Sunday, September 02, 2012

FBI versus Palestinian-Americans

Khelil sent me this:  "This account from Tim Weiner's "Enemies, A History of the FBI"; after the 1972 Munich Olympics, Nixon began to fret about Palestinians taking out Rabin, then Israeli ambassador to Washington, and his source of fear was none other than a kook "popular psychic" named Jeane Dixon who had "predicted" the Palestinians would attack a "Jewish target". In response, the FBI began hunting "terrorists" and "the first targets of the [illegal] break-ins were...raided Palestinian American groups...FBI agents burglarized the files of an organization called Arab Education League in Dallas, stole a membership list from the league's office safe, identified the group's leaders, knocked on their doors, and ran them out of the country." And a senior Bureau official later related the conduct was "clearly illegal". Pages: 313-314."