How the Palestine Solidarity Movement lies to its own rank-and-file

How the Palestine Solidarity Movement lies to its own rank-and-file

by Bill Levinson

The best way to destroy a political-issue organization is to prove to its unpaid rank-and-file activists that their leaders are lying to them. This strategy once played a major role in demolishing a well-financed organization that had the backing of numerous U.S. Representatives and several Senators, and it is hard to envision the Palestine Solidarity Movement surviving once its rank-and-file proves to its own satisfaction that it is being taken for a ride. Why should college students and other activists spend their time and hard-earned money to travel all the way to Georgetown University to gratify the egos of the Palestine Solidarity Movement's self-serving manipulators and medicine show frauds?

Now to begin with, I know full well what I look like to the Palestine Solidarity Movement. To save my detractors the trouble, I am providing a picture of myself so everyone in the PSM will know what I look like.

Right now, I am "the enemy" and "the bad guy" so you, the Palestine Solidarity Movement rank-and-file member, should not take my word for anything. I would not take my word for anything if I was in your place. My strategy requires that you verify to your own satisfaction that the following things are true.

Let's examine the Palestine Solidarity Movement's five Lies of Unity, excuse me, Points of Unity:

1. End the Israeli occupation of Palestine

2. Equality under the law for Palestinians living in Israel

3. Right of Return for Palestinian refugees

4. Opposition to all forms of oppression (Racism, Sexism, Homophobia, etc.)

5. Divestment is our tactic of resistance

The primary emphasis is on item #4, "Opposition to all forms of oppression (Racism, Sexism, Homophobia, etc.)" I grew up in a semi-rural area, I am quite familiar with the smell, and this statement is pure Grade A 100% unmitigated bovine excrement. The Palestine Solidarity Movement supports the agenda of a government-- formerly the Palestine Authority and now Hamas-- that advocates, sanctions, and promotes sexism, homophobia, and religious oppression.

If you are a Christian, a woman, and/or gay, the Palestine Solidarity Movement supports the oppression, enslavement, brutalization, and quite possibly the murder of people just like you in Gaza and the West Bank.

This is what the PSM has in mind for Palestinian Christians. If you don't like my references or think they are biased, here is a Google search that brings up thousands of Web pages and you can pick the ones you like. Or do a Google search with your own keywords; the important thing is that you see for yourself.
Palestinian Christians Face Persecution by Chris Mitchell, Christian Broadcasting Network

"WEST BANK - Two thousand years after the birth of Christ, Christians are leaving the Holy Land in record numbers, and a new report suggests persecution against Palestinian believers is getting worse." "…since Israel withdrew from the Palestinian populated areas of the West Bank and Gaza …[Christians] fear for their own lives, they fear for their own family, they fear for the future of their community."

"The general plan of Hamas also includes the imposition of a special tax, called al-jeziya, upon all of the non-Muslim residents in the Palestinian territories. This tax revives the one applied through all of Islamic history to the dhimmi, the second-class Jewish and Christian citizens." "In an interview with Karby Legget, published in the December 23-26 edition of The Wall Street Journal, Masalmeh, the leader of the Hamas contingent at the municipal council of Bethlehem, confirmed: "We in Hamas intend to implement this tax someday. We say it openly – we welcome everyone to Palestine but only if they agree to live under our rules."
International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem
" 'Palestine' is an Islamic state, top Arafat advisor tells pastors concerned about Christian persecution under PA." o "In recent issues, the ICEJ's Digest has reported on the Palestinian Authority's oppression of Arab Christians in the self-rule areas. (see Tortured for their faith, Aug 1997; The price of conversion, October 1997; PA persecution of Christians, Nov/Dec 1997). Despite noteworthy efforts to end this official campaign of persecution, the PA is unrelenting, particularly in its targeting of Christian converts from Islamic backgrounds." "ARAB Christian Mohammed Bak'r is entering his sixth month in a PA prison for openly proclaiming his faith."

This is what the Palestine Solidarity Movement has in mind for Palestinian women.

Again, here is a Google search if you don't like my references.

