from AlterNet:
Jimmy Carter Target of Malicious Lawsuit for Authoring Palestine: Peace not ApartheidJimmy Carter has long been the target of what MJ Rosenberg calls "the Status Quo Lobby" (he's right to deny them the "pro-Israel" label).
Now an enterprising attorney has filed a class-action suit against the former president -- and publisher Simon and Shuster -- that can only be seen as an ideologically-driven nuisance lawsuit.
From Tablet:
Yesterday, a class action (download
here) was filed in Manhattan federal court accusing Jimmy Carter and Simon & Schuster of consumer fraud for the former president’s 2006 book, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid. It alleges that the author and publisher marketed the book as a totally factual account of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in part based on the credibility of a former president and key character in the history, but that the book actually contains “demonstrable falsehoods, omissions, and knowing misrepresentations designed to promote Carter’s agenda of anti-Israel propaganda.”
Simon & Schuster, the case alleges, has refused to issue corrections despite “irrefutable proof” that key reporting in the book, which is extremely unpopular with many pro-Israel groups, does not tell the truth about events such as the 1949 and 1967 ceasefires and the 2000 negotiations at Camp David. (The book was controversial when it was published in part because of the title’s deployment of the a-word, which has since become a much more accepted part of the discourse.)
Tablet's Marc Tracy indulges in some understatement when he writes, "the allegations in the suit remind me most of the debate you and your family likely have every year at Seder. It’s a legitimate debate, but probably not one most successfully or productively litigated in court."
In the heated debate over the Israel-Palestine conflict, there are two wholly separate sets of "facts" at play -- Jenin was or wasn't a massacre; the Palestinians walked away from a great offer at Camp David, or they didn't; either one or the other side has refused to negotiate in good faith -- and the gap between those narratives often drives intense animosity between the two camps. ............(more)
The complete piece is at:
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/459309/jimmy_carter_target_of_malicious_lawsuit_for_authoring_palestine%3A_peace_not_apartheid/
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