A FRAUDULENT HISTORY OF PALESTINE
Bernice Lipkin.
September 20, 2002
PART A. TEXT
[Factual rebuttal]
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"PART B. AUTHORSHIP
Now in its third edition, OCME's putative publisher is a
group calling itself Jews for Justice in the Middle East (JFJME).
The book has NO named author, NO editor, NO address other than a post office box in Berkeley, and NO sales by the usual booksellers.
The compilers are obviously of the Radical Left. But that's no reason to publish Anonymously.
Especially in Berkeley.
Bravery is to be on the Right. Writing anything outrageous, so long as you are defending the downtrodden that are on the New Left Imprimatur list, just makes you one of the crowd.
The scholars who put this History together are said to be Jewish but are NOT named.
There is NOT even a description of their expertise. NO "Hayim Fonee is the nom de plume of an Associate Professor of Political History at one of California's major universities. The pseudonym is to protect his identity from the wrath of local philistines."
Actually, considering that the book is distributed from Berkeley, there should be no reason for anonymity.
Berkeley is, after all, still the home of the disaffected Jew, the bastion of political correctness, the weeping house of sympathy for the underdog, providing the dog ain't Jewish....."
Nevertheless, it is Unlikely that OCME was compiled by Jews.
First, its parent organization, the JFJME is most UnJewish, especially in a place like Berkeley.
It doesn't have meetings. It doesn't do retreats.
It doesn't have street theatre.
It doesn't, like other Jewish radical groups, join pro-Palestinian rallies and express their views on Public Broadcasting's Online News Hour....
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So who dunnit?
Using textual analyses and a bit of common sense, we have some clues to its compilers.
A likely possibility would be a graduate student. Someone in Modern Middle Eastern History with access to a library could grind it out in a few weeks. Especially in a large university like Berkeley with its many library facilities. If he already had the courses and had read the books, how long would it take to pull out some goodies from guaranteed "correct" sources? It could have been a customized job where someone gave him the order, suggested what the document should promote and paid him for it.
But I don't think so. It is more likely the child of devotees of the Arab cause.
The Web version is Mirrored on several Sites, but the source appears to be Cactus48, a site run by Bob and Willie Cork, Christian supporters of Palestinian Arabs.
My vote goes to the Corks....."
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They know there are anti-Jewish Jewish groups, many with
'Jew ... Justice' as their name.
Where better to hide an Anti-Jewish document?
Why hide it at all? To quote from OCME:
"One further point: being Jewish ourselves, the position we present here is critical of Zionism but is in no way anti-Semitic. We do not believe that the Jews acted worse than any other group might have acted in their situation".
In sum, I believe OCME was compiled by Christians who thought themselves clever to hide their work under a Jewish name, the better to help the Arab cause.
The real awfulness is that there are enough Jewish groups devoted to destroying Israel that the name Jews for Justice in the Middle East makes a plausible hiding place.
http://www.think-israel.org/fraudhistory.html