anti-Muhammad Film

SUN SEP 16, 2012
Pamela Geller's Blog Solicited Funds For anti-Muhammad Film
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[image, right: Joseph Nassralla Abdelmasih, whose nonprofit Media For Christ produced [see 1, 2, 3] the inflammatory anti-Muhammad video trailer "Innocence of the Muslims", and anti-Islamic activist Pamela Geller, whose popular blog Atlas Shrugs published, in February 2012, a financial solicitation for an anti-Muhammad movie]

Yesterday, while compiling evidence for a report demonstrating conclusively that the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Media For Christ was the most significant force behind the production of the anti-Islamic trailer video "Innocence of the Muslims" which, after being posted on Youtube, has helped incite riots throughout the Islamic world, I came upon the following February 12, 2012 post, on the website of Atlas Shrugs -- the blog of Pamela Geller, the anti-Islamic activist who cofounded the group Stop Islamization of Nations and helped incite and organize the nationally-notorious June 6, 2010 protest against the building of a mosque in lower Manhattan (one of the speakers at the protest was Joseph Nassralla Abdelmasih, head of Media For Christ.)
dailykos

Pamela Geller (born June 14, 1958)[5] is an American blogger, author, political activist, and commentator.[1] She is known primarily for her criticisms of Islam and opposition to Muslim activities and causes, such as the proposed construction of an Islamic community center near the former site of the World Trade Center. She has described her blogging and campaigns in the United States as being against what she terms "creeping Sharia" in the country.

Geller and Robert Spencer co-founded the Freedom Defense Initiative and Stop Islamization of America,[6] an organization which is labeled as a hate group by the Anti-Defamation League[7] and the Southern Poverty Law Center.[8][9] Geller and Spencer also co-authored the book The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America.[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller

Pamela Geller, the Looniest Blogger in the World (though her “close friend” Robert Spencer calls her a “freedom fighter”) this past week called for the destruction of the Golden Dome, or as Muslims know it the–Mosque of the Rock–one of the holiest sites in Islam. A crazy notion which would probably provoke World War III and is only supported by the most hardline, right-wing, end-of-times Israeli and American Zionists. She also implies Islam is “evil.”
Posted on 05 October 2009 by Mooneye
http://www.loonwatch.com/2009/10/pamela-geller-watch-craziest-quotes-of-the-week/

Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer fundraise on Norway attack

America's most virulent anti-Islam bloggers continue attacking all Muslims, accuse terror victims of anti-Semitism

BY ALEX PAREENE


Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller

As a writer, it sure sucks when someone murders a bunch of people based on your ideas. (I mean, I assume that sucks. Weirdly, it’s never happened to me.) So you can understand why right-wing anti-Islam bloggers are all being kind of defensive, these days.

Anders Breivik, the anti-Islam terrorist who killed 77 people in Norway on July 22, read a lot of American anti-Islam bloggers, many of whom he cited in his lengthy manifesto. Breivik’s favorites included Robert Spencer, a self-proclaimed expert on Islam whose “Jihad Watch” blog was quoted and cited in Breivik’s manifesto, and Spencer’s ally and collaborator Pam Geller, whose “Atlas Shrugs” was similarly recommended by the killer.

http://www.salon.com/2011/08/01/pamela_geller_norway/

The movie was produced several months ago, screening to a mostly empty theater in Hollywood and elicited no reaction.

This trash movie would have been relegated to the garbage bin of history if it weren’t dubbed into Egyptian Arabic

The dubbed version went viral on Egyptian and Libyan Facebook pages and networks, resulting in the protests that we witnessed yesterday and today.

http://www.loonwatch.com/2012/09/israeli-american-sam-bacile-produces-hate-movie-about-prophet-muhammad-provoking-protests-and-violence/


"This trash movie would have been relegated to the garbage bin of history if it weren’t dubbed into Egyptian Arabic"


The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) explores the Middle East through the region’s media. MEMRI bridges the language gap which exists between the West and the Middle East, providing timely translations of Arabic, Persian, Urdu-Pashtu, and Turkish media, as well as original analysis of political, ideological, intellectual, social, cultural, and religious trends in the Middle East.

Founded in February 1998 to inform the debate over U.S. policy in the Middle East, MEMRI is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization. MEMRI’s headquarters is located in Washington, DC with branch offices in London, Rome, Jerusalem, Baghdad, Shanghai and Tokyo. MEMRI research is translated to English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Hebrew.

http://www.memri.org/

"This trash movie would have been relegated to the garbage bin of history if it weren’t dubbed into Egyptian Arabic"

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The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) explores the Middle East through the region’s media. MEMRI bridges the language gap which exists between the West and the Middle East, providing timely translations of Arabic, Persian, Urdu-Pashtu, and Turkish media, as well as original analysis of political, ideological, intellectual, social, cultural, and religious trends in the Middle East.

