J.J. Surbeck, the Executive Director of T.E.A.M. (Training and Education About the Middle East) and others managed to attend the annual "End the Occupation" conference in San Diego last month.
Their report has just been released, and it sheds a lot of light on the lies that the haters like to tell themselves.
For example, Rabab Abdulhadi, “Senior Scholar of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diaspora
Initiatives” at San Francisco State University, said that the tunnels meant to kidnap Israelis were "a lifeline for the Palestinians."
Ali Abunimah of Electronic Intifada tried to have it both ways, getting cheers for saying that "some of them [those killed in Gaza] were resistance fighters fighting heroically… a heroic and legitimate battle" before saying that the vast majority of those killed were innocent civilians.
