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Lee Kaplan
Lee Kaplan is senior intelligence analyst with the Northeast Intelligence Network and a contributor to Front Page Magazine. He is also the national director of Dafka.org and heads Stop the ISM.
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    Understanding the International Solidarity Movement

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    Upon being ordered deported by Judge Drora Pilpel of the Tel Aviv district court on Sunday, Paul LaRudee said from his holding cell: "Am I a security threat to Israel?"

    Upon being ordered deported by Judge Drora Pilpel of the Tel Aviv district court on Sunday, Paul LaRudee said from his holding cell: "Am I a security threat to Israel?"

    The answer is a resounding "Yes!"

    Who is Paul LaRudee? He is the leader of Norcal ISM in the San Francisco Bay Area and one of the International Solidarity Movement's most active leaders in the USA. As such, he is responsible for recruiting and training radicals and anarchists, anti-capitalists and anti-Semites, anyone he can get, in how to bring down the state of Israel by supporting Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the PFLP. His mantra is to destroy the Jewish state "by any means necessary." The doe-eyed piano tuner, who maintains his innocence and cynically calls himself a "peace activist", is in fact working to have you and your children dominated, dispossessed, deported or murdered by the Arabs in the PLO. He is so passionate about this, it is a 24-hour-a-day job for him. And the worst thing is, this episode is not over yet - despite Judge Pilpel's wise decision. Israel allows for an appeal of his deportation order.

    I dyed my skin and colored my hair and made myself look like a Pakistani Muslim in 2004 to attend an ISM training session in the San Francisco Bay Area that Paul LaRudee personally oversaw. I listened to a colleague of LaRudee's, Jess Ghannam, of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), a Hamas-supporting front group, give an orientation speech in which he claimed that in 1948 the Jews sought to drive the Arabs into the sea (really!) and that Muslim and Christian Israeli citizens do not have the right to vote, own property or run their own businesses. The ADC, funded by Arab interests helps fund and organize the ISM in different parts of the USA.

    One thing made clear during training was that if caught trying to enter Israel as human shields for terrorist groups, we should refuse deportation, because a lawyer would be provided free of charge to us. The goal was to tax the resources of the Jewish state in any way possible. We were told to get ourselves arrested with an Arab while in Israel, because as internationals the police would be reluctant to keep us in jail for long; and if we refused to leave without the Arab prisoner "in solidarity", they might relent just to get rid of us and let him go, too. Never mind what the Arab prisoner did, we were there to overburden the system, just like fighting deportation.

    We had nothing to fear from armed terrorists, since we coordinated with these groups in advance and would be given safe passage by them. We were told not to tell Arab children to stop throwing rocks at Israeli soldiers. We were taught "direct action", civil disobedience and violence that would hamper Israeli security and drain the state's resources. We were told to say we were "peace activists" instead of "human shields", which is what we were; we were not there to make peace between two parties, we were there to roil things between Israel and the Arab population, to make all of Israel into Palestine. In short, we were a war movement on behalf of the PLO.

    Lawyers would always be provided free of charge in cases of deportation or arrest; and there were plenty of them, like Gaby Lasky, to try and free us. It would be a violent trip, but great fun, as we made revolution, revolution, revolution until victory.

    We were given training manuals with a history and current philosophy of making revolution against capitalism and to bring down Western governments like those in Israel and America. We were instructed that we worked in "affinity groups", partly designed in the anarchist mold so there would be no leadership hierarchy, but at the same time, so nobody could pinpoint the actual leadership. LaRudee claims he is not a leader, because the ISM has no leaders. Not only is he a leader, he is a driving force behind their movement in the San Francisco Bay Area, and he facilitates killing Israelis through what he claims is "legitimate resistance". He is no "peace activist".

    The average Israeli and American does not know the damage that LaRudee does to Israel bit by bit, day by day. In the US, LaRudee and his pals organize fundraisers, conferences, phony debates and radio shows portraying Israel as Nazi-like, an apartheid state like South Africa, where human rights are abused and Israeli boys in the IDF shoot Arab children for sport. Their goal is to poison the minds of the next generations of young Americans in the same way the Arabs poison their children's minds to hate the Jews and Israel.

    Today, on US college campuses, the one ethnic group it is acceptable to denigrate, to lie about and to even excuse the murder of is the Jews. I call it the "intellectualization of anti-Semitism"; you only need to call Jews "Zionists" to escape the other favorite accusation of the PLO support groups - that one who does not support the destruction of Israel is "a racist". LaRudee even recruits kapos to help him in his passion, people of Jewish ancestry who worship not HaShem, but the political god of radical Communism or Anarchism.

    LaRudee's visit to the Holy Land is to facilitate ISM activities with the new Hamas government and other PLO leadership. The riots in Bil'in every Friday against the security fence are not as effective as before. There are fewer internationals now, since the deaths of ISM pawns and useful idiots like Rachel Corrie and Tom Hurndall. Then, there is the question of fundraising in the United States to aid the terrorists who want to destroy Israel. That, too, is a 24 hour-a-day passion for LaRudee and his pals in the ISM, like the Middle East Childrens Alliance. The last major ISM conference at Georgetown in Washington DC drew only half the crowd of full-time Jew haters, so LaRudee no doubt needs to confer on how to get the numbers up.

    If you stop to wonder why since 1993 there is no peace with the Arabs, it is because Israel allows one hand to strike her with the sword while the other hand deceives her with a peace treaty that is written in disappearing ink. The Arabs know exactly what they are doing. Even as LaRudee appeals deportation, another ISM activist named Hannah Mermelstein snuck in elsewhere. The General Security Services and border police need to develop a special task force to catch ISM activists who enter the territories and expel them immediately. Israel may fear offending the nations from where these subversives come, but the price of allowing them in to serve as a wing of the PLO is far too high for the children of Israel.
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