The "red-baiting"of J Street continues. From ZOA. Note that they don’t have their facts straight, and don’t care either:
According to [West Bank colonist]… Lenny Ben-David, writing in Pajamas Media, [J Street executive director] Ben Ami served as senior vice-president of Fenton Communications which, in March 2009, signed contracts with a Qatari foundation to lead an 18-month long anti-Israel campaign in the United States with a special focus on university campuses. The actual text of the contract called for “An international public opinion awareness campaign that advocates for the accountability of those who participated in attacks against schools in Gaza.” It is not known if Ben-Ami severed his ties with Fenton in 2008 to take up his position with the then-newly formed J Street, whether he retained any role or holdings in Fenton thereafter or whether he was aware of the negotiations or the contract signed on March 12, 2009 with the Qatari foundation mounting the anti-Israel campaign. If so…
By coincidence it was David Fenton, now head of Fenton Communciation, but then an exceptionally bright and talented teenager who was working withLiberation News Service in NY who wrote me in London in 1970 asking me if I wanted to go to Lebanon and Jordan and take photographs in the Palestinian refugee camps for a book that LNS was planning to publish. That book never was published but the photographs appeared in the Palestine Reader, published by Ramparts Press in 1971.
