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This is an extraordinary and clunky attack on free speech by a group of Americans
and Zionist who simply didn’t like former President Jimmy Carter’s book,
Palestine: Peace not Apartheid.
Tablet’s Marc Tracy reports that on Monday, a group represented by attorney
David Schoen ( a board member of the Zionist Organization of America who
boasts defending members of the Israel mafia ) announced it was filing a class
action lawsuit against Carter and his publisher Simon & Shuster. They claim
the book, marketed as nonfiction, contains“demonstrable falsehoods, omissions,
and knowing misrepresentations designed to promote Carter’s agenda of anti-Israel
propaganda.”
The publisher responded to Tablet:
“This lawsuit is a frivolous and transparent attempt by the plaintiffs, despite
their protestations to the contrary, to punish the author, a Nobel Peace prize-
winner and world-renowned statesmen, and his publisher, for writing and
publishing a book with which the plaintiffs simply disagree. It is a chilling attack
on free speech that we intend to defend vigorously.”
The plaintiffs, Stephen Unterberg, Susan Eckman, Ryan Shuman, Danica Bernard and
Steven Tabak, and apparently a cast of thousands who were traumatized by the book,
are demanding “damages” for everyone who ever bought the book. Seriously. You can
read the lawsuit yourself below–
Carter Complaint- Lawsuit Against Jimmy Carter
-cecilie surasky
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