic Gumbo: Katrina and Environmental
Justice
George
Galloway
Et Tu, Greg Palast?
Patrick
Cockburn
What Happened to Iraq's Missing $1 Billion?
M.
Shahid Alam
Gen. Musharraf and Israel: Is Pakistan Selling Out?
Mike
Whitney
The Gitmo Hunger Strikers
Winslow
T. Wheeler
It's Not Rocket Science
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
Back to the Future: North Korea's Gambit
Paul
Craig Roberts
Will Neocon Fanaticism Destroy America?
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October 15 / 16, 2005
Finkelstein's
Beyond Chutzpah
Exposing Grave Moral
Distortions
By NEVE GORDON
It is not everyday that a professor
hires a prestigious law firm to threaten the University of California
Press, yet for months Alan Dershowitz, Harvard's Felix Frankfurter
Professor of Law, tried to stop UC Press from publishing Norman
Finkelstein's Beyond
Chutzpah. When the Press' director Lynne Withey replied
that she believed in academic freedom and would therefore go
ahead with the book, Dershowitz sent letters to the university's
board of trustees and even to California's governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger,
asking them to intervene on his behalf. Following both the trustees'
and governor's decision not to get involved, one would have thought
that the struggle had ended, but now that the book is on the
shelves it seems that a new campaign is underway; this time an
attempt to cancel the author's reading engagements for example
at Harvard Bookstore and Barnes and Noble in Chicago. So what
is the controversy about?
On the face of it, the conflict stems from an allegation which
Finkelstein, a professor of political science at de Paul University,
makes against Dershowitz's The Case for Israel, accusing
him of "lifting" information and ideas from Joan Peters's
From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict
over Palestine. In addition to the fact that Peter's book
has been, in Finkelstein's words, "dismissed as a fraud,"
Harvard University's own definition, ("passing off a source's
information, ideas, or words as your own by omitting to cite
them" would, argues Finkelstin, convict Dershowitz of plagiarism.
After a careful examination of the documents Finkelstein presents
in Beyond Chutzpah, it is difficult not to infer that
the Harvard professor did indeed pass off someone else's information
as his own.
In spite of the public furor about Dershowitz's alleged plagiarism,
this plays a relatively small role in Beyond Chutzpah,
thus it is no coincidence that the documentation of his use of
Peter's work is relegated to three appendixes, and is not in
the main body of the book. Indeed, it is worth noting that the
thrust of Finkelstein's book is political, not personal. It  provides a revealing analysis
of the "new anti-Semitism" and a critical discussion
of Israel's human rights record. Could it be that the attempt
to stop the book's publication was in some way connected to what
Finkelstein has to say about these two issues?
In Part One, "The Not-So-New New Anti-Semitism,'" Finkelstein
makes a double move. He begins by providing a historical account
of the literature discussing anti-Semitism, showing how the notion
of a "new anti-Semitism" actually emerged in the mid-1970s
with the publication of Arnold Forster and Benjamin R. Epstein's
book The New Anti-Semitism; this was followed in the early
1980s by Nathan and Ruth Ann Perlmutter's The Real Anti-Semitism
in America. Accordingly, Anti-Defamation League director
Abraham Foxman was merely repeating an established refrain when
he wrote Never Again? The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism
in 2003, becoming just one voice in a chorus of prominent writers
like Phyllis Chesler in the US (The New Anti-Semitism: The
Current Crisis and What We Must Do about It also from 2003)
and philosopher Alain Finkielkraut in France.
The crucial point, though, is not that these writers are making
false claims about the resurgence of anti-Semitism, even though
it is clear that many of them exaggerate the intensity and prevalence
of contemporary hate crimes against Jews. Foxman, for instance
maintains that "we currently face as great a threat to the
safety and security of the Jewish people as the one we faced
in the 1930s." Rather, Finkelstein's central criticism
of such writers concerns who they consider the major culprits
responsible for spreading anti-Semitism and what the reemergence
of the new anti-Semitism aims to achieve politically.
