Carter comes to Brandeis
Scott Johnson

In "Publicity stunt" Seth Gitell comments on Brandeis University providing a venue for Jimmy Carter and his campaign of anti-Israel, anti-Jewish defamation. If Carter fields any questions after his speech tonight, CAMERA's just-released comprehensive compendium of Carter's errors will come in handy. In a message sending us the link, CAMERA senior research analyst Gilead Ini writes:

I thought you might be interested in this itemized list we put together of all -- or rather, "most" is probably a safer bet -- of Jimmy Carter's recent errors. Not surprisingly, it's a long piece.

At the home page of CAMERA, the organization has posted what looks like a mug shot of Carter. The mug shot accompanies links to the compendium of Carter errors as well as CAMERA's round-up of commentary on Carter's book. ...

Read the whole thing and do follow the links.

See all of my Speaking Frankly About Abu Carter posts in one place here.

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The Question of Carter’s Cash
In which our reporter follows the money
Claudia Rosett

Did Jimmy Carter do it for the money? That’s the question making the rounds about Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, an anti-Israeli screed recently written by the ex-president whose Carter Center has accepted millions in Arab funding.

Even in Carter’s long history of post-presidential grandstanding, this book sets fresh standards of irresponsibility. Purporting to give a balanced view of the Palestinian–Israeli conflict, Carter effectively shrugs off such highly germane matters as Palestinian terrorism. The hypocrisies are boundless, and include adoring praise of the deeply oppressive, religiously intolerant Saudi regime side by side with condemnations of democratic Israel. In one section, typical of the book’s entire approach, Carter includes a “Historical Chronology,” from Biblical times to 2006, in which he dwells on events surrounding his 1978 Camp David Accords but omits the Holocaust. Kenneth W. Stein, the founder of the Carter Center’s Middle East program, resigned last month to protest the book, describing it in a letter to Fox News as “replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments.” As this article goes to press, more protest resignations, this time from the Carter Center’s board of councilors, appear to be in the works.

If there is a silver lining to any of this, it is that Carter’s book has drawn much-overdue attention to some of the funding that pours into the Carter Center, whose intriguing donor list includes anti-Israeli tycoons and Middle East states. Founded in 1982 and appended to Carter’s presidential library, the center has served for almost a quarter century as the main base and fund-raising magnet for Carter’s self-proclaimed mission to save the world. ...

Don't miss Bryan Preston's related post here.