[WCUSP] Opportunity to Respond to the Media Re. Carter
Joyce McLean
jmclean at jps.net
Wed Jan 10 10:27:49 CST 2007
Marlene ......are you suggesting that we join in this declaiming of Carter's appeal for a balanced look or are you just letting us know about the hysteria surrounding it?....sometimes my failing brain has trouble discerning...................
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From: Marlene Santoyo
To: JVPphiladelphia ; WCUSPWILPF
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 8:53 PM
Subject: [WCUSP] Opportunity to Respond to the Media Re. Carter
CAMERA Alert: Simon & Schuster "Stick With" Carter; Another Prof. Rebukes Carter; NYT Review; Dersh]
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who care about fair and factual reporting about Israel and the Middle East.
Shalom CAMERA E-Mail Team:
This alert contains info on:
* Simon & Schuster Chooses to "Stick With" Carter's "Version"
* New York Times' Ethan Bronner Reviews Carter's Book
* Professor Melvin Konnor Rebukes Carter for Condoning Murder and for His Failure to Respond to Critics' Substantive Objections
* Dershowitz to write Series about Carter Center's Arab Funding at Gather.com
Action Items are Below.
Simon & Schuster Chooses to "Stick With" Carter's "Version"
An article entitled "S&S Stand Behinds Carter" appeared in Publishers Weekly on January 2nd, 2007, about CAMERA's ad in the New York Times concerning the many errors in Jimmy Carter's new anti-Israel book, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid. CAMERA's ad was an open letter to the book's publisher, Simon & Schuster, urging them to publicly correct the book's many inaccuracies. In the Publishers Weekly article, Adam Rothberg, head of Simon & Schuster's corporate communications, was asked whether S&S will "change the book", and Rothberg replied tellingly: "We're going to stick with the president's version."
Notice he doesn't say that the "president's version" is accurate, just that they're going to "stick with" it.
Action Item below.
New York Times' Ethan Bronner Reviews Carter Book
Deputy Foreign Editor of the New York Times, Ethan Bronner, has written an interesting review of Carter's "strange little book." Click here to read "Jews, Arabs and Jimmy Carter" (January 7, 2007, NY Times)
Here are some excerpts:
"[Carter] offers a narrative that is largely unsympathetic to Israel. Israeli bad faith fills the pages. Hollow statements by Israel's enemies are presented without comment. Broader regional developments go largely unexamined. In other words, whether or not Carter is right that most Americans have a distorted view of the conflict, his contribution is to offer a distortion of his own...Yasir Arafat is portrayed as someone who disavowed terrorism...The separation barrier that Israel is building along and inside parts of the West Bank is not to stop suicide bombers and other violent attacks. Its 'driving purpose,' Carter says, is 'the acquisition of land...' "
"...The debate about the Israeli occupation 'will shape the future of Israel; it may also determine the prospects for peace in the Middle East - and perhaps the world.' This is an awfully narrow perspective...there are other factors to consider, including that for the most radical leaders of the Muslim world - and their numbers are not dwindling - settling the Israel question does not mean an equitable division of land between Israel and Palestine. It means eliminating Israel..."
"There is a weird scene toward the start of the book...But the episode hints at his tone deafness about Israel and Jews." [read the whole review to find out what this weird scene entailed.]
Action item below.
Professor Konnor Rebukes Carter for Condoning Murder and for His Failure to Respond to Critics' Substantive Objections
Melvin Konnor, a professor of anthropology at Emory University, added his
voice to the list of prominent critics of Jimmy Carter's new book, Palestine:
Peace not Apartheid. Konner expressed his thoughts in a letter to the Carter
Center and in an Op-Ed in the Atlanta Journal Constitution. In the letter,
addressed to Carter Center Executive Director John Hardman, Konner
explained why he chose to decline a position on the Carter Center's advisory
panel, and urged the Center to distance itself from the former president's
"irrevocably tarnished legacy."
