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More Defections from Carter’s Anti-Israel Crusade

Posted By Claudia Rosett On January 11, 2007 @ 1:44 pm In Uncategorized | 27 Comments

Turning to the protests over Jimmy Carter’s take-donations-from-the-Saudis ^[1]and slam-Israel approach to Middle East politics, there are fresh defections today from the Carter Center, where the founder of the Middle East program, Kenneth Stein, resigned last month ^[2]in protest over Carter’s book: “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” and an Emory University anthropologist, Melvin Konner, refused to serve on an advisory group to Carter, accusing him of a “callous disregard ^[3]for the relevant facts of history,” and of setting back, rather than advancing the debate. Today, 14 members ^[4]of the Carter Center’s Board of Councilors resigned, sending Carter a letter ^[5]in which they accused him of “malicious advocacy” and wrote “we can no longer endorse your strident and uncompromising position.”

If Carter ^[6] won’t recant, maybe he can at least issue a revised edition of his book, including a full and detailed list of his Carter Center’s sources of funding.

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[1] take-donations-from-the-Saudis : http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=252633226827963

[2] resigned last month : http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,235283,00.html

[3] callous disregard : http://blog.camera.org/archives/2007/01/emory_professors_letter_to_car.html

[4] 14 members : http://claudiarosett.pajamasmedia.com/documents/Carter%20Center%20BOC%20cover%20letter%20January%2011%202006.pdf

[5] a letter : http://claudiarosett.pajamasmedia.com/documents/CarterCenterLetter1-10-2006.pdf

[6] Carter: http://claudiarosett.pajamasmedia.com/2006/09/21/the_carterchavez_connection.php

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