Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Today on the moderated Muslim American Society/Islamic Society of Boston email list, a "press release" regarding material uncovered through the ISB's spray of subpoenas. The press release is the same as this Indymedia thread: Damning Evidence Against the David Project and was distributed by...Karin Friedemann...one half of the Martillo ("suicide attacks against Israel are completely justifiable")/Friedmann wedded team (see this post for a little background) of classical anti-semites. In fact, outside ISB spokesperson Jessica Masse and attorney Howard Cooper, this pair has been providing the most outspoken public face on behalf of the ISB's lawsuits. It would be difficult to find a more effective method of justifying concerns with this group short of perhaps trotting out Sheik Qaradawi or Walid ("[the Jews] have incurred Allah's wrath and they have been afflicted with misery") Fitaihi as spokespeople again.
You can read the disclosed emails in the Indymedia piece. The trouble for the ISB is they're indistinguishable from the private discussions of a group of people who recognize a threat and begin to discuss among themselves what to do about it -- something the ISB's lawsuit is attempting to criminalize.
Update: CAIR has linked to Friedemann's piece in their latest broadcast email. Nice.
The emails disclose a cabal of real estate developers and investors that are using racist demonization in an attempt to undo the BRA choice of designated community developer for a property that lay unused and unwanted for decades.
The long history of predatory development along the Orange Line path with no benefit to the local community is no secret.
The David Project and friends have simply added a new twist to the old story in that the professional real estate developers in this case are attempting to pervert the anti-SLAPP statute to protect the outside real estate developers from the local community even though the statue is supposed to do the reverse.