As to the instigators, he shows how from the 1970s onward there
has been a growing tendency in the literature discussing anti-Semitism
to blame the left, not the right, for spreading hatred around
the world. The anti-globalization movement and human rights organizations
are deemed to be the major purveyors of anti-Semitism, while
arch-nationalist leaders like Jean Marie Le Pen and Joerg Haider
as well as fundamentalists like Jerry Falwell and Pat Roberston
are regarded as more or less benign.
Finkelstein's second move exposes how the rhetoric of the new
anti-Semitism is used as a political tool to ward off and delegitimize
all criticism of Israel. He writes:
The consequences of the calculated hysteria of a new anti-Semitism
haven't been just to immunize Israel from legitimate criticism.
Its overarching purpose, like that of the "war against terrorism,"
has been to deflect criticism of an unprecedented assault on
international law.
While Finkelstein's basic claims are on the mark, he makes a
couple of serious mistakes. First, the Israeli case in no way
constitutes an unprecedented assault on international
law. Not only has the Iraq war, which Finkelstein mentions, led
to more egregious violations, particularly if one counts civilian
deaths, but one could easily come up with a series of other recent
assaults on international law that have produced much more horrific
results. One only has to think of Chechnya, Rawanda, and Darfur.
My second concern involves a non-sequitur contained in Finkelstein's
argument. Finkelstein convincingly maintains that a connection
has been drawn between Israel's illegal actions in the Occupied
Territories and the new Anti-Semitism. This link has a dual character.
On the one hand, the literature discussing the new anti-Semitism
is used to fend off all criticism of Israel, while, on the other
hand, Israel's violation of the occupied Palestinians' basic
rights has generated anti-Semitism. I follow Finkelstein thus
far, but he then proceeds to an odd and troubling conclusion:
the Jews, Finkelstein implies, are also to blame for the rise
of anti-Semitism. Using Jean Paul Sartre's Anti-Semite and
Jew as a reference point, Finkelstein criticizes the French
philosopher in the following manner:
Sartre's point of departure is that Jewish peoplehood lacks any
content except what anti-Semitism endows it with: "the anti-Semite,"
in his famous formulation, "makes the Jew" (his
emphasis). But from this premise Sartre goes on to argue that
stereotypical Jewish vices are either the invention or the fault
of the anti-Semite -- which means (or can be understood to mean)
that Jews possess no vices or don't bear any responsibility for
them.
This, Finkelstein claims, is a mistake. But Sartre means that
as an ethnic group per se Jews cannot be characterized or judged
in moral terms and no Jew can be held responsible for anti-Semitism,
even though individuals and their organizations should, of course,
be held responsible for their actions. Neither world Jewry nor
one's Jewishness can be responsible for anything, regardless
of what Israel or any single Jew does. Moreover, while Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon and the state of Israel should be held
responsible for oppressing the Palestinians, they are not responsible
for anti-Semitism, and I take issue with Finkelstein who insinuates
that they are to blame for fanning the flames of anti-Semitism.
No one is to blame for anti-Semitism except the anti-Semites.
Finkelstein in a number of places blurs this crucial point,
and therefore unwittingly provides an excuse for anti-Semitism.
The crux of the matter, as Sartre cogently observed, is that
anti-Semitism "precedes the facts that call it forth,"
so that even if Israel were the most law abiding state on this
planet, anti-Semitism would still exist. History has proven Sartre
right.
Beyond Chutzpah's second part is its best. It is here
that Finkelstein uses Dershowitz's polemic to explore crucial
aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, particularly Israel's
human rights record. Dershowitz's central claim in The Case
for Israel, is that "no nation in the history of the
world that has faced comparable threats to its survival -- both
external and internal -- has ever made greater efforts as, and
has ever come closer to, achieving the high norms of the rule
of law." Taking Dershowitz seriously, Finkelstein meticulously
examines whether Israel's human rights record is, as Dershowitz
maintains, "generally superb."
