Top Pro-Palestinian Lobbyist Ousted

[oberliner]

The executive director of America’s leading pro-Palestinian advocacy group was ousted recently, following allegations of financial misconduct.

Rafi Dajani, who was the American Task Force on Palestine’s second-ranking official and one of the country’s most visible speakers on Palestinian affairs, was fired in late January due to an “apparent breach of his fiduciary responsibilities,” according to a statement issued by the group February 29.

Sources outside the organization said Dajani was allegedly responsible for tens of thousands of dollars that had gone missing from the group’s funds.

The official statement puts to an end rumors that were circulating in the pro-Palestinian community ever since the surprise January 17 announcement that, effective immediately, “Rafi Dajani is not employed by the American Task Force on Palestine or associated with the organization in any way.

The group moved quickly to dissociate itself from Dajani. Photos in which he was featured, quotes from interviews he had given and video clips from public events in which he participated were all promptly taken off the organization’s Web site.

Dajani did not respond to Forward requests for comment.

http://www.forward.com/articles/12818/

[Tom Joad]

1. He didn't give top secret US information to a foreign nation.

that would be another lobby.

[azurnoir]

2. But it makes

Palestinians "look" bad at a time when it is all important for some to do so.

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