Jimmy Carter Sued for $5 Million for Criticism of Israel
 

Jimmy Carter Sued for $5 Million for Criticism of Israel
Book's Criticism 'Violates NY Consumer Protection Law' Insists Lawyer
by Jason Ditz, February 03, 2011
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In a move that calls back to the attempt by Texas cattlemen to sue Oprah Winfrey for “defamation of beef.” an Israeli lawyer has filed a class-action lawsuit against former President Jimmy Carter, seeking $5 million in damages because his book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” allegedly defamed Israel.

Attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner insisted that Carter’s book violated New York State’s Consumer Protection Laws by asserting things, largely that Israel was not inherently reasonable and Syria was not inherently unreasonable, that “even a child” knows is untrue.

The suit went on to condemn Carter, saying he had an “agenda of anti-Israel propaganda” and condemned publisher Simon and Shuster for advertising the book as a work on non-fiction. The legal complaint insists Carter has the right to publish a book “to put forward his virulent anti-Israel bias” but insisted that such a book could only be sold as a work of fiction.

Lawsuits against authors alleging “defamation” of the government or a key ally, though common in some Mideast dictatorships, have never been particulary common nor successful in the United States. Likewise, it does not appear that New York’s Consumer Protection Law explicitly forbids criticism of Israel in a work of non-fiction, though if true this would surely make for an interesting Constitutional challenge to such a law.

Simon and Schuster spokesman Adam Rothberg condemned the lawsuit as a “chillling attack on free speech” and promised that the company would oppose it in court. Former President Carter has yet to comment.


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ponce must owe in fines......................$900,000,000,000,000,00 0http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...es/shocked.gif

When the Earth is ride of money hungry jew zionists and their goyim crypto jews, the world will be a better place. Don't get me wrong, I have no love to Jimmy "Hates Whitey" Carter, but he's right on Izzy.

Dont like peanuts General.............. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ilies/grin.gif

I can only guess that if I was living in Canada, and a few more countries, that I would already be in prison for my avatar which has been standing in my front yard for the apst nine years.

Yup... a much more peaceful place the world without israel...

Just ran across this while researching and then found this thread. Listen to Carter about Israel and their war crimes against the Palestinians.....

thanks for bumping it.

it's interesting how hard the Jews worked to eject Carter & bring in Reagan in 1980.


since we've been talking about Jim Rickards - he was directly involved in the '79/'80 hostage negotiations. that implies that he had oversight on the negotiations that preceded the hostage release - what is referred to as "October Surprise".


i know a lot of you guys don't like Carter. i think he was one of the most principled presidents we had in the last 50 years.

of course, it's possible that's not saying much. as GA gov., he had to show his "allegiance" by allowing School of America's in his backyard (Georgia).

not unlike Clinton showing his obedience by overlooking covert ops in Mena while gov. of Arkansas.


side note - the Diesel Engine was designed to run on peanut oil.

i just finished planting about 1/4 acre of peanuts last week.

The Zionists have stomped all over thr truth and free speech to protect their rotten little experiment: Israel, the first cancerous state. They say you are anti-semitic if you criticize Israel. So Israel must be a Jewish state. Then all non-Jews are second class serfs in Israel. Then Israel is a theocracy, a dictatorship gilded with a religion. Oh no, the pro-Israeli Zionists and their useful idiots say: Israel is a democracy, the only one in the middle east! We must support Israel no matter the cost, no matter how many gentiles must die! These Jews are G-d's chosen people don't you know - they tell us this every day!

So which is it Israel? Are you a democracy or a theocracy? Or maybe you are so damned arrogant you think you can lie to the whole world and commit crime and crime and never be held account? Everyone pays for his sins eventually, everyone.

Israel is a lie, a curse, a cancer, a huge fraud perpretrated on the peoples of the world, and everybody knows it, including them. The only ones who don't are the ignorant useful idiot gentiles and their leaders who have sold their souls for a few shekels. There will be no peace in the world while Israel exists, never.

well, maybe not the first.


So which is it Israel? Are you a democracy or a theocracy? Or maybe you are so damned arrogant BINGO


Everyone pays for his sins eventually, everyone. if only that were true.

Simon and Schuster spokesman Adam Rothberg condemned the lawsuit as a “chillling attack on free speech” and promised that the company would oppose it in court.



Is it just me or do you find it highly amusing that every person envoled in this fiasco is of The Hook nose tribe?

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I do enjoy it when these vermin start to feed on themselves

except it sort of becomes a Jobs for Jews program.

when there's PLENTY of Gentiles looking for work.