Founded in February 1998 to inform the debate over U.S. policy in the Middle East, MEMRI is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization. MEMRI’s headquarters is located in Washington, DC with branch offices in London, Rome, Jerusalem, Baghdad, Shanghai and Tokyo. MEMRI research is translated to English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Hebrew.

http://www.memri.org/

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MEMRI's Board of Advisors and Directors comprises a group of distinguished figures in government, media, law and academia. Among them are former prime ministers; attorneys-general; justice ministers; leading legal and counter-terrorism experts; and recipients of the most prestigious awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the United States Congressional Gold Medal. This group also includes former United States government officials, such as the director of the CIA; Secretary of the Navy; Director of Operations with the FBI; Ambassadors to the United Nations, Iraq, the European Union, and Romania; Secretary of Education; Deputy Defense Secretary; and head presidential counsel. Members of MEMRI's Board of Advisors are bi-partisan and have honorably served Presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Oliver "Buck" Revell: Chairman; Former FBI Associate Deputy Director-Investigations, in charge of Criminal Investigative, Counter-Terrorism, Counter-Intelligence and International programs; formerly a member of the National Foreign Intelligence Board, Vice-Chairman of the Interagency Group for Counter Intelligence, and of the Senior Review Group of the Vice President's Task Force on Terrorism; currently the President of Revell Group International, Inc.
Elliott Abrams: Former Special Assistant to President George W. Bush, Senior Director of the National Security Council for Near East and North African Affairs, and former Deputy National Security Advisor for Global Democracy Strategy
Steve Emerson: Executive Director of The Investigative Project and known terrorism expert
Jeffrey Kaufman: Managing Trademark and Copyright Partner at Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt
Robert Reilly: Former official at the Department of Defense and Chairman of the Committee for Western Civilization at the Claremont Institute.

BOARD OF ADVISORS

Bernard Lewis: Professor of Near Eastern Studies Emeritus at Princeton University
Gen. Michael V. Hayden: Retired United States Air Force four-star general and former Director of the National Security Agency and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Donald Rumsfeld: Former US Secretary of Defense and US Representative (IL).
Elie Wiesel: Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom, the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal, and the Medal of Liberty Award
James Woolsey: Former Director of Central Intelligence Agency and Secretary of the Navy
Chin Ho Lee: Former FBI Special Agent and Senior Executive of the Hyundai Corporation
Stuart Eizenstat: Former ambassador to the European Union
John Bolton: Former US Ambassador to the United Nations
Josef Joffe: Editor-in-Chief of Die Ziet
John Ashcroft: Former US Attorney General and U.S. Senator (MO)
Ehud Barak: Former Prime Minister of Israel
Irwin Cotler: Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
Jose Maria Aznar: Former Prime Minister of Spain
Stephen J. Trachtenberg: President Emeritus and University Professor of Public Service at George Washington University
Michael Mukasey: Former U.S. Attorney General and Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Jana Hybaskova: Former Member of the European Parliament and Chairperson of the European Democrats Party (Czech Republic)
Norman Podhoretz: Former editor-in-chief of Commentary Magazine
Mort Zuckerman: Chairman and editor-in-chief, U.S. News & World Report
William Bennett: Former Secretary of Education
Christopher DeMuth: Former President, American Enterprise Institute
Paul Bremer: Former Ambassador to the Netherlands; former Director of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance in Iraq (de-factor governor)
Alfred Moses: Former Ambassador to Romania
Herb London: President of the Hudson Institute
Max Kampelman: Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom; Former Ambassador to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Dr. Khaled Fouad Allam: Algerian sociologist at the University of Trieste (Italy)
Lafif Lakhdar: Tunisian intellectual
Dr. Shaker Al-Nabulsi: Jordanian writer and University Professor
Magdi Khalil: Human rights activist and Executive Editor of the Egyptian weekly Watani International
Parastou Forouhar: Iranian artist
Faraj Sarkouhi: Former editor of the Iranian literary monthly magazine Adineh
Lord George Weidenfeld: Former Vice-President, Oxford University Development Program

IN MEMORIAM

Richard Holbrooke: Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan; Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Jack Kemp: Former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and former candidate for United States Vice President
Jeane Kirkpatrick: America's first woman ambassador to the United Nations
Irving Kristol: Recipient, Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2002 and Former managing editor of Commentary Magazine
James Q. Wilson: Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University

http://www.memri.org/assistingamerica/board-of-advisors-and-directors.html

hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? hello?

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i started going through the names one by one from the top down, and just threw up my hands.
same old same old.

let's just take a couple...

Oliver Revell

During his career as a FBI Official and subsequently as an International Security Consultant, Revell has authored numerous articles on Terrorism, Counter-Intelligence and Organized Crime. As the founder of a global business and security consulting firm, Oliver Revell draws on his 30 years of working his way up in the FBI to consult his clients. He has spoken and lectured at the national and international level on these and other criminal justice and National Security subjects on a frequent basis.

Topics: Current Affairs / National Politics / Team Building / Terrorism/Homeland Security
Fee Range: $5,001 to $10,000 Talent Travels From:TX

http://www.internationalspeakers.com/speaker/671/oliver_revell


Ex-FBI agent Oliver Revell in wild lawsuit crusade against relatives of Pan Am 103-victims and Columbia Journalism School.

07/07/00 DALLAS OBSERVER © 2000. Former FBI second-in-command Oliver "Buck" Revell from Dallas, 61, has a bad reputation among some people: conspiracy buffs who peg the former lawman to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which he helped investigate, as well as Waco, Iran-Contra, and Oklahoma City misdeeds. They allege that Revell, then the FBI's counter-terrorism chief, failed to share a prior warning of the bombing with the American public, but heeded it personally to get his son off the doomed flight, a charge Revell angrily denies.

http://www.newsmakingnews.com/revell7,11,00.htm


Oliver Revell
Updated 6/23/2012 - This profile of Oliver B Buck Revell was created using data from Dun & Bradstreet and Texas Secretary of State

http://www.corporationwiki.com/graphs/roamer.aspx?id=30383397


Oliver "Buck" Revell's Overview Likedin

Current
President at Rogue Detection Systems, LLC
Executive Vice President at Rogue DNA, Inc.
Member at Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations


Past
Director and Proxy Holder at Vance Security USA
Member & Past Chairman at North Texas Crime Commission
Trustee at Center for American & International Law

Oliver "Buck" Revell's Experience

President
Rogue Detection Systems, LLC
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry
July 2010 – Present (2 years 3 months)

Technoligies to detect fraudulent documents, materials, and substances
Executive Vice President
Rogue DNA, Inc.
January 2009 – Present (3 years 9 months)

Provider of unique technolgy to identify counterfiet and fake document, materials and objects; including Passports, Visas, Drivers Licenses, Currency, Art works, and any other unique substance. Manufacture unique printers and reader/scanners.
Member
Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations
2007 – Present (5 years)

Information, and education on international issues and international networking
Member, Advisory Board
Foundation for Defense of Democracy
2005 – Present (7 years) Washington, DC

Research and Analysis of Global Issues affecting Freedom and Democracy
Trustee
Center for American and International Law
June 2005 – Present (7 years 4 months) Plano, Texas

Legal and Law Enforcement Education and Training at Senior Level
Chairman, Bd. of Directors
Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)
Nonprofit; 11-50 employees; Writing and Editing industry
June 1999 – Present (13 years 4 months)

Helped found and have been a 10 year Director of MEMRI Elected Chairman in 2009.
Chairman, Board of Directors,
Middle East East Media Institute (MEMRI)
Nonprofit; 11-50 employees; Writing and Editing industry
March 1997 – Present (15 years 7 months) Washington, DC

Over see direction and operation of the Middle East Media Research Institute, Inc, (MEMRI)
Owner
Revell Group International, Inc.
October 1994 – Present (18 years)

International consulting group, specializing in Security, Energy, Safety and Environmental issues and resolving or mitigating problems with foreign governments and agencies.
President
Revell Group International, Inc
October 1994 – Present (18 years) Rowlett, Dallas County, Texas

Security, Energy, Environment and Identificationn Technology
Director and Proxy Holder
Vance Security USA
June 2006 – December 2011 (5 years 7 months)

High Level Security Company for Classified Projects and Locations
Member & Past Chairman
North Texas Crime Commission
Nonprofit; 1-10 employees; Nonprofit Organization Management industry
May 1991 – March 2010 (18 years 11 months)

Member of the Commission since 1991,
served as Director, President, Chairman and now as a member
Trustee
Center for American & International Law
Nonprofit; 11-50 employees; Education Management industry
June 2002 – February 2010 (7 years 9 months)

Major non-profit Institute for Specialized Legal and Law Enforcement Education at the National and International Level.
Board of Trustees is the governing body. CAIL is located in Legacy Park, Plano, TX just North of Dallas.
Former name: South West Legal Foundation.
Past President
Dallas Rotary Club
1991 – 2010 (19 years)

President of Texas" Oldest Rotary Club, 2000-2001.
Chairman
Visiphor Coro.
2000 – 2009 (9 years)

Non-Executive Chairman of Boarfd of Directors of Visiphor, Inc., a public company.
Director
Hollywood Casino Corp
1998 – 2002 (4 years)

Corporate Director, Acting Chairman Board of Directors, Chairman Audit Committee
President
Law Enforcement Television Network
1998 – 2002 (4 years)

CEO
Associate Deputy Director
FBI
Government Agency; 10,001+ employees; Law Enforcement industry
1964 – 1994 (30 years)

Chief of Investigative,Counter-Intelligence, Counter-Intelligence and International Programs of FBI.l
Associate Deputy Director-Investigations
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Government Agency; 10,001+ employees; Law Enforcement industry
June 1985 – April 1991 (5 years 11 months)

I served in the FBI from November of 1964 to Oct. of 1994.
I served in Kansas City, Philadelphia, Tampa, Chicago, Oklahoma City and Dallas as a street agent, supervisor, Asst. Sp. Agent in Charge and Sp. Agent in Charge.
I served 3 tours at FBI HQ in Washington going from supervisor to the second higest career rank of Associate Deputy Director where I was responsible for all Investigative, Counter-Terrorism, Counter-Intelligence, Training, Laboratory and International operations and Liaison. I founded an international security consulting company after my retirement from the FBI.

Oliver "Buck" Revell's Skills & Expertise

Knowlege of Middle East Organizational Leadership New Business Development Enforcement Public Speaking Strategic Planning Research Public Relations Management Consulting Team Building Negotiation Business Strategy Program Management International Relations Government Project Planning Policy Budgets Social Media Marketing Strategy


Oliver "Buck" Revell's Education

East Tennessee State University
B.S., Political Science & Economics
1957 – 1960

Masters Degree, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1972.
Diploma in National and International Security, Kennedy School, Harvard University, 1989
Active Duty USMC June 1960 to Nov. 1964 as aviator and JAG Investigator, left active duty as Captain.
Activities and Societies: Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity Varsity Football U.S. Marine Corps Reserves
Russell High School, East Point, GA
High School Diploma
1952 – 1956

Oliver "Buck" Revell's Additional Information

Websites:
Personal Website
Interests:
Criminal Justice, Terrorism & Homeland Security, International Affairs, Disaster Relief and rebuilding infrastructure, Sports
Groups and Associations:
Rotary International, American Legion, VFW, Marine Corps Asso, Society of Former FBI Agents, National Executive Institute Associates, World Affairs Council of DFW, Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations, National Eagle Scout Association, Masons & Scottish Rite, Foundation for Defense of Democracy, Center for American & International Law-Trustee, Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) Director.

