Davos Forum: Another anti-Israel Vehicle?
By Andrew Cochran
Aren't there enough pressing issues to address at the World Economic Forum without reducing it to yet another opportunity to showcase those who wish to see Israel shunted aside? First, an article called “Boycott Israel” in the Global Agenda magazine was published by the Forum and given to all the participants (full article below). According to a NYT story, the author of the article, Mazim Qumsiyeh, said he had been asked by a staff writer at the magazine to write this piece. Again according to the NYT, Klaus Schwab, Executive Director of the Forum, said that the article should not have been published and had "slipped through the editing process.” He further stated that "The article is totally in contradiction to my own, and the forum's, mission and values."
Perhaps. But why was the Muslim American Society’s (MAS) Mahdi Bray asked to address the conference? The same Mahdi Bray stood behind Abdurahman Alamoudi (now serving 23 years in prison on terrorism financing charges) cheering on Hamas and Hizbollah in front of the White House: "I have been labeled by the media in New York as being a supporter of Hamas. Anybody supporters of Hamas here? Hear that, Bill Clinton? We are all supporters of Hamas ... I wish they added that I am also a supporter of Hezbollah." For more on on Bray and MAS, see Daveed Gartenstein-Ross' December 11 post ("...extremists founded MAS and that, despite efforts to clean up its public image, the core of its teachings remains unchanged") and my August 10 post ("Ismail (Randall) Royer, former MAS Communications Director, was one of the American-born young men from the Washington suburbs who was convicted in that very same Lashkar-e-Taiba training camp case").
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