Hezbollah’s Internet Network

[abovesobelow]

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by Lithos (a host of the Israel/Palestine group).

"3) Legitimizing terrorismtowards Israel and the West by cultivating the ideologies of shahada (death as a martyr for the sake of Allah), muqawama (“resistance”) and jihad; at the same time, there is strong condemnation of any Arab or Palestinian peace process and the agreements or arrangements with Israeli they might produce.

4) The hate industry: Vicious propaganda and incitement against Israel, the Zionist Movement, the Jewish people, the United States and the West. Hezbollah rejects the existence of the State of Israel, calling for its annihilation and the establishment of a Palestinian state on the ruins.

5) Disseminating Iranian Islamic Shi’ite ideology based on the principles set down by the Ayatollah Khomeini, including hatred for the United States, the West, Israel and the Jewish people. Hezbollah websites also promote the personality cult of Iranian Supreme LeaderAli Khamenei, representing Hassan Nasrallah as one of his supporters and admirers.

6) Promoting Hezbollah and Iran’s political agenda: Hezbollah’s websites support Iranian policy in the Middle East and its positions concerning the United States and the West. They also foster the “resistance camp,” which includes Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and the Palestinian terrorist organizations. During the past year Hezbollah’s media, including its websites, were enlisted in a propaganda campaign to support the Assad regime in Syria it defaming and criticizing the Syrian opposition and the popular uprising."

http://acdemocracy.org/hezbollahs-internet-network/

[Jefferson23]

1. American Center for Democracy

The American Center for Democracy (ACD) is a Manhattan-based nonprofit that claims to be "exposing and monitoring threats to the national security of the U.S. and Western democracies."[1] Although the center has hosted a number of scholars and fellows, it appears to serve primarily as a publishing vehicle for neoconservative writer and activist Rachel Ehrenfeld, its founder and director.

A flagship project of the center is its Economic Warfare Institute (EWI), which is devoted to identifying "emerging economic warfare tactics and finance threats," including "terror financing, political corruption, emerging narcoterrorist movements (i.e. the fusion of the drug trade with terrorism), [and] international terrorist organizations."[2]

The EWI is associated with Ehrenfeld's often controversial work on terrorism financing, the subject of her 2003 book Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It. The accuracy of the book was questioned by reviewers[3] and eventually became the subject of a libel lawsuit. The lawsuit resulted in a British court ordering Ehrenfeld to pay damages to a Saudi businessman she had accused of supporting al-Qaeda.

The case spurred Ehrenfeld to launch a campaign against "libel tourism," which became the focus of another flagship ACD project. This project aims to insulate Americans from libel charges filed abroad, particularly in the United Kingdom, and has inspired both state and federal legislation blocking the enforcement of British libel rulings by U.S. authorities. Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, a longtime neoconservative heavyweight, was a major backer of what came to be known as "Rachel's Law,"[4] a federal version of which was ultimately signed into law in 2010.

The underlying assumption of ACD's terrorism analysis is that private and public corruption permits international organized crime to flourish, providing a nesting place for terrorist networks. ACD supports initiatives that assess foreign political corruption, elections, and cybersecurity. It also publishes a blog largely populated by Ehrenfeld's writings on these issues.

- See more at: http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/American_Center_for_Democracy#sthash.8FQa8uVP.dpuf

[abovesobelow]

2. That website your pulling from seems mostly devoted to denigrating "Jewish" affiliated groups

ACD is bipartisan, as you can see if you go to their homepage, one of their newest pieces is critical of republicans obstructiveness.

"ACD’s Impact
Some of ACD Achievements:

2013- Libel Law Reform in the U.K. influenced by “Rachel’s Law” and the “SPEECH Act”
2011- Receiving the Sappho award from the International Free Press Society
2010- “SPEECH Act”- It protects American journalists and scholars from enforcement of foreign libel judgments in the U.S. The Law passed unanimously by Congress.
2008- “Rachel’s Law”- “The Libel Terrorism Protection Act,” passed unanimously and by the New York State Assembly and enacted shortly afterward. Similar laws passed in 10 more states.
Observing elections in newly developing democracies in the former Soviet Republics & North Africa
Consulting USAID, foreign governments and international organizations on anti-corruption measures
First to expose Yasser Araft’s the Palestinian Authority’s corruption already in 1993
Pioneering the Terror Network Finance Tracking (TNFT) – identification of terror financiers and facilitators, not listed by OFAC.
Expert Testimony on terrorist financing in U.S. Congress, Canadian and EU Parliaments
Consulting PBS and other national and international media networks on documentaries
Congressional and public briefings"

http://acdemocracy.org/impact/

[Jefferson23]

3. Right Web Tracking militarists’ efforts to influence U.S. foreign policy.

They are exposing those policies you seem to believe are admirable.

[abovesobelow]

4. It just seems like a site making conspiratorial claims about our government and "jews" control of it

Rather odd how it doesn't target any of the Islamic fundamentalist or many Christians site's that are tracked by our government with the help of the ADL.

[Jefferson23]

5. That clearly is your spin on it. n/t

[Lithos]

6. Locking

This seems to be mainly RW inspired. Need more information other than people who are recommended by AEI.

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