Airline & Airport AVSEC Network

CSIS Alumni Group

Cybersecurity at The University of Texas at Dallas

Eagle Scout Forum

East Tennessee State University Alumni

Former FBI Agent Networking Group

HomelandSecurity

International Association of Chiefs of Police

Paul Harris Fellow

Rotary Club of Dallas, TX USA

U.S. Cyber Counterintelligence

US Marine Corps- ONLY for those who served!
Honors and Awards:
President's Distinguished Senior Executive Award, President's Meritorious Senior Executive Award, National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, FBI Medal of Merit, Attorney General's Special Commendation Award, Secretary of Defense Commendation, FBI Director's Commendation Awards (32), Army Commendation Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Navy League "Wings of Gold" award. Outstanding Alumni Award, East Tenn. State University. AP Honorable Mention All American (Football), Honor Graduate USMC OCS. "Albert J. Wood Award" from Middle east Forum, 1994 for leadership in National Public Affairs-Counter-Terrorism. Recepient of GUSI International Peace Award for leadership in International Law Enforcement and Peace keeping, Philippines, Nov. 2010

eh.....i'll let somebody else's work speak:

Yale University's Pro-Israeli,
Anti-Islamic Conference
8-29-10

On August 25, Yale University ended a three-day global anti-Semitism "crisis" conference promoting the notion that Israeli criticism is "anti-Semitic," no matter how justified.

Boola-boola, for shame, mighty Yale displaying the same type anti-Islamic hatred virulent throughout America, raging daily in headlines over the proposed New York City Islamic cultural center, falsely called a mosque, but does it matter?

What matters is racism, hate-mongering, and persecuting Muslims for political advantage - on display at Yale for a three day propaganda hate fest. Imagine what's taught in its classrooms.

The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA)

Calling itself "dedicated to the scholarly research of the origins and manifestations associated with antisemitism globally, as well as other forms of prejudice, including racisms, as it relates to policy," YIISA presented its "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity conference, at a time the supposed "crisis" is more rhetoric than reality.

Yet its mission statement states:

"Anti-Judaism (or) Antisemitism is one of the most complex and, at times, perplexing forms of hatred, (emerging) in numerous ideological(ly) based narratives and the constructed identities of belonging and otherness such as race and ethnicity, nationalisms, and anti-nationalisms." In modern globalized times, "it appears that Antisemitism has taken on new complex and changing forms that need to be decoded, mapped and critiqued."

What's needed is debunking the relationship between legitimate Israeli criticism and anti-Semitism and notion of a serious anti-Jewish crisis when none, in fact, exists.

Last October 29, Reuters reported that:

"Anti-Semitic attitudes in the United States are at a historic low, with 12 percent of Americans prejudiced toward Jews, an Anti-Defamation League (ADL) survey found," based on September 26 - October 4 polling with a plus or minus 2.8% margin of error.

ADL said its level matched 1998's as the lowest in the poll's 45-year history. Yet in his 2003 book, "Never Again? The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism," national director, Abraham Foxman, said he's:

"convinced we currently face as great a threat to the safety of the Jewish people as the one we faced in the 1930s - if not a greater one," contradicted by Cato Institute research fellow Leon Hadar (in the January 2004 Chronicles), saying that public opinion polls "indicate (racial and religious forms of) anti-Semitism (have) been in steep decline in most of Western Europe." The same holds for America, putting a lie to Yale's "crisis" and need for a conference to hawk it.

Badly needed are efforts to expose and denounce anti-Islamic rhetoric, actions and persecutions of people for their religion and/or ethnicity, but don't expect Yale to hold it or discuss it in classrooms.

YIISA stacked its conference with pro-Israeli zealots, omitting voices for sanity and the right of Palestinians to live free of occupation in their own land or in one state affording everyone equal rights, an apparent blasphemous notion at Yale and many other US and Canadian campuses, firing even distinguished tenured professors for supporting the wrong religion or people too vigorously.

Opening conference remarks were made by YIISA Director, Dr. Charles Small, Yale's Deputy Provost, Frances Rosenbluth, Rabbi James Ponet, director of Yale's Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life, and Aviva Raz Schechter, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director for Combatting Antisemitism.

They all, of course, presented one-sided, pro-Israeli views, underscoring the notion that Israeli criticism is anti-Semetic, when, in fact, it's principled, honest and more needed now than ever to expose and halt an Israeli/Washington partnership to conquer, divide and control the Middle East by force, stealth, deceit, intimidation, occupation, and political chicanery, common tools used by rogues and imperial marauders.

Hebrew University Professor Menahem Milson was the first of several keynote speakers. [b]He's also Chairman of the extremist Middle East Research Institute (MEMRI), whose board and advisors include a rogue's gallery of pro-Israeli right-wing zealots, including:

-- Oliver "Buck" Revell, former FBI Executive Assistant Director in charge of criminal investigative, counterterrorism and counterintelligence;

-- Elliot Abrams, former Reagan and Bush administration official and convicted Iran-Contra felon, later pardoned by GHW Bush; and

-- Steve Emerson, a notorious anti-Islamic bigot, well-known for using unscrupulous tactics to accuse innocent Muslims of terrorism and instill "Islamofascist" fear over the public airwaves.

