The Flotilla Jihadists’ Artsy Propagandist and Her Billionaire Husband

FrontPage Magazine ^ | 6/29/2011 | David Swindle

[HorowitzianConservative]

When the Hamas-linked Foundation for Human Rights and Freedom and Humanitarian Relief (IHH) sponsored a “humanitarian” flotilla last summer to try and break the Israeli “siege” of Gaza, the purpose was not merely to engineer a showdown between Israeli commandos and armed IHH “peace activists.” Far more vital to the IHH’s cause was the ensuing campaign to demonize Israel in the international media, a campaign in which propagandists such as documentary filmmaker Iara Lee played a key role.

Lee later appropriated the language of the American Civil Rights Movement to describe herself and the IHH:

Israeli spokespeople insist that the Gaza Freedom Flotilla was a provocation. It was, in the sense that civil rights protesters in the American south who sat at segregated lunch counters represented a provocation to segregationists, or in the sense that all nonviolent protests against the illegitimate acts of a government are by definition provocations. Under an illegal siege, the delivery of aid to civilians is a prohibited act; the intent of our humanitarian convoy was to violate this unjust prohibition.

This account of what happened on the Mavi Marmara was reprinted in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington Post, and in the O/R Books anthology Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How it Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine Conflict. Online it was accompanied by footage Lee shot of the event. Touted as “the video Israel doesn’t want you to see,” Lee’s images, showing the IHH attacking Israeli soldiers with slingshots and other weapons, dramatically undermine her claims of innocent moral witness.

Who is Iara Lee and what was she doing on a ship determined to provoke an agitprop showdown with Israeli soldiers?

[HorowitzianConservative]

This is the first part of a 3-part series coming in the next few days at FrontPage.

[humblegunner]

Got yourself a new job, huh?

[pabianice]

I saw Lee’s earlier documentary, “The Triumph of the Will.”

[HorowitzianConservative]

Just reassigned to writing and researching instead of managing a blog. Quite happy about it. Was getting burnt out. You guys doing alright in FreeperLand?

[humblegunner]

You guys doing alright in FreeperLand?

We're getting by. Good luck in your new endeavor.

[HorowitzianConservative]

Thanks. Keep fighting the good fight. You guys are patriots.

[Gen.Blather]

I read an article a couple of years ago by a black, female radical anti-American American who went to Haiti after some disaster to help the natives. She was raped by a Haitian. She writes, “I was imploring him to stop. I told him he was just acting out the horrible things whites had done to him.” At the end of the article, the rape had reinforced for her how horrible American whites were. After all, that black man wasn’t responsible. Whites were. I suspect this woman is headed in the same direction and will come to the same conclusions, substituting Israeli and Jew for Americans and whites.

[RJS1950]

I told him he was just acting out the horrible things whites had done to him.

Ha! The ignorant slut doesn't know that Haiti has been a "free" and independent, mostly black nation for over 200 years. He was just acting out his long and rich culture. Their problems and issues are self-inflicted.