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[Jefferson23]

Listed under Activism Training,

Hasbara Fellowships staff can speak on any of the following topics:

•Communicating Effectively for Israel
•Answering the Most Difficult Questions about Israel
•Israel Update: Current Events and Trends
•Defeating anti-Israel Propaganda and Speakers
•Building Your Israel Group and Future Leadership
•Dealing With Media Bias
•Engaging the Unengaged on Your Campus
•Role Playing: How to Have Meaningful Conversations and Win Debates
•How to Table, Run Successful Events, and Build Coalitions
•Screening of "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West" (small fee)
•Screening of "Relentless: The Struggle for Peace in Israel" (end)

They advocate the film Obsession, nice group there shira.


Just after the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a small charity group flooded campaign battleground states with an inflammatory DVD on radical Islam. Critics say the charity is trying to influence the presidential race.

Earlier this month, subscribers to 70 newspapers in 14 states got a little something extra: A DVD that argues the same hard, militaristic line on terrorism that John McCain takes in his presidential campaign.

It's called Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West. The DVD was made in 2006, before this presidential contest began, and it doesn't even allude to electoral politics.

But, filled with dire warnings about Islamic terrorists, it hit doorsteps seven weeks before Election Day. And critics say it fuels the false whisper campaign that Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim.

Madaline Muir of Montgomery County, Pa., got the DVD in her Philadelphia Inquirer. She called it propaganda.

"It's to influence people. Sent out now. Whenever it was made, 2006, but it's really to influence people in the election and scare people," she said.

Obsession was produced by the Clarion Fund, a 501(c)(3) charity, which cannot get involved in campaign politics.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95076174


Let me guess, the other film this group advocates, Relentless. Is it about Israel's relentless construction in West Bank settlements?