Date:   10/9/2008 11:09:05 PM ( 17 y ago)
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Obama Is Not Linked To The PLO Through Prof. Rashid Kahlidi

You may have had a chance to see a video in which Sean Hannity of Fox News tries to paint Senator Barack Obama as anti-Israel on the grounds that he knows Prof. Rashid Khalidi, currently the Director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University.

Here are a few things that Hannity hides from us in this video:

Hannity does not tell us that the “Arab organization” that Khalidi founded is the Arab American Action Network, which was established to provide economic and social support to Arab immigrants in Chicago. He does not want us to know that the organization works with the Illinois Department of Human Services and its case managers to provide interpretation services specifically intended for Arab-Americans in Chicago who receive public benefits.

Hannity does not tell us that the Woods Fund for which Obama was a director provided funding to the Arab American Action Network in order for it to help the struggling Arab immigrant community in Chicago, and that the Arab American Action Network is one of hundreds of organizations which the Woods Fund supports. The organizations supported are as diverse as the Chicago community, and they include the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, an organization that is “dedicated to combating poverty, racism, and anti-Semitism.” Read more about organizations supported by the Woods Fund.

Hannity does not tell us that Khalidi and Obama were both professors at the University Of Chicago, because this might reasonably cause us to suspect that their relationship is one of former co-workers and does not involve any instance in which Obama endorsed or agreed with Khalidi’s views.

Hannity does not tell us that he does not have any evidence to back up his claim that Khalidi used to be a paid employee of the PLO when it was designated a terrorist organization. He says only that Khalidi was “allegedly” a member of the PLO. As reported by CBS News, “Khalidi says he was never employed by the PLO; he has been a harsh critic of Palestinian suicide bombings and a longtime supporter of a two-state solution.”

Hannity does not tell us anything about Daniel Pipes, the man who speaks about Obama in the segment. He does not tell us that Pipes is the subject of controversy over his plans to speak at an event organized by Pastor John Hagee, who said that God sent Hitler to create the Holocaust so the Jews would have to go to Israel. Read Pipes’ statement on the Hagee issue.

In short, Hannity’s segment about Obama and Khalidi is a smear based on fear, not facts. Obama’s incredible success as a candidate, despite this and the many other scurrilous smears that have been flung at him, proves that, as Obama himself has said, Americans are fed up with negative campaigning and ready to use facts, not rumor and innuendo, to choose the best candidate.


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