Its board of advisors includes:

-- Ehud Barak, former Israeli Prime Minister and current Minister of Defense and Deputy Prime Minister;

-- Bernard Lewis, Princeton Professor Emeritus of near eastern studies, known for his anti-Islamic views;

-- James Woolsey, neocon former CIA director;

-- John Bolton, former neocon war hawk Bush administration UN ambassador, recess-appointed because Congress was too embarrassed to do it;

-- Rabid Zionist Elie Wiesel, a man Professor Norman Finkelstein calls "vain, arrogant, gullible, naive about international affairs, (and defender of) the worst excesses of previous Israeli governments;"

-- John Ashcroft, former Bush administration Attorney General, the man who indicted Lynne Stewart, famed human rights lawyer now imprisoned on bogus charges for doing her job honorably, what Ashcroft never did;

-- Michael Mukasey, another Bush administration Attorney General, as bad as Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales; and

-- many other disreputable members, known for their pro-Israeli bias, including Richard Holbrooke, a proponent of imperial wars, who stepped down temporarily to become Obama administration Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Other YIISA presenters included (among others):....[blah blah blah]

Stephen Lendman
http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/the-progressive-news-hour/.

Norman Finkelstein Exposes MEMRI As Mossad Op

MEMRI Is A 'Propaganda Machine,' Expert Says And Why You Need To Know About Them
By Lawrence Swaim
Infocus Staff Writer
6-23-7

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) provides daily English translations of film and print media stories originating in Arabic, Iranian and Turkish media.

It also furnishes original analysis of cultural, political and religious trends in the Middle East.

It sends its daily postings to every news outlet in the United States and Europe, in addition to politicians and cultural leaders.

And it's free, which makes it a Godsend for journalists, editors and policy analysts.

But according to its critics, it is also a dangerous, highly sophisticated propaganda operation, disseminating hate and disinformation on an unprecedented worldwide basis.

"They use the same sort of propaganda techniques as the Nazis," Professor Norman G. Finkelstein, a well-known scholar on Israel/Palestine, told InFocus. "They take things out of context in order to do personal and political harm to people they don't like."

Take the case of Professor Halim Barakat, a novelist and scholar associated with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University.

In 2002, he published an article on Zionism in London's Al-Hayat Daily, but says that in certain instances, MEMRI selectively edited what he wrote.

"I know how to make a distinction between Judaism and Zionism, but they distorted the article," Barakat told InFocus. "They left out certain things and tried to make it look anti-Semitic."

Shortly afterward, Campus Watch, the brainchild of notorious Islamophobe Daniel Pipes, used the allegedly doctored translation in an effort to smear Georgetown University.

Finkelstein, an outspoken critic of Israeli policies and the U.S. pro-Israel lobby, also had a run-in with MEMRI.

In 2006, he gave a TV interview in Lebanon on the way the Nazi Holocaust is used to silence critics of Israel.

Finkelstein later wrote on his Web site: "MEMRI recently posted what it alleged was an interview I did with Lebanese television on the Nazi Holocaust. The MEMRI posting was designed to prove that I was a Holocaust denier."

Far from being a Holocaust denier, Finkelstein's own parents were Holocaust survivors, a fact he has often spoken about.

But MEMRI was able to create the opposite impression, as Finkelstein demonstrated on his Web site, by editing out large chunks of the actual interview.

When some comments by the moderator were included, it appeared that Finkelstein's interview was about nitpicking the number of Jews who died in the Holocaust rather than about Israel/Palestine.

MEMRI's obsessive interest in protecting Israel derives from the people and interests that founded, fund and manage the institute's international operations.

It was founded in 1998 by Yigal Carmon, a former colonel in the Israel Defense Forces (Intelligence Branch) from 1968 until 1988, acting head of civil administration in the West Bank from 1977 to 1982; and Israeli-born Meyrav Wurmser, an extreme rightwing neoconservative now affiliated with the Hudson Institute.

Meyrav is married to David Wurmser, at one time an American Enterprise Institute "scholar" and then a State Department apparatchik under John Bolton.

Both participated in the collective writing of "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm," a seminal 1996 neocon document that advocated an end to negotiations with the Palestinians and permanent war against the Arab world.

They also worked with Douglas Feith, Elliot Abrams, Richard Perle and other rightwing ideologues who promoted and embellished the fiction that Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11.

MEMRI has offices in Jerusalem, Berlin, London, Washington and Tokyo, and in a 2006 Jerusalem Post interview, Carmon claimed to have one in Iraq.

It translates film and print into English, German, Hebrew, Italian, French, Spanish and Japanese.

Tax returns for 2004 indicate American funding of between two to three million dollars, much of it from conservative donors and foundations - but those who have followed its far-flung operations suspect much higher expenditures.

Besides Carmon, several MEMRI staffers are former Israeli intelligence specialists. Especially troubling are suspected links between MEMRI and the current Israeli intelligence establishment.

According to a 2005 article in Israel's Ha'aretz, the Israeli Defense Forces plants fake stories in the Arab media, which it then translates and tries to retail to Israeli journalists. How much of MEMRI is simply an extension of such IDF operations?

The questions raised by the Ha'aretz story caused Proffesor Juan Cole to write, "How much of what we 'know' from 'Arab sources' about 'Hizbullah terrorism' was simply made up by this fantasy factory in Tel Aviv?

British journalist Brian Whitaker, Middle East editor of the Guardian, dismisses MEMRI as "basically a propaganda machine."

Ken Livingstone, mayor of London, accuses them of "outright distortion," and former CIA case officer Vince Cannistraro has written that "they (MEMRI) are selective and act as propagandists for their political point of view, which is the extreme-right of Likud."

With characteristic bluntness. Norman Finkelstein has written: "MEMRI is a main arm of Israeli propaganda. Although widely used in the mainstream media as a source of information on the Arab world, it is as trustworthy as Julius Streicher's Der Sturmer was on the Jewish world." (Der Sturmer was a rabidly anti-Semitic newspaper, and Streicher a notoriously cruel Nazi.)