Excerpts from the letter:
"...in television interviews I have seen over the past week, President Carter has revealed himself to be so rigid and inflexible in his views that he seems to me no longer capable of dialogue. In an interview with Soledad O'Brien of CNN he failed to address a single one of the criticisms she quoted from various experts in a very serious tone of voice, pointing out that she was not reading the worst of the criticisms; he began laughing inappropriately while she spoke, and when she asked him how he would respond to the criticisms he stated, 'With laughter.' In a number of interviews I have seen and heard him respond to highly specific questions merely by stating again and again in one form or another, 'My book is completely accurate.' This rigidity of thought and complete failure to engage criticisms from much greater experts than me about his numerous and serious errors of commission and omission make it clear to me that an attempt by me to advise him would be pointless and counterproductive. In addition, his repeated public insinuations that the Jews control the media and the Congress - well-worn anti-Semitic slurs that, especially coming from President Carter, present a clear and present danger to American Jews - are offensive to me beyond what I can politely say..."
"...I will call your attention to a sentence on p. 213 that had not stood out for me the first time I read it: 'It is imperative that the general Arab community and all significant Palestinian groups make it clear that they will end the suicide bombings and other acts of terrorism when international laws and the ultimate goals of the Roadmap for Peace are accepted by Israel.' As someone who has lived his life as a professional reader and writer, I cannot find any way to read this sentence that does not condone the murder of Jews until such time as Israel unilaterally follows President Carter's prescription for peace. This sentence, simply put, makes President Carter an apologist for terrorists and places my children, along with all Jews everywhere, in greater danger..." [emphasis added]
"...Meanwhile, in my own private and modest public capacity as a university professor and writer, I will work very hard in the foreseeable future to help discredit President Carter's biased, intemperate and inflexible mischaracterizations of the reality of Israel, Palestine, terrorism, and the American Jewish community. I will urge all my colleagues and students to do the same..."
Action item below.
Dershowitz to write Series about Carter's Arab Funding at Gather.com
www.Gather.com will be featuring six columns about Jimmy Carter by Alan Dershowitz on six successive Tuesdays beginning Jan 9. The columns will appear from 6 AM through 3 PM on the home page and then can be found by entering the search term alandershowitz.gather.com. The presumptive title of the series is "Ex-President for Sale." The columns will focus on the Arab funding and Carter.
Please monitor this series and if you find the columns helpful and informative, send them to friends, family, the media, clergy and politicians. Continue to educate the public about Jimmy Carter's flawed book and extreme views.
ACTION ITEMS
Please take action on one or more of the following items:
* Continue to hold Simon & Schuster accountable for publishing a book filled with inaccuracies, distortions and lack of context. Adam Rothberg, head of S&S's corporate communications, should get e-mail and phone calls.
Call him at: 212-698-1132
Email him at: adam_rothberg at simonandschuster.com
Callers/writers should urge Simon & Schuster to issue corrections of errors for existing books and to stop publishing this flawed version of the book. The book should be revised to correct the factual errors before any more books are printed.
* Write a letter-to-the-editor of the New York Times commenting on Ethan Bronner's review. Mention an important criticism of Carter's book and then add a couple of sentences of commentary to that. To get a letter into the Times, one needs to keep letters very brief!
letters at nytimes.com
* Commend Professor Melvin Konnor for his strong and eloquent rebuke of Carter and his book. You can write to him at: antmk at mindspring.com
* Continue to educate the public, government officials, media and clergy about the flawed nature of Carter's book. Make it well known that the book is filled with inaccuracies and distortions and is an extremely lopsided Arabist perspective of the conflict.
Send a note to media, friends, family, politicians, clergy. Include links to Professor Konnor's letter, as well as other analyses of Carter's book and interviews archived on CAMERA's Web site.
The link to Konnor's letter is: http://tinyurl.com/yko2jz
The link to the roundup of analyses is: http://tinyurl.com/y8jdkr
Media, church and government addresses are below.
Please send CAMERA a blind copy of your letter(s) and let CAMERA know if you made any phonecalls: letters at camera.org
With thanks,
Lee Green
Director, National Letter-Writing Group
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