Adam Shatz in LRB on the neocon strategy to preserve Jerusalem by flooding swing states with the anti-Islam film, Obsession:
[Film producer] The Clarion Fund is a front for neoconservative and Israeli pressure
groups. It has an office, or at least an address, in Manhattan at Grace
Corporate Park Executive Suites, which rents out ‘virtual office
identity packages’ for $75 a month…
[The film] has found a
powerful backer in the real estate magnate Sheldon Adelson, who
describes himself as ‘the world’s richest Jew’. The Endowment for
Middle East Truth, a neoconservative think tank in Washington DC which
recently hosted a series of seminars named after Adelson and his wife,
arranged distribution of ‘Obsession’, at a cost in the tens of millions.
makers of the film, like their subjects, are soldiers of God. Almost
everyone associated with it or with Clarion has worked for Aish
HaTorah, an ‘education’ group with offices in East Jerusalem and strong
links to the settler movement..
The film’s chief claim is that 2008 is like 1938, only worse, since
there are more Muslims than Germans and they’re more spread out
geographically: ‘They’re not outside our borders, they are here.’
