[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] Fwd: Zionist propaganda in the
DI!
Jim Buell
jbuell at prairienet.org
Fri Nov 22 00:17:35 CST 2002
FYI, the website promoted in the ad, www.campustruth.org, includes graphics
of today's ad and, I'm guessing, the ads to run later. (For instance: "On
September. 11 2001 Israelis Mourned in Tel-Aviv. On September. 11 2001
Palestinians Celebrated in Lebanon. There Are Two Sides To Every Story, But
Only One Truth.") The site's main page starts off with this text:
>Welcome to campustruth.org. We are a group of Americans of all faiths who
>accept
>diversity of opinion but believe in truth and accuracy.
>
>We are disturbed by the false accusations and untruths being told by many
>in the
>Arab world and perpetuated by the American and foreign media, such as the
>erroneously reported "massacre" in Jenin and the heinous accusations of
>Jews using
>Arab blood to bake holiday pastries.
>
>American college students are the newest targets of the Arab propaganda
>machine's
>disinformation campaign. Our response is this initiative, which is
>designed to spur
>students to think through the issues and see the facts in their true context.
There is no information on the site about who might be behind it. A "whois"
search on joker.com returns this info:
>Domain Name: CAMPUSTRUTH.ORG
>
> Created
> on..............: Wed, Aug 28, 2002
> Expires
> on..............: Sat, Aug 28, 2004
> Record last updated
> on..: Mon, Nov 11, 2002
>
> Administrative Contact:
> One Truth Foundation
> M. Rosen
> 800 Third Avenue-4th floor
> NYC, NY 10152
> US
> Phone: 212-561-0180
> Email:
> campustruth at hotmail.com
Google and Altavista don't turn up anything for One Truth Foundation, and
www.whitepages.com doesn't have any info on the phone number or a Rosen at
that office address. According to Google, the only site on earth that links
to www.campustruth.org is that of a Hillel Center at the University of
Chicago (http://hillel.uchicago.edu/israel_res.html) - there, it's
described as "Israel Advocacy." Letters in other campus newspapers complain
about campustruth.org ads - Google found complaint letters at the
University of Maryland and the University of Chicago.
jb
At 11:22 PM 11/21/2002 -0600, Al Kagan wrote:
>Note that first ad is already there, see page 14 under the TV
>listings. It is worst case scenario: half page, one side is photo of
>Israeli athlete celebrating victory, the other side is a Palestinian
>suicide bomber with gun. The heading over the Israeli is "Israeli School
>Children's Hero." The heading over the Palestinian is "Palestinian School
>Children's Hero."
>
>There is no real text. At the bottom in red is: "There are two sides to
>every story, but only one is truth."
>
>In small type, there are URLs for the Israel Defense Force, Palestine
>Media Watch, NYT, Toronto Star, and Washington Times. And the URL for
>their own website is in large type.
>
>The DI called me today just after I sent my letter on the ad, but the
>reporter didn't know about the letter. She asked me to speak for AWARE
>about the ad. I told her I just had lunch with a few AWARE members and
>that we didn't agree, so I could only talk for myself, which I did.
>
>
>At 7:28 PM -0600 11/21/02, patton paul wrote:
>> >
>>> >I think that this is an absolutely urgent matter.
>>> >
>>> >David Green
>>> >
>>> >--- Hadeel Assali <hadeelassali at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> >> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 08:04:30 -0800 (PST)
>>> >> From: Hadeel Assali <hadeelassali at yahoo.com>
>>> >> Subject: Zionist propaganda in the DI!
>>> >>>
>>> >> Please read this editorial:
>>> >>
>>> >http://www.dailyillini.com/nov02/nov21/opinions/stories/edit.shtml
>>> > >
>>> >> This is an absolute outrage and will cause SERIOUS
>>> >> damage to the image of the Palestinians in the
>>> >> Champaign-Urbana community. As students, as faculty,
>>> >> as community members and as alumni, we cannot let
>>> >> this happen. Free speech is an inalienable right,
>>> >> but free speech of our oppressors, who ARE in power,
>>> >> is lethal. it is used to instigate and direct
>>> >> military might against ordinary people all over the
>>> >> world, in this case Palestine.
>>
>>I just read the DI editorial, and I think it is an impressive and
>>courageous defense of free speech. If we don't respect everybody's free
>>speech rights, even the free speech rights of those we deem oppressors,
>>then we will be in a weaker position to defend free speech rights,
>>including especially those of the oppressed and marginalized.
>>I don't think AWARE should protest the DI, because its editors clearly
>>don't agree with or endorse the views of the One Truth Foundation. I
>>think it would be better for AWARE to concentrate on countering the
>>distorted views of the Palestinians likely to be contained in the ads.
>>Could we, maybe, run our own ad?
>>__________________________________________________________________
>>Dr. Paul Patton
>>Post-Doctoral Research Associate
>>Beckman Institute Rm 3027 405 N. Mathews St.
>>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, Illinois 61801
>>work phone: (217)-265-0795 fax: (217)-244-5180
>>home phone: (217)-328-4064
>>homepage: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ppatton/index.html
>>
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>>source of all true art and science."
>>-Albert Einstein
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>
>
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>
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