In an e-mail to InFocus, Cole characterized MEMRI as "a Right-Zionist propaganda organ, which usually does its propaganda unobtrusively, by being very selective in what it translates."

Indeed , MEMRI appears to view the Arab world as a malevolent, mind-numbing monsters' ball, populated almost exclusively by fanatics, freaks and fundamentalists.

Every story that could possibly make Middle Eastern people look deranged, hateful or diabolical gets translated; anything that could make them look informed, talented or admirable is ignored.

MEMRI says it covers reformers in the Arabic-speaking world, but longtime observers point out that people who make Islam or Arab culture look attractive rarely get translated, regardless of their position.

Nor does MEMRI feature stories about Palestinian suffering, Israeli dissenters, moderate Islamists, Christians in Arab governments or the growing nonviolent movement against the apartheid wall in the Occupied Territories, especially around Bal'in.

Instead, it promotes highly-edited footage featuring people like Wafa Sultan.

It was MEMRI that translated the sound bites from her famous al-Jazeera debate with Dr. Ibrahim al-Kouly that ended up on YouTube, making her an instant rock star to those who promote an international clash of cultures.

It is said by TV viewers who watched the entire debate that al-Kouly was rather patient with Sultan despite her extreme opinions.

(Among other things, Sultan has declared herself an atheist.) But MEMRI never bothered to translate and promote the whole debate.

MEMRI President Yigal Carmon was contacted to ask why the entire Sultan debate wasn't translated and circulated, at least in a print version.

"MEMRI couldn't do the whole interview because of the limitations of our resources," Carmon told InFocus. "And it was just our best judgment of what was fit to translate." He said he thought there was an "almost" complete version in the archives.

InFocus asked Carmon why MEMRI didn't post more stories about domestic events in Israel and the OTC.

"Eighty percent of such stories are already in English," Carmon said.

Then why not buy a few every week and send them out in order to give a more balanced picture of the Middle East, InFocus asked, "It probably wouldn't be legal ," he responded.

That brought up the thorny issue of copyright, ownership and power.

Why, Carmon was asked, does MEMRI copyright all the stories it translates, when most stories are written by Arab authors?

"Of course we copyright," Carmon told InFocus. "Once we translate a story into another language, it becomes ours, because it's our work"

To test this theory in an American context, InFocus contacted The New York Times.

"If you translate copy from the Times, it would still belong to us, because we originated it," said an employee of the Rights and Royalties Department who did not wish to be named.

When war and peace hangs on the translation of a single word or phrase, nuance is everything.

But can we trust the translator?

According its critics, until MEMRI starts translating Hebrew stories about the rightward drift of Israeli society, torture of Palestinians in Israeli jails, the forced exile of Ilan Pappe and Azmi Bishara, and the elevation of the neo-fascist Avigdor Lieberman to deputy prime minister of Israel, they aren't really covering all Middle Eastern media.

"I think it's a reliable assumption that anything MEMRI translates from the Middle East is going to be unreliable," Finkelstein said.

"Of course we copyright," Carmon told InFocus. "Once we translate a story into another language, it becomes ours, because it's our work"

Newsweek 'Muslim rage' cover invokes a rage of its own

A dying magazine has managed to outrage and alienate potential readers with its latest attention-grabbing move

It was either a brilliant bid for attention (and readers) or one of the worst editorial decisions in recent memory. Either way, the reaction was scathing.

Below a headline proclaiming MUSLIM RAGE, Newsweek's latest cover features a photograph of a mob of wild-eyed men yelling, presumably taken during one of the recent anti-US protests in the Muslim world.

Calculatedly controversial Newsweek covers are hardly news these days, but this one provoked genuine outrage. Marc Lych, the director of the Institute for Middle East Studies at George Washington University and the Guardian's own Glenn Greenwald denounced the magazine for stirring up Islamophobia.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/us-news-blog/2012/sep/17/muslim-rage-newsweek-magazine-twitter#

zone wrote:

Newsweek 'Muslim rage' cover invokes a rage of its own

A dying magazine has managed to outrage and alienate potential readers with its latest attention-grabbing move

It was either a brilliant bid for attention (and readers) or one of the worst editorial decisions in recent memory. Either way, the reaction was scathing.

YET ANOTHER HOAX PHOTO STRAIGHT OUT OF CENTRAL CASTING......

Tweeters mock Newsweek's #MuslimRage cover

Posted: Sep 17, 2012 3:48 PM
Updated: Sep 17, 2012 3:48 PM
By RYAN NAKASHIMA
Associated Press

...Despite the levity expressed on Twitter, violent protests continued across the Muslim world. The death toll has reached 14, including 10 protesters and 4 Americans who died in last week's attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

Read more: http://www.myfoxny.com/story/19567195/tweeters-mock-newsweeks-muslimrage-cover#ixzz26vgqVri3

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in other words.....ONLY 10 PROTESTORS have died in/as a result of all this HOAX and HYPE (i'll find out how they died).

the other 4, "who died in last week's attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya" died as a result of a SEPARATE AND DELIBERATE pre-planned operation.....more later.

(note: JESUS can forgive even all this you SNAKES.....it's not too late - REPENT)

Zone is on research overdrive again!

Backing up and reading from start.

zone wrote:hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? hello?

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i started going through the names one by one from the top down, and just threw up my hands.
same old same old.

let's just take a couple...

Hello!

