Abramoff and Jewish Terrorism

Professor Juan Cole has the courage to talk about Jack Abramoff's illegal dealings in the Middle East.

Abramoff's dense network of illicit finances and phony charities might end some political careers in the United States. But the investigation into his activities by the FBI also shed light on the ways in which rightwing American Jews have often been involved in funding what are essentially terrorist activities by armed land thieves in Palestinian territory.

He points out that Abramoff diverted $140,000 from a charity ostensibly to benefit inner-city youths to militant Israeli colonists who had usurped land in the Palestinian West Bank. He further points out that:

If a Palestinian-American had diverted $140,000 from a Muslim charity to "security equipment" and "sniper lessons" for Palestinians on the West Bank, that individual would be in Gitmo so fast that the sonic boom would rattle your windows.

Terrorism is terrorism and religious extremism is religious extremism, it doesn't matter if it's Islamic, Jewish or Christian.