"Every year, hundreds of women and girls are murdered in the Middle East by male family members. The honor killing— the execution of a female family member for perceived misuse of her sexuality— is a thorny social and political issue. Palestinian activists campaigning for equality find it difficult to stop the killings altogether. Legitimacy for such murders stems from a complex code of honor ingrained in the consciousness of some sectors of Palestinian society."
"A Palestinian girl who was raped and impregnated by her two brothers was later murdered by her own mother – even though her daughter was the crime's innocent victim – in another of the disturbingly common, if vastly underreported, instances of "honor killings." The mother will be sentenced in two weeks, but a harsh penalty is not expected."

Furthermore, Sharia or Islamofascist law is the basis of the Palestinian "constitution." This means, among other things, that a woman's court testimony might be valued at only half that of a man's testimony. If the Saudi "blood money" system is implemented, it means a woman's life is worth only half that of a man of the same religion. Even during the bad old days of slavery in the United States, a slave was considered three-fifths of a person.

This is what the Palestine Solidarity Movement has in mind for Palestinian gays. Again, here's an impartial Google search for "Palestinian" and "gays" so you can see for yourself.

The Yale Herald (November 2004) reports,

"The Palestinian Authority subsequently arrested Adam three times for his sexual orientation, torturing and humiliating him. It is illegal to be gay in the Palestinian Authority, Eli said, and the police actually employ special undercover agents that seek out gay men, whom the police then torture, kill, or force to work as prostitutes. It is not surprising, Eli said, that he and Adam decided to flee to Israel, the only place where they would not be persecuted for their sexuality."

"Gay Palestinians Suffer under Arafat" says in part,
"It is not widely known that, along with its war against Israel, the Palestinian Authority is conducting a vicious campaign against its own homosexual population. The New Republic, in its Aug. 19 issue, exposed hideous human rights violations by the Palestinian Authority, which employs special police squads to capture men who have sex with each other. The lucky ones are forced to stand in sewage water up to their necks or lie in dark cells infested with insects; others are simply starved to death."

Gay Man Criticizes Palestinian Society (Alex Tehranian, Special to The Hoya Friday, October 22, 2004; Page A1):
"A Palestinian man described the challenges of living as a homosexual in what he deemed an oppressive society last Tuesday in New South. …He said he was unwilling to reveal his last name or hometown for fear of being discovered by the Palestinian Authority."

Palestinian Gays Seek Safety in Israel:
"For these gay men, life in the seedy parts of central Israel is far better than the virtual death sentences they fled in the West Bank and Gaza Strip." "Torture by Palestinian Authority security services or vigilante attacks by relatives is a fate suffered by countless gays in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, where sodomy carries a jail term of three to 10 years." "Islam prescribes capital punishment for homosexual activity."

So if you're female, gay, or Christian, you might want to ask who your real enemies are.

Now, as a rank-and-file member, how do you feel about leaders who consider YOUR life expendible for the Cause? That is apparently how George Rishmawi and Joe Smith felt about peace activist Rachel Corrie; an idealistic young women who probably joined the Palestine Solidarity Movement for the same reasons you did. Rachel was into peace, justice, and so on and it cost her her life. The following information (plus a lot more) has incidentally been placed in the mail to Caterpillar Corporation's legal department and it should probably be sent to the Corrie family as well.

"Recently, the Director of the Solidarity Movement, George Rishmawi, explained to the San Francisco Chronicle that the recruitment of American student volunteers is useful to the Palestinian Movement because "if some of these foreign volunteers get shot or even killed, then the international media will sit up and take notice.""
Do you want to belong to an organization whose leaders think it is useful to have you shot or even killed?
Joseph Smith, who was present when Corrie died and whose highest priority was apparently to take pictures, said "The spirit that she died for is worth a life. This idea of resistance, this spirit of resisting this brutal occupying force, is worth anything. And many, many, many Palestinians give their lives for it all the time. So the life of one international, I feel, is more than worth the spirit of resisting oppression." (This is from a source friendly to the Palestine Solidarity Movement; note the Web domain.)
If you believe that, Joe Smith, why didn't you stand in front of the bulldozer yourself? Why was it worth Rachel's life and not yours?
A Hamas terrorist said openly that Rachel was worth more dead than alive. "'Her death serves me more than it served her,' said one activist at a Hamas funeral yesterday. '...Her death will bring more attention than the other 2,000 martyrs.'" "Making of a Martyr" by Sandra Jordan, Guardian Newspapers

I guess Rachel was worth more to her "friends" dead than she was alive. If I had "friends" like that, I'd find new friends quickly-- or even enemies who look like the Devil. Tell me honestly after you do your own research on what I have described above; am I really as bad as I look? :-)

Posted by Bill Levinson at January 28, 2006 09:28 PM

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1. The Sanity Inspector said:

I have gotten into many long and prolix arguments on usenet with Muslims, over how honor killings have the proverbial "nothing to do with Islam".