Are you saying MEMRI translated the video?

zone wrote:"Anti-Judaism (or) Antisemitism is one of the most complex and, at
times, perplexing forms of hatred, (emerging) in numerous
ideological(ly) based narratives and the constructed identities of
belonging and otherness such as race and ethnicity, nationalisms, and
anti-nationalisms." In modern globalized times, "it appears that
Antisemitism has taken on new complex and changing forms that need to be
decoded, mapped and critiqued."

It's my right as a Christian to be anti-Judaism. Jesus certainly was.

Beware the Leaven

Strangelove wrote:
Are you saying MEMRI translated the video?

all my sources say yes.
just check wiki for some of their other 'work (Bin Laden tapes etc)'
excerpt -

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) is a Middle Eastern not for profit[1] press monitoring organization with headquarters located in Washington, DC. MEMRI was co-founded in 1998 by Yigal Carmon, a former colonel in the Israeli military intelligence and Meyrav Wurmser, an Israeli-born, American political scientist. MEMRI states that its goal is to "bridge the language gap that exists between the Middle East and the West".[1] It publishes and distributes free English language translations of material from Arabic, Persian, Urdu-Pashtu, and Turkish media, and publishes analyses and reports. MEMRI offers specialized content for a fee.[2]

Based in Washington, DC with branch offices in Jerusalem, Berlin, London, Rome, Shanghai, Baghdad, and Tokyo, MEMRI was founded in 1998. MEMRI was fonded by Yigal Carmon and Meyrav Wurmser. Wurmser, who later left MEMRI, is an Israeli-born, American scholar of the Arab world. She is also a Senior Fellow at the US think tank, the Hudson Institute.,[3] who participated in a study that led to the report, A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, a paper prepared for Likud party leader and then incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

MEMRI's founding staff of seven included three who had formerly served in military intelligence in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).[4][5] MEMRI president and founder Yigal Carmon states that MEMRI's current staff includes "people of the Jewish, Christian and Muslim faiths [who] hold a range of political views."[6]

MEMRI's original mission statement read: "In its research, the institute puts emphasis on the continuing relevance of Zionism to the Jewish people and to the state of Israel."[16]

In September 2001, MEMRI replaced it with the current mission statement which states that the organization "explores the Middle East through the region's media

Accusations of bias
Brian Whitaker, the Middle East editor for The Guardian newspaper wrote in a public email debate with Carmon, that his problem with MEMRI was that it "poses as a research institute when it's basically a propaganda operation." [6] Earlier, Whitaker had charged that MEMRI's role was to "further the political agenda of Israel." and that MEMRI's website does not mention Carmon's employment for Israeli intelligence, or Meyrav Wurmser's political stance, which he described as an "extreme brand of Zionism." [4]

MEMRI is one of several organizations that monitor and translate Arab news media. While the organization's translations are regularly quoted by major international newspapers, its work has generated strong criticism. Critics have accused MEMRI of often producing inaccurate translations with undue emphasis and selectivity and disseminating the most extreme views from Arabic and Persian media while ignoring moderate views that are often found in the same media outlets...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_Media_Research_Institute

*cough*

'wipe off the map' sound familiar?

MEMRI’s directors and advisory boards are top-heavy with neoconservatives and other supporters of hawkish U.S. and Israeli policies. Current and former board members include Elliott Abrams, Steve Emerson, Bernard Lewis, Elie Wiesel, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, Jose Maria Aznar, Donald Rumsfeld, James Woolsey, John Bolton, John Ashcroft, Ehud Barak, Mort Zuckerman, Michael Mukasey, Norman Podhoretz, William Bennett, Christopher DeMuth (former president of the American Enterprise Institute), Paul Bremer, Herb London (president of the Hudson Institute), Natan Sharanksy, James Q. Wilson, Alan Dershowitz, Richard Holbrooke, Jack Kemp, Jeane Kirkpatrick, and Irving Kristol. (As of October 2011, information about MEMRI staff and directors was available online. However, previously, the organization was criticized for not providing access to this information online and for attempting to disguise its political ties.[3])

Funding

According to tax records, in 2001 MEMRI had an operating budget of just under $2 million. By 2009, operating expenses reached just over $5 million, decreasing to $4.5 million in 2010. Aside from salaries, MEMRI’s largest operating expense during 2010 was for translation services, for which it paid $1.3 million to its long-standing Jerusalem-based contractor Yesodot Shalom (Foundations for Peace). Additionally, it spent nearly $1 million for the MEMRI TV Project, which monitors Middle East TV broadcasts, and more than $300,000 to maintain its website.[4]

According to a non-exhaustive review of Form 990 tax documents filed by U.S. philanthropic organizations, Right Web estimates that some 45 U.S.-based charitable foundations provided more than $8 million to MEMRI during the period 1999-2009. By far, MEMRI’s largest donor among this group has been the Newton D. & Rochelle F. Becker Foundation, which gave nearly $2.5 million during 2004-2009. Other donors have included the Daniel Pipes-led Middle East Forum ($100,000), the Irving I. Moskowitz Foundation ($110,000), the Bradley Foundation ($160,000), the Adelson Family Foundation ($250,000), the Russel Berrie Foundation ($250,000), the Koret Foundation ($375,000), and the Donors Capital Fund ($550,000). (For a complete list of results of Right Web’s investigation, see the attached document “MEMRI 501(c)3 Financing, 1999-2009.”)

Additionally, in August 2011, the U.S. State Department’s Office of International Religious Freedom in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor announced that it was awarding a $200,000 grant to MEMRI “to conduct a project that documents anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial and Holocaust glorification in the Middle East

This grant will enable MEMRI to expand its efforts to monitor the media, translate materials into ten languages, analyze trends in anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial and glorification, and increase distribution of materials through its website and other outlets.”

