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National Lawyers' Guild: Working hand in hand with terror organizations for Israel's destruction

As I believe I have mentioned on more than one occasion, I went to law school at uber-liberal NYU. NYU had an active chapter of the National Lawyers' Guild, which was known even then (the 1980's) for being strongly anti-Israel.

In the 21st century, we find the National Lawyers' Guild (NLG) cooperating with terror supporters like the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case, in which the latter organization was convicted for raising money for a terror organization (Hamas).

There are two other things that are striking about this article. One is that every person who is mentioned by name as being affiliated with NLG, ISM or CAIR has an obviously Jewish last name. The other striking thing is that the author of the article wrote under a pen name, because she is, "a conservative in a liberal-dominated line of work." (May I guess that she is a lawyer?) Welcome to the Age of Obama. Here is a brief excerpt.

In fact, the NLG has cooperated closely with the ISM, one of whose "Free Gaza" board members "has been an active member of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) for 25 years"; and the NLG has advised activists from the student Group Viva Palestina, which the University of California-Irvine has asked the FBI to investigate because of its alleged material support of Hamas, about how to avoid questions from the Israeli authorities during their visits to Gaza.

What is more, there are close ties between the NLG and CAIR, which has recently been implicated in a plot to fund Hamas. For example, one board member of CAIR-Chicago "has been committed to working with the National Lawyers Guild" while another currently "is active in the National Lawyers Guild Middle East Committee."

And we now learn that the NLG is actively providing legal support to the "US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation," of which its own NLG International Committee is a member organization. Consider this email from Katherine Fuchs, National Organizer of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, which she sent to her colleagues and friends on October 22:

In other words, they are advising on how to comply with the Arab boycott.

Read the whole thing.

And to think that in my day, NLG was mainly a bunch of Leftists fighting racism, sexism, etc. and not yet a group of terror supporters advising how to circumvent the law.

But would they consider joining J Street?

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:55 AM