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Outing Zs in Massachusetts

2010

Summer: Dr. Kaveh Afrasiabi, outspoken critic of Israel, is subjected to a false arrest by the Cambridge Police Department.
See The High Price of Defending Palestinianand Iranian Rights in America. See also Mike Wallace Defends Dr. Kaveh Afrasiabi (re bizarre shenanigans  at Harvard in 1996) 

2009

April: Clark University cancels a scheduled talk by Holocaust scholar Norman Finkelstein (The Holocaust Industry). Finkelstein was invited by students to talk about the Gaza massacre. The ACLU in a complaint to Clark, wrote "administrators referred to Finkelstein as as 'extremist' who was 'beyond controversial', thus warranting cancellation of his speaking engagement." See more correspondence here at NormanFinkelstein.com. Also see this coverage by the pro-Israeli Boston Globe.
Culprit: Hillel, Jewish group ubiquitous on college campuses throughout the US
Craven collaborator: John Bassett, president of Clark Univ, Worcester

2008

September: Anthropology professor J. Lorand Matory ’82, a leading scholar on the African diaspora who is known for his strong criticisms of Israel and his opposition to former University President Lawrence H. Summers, leaves Harvard to chair Duke’s African and African-American studies department. Matory said that Harvard did not respond to Duke’s offer with a comparable position or salary. [See how we couch reality with such innocuous, pleasant-sounding language.] See the full report in the  Harvard crimson. 

March: JLC pressures landlord to retract a commitment to NECDP to hold a conference on zionism on its premises. Encuentro folds - see popup details.
Known culprits:  Jewish Labor Committee and UNITE-HERE
Craven collaborators: Encuentro, MassGlobal Action

March: The Union of Progressive Zionists brings its Breaking the Silence tour to Harvard. The ZOA (Zionist Organization of America) and Harvard Students for Israel group try to prevent the exhibit being shown on campus. The Hillel steering committee decides to control controversy by bringing the exhibit inside Hillel, complete with lengthy statements critical of the exhibit by other IDF veterans. See the story here at Muzzle Watch
Known culprits:  Zionist Organization of America
Craven collaborators: Expected: Hillel

February: The New Rep in Watertown is pressured to cancel its production of My Name Is Rachel Corrie. The theatre director made the compromise to show another play, during the same season, with a pro-Israeli point of view.  [link w/details to be provided]
Known culprits:  Zionist lobby
Craven collaborators:  

2007

October: Zionists pressure the Old South Church, Boston, to include pro-Israeli speakers at a Sabeel conference on 'The Apartheid Paradigm in Palestine -Israel.' See this public statement from Old South Church
Known culprits: Zionists groups, most likely including the David Project
Craven collaborators:  

October: Krista Johnson, a long-term volunteer for Sabeel (Voice of Palestinian Christians) in Jerusalem, is denied re-entry into Israel. She is deported from Ben Gurion Airport as she attempted to return to Jerusalem after attending the Sabeel Conference in Boston. Zionists in Boston pressured Christ Church the previous year to oust Sabeel after successfully having another church in Cambridge oust the Center for Palestinian Human Rights (CPHR) (see 2006, October entry below). See karmalised. 

August: ADL fires its MA director for supporting the recognition of the Armenian genocide. See Boston Globe article re the stir this issue caused in Watertown and the greater boston area.

May: Zionists pressure Harvard University to cancel a talk by Robert Trivers due to his characterization of Alan Dershowitz.
Known culprits: Dershowitz denies culpability
Craven collaborators: Harvard University

April: Palestinian refugee childrens' art is stolen from Boston public library. Organizers suspect political motives (no kidding). "Library staff from the Honan-Allston branch said that this is the first time a theft of this kind has happened there, although they often display art exhibits." See ISM story (ISM no less! Zionist infiltrated)

2006

October: Zionists pressure the principal of Andover High School to renege on plans for the Wheels of Justice to make a stop at the school. Only under threat from the ACLU does the principal re-issue an invite to Wheels of Justice, for January 2007. The zionists insisted that Mazin give his talk in the evening so that parents could hear what WOJ told the students. [The Zs also demanded their own forum for a pro-Israeli talk, to be held at a later date.]  Zionists get their way, but make a complete spectacle of themselves.
Known culprits
: ADL, Rabbi Robert Goldstein of Temple Emanuel, and others
Craven collaborator: Principal Peter Anderson

October: Zionists pressure the First Church Congregational in Harvard Sq to break its lease with the Center for Palestinian Human Rights. See Confronting zionists and their appeasers  and Cambridge church yields to pressure, evicts Palestine group (now gone; was at BridgeNews)
Unknown culprits: "Individuals and organizations with whom we have important relationships" ~Mary Luti
Craven collaborators: First Church Congregational UCC, Cambridge and senior pastor Mary Luti

May: Zionists pressure Brandeis to withdraw a photo exhibit of artwork by children in refugee camps in Palestine. See zionist Boston Globe writeup. Hear a audio report (link now gone). See photos of protest at rule19, with links to more reportage. 
Known culprits:  Zionists groups and alumni
Craven collaborators: Brandeis

2005

December: Zionists go on a full frontal attack against the building of Boston's new Mosque and Cultural Center. See Damning Evidence Against The David Project  and Praised as beacon, mosque project stalls amid rancor
Known culprits:  The David Project
Craven collaborators:  

September: First Alan Dershowitz tries to stop publication of Norman Finkelstein's book Beyond Chutzpah with threats of a libel suit, then he successfully pressures the Harvard Bookstore to rescind an invitation to an event for the book, stating that it feared "economic retaliation". This raises the very interesting question of just exactly who is threatening "economic retaliation?" Obviously it can't be Dershowitz acting alone: an individual professor just doesn't buy that many books. See Too Hot for Harvard
Known culprits: Alan Dershowitz and ??
Craven collaborators: Harvard Bookstore

2003

After several years of harassment, Palestinian activist Amer Jubran is forced to accept a voluntary deportment to Jordan. Amer was first arrested in Brookline, MA on false charges by a zionist agent provocateur. 
Known culprits: 
Craven collaborators:  

2002

November: Zionists pressured Harvard to cancel an event with poet Tom Paulin, of Belfast Ireland, who was due to give the prestigious Morris Gray poetry reading; the event was cancelled due to Paulin's anti-Israeli views. See 
Poet Paulin 'banned from Harvard.' The English Department reinvited him a week later.
Known culprits: Alan Dershowitz
Craven collaborators: Harvard University

1992

Dr Kaveh Afrasiabi, political science faculty member at Boston University, lost his job as a direct result of his decision to speak at a campus rally that protested the university’s honorary law degree to  Israel’s former Prime Minister, Izhak Shamir. See The High Price of Defending Palestinianand Iranian Rights in America
Craven collaborators: Boston University