The way he goes about it is noteworthy. Finkelstein cites claim
after claim made in The Case for Israel and examines their
accuracy by comparing them with human rights reports published
both by organizations who have a global mandate like Amnesty
International and Human Rights Watch as well as local groups
like B'tselem, Physicians for Human Rights and Al Haq. Dershowitz
maintains, for instance that, "There is no evidence that
Israeli soldiers deliberately killed even a single civilian."
Finkelstein replies that according to HRW there were many civilian
deaths which amounted to "unlawful and willful killings."
When the Harvard professor asserts that "Israel tries to
use rubber bullets and other weapons designed to reduce fatalities,
and aims at the legs whenever possible," Finkelstein rejoins
with a study published by PHR, which shows that nearly "half
of the victims [in Gaza] were shot in the head. There were several
victims shot in the back or from behind and in one instance,
evidence indicates, the victim was probably on the ground when
shot." And when Dershowitz contends that Israel's interrogation
tactics were "nonlethal and did not involve the infliction
of sustained pain," Finkelstein responds with scores of
reports which document multiple deaths of Palestinians during
interrogation.
Slowly, a clear picture of abuse emerges. The reader learns,
for example, how many Palestinian houses were demolished and
how many people were left homeless, the number of prisoners who
were tortured and the methods their interrogators used, and how
Palestinian medical facilities were attacked and the population's
access to medical care constantly hindered. Moreover, Israel's
Supreme Court, which in certain circles is highly respected,
is shown in Beyond Chutzpah to be a key mechanism in the
legitimization of abuse.
Two important implications can be drawn from Finkelstein's study,
one political and the other academic. Politically, Beyond
Chutzpah reveals how Israel has defied the rule of law in
the Occupied Territories by providing a condensed and precise
summation of literally thousands of pages of human rights reports.
In this way, Finkelstein does a great service for those who long
for a better Israel, since one is left with the conclusion that
the only way of putting an end to the violations of Palestinian
rights is by ending the occupation. There is no other option.
Academically, the section discussing Israel's human rights record
raises serious questions about intellectual honesty and the ideological
bias of our cultural institutions, since it reveals how a prominent
professor holding an endowed chair at a leading university can
publish a book whose major claims are false. The significant
point is not simply that the claims cannot be corroborated by
the facts on the ground -- anyone can make mistakes -- but that
any first-year student who takes the time to read the human rights
reports would quickly realize that though The Case for Israel
has rhetorical style and structure, it is, for the most part,
fiction passing as fact.
All of which leads me back to the question raised at the beginning:
what is the controversy about? While it is in part about Dershowitz's
political investments and his intellectual veracity, its intention
goes much deeper than that to expose a grave cultural distortion.
On the one hand, the controversy surrounding Beyond Chutzpah
seems to be a reaction to Finkelstein's attempt to expose how
elements in academia have played an active role in covering up
Israel's abuse, and by extension, the abuse of other rogue regimes,
not least the US itself. Obviously those intellectuals who do
participate in this covering tactic prefer to operate in the
dark. On the other hand, the heated response to his book is just
another example of how the literature discussing the new anti-Semitism
delegitimizes those who expose Israel's egregious violations
of international law. The major irony informing this saga is
that Finkelstein's book, not Dershowtiz's, constitutes the real
case for Israel, that is, for a moral Israel.
Neve Gordon teaches human rights at Ben-Gurion University,
Israel. He is the editor of From
the Margins of Globalization: Critical Perspectives on Human
Rights (2004) and can be reached at nevegordon@gmail.com
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JOURNALISTIC CLARITY, COUNTERPUNCH
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counsel for Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi has advised us the Article
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funded, supported, or is in some way associated with, the terrorist
activities of Osama bin Laden and the Al Qaeda terrorist network.
We do not have any evidence
connecting Mr Al Amoudi with terrorism.
As a result of an exchange
of communications with Mr Al Amoudi's lawyers, we have removed
the Article from the Website.
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