Tod Gitlin

"I checked out the translation with two Arabic speakers, who confirm that it is accurate. Hussein Ibish, Executive Director of the Foundation for Arab-American Leadership and a Senior Fellow of the [Dahlan Embassy in Washington, DC also known as] American Task Force on Palestine." And who is better to judge Arabic than somebody who does not speak or read Arabic? But Tod Gitlin is a classic case of a Former Leftist in the US. He was a wholehearted supporter of Bush's wars and endorsed the campaign of civil liberties of Muslims here in the US. He even posed for a while as a new expert on Islam and the Middle East, merely because he shared Bush's hostitlity to Arabs and Muslims. He (like others) are trying to sneak back into a progressive position. Too late, Mr.