Like, I'm supposed to feel relief...?

Posted by: The Sanity Inspector on January 29, 2006 12:13 AM

2. Lee Kaplan said:

Actually honor killings are not part of the Koran. The problem is they are edemic to Arab culture though. Not all Arab socieites engage in honor killings or circumcision. But the Palestinian Arabs are famopus for both. Jordan has attached a six month sentence to honor killings. The Palestinians have not. It's jsut too much a part of thier perverted sense of "honor."

Welcome to the new Iran: Palestine.

Posted by: Lee Kaplan on January 29, 2006 12:42 AM

3. Steven Q. said:

Levinson - you really do give your self far too much credit than you deserve. I'm guessing that only a small handful of people in the Palestine Solidarity Movement even know who you are. You think they regard you as the devil? As the anti-Christ? You've watched far too many episodes of Star Wars... now you think you're Darth Vader. Relax. Take an asprin. For them to even take you seriously you'd have to be part of main stream press... not Israpundit or FPM. Let's face it man, again - you're just preaching to the choir.

Posted by: Steven Q. on January 29, 2006 01:43 AM

4. Leonard said:

Steven Q. You obviously think israpundit a big enough threat to consider it worthwhile monitoring - is it because it exposes the deceit of your organization ?

Posted by: Leonard on January 29, 2006 05:18 AM

5. Bill Narvey said:

Leonard,

Steve Q did not say enough to guage where he stands on the issues discussed in this forum or that he speaks for any particular organization.

His comment is fair. Most of the views expressed and discussed here are amongst people generally of the same view, even when there is disagreement. The mainstream press that is often castigated by contributors as being liberal or liberal left do not reflect the thinking that is common at Israpundit.

Sometimes people will peek in and express their views that are good, bad or indifferent.

Steve Q's view is more in the indifferent category.

The Palestinian Solidarity Movement in its many facets is very large, well organized and quite successful at getting credible forums to advocate their views. While some within the PSM may be aware of Bill Levinson and doubtless many others who have spoken out against the PSM as he has, the PSM's success renders those like Bill Levinson at best a minor annoyance.

To Bill Levinson's credit he has sought to bring his message to the attention of others outside this forum, including the universities that host PSM events. How much impact that has is uncertain.

Steve Q implicitly is quite correct that mainstream media will have to pick up on and spread the message of the Bill Levinsons for that message to become more than a small thorn in the side of PSM.

Given the liberal attitudes of our Western mainstream institutions, our great value placed on our principles of free speech to the point that lawful limits on free speech are almost ignored and our Western penchant for politically correct words and deeds, unless there is a reason in the order of another 9/11 which this time more clearly shows that the Palestinians and their leaders are just another face of radical Islam, I do not see our Western institutions changing any time soon.

Posted by: Bill Narvey on January 29, 2006 08:09 AM

6. felix quigley said:

They have a most pernicious effect and have spread much Jew hatred, I know from Ireland, and I support Bill totally.

Posted by: felix quigley on January 29, 2006 11:26 AM

7. Dan Barkye said:

Yes, Bill preaches to the choir, I said so in a few other occasions, but every word, every action are worthwhile. It does have an impact in the end, for sure and this is what is important, not what Steve says. I salute you, Bill Levinson!

Posted by: Dan Barkye on January 29, 2006 11:46 AM

8. Dan Barkye said:

Steve, just so you know, though you have all the right to express your views, you're a defeatist and a demoralizer.

Posted by: Dan Barkye on January 29, 2006 11:52 AM

9. Dan Barkye said:

Outstanding work, Bill!

Posted by: Dan Barkye on January 29, 2006 11:55 AM

10. Bill Levinson said:

Bill Narvey, re: "Steve Q implicitly is quite correct that mainstream media will have to pick up on and spread the message of the Bill Levinsons for that message to become more than a small thorn in the side of PSM."


There are other ways to do this. As an example, free downloadable leaflets can be deployed to pro-Israel and pro-American (e.g. Young Republicans) activists for distribution to Palestine Solidarity Movement members. The instant the rank-and-file realizes that it is being lied to, it is all over for the organization in question.