Responding to the announcement, one observer quipped: “Finding examples of anti-Semitism is already a robust MEMRI project and one wonders why exactly they needed the cash. … What’s more troubling, MEMRI has faced accusations of mistranslating items and cherry-picking incendiary sources to portray regional media and attitudes in an overly-negative fashion. One of the most common issues has been with MEMRI’s mistranslations, which appear to show anti-Semitism on thin evidence.

In 2007, CNN correspondent Atika Shubert checked MEMRI’s translations of a Palestinian children’s program against those provided by the cable news channel’s own interpreters: ‘Media watchdog MEMRI translates one caller as saying—quote—“We will annihilate the Jews.” But, according to several Arabic speakers used by CNN, the caller actually says “The Jews are killing us.” MEMRI told us it stood by its translation.""[5]

http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Middle_East_Media_Research_Institute

REVOLTING.

Compuslive Lying

The lying that is frequently observed in persons with impulse control disorders appears to be more pervasive than just the need to cover up behaviors and avoid their consequences. Pathological (or compulsive) lying may itself be an impulse control problem, and thus its association with other difficulties in impulse control. It may reflect the underlying psychological or brain dysfunction problems common to several syndromes. The impulse control disorders are frequently associated with depression and a personal or family history of substance abuse. McElroy and colleagues (1992) and Stein and colleagues (1993) have suggested that a common neurophysiological abnormality in the impulse control disorders (including the more impulsive personality disorders such as antisocial and borderline personality disorders) is a deficiency in brain serotonin, one of the primary neurotransmitters. Serotonin is known to have inhibitory qualities, and treatment with a medication that increases serotonin at the neural synapse often serves to reduce impulsiveness (McElroy et al. 1992). Clinical research and clinical trials with Prozac or similar medications for treating pathological lying have not yet been reported but might theoretically be helpful.

In addition to neurophysiological substrates to impulsivity, there are also psychological/psychodynamic issues to consider. Goldwater (1994) described impulsive people as deficient in the constructive and preparatory use of fantasy to control their present and their future. They are also only vaguely aware of the past and, thus, live only in the present, for the moment. Goldwater’s view of impulsivity is instructive in reference to the lying behaviors of impulsive people. They do not learn from the past and are not aware that other people use the past for reference. Or, in other words, that the truthfulness of the liar’s words will be evaluated in terms of past experiences. Furthermore, the impulsive liar fails to take into account the various effects (including negative effects on the liar himself or herself) that a lie may produce. As a result, the impulsive person lies to gratify current feelings and thoughts without regard to either the past or the future.

http://psy.sabryfattah.com/compulsive-lying/

zone wrote:Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer fundraise on Norway attack

America's most virulent anti-Islam bloggers continue attacking all Muslims, accuse terror victims of anti-Semitism

BY ALEX PAREENE



Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller
As a writer, it sure sucks when someone murders a bunch of people based on your ideas. (I mean, I assume that sucks. Weirdly, it’s never happened to me.) So you can understand why right-wing anti-Islam bloggers are all being kind of defensive, these days.

Anders Breivik, the anti-Islam terrorist who killed 77 people in Norway on July 22, read a lot of American anti-Islam bloggers, many of whom he cited in his lengthy manifesto. Breivik’s favorites included Robert Spencer, a self-proclaimed expert on Islam whose “Jihad Watch” blog was quoted and cited in Breivik’s manifesto, and Spencer’s ally and collaborator Pam Geller, whose “Atlas Shrugs” was similarly recommended by the killer.

http://www.salon.com/2011/08/01/pamela_geller_norway/

Anti-Muslim posters spark subway fears

By JENNIFER FERMINO, AMBER SUTHERLAND and LARRY CELONA
Last Updated: 7:30 AM, September 25, 2012
Posted: 1:15 AM, September 25, 2012

The NYPD ramped up security at 10 subway stations yesterday after the MTA was forced to install a controversial ad campaign branding enemies of Israel “savages,” sources told The Post.

The 46- by 30-inch ads — which the MTA unsuccessfully tried to block — were pasted into subway walls throughout the day in heavily trafficked areas such as Grand Central Station and Times Square.

The American Freedom Defense Initiative, a pro-Israel group spearheaded by activist Pamela Geller, paid $36,000 for 30 days of ad space.

Straphangers of all religious backgrounds blasted the ads.

Natan DvirOUTRAGED: Javerea Khan, at the Times Square station yesterday, called this advertisement and others like it “a slap in the face to all Muslims. It’s disheartening something like this would actually go up.”“I’m appalled at the fact they can use the term ‘savage’ so easily, categorize the whole Muslim world under the word ‘savage,’ ” said Javerea Khan, 22, a Bronx Muslim....

She called the ads a “slap in the face to all Muslims.”

more >>

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/ad_insult_to_injury_H3Q9mAQDKU3wI3uk2fKj5N?utm_source=SFnewyorkpost&utm_medium=SFnewyorkpost

zone wrote:Compuslive Lying
They do not learn from the past and are not aware that other people use the past for reference. Or, in other words, that the truthfulness of the liar’s words will be evaluated in terms of past experiences. Furthermore, the impulsive liar fails to take into account the various effects (including negative effects on the liar himself or herself) that a lie may produce. As a result, the impulsive person lies to gratify current feelings and thoughts without regard to either the past or the future.

My God.
Please come soon Lord Jesus.