PLO Official Hanan Ashrawi’s NGO Publishes Passover Blood Libel

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22. MIFTAH denounces smear campaign against it

The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy, MIFTAH strongly denounces the smear campaign being carried out against it and, by association, its founder Dr. Hanan Ashrawi. The obscure pro-Israeli website “The Elder of Ziyon” has wrongly accused MIFTAH and Dr. Ashrawi of promoting Jewish blood libel during Passover through its publication of an Arabic-language article that briefly addressed the subject.

The disclaimer at the opening of the “News and Analysis” section clearly states that, “The views represented in [News and Analysis] are solely those of their authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of MIFTAH, [font color = "red"]but rather fulfill its mandate for open dialogue.” For the record, to avoid further misunderstanding, Al Zaru’s article has been taken down from MIFTAH’s website.[/font]

MIFTAH has and always will promote the principles of democracy and a peaceful solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Articles published in its name on both its Arabic and English websites are proof of this philosophy. Neither MIFTAH nor Dr. Ashrawi has ever been associated with anti-Jewish or anti-Semitic campaigns due to their philosophy of promoting [font color = "red"]accurate and credible information[/font]. MIFTAH has always been focused on the promotion of the Palestinian narrative in the service of achieving a free, democratic Palestine, part of which is honoring freedom of speech.

It is in this spirit that MIFTAH is deeply disturbed by this recent slander campaign against it. Not only is the premise of their argument erroneous in characterizing MIFTAH and Dr. Ashrawi, but the underlying purpose of sabotaging MIFTAH’s reputation with its international partners is nothing short of abhorrent.

MIFTAH has been in existence for well over decade and has published countless articles on Palestine, which show its true colors. It is fair to say that its work speaks for itself.

http://www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=25950&CategoryID=2

No apologies - just an attack vs. Elder of Ziyon for calling them out on their gutter antisemitism. This "peace" organization believes publishing filth like that is "open dialogue". They took it down to avoid "further misunderstanding", not because it was a vile article written by a nasty anti-semite, who of course they don't denounce. They will not condemn the article nor change their policies....

Love their promotion of "accurate and credible" information too. That's how they still see the article, else they'd condemn it & call it offensive....

This is worse than the article.