‘Wheels Of Justice’

Is A Front For The PLO

To the Editor:

Sadly, the article about Newtown High School hosting the Wheels of Justice Tour did not convey the truth to your readers. The fact this propaganda tour was on public school grounds should also be cause for alarm for your readers.

I urge Newtown Bee readers to do a Google search under my name for the article “Jihad Against US High School Students” at www.frontpagemagazine.com.

The Wheels of Justice Tour gets into high schools by claiming they are a “peace movement.” What they really are is a front for the PLO and Iraq’s Ba’ath Party to propagandize for the destruction of Israel and against US policy fighting militant Islam. The goal is to take advantage of high school students with misleading propaganda and made up stories of atrocities by Israel and US soldiers in Iraq.

Mazin Qumsiyeh, who spoke at Newtown High, called Jews living in Israel “a disease” at the Duke University Palestine Solidarity Conference. “They must all leave [Israel],” he said during one conference session I attended and covered.

Voices In the Wilderness, the other half of the tour with Qumsiyeh’s group, Al Awda, is made up of many former “human shields” for Saddam Hussein.

Both groups use the techniques of the Arab world’s propaganda ministries to mold unknowing kids to hate Israel and the United States. They get into high schools by deception, usually with the help of sympathetic social studies teachers who may belong to a radical groups like the International Socialist Organization of International Answer. Sometimes they just fool people by lying about what they really do once inside. The shame is they do this during school hours on school grounds and always make sure nobody with an opposing point of view is present to debate them and tell the truth.

I urge people in your community to read my detailed article about this group then contact your local school board and complain. Their tax dollars have been abused. As for Mr Qumsiyeh’s claims that Jews and Arabs lived in harmony in the past, the facts are Jews and Christians were always persecuted under Islamic rule and are still treated the same today. Qumsiyeh is a liar who supports Hamas and should not be exposed to students during school hours. As an investigative journalist myself, I tell you your reporter just reported what the Wheels of Justice Tour told her verbatim without doing any research or questioning what was said. This is irresponsible and bad journalism. Due to my article here in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Wheels of Justice Tour was banned from area high schools when the truth came out.

Lee Kaplan

Contributing Editor

www.frontpagemagazine.com

Pittsburg, Calif.                                                         December 3, 2004