I know from experience that this works, as it played a central role in destroying (legally and nonviolently) an enemy political-issue group with a lot more money than PSM and that also had the backing of a few dozen Representatives and several Senators. The methods involved inflicted so much damage that the organization actually disbanded as a corporate entity, and its name was reassigned by its parent organization.

Posted by: Bill Levinson on January 29, 2006 12:18 PM

11. J said:

"mainstream media will have to pick up on and spread the message of the Bill Levinsons for that message to become more than a small thorn in the side of PSM"

well this is the point really. if everyone with a blog who reads this, blogs it, then more and more people know. that's what i suggest everyone with a blog does and if you don't have a blog, then post it on lgf, jihadwatch and other major blogs until it gets noticed.

oh, and in case you're wondering i will be posting this on my blog and on the infidel bloggers alliance

Posted by: J on January 29, 2006 01:16 PM

12. Laura said:

Great work Bill in exposing ISM for the evil that they represent.

Posted by: Laura on January 29, 2006 01:45 PM

13. Bill Levinson said:

J, where is the infidel bloggers' alliance? I am an infidel and a kafir and I'd like to join! :-)

Posted by: Bill Levinson on January 29, 2006 03:17 PM

14. Shelley said:

Yes, I think Bill has done an outstanding job of exposing the PSM and the ISM. Posting Bill's expose on other blogs is helpful, but there are members of the mainstream press that I am sure would be interested in Bill's research. Stewart Bell in Canada is a journalist who wrote a book called "Cold Terror" and he writes for the National Post. In view of the results of the Palestinian election, I think this would be the perfect occasion to profile groups that support the Palestinian cause, as it is now clearly compromised by the emergence of an Islamist government. I'm going to send your file to Stewart Bell via the National Post but I am wondering Bill if you are keeping it up-to-date with each posting that you make?

Posted by: Shelley on January 29, 2006 04:56 PM

15. Bill Levinson said:

Shelley, do you mean http://www.omdurman.org/ISM/ism.doc? There is one update that I need to add, the Joseph Smith remark about how useful it was to get Rachel Corrie killed.

Posted by: Bill Levinson on January 29, 2006 05:38 PM

16. Richard Louis said:

New Realities, People!
Sharon is a vegetable. Hamas got elected, free and fair. Nyetenahu is at least as crooked as Arafat ever was. Zionism in all its guises appears to be on the run after 50 years of ascension. It's time for Israel to wake up and smell the coffee. Sue for peace, before Israel is confined to the dust of history.
There's still time! If... Recognize the Right of Return for the people of Palestine. Atone for the criminal land-grab. Take down the not-so-secret nuclear arsenal (I know about it, since I worked on it). If Israel does this, Hamas and the new Palestininan government will recognize Israel. Smaller, humbler, but far more secure than it will ever be under current direction.

Posted by: Richard Louis on January 29, 2006 07:14 PM

17. Bill Levinson said:

Richard Louis wrote, "There's still time! If... Recognize the Right of Return for the people of Palestine. Atone for the criminal land-grab. Take down the not-so-secret nuclear arsenal (I know about it, since I worked on it). If Israel does this, Hamas and the new Palestininan government will recognize Israel. Smaller..."


Smaller, like the ashes in the ovens at Auschwitz, Dachau, and Belsen. Belsen sounds like Beslan, where Islamofascist terrorists slaughtered Russian schoolchildren. Well, one concentration camp sounds a lot like another, whether it's run by Nazis or Islamofascist terrorists.


The Palestinians should be as proud of electing Hamas as Germans should be of electing Hitler. At least Germany realizes that it made a horrible mistake.

Posted by: Bill Levinson on January 29, 2006 08:28 PM

18. Shelley said:

Bill, yes that's the one. I will wait until it's updated. Does anyone else have any ideas? Are there mainstream American journalists whose exclusive interests are terrorism? I can think of a few, but perhaps there are others?

Posted by: Shelley on January 30, 2006 05:00 AM

19. Dan Barkye said:

Richard, land grab on our part? Are you sure you don't mix things up? Last time I checked, it was the Pals who took our land, if you don't know.

If you think that property is to be dismissed, then you're mistaken.

And if you worked on the Isr atom project, then you committed a felony saying what you said, not that there's any evidence, mind you, only surmises, conjectures and witnesses like you. They may have it, they may not.

