Two hate sites coudn't get their facts right if the fate of a nation depended on them

Thankfully, the future of Palestine doesn't depend on the talents of the morons at Ikhras (Qasim Lufti and Thabet al-Arabi) or on the King of Fools Will Youmans, the fanatic who runs KabobFest and helps weaken the credibility of the worthless extremist center in Washington D.C., the "Palestine Center."

Ray Hanania remains a member of ADC and is the vice president of the Chicago Chapter, one of ADC's largest chapters. He declined reappointment to another one year term on the ADC National so he could focus on his writings to skewer the extremist hate groups like Ikhras, KabobFest and other fanatics who exploit the Palestinian cause for their own personal gain and aggrandizement.

Hanania served a full year on the National Board and helped to rebuild Chicago's weakened ADC Chapter, but he is also running for a national seat on the Society of Professional Journlaism (SPJ) where anti-Arab hatred has been rivaled only by the anti-Arab hate sites Ikhras and KabobFest.

"These hate sites dislike me and claim I am irrelevant yet they continue to focus on my efforts so obviously I must not be that irrelevant," Hanania declared. "My columns at Creators Syndicate and the Jerusalem Post reach more than 1.5 million readers every week around the globe and have far more influence on defining the moderate Arab voice than Youmans and his ilk could ever achieve. In fact, in all their years of doing nothing, these fanatics have only helped to undermine Palestinian rights and to keep Palestinians locked away in oppression. Youman, KabobFest, Lufti and alArabi helped make Israel stronger and more of a reality than ever. And I think they do that on purpose because as long as the Palestinians fail to achieve statehood, extremists like Youmans, KabobFest and Ikhras can benefit as phony 'leaders'."

Hanania praised the work of ADC's National Board Chairman Safa Rifka and also the newly named President Warren David.

"ADC National needed a change and Rifka and David are moving forward to make the organization more relevant and to showcase the great work that ADC legal does but that has often gone unnoticed," Hanania said.

"The extremists can scream, yell and write their foolishness all they want. But the truth is they are losers who have failed to do one positive thing for the Palestinian people. Their writing is often incoherent. And while their  supporters are loud and boisterous, they are a small segment of the Palestinian community with little ability to impact anything. They are legends in their own minds and that is about the most they can achieve," Hanania said.

"The more they attack me, the more they put a spotlight on my writings and my work and I welcome that attention because it exposes reason and common sense to many people who have been blinded by the ignorance of KabobFest and Ikhras, which have never been fans of ADC, don't care about the civil rights of American Arabs and spend all their time tearing down other Palestinians. Why? Because they are incapable of achieving anything against the challenges presented by Israeli extremism. In a way, they are minions for the Israeli extremist movement which is far more effective."


Hanania said that KabobFest and Ikhras are driven by an anti-Israeli activism that is anti-Semitic and vicious and that often targets him because his wife and son are Jewish.

"They really hate that I write for the Jerusalem Post and that makes me very happy," said Hanania, who has won a dozen major journalism awards for his column writing on defending American Arab rights (two SPJ awards last year) and in appealing to moderate voices in the Israeli, Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, Jewish and Christian communities.

-- Maklooba Man