Ultra right-wing Jewish zealots keeps up media attacks against new Boston mosque.

The Boston Globe has published an op-ed by Charles Jacobs, founder of The David Project, who throws around fear-mongering cliches about ‘Wahhabis,’ ‘the Muslim Brotherhood,’ and ‘Saudi money’ to incite fear and mistrust of the new mosque.

Jacobs implies he cares deeply about the local Muslim community:

Does the city’s willingness to cooperate with such people constitute a great betrayal of the local Muslim community?

The piece is a pure smear on the reputation of the mosque, its supporters, and Muslims generally, with the only action suggested being that “it is way past time for sensible citizens to demand answers to questions about the leaders of the new Islamic Center in Roxbury.”

In an article published two years ago in the Jewish Daily Forward, Jonathan Sarna, a professor of Jewish history at Brandeis University, made this pejorative comment about the work of The David Project:

I think it would be a very unfortunate thing if the Jewish community in the United States were to create an atmosphere that implied open warfare with Muslims in their midst.

At the same time Jacobs was fretting over the “betrayal” of Boston’s Muslim community, his organization was joining in a new partnership with Aish Hatorah according to The David Project’s home page. Aish Hatorah is the cultish Israel advocacy organization that was behind the “Obsession DVD” and the national effort to inflame fear and hatred of Muslims during last year’s presidential campaign.

Jacobs is listed as an “expert” with the speakers bureau/public relations firm Benador Associates, founded by Eleana Benador, a stridently neoconservative group that also counts Charles Krauthammer and Daniel Pipes’ father Richard among its stable of speakers.

If you read something that advocates regime change in the New York Post, or if you see a ‘political adviser’ on Fox News suggesting that Israel hasn’t gone far enough in its attacks on Hizbullah, there’s a good possibility that the appearance has been engineered by Mrs. Benador.

In 2006, Eleana Benador admitted her firm planted a fake story that received international media coverage about Iran passing a law requiring Jewish residents to wear a yellow insignia — reminiscent of the policies of Germany’s Nazi regime. The story was completely false.

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