Posted by: Dan Barkye on January 30, 2006 11:45 AM

20. Bill Levinson said:

Shelley, http://www.omdurman.org/ISM/ism.doc has been updated. See also http://www.omdurman.org/ISM/corrie.doc for Rachel Corrie information

Posted by: Bill Levinson on January 30, 2006 12:00 PM

21. Dan Barkye said:

Bill, I'm gonna send the update to Cal Thomas, a very well known columnist of "right" flavor.
(I sent the version that you sent me a wk ago to my local Jewish Fed, but so far, no response and I think that it's no use to follow up, even.)

I sugest to send the article to all the Fox team, w Riley first, all any of the right watchdogs there, Hanity et al.

In our boresight should be Ann Coulter, too, the woman who wrote "If you must speak with a liberal" (IIRC the bk name).

What about the Young Republicans that you mentioned, w a flyer of it?

I'd suggest even more. Let us send the update in the name of IsraPundit and its regular contributors to all those right wing journalists, as a standard facts sheet.

Tell me, pls, if you consider the suggestion in the positive.

Posted by: Dan Barkye on January 30, 2006 07:21 PM

22. Bill Levinson said:

Dan, I like your idea. It's time that the ISM's role in Rachel Corrie's death be exposed completely.


Should we set up a pool on when the ISM/PSM collapses as an organization? I don't think it will last to the end of the year.

Posted by: Bill Levinson on January 30, 2006 09:06 PM

23. Dan Barkye said:

OK, I send an email to Cal asking him in principle if he would like to read such a fact sheet. I say this b/c I'm not sure of his stand on the Isr-Pal conflict, w all his rightwingish hue.

Beside this, maybe time to make a full plan of action w assignments?

I propose a standard worded sheet and a proved list of media talkheads and penhands (I mean persons who can be counted to see eye to eye w us in this issue, so not to encounter failure, which is not a good PR item).

Following immediately, assignments among us as who forwards to whom the paper.
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"Should we set up a pool on when the ISM/PSM collapses as an organization? I don't think it will last to the end of the year."
To judge from your story about the collapse of the org that was exposed by flyers, it's utterly possible, hehehe, my hands itch.

Posted by: Dan Barkye on January 30, 2006 09:24 PM

24. Dan Barkye said:

"Following immediately, assignments among us as who forwards to whom the paper."

No, correction, actually I suggested an IsraPundit collective action, in our name, all of us here, the regular contributors and all who agree, to which you agreed.

All that is needed is the media persons list, really, and to make sure that they are w us, of the same "color".

Posted by: Dan Barkye on January 30, 2006 09:30 PM

25. Dan Barkye said:

Ok, Bill, for what it's worth, I post here the message I sent to the columnist Cal Thomas. If anyone else is interested in doing the same w other media persons, my letter is free for use.
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Dear Mr. Cal Thomas,

(Eulogizing him and his articles) I would like to bring to your kind attention the following information.

On the 17-19 of February, 2006, Georgetown University will host the Palestine Solidarity Movement Conference.

The event is made public in this page of Georgetown University website:
http://explore.georgetown.edu/documents/?DocumentID=12105

Along with many others, I am of the opinion that this conference should not take place because of its violent, subversive and homophobic policies, which are kept in shadow for obvious reasons.

To witness what I just said, I am forwarding you the document
"International Solidarity Movement/ Palestine Solidarity Movement Information Package", which can be found in its entirety in this website:
http://www.omdurman.org/ISM/ism.doc#_Toc125619512

The document was prepared by Mr. Bill Levinson, one of the members of IsraPundit, a pro-Israel blogsite, at the URL
http://www.israpundit.com

You will find this information package about the said organization interesting in its implications, and negative in its ultimate meaning, being oppressive and regressive.

If after reading the document you find yourself in agreement with my statements, I would respectfully like to ask you, with your permission, to bring to the attention of your readers the information brought to you.

In addition, if I may, I would like also to ask you to join our call for the cancelation of this conference, by approaching the university authorities accordingly.

This, we believe, will be a great service for justice, honesty, and decency.

I thank you very much for the time and the attention given to my message and its subject.

Dan Barkye,
(location)
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I am more than hopeful that it will help.

Next in line is Ann Coulter.

Posted by: Dan Barkye on January 31, 2006 12:25 AM

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