Sued!
Former US President Jimmy Carter is being sued in New York over his book claiming that Israel practices apartheid. The case, filed at the Manhattan Federal Claims Court by a group of readers, accuses Mr Carter of filling his book “with demonstrable falsehoods, omissions and knowing misrepresentations intended to promote [his] agenda of anti-Israel propaganda".You can find a copy of the complaint here (28-page pdf that froze my computer). This is NOT a defamation case. It's entirely based on economic grounds.
According to court papers quoted by the New York Post, the group who filed the case said Mr Carter was wrong to have promoted the book as “non-fiction".
The papers added: “This lawsuit challenges the defendants' actions in attempting to capitalise on Carter's status as a former president of the United States to mislead unsuspecting members of the reading public who thought they could trust their former president to tell the truth."
Mr Carter, who as president oversaw the historic peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, is a prominent critic of the Israeli government. In 2008 he described Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip as “one of the greatest human-rights crimes on earth”.
The lawsuit is directed at both Mr Carter and his publishers, Simon & Schuster.
A spokesperson for the company said the lawsuit was "frivolous".
Heh.
Labels: apartheid state, Jimmy Carter, lawsuit, Palestine
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:47 AM
1 Comments:
Can you explain the difference between defamation and economic cases?
I don't understand that.
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